ITR: New Approaches to Human Capital Development through Information Technology Research

东北大学itr：通过信息技术研究开发人力资本的新途径这个项目的目标是发现有效的机制来减少技术发达国家和技术落后国家之间在就业能力、收入和社会参与方面的差距（又名数字鸿沟）。由于不成比例的大量非洲裔美国人属于穷人的范畴，我们把“所谓的”非洲裔美国人问题作为我们研究的挑战。最近的数据显示，西班牙裔美国人已经开始缩小数字鸿沟的差距。然而，非洲裔美国人的情况并非如此。尽管多年来采取了平权行动和有针对性的项目，但非洲裔美国人作为一个群体并没有得到与投入的资源相称的好处。因特网、万维网和新的信息技术是变革的强大引擎，而快速的技术变革往往会加剧现有的社会和经济状况。因此，“数字鸿沟”之所以继续扩大，是因为它得到了现有的种族、经济和社会鸿沟的坚定支持，尽管看起来已经做出了巨大的努力。我们的项目将通过对信息技术、分布式系统、人机界面和协作技术的基础研究，实施一种多学科的方法来解决非洲裔美国人的数字鸿沟问题，重点是文化如何在信息技术中表达自己并影响信息技术。我们将利用研究成果开发缩小数字鸿沟的技术。在这个项目中，我们将在分布式系统、信息检索、人机界面、协作技术、非裔美国人的社会/文化偏好、公共政策分析和文化特定教学法和评估方面进行基础研究。我们项目的统一框架是基于单学习者多教师模式，为非裔美国人开发一个特定文化的分布式远程学习系统。我们的基础研究得到了一些教育技术发展项目和社区部署评估的补充。

EIA-0085952York, BryantNortheastern UniversityITR: New Approaches to Human Capital Development through Information Technology ResearchThe objective of this project is to discover effective mechanisms for reducing the disparitybetween the technological haves and have-nots, in terms of employability, income and societalparticipation (aka The Digital Divide). Since a disproportionately large number of African-Americans fall in the category of have-nots, we have taken on the "so-called" African AmericanProblem as our research challenge. Recent data suggest that Hispanic Americans have begun toclose the gap in the Digital Divide. However, this is not the case for African Americans.Despite years of affirmative action and targeted programs, African Americans as a group have notbenefited in proportion to the resources expended. The Internet, the World Wide Web, and newinformation technologies are powerful engines for change and rapid technological change tends toexacerbate pre-existing social and economic conditions. Thus, the "Digital Divide" continues togrow because it is firmly supported by existing racial, economic and social divides, despite whatappear to be grand efforts to the contrary. Our project will implement a multidisciplinaryapproach to the solution of the Digital Divide problem for African Americans through basicresearch in information technology, distributed systems, human computer interfaces, andcollaboration technologies with a central emphasis on how culture expresses itself in andinfluences information technologies. We will utilize our results to develop technologies thatdiminish the Digital Divide.In this project we will conduct basic research in distributed systems, information retrieval, humancomputer interfaces, collaboration technologies, social/cultural preferences of African Americans,public policy analysis and culture-specific pedagogies and assessments. A unifying frameworkfor our project is the development of a culture-specific, distributed, distance learning system forAfrican Americans based on the single-learner multiple-teacher model. Our basic research iscomplemented by a number of educational technology development projects and communitydeployment assessments.