ITR: Developing and Testing A High Telepresence Virtual Agora For Broad Citizen Participation: A Multi-Trait, Multi-Method Investigation

EIA-0205502Peter Shane Carnegie Mellon U.ITR：开发和测试用于广泛公民参与的高网真虚拟农业：多特征、多方法调查这笔赠款将支持与公民学习和使用基于互联网的信息技术和工具参与社区和政府相关的研究。这是一项多学科的提案，参与者来自公共政策与管理、哲学、政治学、社会心理学和计算机科学。将开发各种自由软件，通过共享数据、聊天、视频会议和其他信息模式，促进协作信息共享、有组织的讨论和社区决策。该软件本身并不是目的，而是用于支持私人投资机构进行研究，以解决计算机媒介通信中的一些众所周知的问题，如社交线索传递不佳、可用性、问责制和访问不平等。这些问题将在两个更大的背景下进行研究，即社区效应和决策质量效应，以及校园内和校外(但仍在匹兹堡当地社区内)两个层次的物理社区。该软件将坚固地构建，并打算在项目本身之外广泛使用。

EIA- 0205502Peter ShaneCarnegie Mellon U. ITR: Developing and Testing A High Telepresence Virtual Agora For Broad Citizen Participation: A Multi-Trait, Multi-Method InvestigationThis grant will support research related to citizen learning and participation in communities and government using Internet-based information technologies and tools. This is a multidisciplinary proposal with participants from Public Policy and Management, Philosophy, Political Science, Social Psychology and Computer Science. A variety of free software will be developed to foster collaborative information sharing, structured discussions and community decision-making through shared data, chat sessions, video conferencing and other information modes. The software is not an end in itself, but rather will serve to support research by the PIs addressing some of the well-known problems of computer-mediated communications, such as poor transmission of social cues, usability, accountability, and access inequalities. These problems will be studied within two larger contexts, Community Effects and Decisions Quality Effects, and two levels of physical community, on-campus, and off-campus (but still within the Pittsburgh local community). The software will be robustly built and intended for broad use beyond the project itself.