Second Young Investigators Summer Research Institute of the Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems

第二届青年调查员夏季研究所将是社会技术系统科学联合会（CSST）的一项持续活动。CSST诞生于一系列由NSF赞助的研讨会，涉及40多名来自不同领域的教师，如社会信息学，社会计算，CSCW，计算社会科学，HCI和信息科学。讲习班与会者认识到关于人与技术或社会-技术系统相互作用的研究日益重要，建议将CSST作为促进和支持关于技术变革的社会方面的重要研究的机制。甚至在正式创建CSST之前，确定的一个高度优先事项是，针对进入社会技术系统研究领域的人员，启动一系列年度夏季研究所。该提案将支持于2009年7月在密歇根大学校园举行的第二项研究。首届学院非常成功，吸引了137份申请，选出了31名参与者和13名学院教师。学生参与者将包括多达30名高级博士生和从事社会技术系统研究的终身教职前教师。将从资深教员中抽取多达15名教员，其中包括最初由nsf支持的社会技术系统研讨会的参与者。该项目将为所有研究所参与者提供旅行、膳食和住宿费用。学院的重点将放在参与者的研究项目上（例如，博士生的论文）。该研究所为这些项目提供了一个机会，通过与经验丰富的研究人员的知识交流来形成这些项目，并通过与其他年轻研究人员的合作来加强这些项目。此外，该研究所将有助于在美国和世界范围内传播有关社会技术系统研究的思想。更广泛的影响研究所将继续汇集最优秀的下一代社会技术系统研究人员。这使他们能够在他们自己之间和与几位高级研究人员建立一个社会网络，这将在他们的专业发展和社会技术系统研究领域的发展中发挥重要作用。研究所参与者的多样性（如机构、学科、地域、性别、少数群体地位）将在其职业生涯的关键阶段扩大参与者的视野。

The Second Young Investigators Summer Research Institute will be a continuing activity of the Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST). CSST was born out of a series of workshops sponsored by NSF involving over forty faculty members in diverse fields, such as social informatics, social computing, CSCW, computational social science, HCI, and information science. Workshop participants, recognizing the growing importance of research on the interplay of humans and technology, or socio-technical systems, proposed the CSST as a mechanism for promoting and supporting important research on social aspects of technological change. An identified high priority, even in advance of the formal creation of CSST, was initiation of an annual series of summer research institutes targeted at people entering the field of sociotechnical systems research. This proposal will support the second of these institutes to be held on the campus of the University of Michigan in July, 2009. The inaugural institute was very successful attracting 137 applications with a selected class of 31 participants and thirteen institute faculty. Student participants will include up to 30 advanced doctoral students and pre-tenure faculty doing research on socio-technical systems. Up to fifteen instructors will be drawn from senior faculty, including participants in the original NSF-supported workshops on sociotechnical systems. This project will support the travel, meals, and accommodations for all Institute participants.Intellectual MeritThe focus of the Institute will be on participants' research programs (e.g., dissertation for doctoral students). The Institute provides both an opportunity for these programs to be shaped through intellectual exchange with experienced researchers as well as enhanced through collaboration with other young researchers. In addition, the Institute will help spread ideas about research on socio-technical systems within the US and around the world.Broader ImpactThe Institute will continue to bring together the best of the next generation of socio-technical system researchers. This allows them to create a social network both among themselves and with several senior researchers, which will play a major role in their professional development and in the evolution of the field of socio-technical systems research. The diversity of Institute participants (e.g., institutional, disciplinary, geographic, gender, minority group status), will broaden participant's perspectives at a critical stage in their careers.