Collaborative Research: ER2: The development of research ethics governance projects in computer science

合作研究：ER2：计算机科学中研究伦理治理项目的发展

• 批准号: 2419951
• 负责人: Megan Finn
• 金额: $ 22.59万
• 依托单位: American University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-10-01 至 2026-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2419951&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; ER2; development; research

This collaborative research project is supported by the Ethical and Responsible Research program. The core focus of the project is to determine what rules and practices support the national interest in promoting the progress of computer science while preventing unethical and unjust computer science research. Computing researchers are currently revising ethics codes, writing new ethics guidelines, forming new ethics committees within conferences and professional associations, dictating ethics requirements for funding, and proposing new ethics requirements for publications. This project characterizes and evaluates historical, ongoing, and emerging ethics governance projects within computer science. By creating a recent history of computing governance during this active period of questioning, the project will appraise and evaluate current efforts, and recommend best practices for computing research governance. The results of this project will serve to advance several scientific fields including science and technology studies, research ethics, and computer science. They will also be used in discussions with stakeholder communities including activists in computing ethics, in creating classroom materials for educators, and in developing accessible and brief white papers that are to be disseminated to funders, practitioners, and policymakers.To accomplish the goals indicated above, this project uses qualitative case studies to compare, evaluate, and interpret the resources, mechanisms, and outcomes of current cross-cutting efforts in computer science research ethics self-governance. The case studies will examine the workings of the computing research’s ethics governance projects to facilitate better understanding of the possibilities and challenges of a field undertaking diverse and multiple ethics governance efforts. Building on previous science and technology studies scholarship, our research reveals the relations enrolling researchers in cultures of ethical practice. To identify a typology of enrollment and enforcement practices, the team will undertake analysis of the resources each project has, and the approach that each project uses to repair past harms, anticipate the future, resolve insecurities about what counts as ethical behavior, and settle controversies within the field. Through analysis of historical and current ethics governance projects, the team will discover how project organization shapes the scope, goals, and outcomes of ethics governance projects; how different mechanisms for effecting adherence to ethical guidelines impact outcomes; how contrasting stakeholders (participants, outside advocates, practitioners) assess the success of ethics governance projects; and the challenges and opportunities different ethics governance projects generate.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.

这个合作研究项目得到了道德和负责任研究计划的支持。该项目的核心重点是确定哪些规则和实践支持国家利益，促进计算机科学的进步，同时防止不道德和不公正的计算机科学研究。计算机研究人员目前正在修订道德准则，编写新的道德准则，在会议和专业协会内成立新的道德委员会，规定资助的道德要求，并提出新的出版物道德要求。该项目的特点和评估历史，正在进行的和新兴的计算机科学领域的道德治理项目。通过在这个积极的质疑时期创建计算治理的最近历史，该项目将评估和评价当前的努力，并为计算研究治理推荐最佳实践。该项目的成果将有助于推进包括科学和技术研究、研究伦理和计算机科学在内的多个科学领域。它们还将用于与利益相关者社区的讨论，包括计算伦理活动家，为教育工作者创建课堂材料，以及开发可访问的简短白色文件，分发给资助者，从业者和决策者。为了实现上述目标，本项目使用定性案例研究来比较，评估和解释资源，机制，以及当前计算机科学研究伦理自治方面跨领域努力的成果。案例研究将研究计算研究的道德治理项目的工作，以促进更好地了解的可能性和挑战的领域进行多样化和多种道德治理的努力。本研究在以往科技研究的基础上，揭示了伦理实践文化与科技研究者的关系。为了确定招生和执法实践的类型，该团队将对每个项目所拥有的资源进行分析，以及每个项目用于修复过去伤害的方法，预测未来，解决有关道德行为的不安全感，并解决该领域内的争议。通过对历史和当前道德治理项目的分析，团队将发现项目组织如何塑造道德治理项目的范围、目标和成果;影响遵守道德准则的不同机制如何影响成果;（参与者、外部倡导者、从业人员）评估道德操守治理项目的成功;该奖项反映了NSF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。