Planning Grant: Engineering Research Center for Human, Machine, and Network Functional, Symbiotic Integration On Neural Systems (Human Fusions)

规划资助：人机网络神经系统功能共生集成工程研究中心（人类融合）

• 批准号: 1840510
• 负责人: Dustin Tyler
• 金额: $ 10万
• 依托单位: Case Western Reserve University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1840510&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Engineering; Research; Center

The Planning Grants for Engineering Research Centers competition was run as a pilot solicitation within the ERC program. Planning grants are not required as part of the full ERC competition, but intended to build capacity among teams to plan for convergent, center-scale engineering research.This project will develop the foundational plan of an Engineering Research Center (ERC) to form a unique, transformative, and transdisciplinary team that will create, define, understand, and teach the science, technology, ethics, regulatory framework, entrepreneurship methodologies, and societal impact of the rapidly evolving integration of humans and technology. Communication and technology revolutions, such as radio, television, and the internet, have resulted in profound societal changes. The human, however, has basically remained external to the system with technology serving only as a tool. We propose that a conceptual shift toward symbiotic integration of the human with technology will bring the next societal transformation leading to a more connected, global society with new operational models of work, anthropocentric technology, and human-human interaction. We envision a tech-plus, transdisciplinary team of scholars, entrepreneurs, ethicists, and members from partnering institutions (including companies) that will perform convergent research at a new frontier of human incorporation of technology into a sense of self, i.e. a symbiosis between humans and technology. The core is a shift from the current techno-centric approach, where human and technology are separate, to a human-centric technology development paradigm. We seek to shift the societal dialogue from that of a battle between humans and technology (such as artificial intelligence and robotics) to a more productive dialogue of merging the best of humans and technology for the mutual benefit of both. Symbiotic incorporation of technology requires new interfaces to the human that add multiple sensory connections beyond current audio and visual inputs. This symbiotic relationship will augment human capability with those of technology and networked systems. New, symbiotic technology will radically change the future of work, human learning, human-human interaction, human networks, human health, human capability, and society overall for a safer, more prosperous future. The overall goal is to refine the model sufficiently to be compelling for a sustained research and development effort in an ERC for merging Humans, Machines, and Networks through Functional, Symbiotic, Integration On Neural Systems or an ERC for Human Fusions. Prior significant research shows that the core need of incorporation of technology into a human's sense of self, requires 1) a sense of agency over technology and 2) multi-sensory synchrony with technology. Strictly, this project is a planning grant to develop the ERC structure and processes that will rationally evolve the relationship between humans and technology. Methods from the Science of Team Science (SciTS) will be employed to establish relationships between committed, energized stakeholders in this new, transdisciplinary effort in human-technology symbiosis and a strategic plan to grow and establish sustainable research capacity. The objectives of the project are to 1) assemble the expertise to define the transdisciplinary, tech-plus framework; 2) develop a process and the collaborative tools for the sustained, focused development and study of the new human-technology paradigm, and; 3) establish a central point of engagement for stakeholders and external communities. This project will foster a new dialogue regarding the evolution of the human-technology relationship. Tangible outcomes from the planning process will include social media networking platforms, a central collaboration and dissemination website, and surveys to gauge stakeholder commitment to and refinement of the symbiotic model of human-technology evolution. Successful realization of a symbiotic human-technology paradigm requires a transdisciplinary approach to address significant scientific, technical, ethical, and social challenges. The transdisciplinary model of the ERC for Human Fusions has a technical core addressing anthropocentric technology, multisensory human interfaces, and connection infrastructure. Expanding around this are disciplines to address ethical questions of symbiotic technology, regulatory frameworks to support the ethical principles, entrepreneurial models to introduce new technology, and sociology to understand how symbiotic technologies impact society. These are highly integrated such that each is integral to the development and understanding of the other. The potential ERC will provide leadership, intellectual resources, the establishment of world-class facilities for responsible and effective scientific discovery, technological innovation, and resources in the new symbiotic sciences for education, research and development and translation.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

工程研究中心的规划赠款竞争是作为ERC计划内的试点招标运行。 规划赠款不需要作为整个ERC竞赛的一部分，但旨在建立团队之间的能力，以规划收敛，中心规模的工程研究。该项目将制定工程研究中心（ERC）的基础计划，以形成一个独特的，变革性的跨学科团队，该团队将创建，定义，理解和教授科学，技术，道德，监管框架，创业方法，以及人与技术迅速融合的社会影响。通信和技术革命，如广播、电视和互联网，导致了深刻的社会变革。然而，人类基本上仍然处于系统之外，技术只是一种工具。我们认为，人类与技术共生融合的概念转变将带来下一次社会变革，从而导致一个更具联系的全球社会，具有新的工作模式，以人为中心的技术和人与人的互动。我们设想一个由学者，企业家，伦理学家和合作机构（包括公司）成员组成的技术+跨学科团队，将在人类将技术融入自我意识的新前沿进行融合研究，即人类与技术之间的共生。其核心是从目前以技术为中心的方法（人与技术分离）转变为以人为中心的技术开发范式。我们寻求将社会对话从人类与技术（如人工智能和机器人技术）之间的战斗转变为更富有成效的对话，将人类与技术的最佳融合，以实现双方的共同利益。 技术的共生融合需要新的人机界面，在当前的音频和视频输入之外增加多种感官连接。这种共生关系将通过技术和网络系统的能力来增强人的能力。新的共生技术将从根本上改变未来的工作、人类学习、人与人之间的互动、人类网络、人类健康、人类能力和整个社会，从而创造一个更安全、更繁荣的未来。总体目标是充分完善模型，以便在ERC中进行持续的研究和开发工作，通过功能，共生，神经系统集成或人类融合的ERC来融合人类，机器和网络。先前的重要研究表明，将技术纳入人类自我意识的核心需求需要1）对技术的代理感和2）与技术的多感官同步。严格地说，这个项目是一个规划补助金，以发展ERC的结构和过程，将合理地发展人类和技术之间的关系。团队科学（SciTS）的方法将被用来建立承诺，充满活力的利益相关者之间的关系，在这一新的，跨学科的努力，在人与技术的共生和战略计划，以增长和建立可持续的研究能力。该项目的目标是：1）汇集专业知识，以确定跨学科的技术加框架; 2）开发一个过程和协作工具，以持续、有重点地开发和研究新的人类技术范式; 3）为利益相关者和外部社区建立一个参与的中心点。该项目将促进关于人与技术关系演变的新对话。规划进程的可持续成果将包括社交媒体网络平台、一个中央协作和传播网站，以及旨在衡量利益攸关方对人类-技术进化共生模式的承诺和完善程度的调查。要成功实现人与技术的共生模式，需要采取跨学科的方法来应对重大的科学、技术、伦理和社会挑战。ERC for Human Fusions的跨学科模型具有一个技术核心，解决了以人为中心的技术，多感官人机界面和连接基础设施。围绕这一点展开的是解决共生技术的伦理问题的学科，支持伦理原则的监管框架，引入新技术的创业模式，以及理解共生技术如何影响社会的社会学。这些都是高度一体化的，每一个都是不可或缺的发展和了解对方。潜在的ERC将提供领导，智力资源，建立负责任和有效的科学发现，技术创新，并在新的共生科学的教育，研究和开发和翻译资源的世界一流的设施。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。