Cyberinfrastructure for Collaborative Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences

科学前沿的研究现在需要全球合作、TB级数据基础设施和软件工具，以实现研究自动化和协作。 在国家科学基金会的资助下，Bertenthal博士和他的同事将开发一个社会信息学数据（SID）网格。 SID网格将使研究人员能够在多个时间尺度上收集实时多模态行为。由网格基础设施支持的分布式数据仓库的开发将鼓励研究人员解决远远超出任何单个实验室能力的研究问题，例如我们如何通过多模式通信渠道构建我们的认知，社会和文化世界，包括语音，手势，韵律，姿势，面部表情，等等，或者社会行为的实时展开如何是其神经生物学基础、发展状态、背景和文化规范的函数。 SID网格的创建将为支持社会和行为科学的合作研究提供所需的基础设施。这一基础设施将鼓励数据共享，并加速制定收集和编码生理和行为数据的标准。 外联和传播将包括建立一个网站，提供SID网格使用教程，组织关于基础设施使用的讲习班，并邀请研究人员在超级实验室进行多模式研究。 这些数据库和软件工具的可用性有望帮助迎来下一代行为科学和科学家。

Research at the frontiers of science now requires global collaborations, terabyte data infrastructures, and software tools for automating research and enabling collaboration. With funding from the National Science Foundation, Dr. Bertenthal and his colleagues will develop a Social Informatics Data (SID) Grid. The SID Grid will enable researchers to collect real-time multimodal behavior at multiple time scales. The development of a distributed data warehouse supported by a grid infrastructure will embolden researchers to address research questions that far exceed the capacities of any individual lab, such as how we construct our cognitive, social and cultural worlds through multimodal channels of communication, including speech, gesture, prosody, posture, facial expression, etc. or how the unfolding in real-time of social behaviors is a function of their neurobiological underpinnings, developmental status, context and cultural norms. The creation of the SID Grid will provide the needed infrastructure for supporting collaborative research in the social and behavioral sciences. This infrastructure will encourage data sharing and accelerate the development of standards for collecting and coding physiological and behavioral data. Outreach and dissemination will consist of creating a website with tutorials for using the SID Grid, organizing workshops on use of the infrastructure, and soliciting researchers to conduct multimodal research in the SuperLab. The availability of these databases and software tools promises to help usher in the next generation of behavioral sciences and scientists.