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.

该协作研究项目得到了道德和负责任的研究计划的支持。该项目的核心重点是确定哪些规则和实践支持国家对促进计算机科学进步的兴趣，同时预防不道德和不公正的计算机科学研究。计算研究人员目前正在修改道德规范，编写新的道德准则，在会议和专业协会中成立新的道德委员会，指示资金的道德要求以及提出新的出版物道德要求。该项目表征并评估计算机科学中历史，持续和新兴的道德治理项目。通过在这个活跃的质疑期间创建近期计算治理的历史，该项目将评估并评估当前的努力，并建议计算研究治理的最佳实践。该项目的结果将有助于推进几个科学领域，包括科学和技术研究，研究伦理和计算机科学。它们还将用于与利益相关者社区的讨论，包括计算道德中的激进主义者，为教育工作者创建课堂材料，以及开发可访问和简短的白皮书，这些材料将被传播到资金，从业者和决策者中，以实现上述目标，该项目使用定性的案例研究来比较计算机研究，并在计算机上进行交流，以及当前的计算机，机械，机械，机构，机械，机构，机构，机构，机构，机构，机构，机构，以及机构的研究范围，机构，机构，机构，以及机构研究的努力，并进行了努力。自治。案例研究将研究计算研究的道德治理项目的运作，以促进对领域的可能性和挑战的理解，从而从事潜水员和多种道德治理工作。在先前的科学技术研究的基础上，我们的研究揭示了与研究人员参与道德实践文化的关系。为了确定入学和执法实践的类型学，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危害的方法，预测未来，解决关于什么是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；遵守道德准则的不同机制如何影响结果；如何对比利益相关者（参与者，外部拥护者，从业者）评估道德治理项目的成功；以及不同的道德治理项目的挑战和机遇。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准来评估，被认为是宝贵的支持。