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

社会科学提供了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天的会议由利哈伊大学的一个跨学科研究团队主持，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社会行动的过程中，拥有生活专业知识的社区成员和具有学习专业知识的研究人员之间的合作和平等。CS是一种跨学科的方法论方法，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、缩放和迭代模型，以解决复杂的社会问题。将CBPR和CS的方法论专家聚集在一起，就他们的工具和方法进行广泛、深入的对话，目的是找到这些方法之间的趋同，这有可能从根本上改变研究团队处理许多以人为中心的不同科学领域的问题的方式。会议探讨了这样一种想法，即这些方法(CBPR和CS)一起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类似的问题。在这次会议上，来自这两种传统的研究人员，以及计算机科学家和技术开发人员，都加入了知识分享的行列。此外，会议还重点讨论了三个社会危机的案例研究：1)住房不安全，2)气候变化与农业，3)健康素养。按照CBPR方法，直接受到这三种社会危机影响的社区成员将参加会议，分享他们的经验，并开始社区建设进程，这是研究小组和社区成员之间建立长期伙伴关系所必需的，而社区成员需要有效地参与围绕社区繁荣的努力。演讲、讨论和展望活动以来自三个主题的问题为指导：以人为本、科学创新和福祉。会议的成果预计将是：1)经验对个人与会者对未来研究项目的方法产生的影响，2)在与会者之间成功地建立持续的伙伴关系，以及3)继续努力建立一个中心，让社区参与共同开发促进社区繁荣的技术。会议的具体成果包括指导整合CBPR和CSS方法的过程的路线图，以及基于地方、地区和国家危机的三个案例研究的一套试点项目大纲。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.