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.

这一合作研究项目由伦理和责任研究计划支持。该项目的核心重点是确定在促进计算机科学进步的同时防止不道德和不公正的计算机科学研究方面，哪些规则和做法支持国家利益。计算机研究人员目前正在修订伦理准则，编写新的伦理准则，在会议和专业协会内组建新的伦理委员会，规定资助的伦理要求，并为出版物提出新的伦理要求。该项目描述和评估了计算机科学中的历史的、正在进行的和新兴的伦理治理项目。通过在这一活跃的提问期间创建计算治理的近期历史，该项目将评估和评估当前的努力，并推荐计算研究治理的最佳实践。这一项目的成果将有助于推动科学技术研究、研究伦理和计算机科学等几个科学领域的发展。它们还将用于与利益相关者社区的讨论，包括计算伦理方面的积极分子，为教育工作者创建课堂材料，以及开发可访问的简短白皮书，分发给资助者、实践者和政策制定者。为了实现上述目标，该项目使用定性案例研究来比较、评估和解释当前计算机科学研究伦理自治中的交叉努力的资源、机制和结果。这些案例研究将审查计算研究的伦理治理项目的工作方式，以促进更好地理解开展不同和多重伦理治理努力的领域的可能性和挑战。在前人科学技术研究学术的基础上，我们的研究揭示了伦理实践文化中的研究者之间的关系。为了确定登记和执行实践的类型，团队将对每个项目拥有的资源进行分析，以及每个项目用于修复过去的危害、预测未来、解决对什么是道德行为的不安全感，以及解决领域内的争议的方法。通过对历史和当前道德治理项目的分析，该团队将发现项目组织如何塑造道德治理项目的范围、目标和结果；影响道德准则遵守的不同机制如何影响结果；不同的利益相关者(参与者、外部倡导者、实践者)如何评估道德治理项目的成功；以及不同道德治理项目产生的挑战和机会。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。