WORKSHOP: 2015 CSST Summer Research Institute

这笔资金用于支付约40名与会者(30名有前途的初级调查人员加上10名有成就的资深学者作为导师，8名来自学术界，2名来自行业)的机票、地面旅行和某些其他费用，该研讨会由社会技术系统科学联盟(CSST)赞助，由PI组织，将于2015年7月20日至24日在自然广场举行，自然广场是位于科罗拉多州斯普林斯郊外的国家公园管理局的国家环境研究中心。科学和技术科学是认识到研究人与技术之间相互作用的日益重要的结果。除其他外，社会技术系统科学是迅速发展的“虚拟组织”专题领域的基础；因此，国家迫切需要牢固植根于社会技术系统传统的研究。然而，这个学者社区，包括社会信息学、社会计算、CSCW、计算社会科学、人机交互和信息科学等不同领域的教师，仍然四分五裂，基本上是看不见的。CSST暑期研究所系列是团结这个多样化社区并提高其知名度的关键一步，通过为下一代SST领导人(包括高级博士生和终身教职前教师)提供身临其境的体验，使他们为参与分布式科学研究做好充分准备。夏季研究所通过促进创建一批新的研究人员来建立关键的智力和社会资本，这些研究人员的工作由社会技术系统研究方面的听力专家决定，就如何促进该领域的知识基础、方法方法和潜力产生持续、有意义甚至是变革性的影响提供鼓励和建议。IConference越来越多地成为夏季研究所校友的展示窗口；例如，2011年，超过三分之一的活动涉及社会技术学者和夏季研究所校友。2015年的研讨会将坚持在前几个夏季研究所的过程中发展和完善的成功模式。研讨会将把通过竞争性审查程序选出的早期职业研究人员与一批更资深的研究人员聚集在一起，进行为期五天的密集研究交流。活动将是住宅式的，位于半隔离的地点，以鼓励参与者之间最大限度的社交互动。资深教师、初级教师和高级博士生将共同努力以更连贯和更现代的形式阐明在一系列相关知识界开展社会技术科学的基本原则、目标和方法。他们将探索促进社会技术系统科学的主题和方法，同时侧重于与社会技术观点的核心方面相一致的个人研究的智力发展。超过55名有成就的高级学者和210名有前途的初级研究人员参加了前七届中科委暑期研究所，参与者在许多方面(例如，机构、学科、地域、性别、少数群体地位)的多样性有助于拓宽参与者在其职业生涯的关键阶段的视角。讲习班期间身临其境的智力体验将有助于在参与者和担任研究所讲师的高级研究人员之间建立一个社交网络。该网络将在参与者的专业发展和社会技术系统研究领域的发展方面发挥重要作用。

This is funding to cover airfare, ground travel and certain other expenses for approximately 40 attendees (30 promising junior investigators plus 10 accomplished senior scholars as mentors, eight from academic and two from industry) at the 8th Summer Research Institute (workshop) being organized by the PI under the auspices of the Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST), which will be held July 20-24, 2015, at The Nature Place, a National Environmental Study Center of the National Park Service located outside of Colorado Springs, CO. The CSST resulted from recognition of the growing importance of research on the interplay of humans and technology. The science of socio-technical systems (SST) is fundamental to the rapidly growing "virtual organizations" thematic area, among others; thus, the urgent national need for research that is firmly grounded in the SST tradition. Yet this community of scholars, which includes faculty in diverse fields such as social informatics, social computing, CSCW, computational social science, HCI, and information science, remains fractured and largely invisible. The CSST series of Summer Research Institutes is a critical step toward unifying this diverse community and enhancing its visibility, by providing an immersive experience for the next generation of SST leaders (both advanced doctoral students and pre-tenure faculty) so that they will be well prepared to engage in distributed scientific inquiry. The Summer Research Institutes build critical intellectual and social capital by fostering creation of a cohort group of new researchers whose work is shaped by hearing experts in socio-technical systems research provide encouragement and give advice on how to advance the field's intellectual basis, methodological approaches, and potential for sustained, meaningful and even transformative impact. Increasingly, the iConference has become a showcase for Summer Research Institute alumni; for example, in 2011 more than one third of all events involved a sociotechnical scholar and Summer Research Institute alumni.The 2015 workshop will adhere to the successful format that has evolved and been refined over the course of the prior Summer Research Institutes. The workshop will bring together early career researchers selected through a competitive review process with a set of more senior researchers for an intensive five-day research exchange. The event will be residential and located in a semi-isolated locale to encourage the maximum amount of social interaction among participants. Senior faculty, junior faculty, and advanced doctoral students will collectively strive to articulate in more coherent and contemporary forms the basic principles, goals and approaches to doing socio-technical science across a range of relevant intellectual communities. They will explore topics and methods for advancing the science of socio-technical systems, while focusing on intellectual development of individual research that is aligned with core aspects of the socio-technical perspective. More than 55 accomplished senior scholars and 210 promising junior investigators have participated in the previous seven CSST Summer Research Institutes The diversity of participants across a number of dimensions (e.g., institutional, disciplinary, geographic, gender, minority group status), serves to broaden participants' perspectives at a critical stage in their careers. The immersive intellectual experience during the workshop will facilitate creation of a social network among the participants and the senior researchers who serve as Institute instructors. This network will play a major role both in the professional development of the participants and in the evolution of the field of socio-technical systems research.