CISE Research Expansion Aspiring Investigators Conference: Mobilizing Equity-centered Research in Cyber-Human Systems and Informatics

动员以公平为中心的网络-人类系统和信息学研究：社会技术系统在我们的社会中发挥着至关重要的作用，包括从智能家居和工作场所到在线平台，医疗保健和教育系统的一切。这些复杂的系统涉及社会和技术因素的相互作用，塑造了它们的功能和影响。应对这些挑战需要跨学科的研究和跨领域的合作，如社会学、心理学、计算机和信息科学与工程（CISE）以及组织研究。该项目将推进以公平为中心的网络-人类系统和信息学研究，重点关注美国西南部的机构。通过区域会议，它将汇集来自少数民族服务机构（msi）和研究密集型机构的有抱负的研究人员，以确定促进以平等为中心的研究的优势、需求和战略。通过探索区域洞察力和建立合作模式，该项目旨在加强西南地区msi的研究能力，并推进国家科学基金会CISE-MSI计划的目标。该项目将利用团队科学的原则和策略来组织社区建设活动，并为来自四个西南州（亚利桑那州、加利福尼亚州、新墨西哥州和德克萨斯州）的有抱负和早期职业生涯的研究人员举办区域会议。为期两天的工作会议将侧重于(1)确定与计算和信息学研究相关的机构和个人优势和需求，(2)以公平为中心的主题，包括公平、道德、问责制、透明度和社会正义，以及(3)促进本科研究的策略。除了潜在地增加msi向国家科学基金会提交的研究提案的数量和质量外，该项目还将展示团队科学原则在社区建设中的实际应用，并确定支持西南msi研究扩展和创新的机构间和机构内合作模式。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。

Mobilizing Equity-centered Research in Cyber-Human Systems and Informatics: Sociotechnical systems play a vital role in our society, encompassing everything from smart homes and workplaces to online platforms, healthcare, and education systems. These complex systems involve the interaction of social and technical elements, shaping their functioning and impact. Addressing these challenges requires interdisciplinary research and collaboration across fields such as sociology, psychology, computer and information science and engineering (CISE), and organizational studies. This project will advance equity-centered research in cyber-human systems and informatics, focusing on institutions in the Southwest United States. Through a regional conference, it will bring together aspiring researchers from Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) and research-intensive institutions to identify strengths, needs, and strategies for promoting equity-centered research. By exploring regional insights and building collaborative models, the project aims to strengthen research capacity at MSIs in the Southwest and advance the goals of the National Science Foundation CISE-MSI program. The project will leverage principles and strategies from team science to organize community building activities and a regional conference for aspiring and early-career researchers from four southwestern states: Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Texas. The two-day working conference will focus on (1) identifying institutional and individual strengths and needs related to computing and informatics research, (2) equity-centered topics including fairness, ethics, accountability, transparency, and social justice, and (3) strategies for promoting undergraduate research. In addition to potentially increasing the number and quality of research proposals from MSIs to the National Science Foundation, the project will demonstrate the practical application of team science principles for community building and identify models of inter- and intra-institutional collaboration that support research expansion and innovation at MSIs in the Southwest.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.