Conference: CRISES: Engaging Communities in Developing Technologies to Support Community Flourishing

社会科学提供对人类行为和生活经验的洞察，为解决社会危机的努力奠定了坚实的基础。这次为期2.5天的会议由来自里海大学的一个跨学科研究小组主持，建立了一个融合和创新的框架，其中包括基于社区的参与性研究（CBPR）和计算社会科学（CSS），以及新兴技术。CBPR侧重于在追求知识和积极的社会行动方面，具有实际专业知识的社区成员与具有所学专业知识的研究人员之间的合作和公平。CSS是一种跨学科的方法方法，它建立在计算进步的基础上，使社会科学家能够实时处理大规模数据，以构建、扩展和迭代模型来解决复杂的社会问题。将CBPR和CSS的方法专家聚集在一起，就他们的工具和方法进行扩展、深入的对话，目的是找到这些方法之间的融合，这有可能从根本上改变研究团队在以人为中心的科学的许多不同领域中处理问题的方式。会议探讨了这些方法（CBPR和CSS）是理解社区需求和指导技术开发以解决特定社会危机的强大基础。这些不同的方法提出了平行的问题。在这次会议上，来自两种传统的研究人员，以及计算机科学家和技术开发人员，都加入了知识共享的行列。此外，会议重点关注社会危机的三个案例研究：1)住房不安全，2)气候变化与农业，以及3)健康素养。遵循CBPR的方法，直接受到这三个社会危机影响的社区成员参加了会议，分享他们的经验，并开始了社区建设的过程，这是研究团队和社区成员之间长期合作所必需的，这需要有效地参与社区繁荣的努力。演讲、讨论和设想活动都是由三个主题引出的问题引导的：以人为本、科学创新和福祉。预计会议的结果将是：1)经验对个别参与者对未来研究项目的方法的影响，2)在会议参与者之间建立持续伙伴关系的成功，以及3)继续努力建立一个让社区参与共同开发技术以促进社区繁荣的中心。会议的具体成果包括一份路线图，用以指导将CBPR和CSS方法结合起来的进程，以及一套基于地方、区域和国家危机三个案例研究的试点项目大纲。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The social sciences give insight into human behavior and lived experiences that serve as a strong foundation for efforts to address societal crises. The 2.5-day conference, run by an interdisciplinary team of researchers from Lehigh University, builds a framework for convergence and innovation that includes community-based participatory research (CBPR) and computational social science (CSS), and emerging technologies. CBPR focuses on collaboration and equity between community members with lived expertise and researchers with learned expertise, in the pursuit of knowledge and positive social action. CSS is an interdisciplinary methodological approach that builds on computational advances to enable social scientists to work with large-scale data in real-time to structure, scale, and iterate models to address complex societal questions. Bringing together methodological experts in CBPR and CSS for extended, in-depth conversation about their tools and approaches with the goal of finding convergence between these methodologies has the potential to radically transform how research teams approach questions in many different domains of human-centered science.The conference explores the idea that together these approaches (CBPR and CSS) are a powerful foundation for understanding of community needs and guiding the development of technologies to address specific societal crises. These separate approaches ask parallel questions. The conference is a place where researchers from both traditions, along with computer scientists and technology developers, are joining in knowledge sharing. Additionally, the conference focuses on three case studies of societal crises: 1) housing insecurity, 2) climate change and agriculture, and 3) health literacy. Following a CBPR approach, community members directly affected by these three societal crises are attending the conference to share their experiences and begin the process of community building necessary for the long-term partnerships between research teams and community members needed to effectively engage in efforts surrounding community flourishing. Presentations, discussions, and visioning activities are guided by questions drawn from three themes: Human-Centered, Scientific Innovation, and Well-being. The outcomes of the conference are expected to be: 1) the impact that the experience has on individual participants’ approaches to future research projects, 2) the success in establishing ongoing partnerships among conference participants, and 3) the continued effort to establish a center for engaging communities in co-developing technologies for community flourishing. Concrete deliverables of the conference include a roadmap to guide the process of integrating CBPR and CSS approaches and a set of pilot project outlines based on the three case studies of local, regional, and national crises.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.