REU Site: The DUB REU Program for Human-Centered Computing Research

REU 网站：DUB REU 以人为中心的计算研究计划

• 批准号: 2348926
• 负责人: Leilani Battle
• 金额: $ 46.5万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-06-15 至 2027-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2348926&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; DUB; Program; Human

Technology should be designed to serve people and society. When we fail to make people the focus of our technologies, we run the risk of designing software and hardware that ignores our ethics, our privacy, or even our rights. This REU Site addresses a lack of human-centered scientists, analysts, developers, accessibility experts, and designers in the US computing workforce. Specifically, this REU Site provides undergraduate students with valuable training and research experiences to help them become independent and mindful contributors to society. This REU Site is part of a grassroots alliance of human-centered researchers and practitioners at the University of Washington called Design Use Build (DUB).Participating REU students will gain a broader understanding of human-centered computing research, gain real-world experience applying human-centered and design methodology to challenging research problems, and develop their technical communication, project management, critical thinking, and independent research skills. The research projects under this REU Site span a wide range of areas of computer science, including AI, machine learning, data science, accessibility, security and privacy, software engineering, databases, robotics, and fabrication. The throughline that ties these projects together is the emphasis on designing hardware and software to enhance human capabilities and agency rather than replace human intelligence. Example projects include: interviewing developers on how they build high quality software and developing corresponding frameworks for measuring code quality; reviewing the literature on how the general public reasons about algorithms so algorithm designers can make them more intuitive; building guardrails around large language models so they can be used for fact-checked content generation; measuring changes in perceived text quality given the disclosure of AI involvement in its generation; and designing programmable media for youth to address structural forms of exclusion such as accessibility, language fluency, and neurodiversity.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.

技术应旨在为人们和社会服务。当我们无法使人们成为技术的重点时，我们会冒着设计软件和硬件的风险，这些软件和硬件忽略了我们的道德规范，我们的隐私甚至权利。该REU网站解决了美国计算机劳动力中缺乏以人为本的科学家，分析师，开发人员，可访问性专家和设计师。具体来说，该REU网站为本科生提供了宝贵的培训和研究经验，以帮助他们成为社会的独立和正念贡献者。这个REU网站是华盛顿大学以人为中心的研究人员和从业人员的基层联盟的一部分，称为设计使用构建（DUB）。参与REU学生将获得更广泛的了解，对以人为本的计算机研究，获得以人为中心的经验，将以人为中心和设计方法的方式应用于挑战研究问题，并挑战他们的技术沟通，并发展他们的技术沟通，项目管理，批判性研究，独立的研究，和独立的研究，和独立的研究，和独立的研究技能。此REU站点下的研究项目涵盖了计算机科学的广泛领域，包括AI，机器学习，数据科学，可访问性，安全性和隐私，软件工程，数据库，机器人技术和制造。将这些项目联系在一起的贯穿线是强调设计硬件和软件以增强人类能力和代理，而不是取代人类智能。示例项目包括：面试开发人员如何构建高质量软件和开发相应的框架以衡量代码质量；回顾有关算法的一般公众理由如何使算法设计师可以使其更直观的文献；围绕大型语言模型建造护栏，以便将其用于事实检验的内容生成；鉴于披露AI的参与，测量感知到的文本质量的变化；并为青年设计可编程的媒体，以解决诸如可访问性，语言流利性和神经多样性之类的结构形式。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估标准通过评估来支持的。