WORKSHOP: Summer Institute on Sociotechnical Systems and Sciences

这笔资金用于支付大约40名学生参与者的机票和地面旅费，以及与第五届青年调查人员暑期研习班相关的某些其他费用，该暑期研习班由社会技术系统科学联合会(CSST)赞助，将于2012年7月29日至8月在新墨西哥州圣达菲的毕晓普别墅举行。科学和技术科学是认识到研究人与技术之间相互作用的日益重要的结果。除其他外，社会技术系统科学对迅速发展的“虚拟组织”专题领域至关重要，因此国家迫切需要牢固植根于社会技术系统传统的研究。然而，这个学者社区，包括社会信息学、社会计算、CSCW、计算社会科学、人机交互和信息科学等不同领域的教师，仍然四分五裂，基本上是看不见的。CSST暑期学院系列是朝着统一这个多样化社区和提高其知名度迈出的关键一步，它为下一代SST领导人(包括高级博士生和终身教职前教师)提供身临其境的体验，以便他们为参与分布式科学研究做好充分准备。夏季学院通过促进创建一批新的研究人员来建立关键的智力和社会资本，这些研究人员的工作由社会技术系统研究方面的听力专家确定，就如何促进该领域的知识基础、方法方法和潜力产生持续、有意义甚至是变革性的影响提供鼓励和建议。2012年讲习班将坚持在前几个暑期学院的过程中发展和改进的成功模式。研讨会将把通过竞争性审查程序选出的早期职业研究人员与一批更资深的研究人员聚集在一起，进行为期五天的密集研究交流。活动将是住宅式的，位于半隔离的地点，以鼓励参与者之间最大限度的社交互动。资深教师、初级教师和高级博士生将共同努力以更连贯和更现代的形式阐明在一系列相关知识界开展社会技术科学的基本原则、目标和方法。他们将探索促进社会技术系统科学的主题和方法，同时侧重于与社会技术观点的核心方面相一致的个人研究的智力发展。更广泛的影响：暑期班学员在许多方面(例如，机构、学科、地域、性别、少数群体地位)的多样性有助于拓宽学员在其职业生涯的关键阶段的视角。研讨会期间的身临其境的智力体验将有助于在参与者和担任暑期学院讲师的高级研究人员之间创建社交网络。该网络将在参与者的专业发展和社会技术系统研究领域的发展方面发挥重要作用。

This is funding to cover airfare and ground travel for approximately 40 student participants, as well as certain other expenses associated with, the 5th Young Investigators Summer Institute that is being organized by the PI under the auspices of the Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST), and which will be held July 29-August, 2012, at Bishop's Lodge in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The CSST resulted from recognition of the growing importance of research on the interplay of humans and technology. The science of socio-technical systems (SST) is fundamental to the rapidly growing "virtual organizations" thematic area, among others, thus the urgent national need for research that is firmly grounded in the SST tradition. Yet this community of scholars, which includes faculty in diverse fields such as social informatics, social computing, CSCW, computational social science, HCI, and information science, remains fractured and largely invisible.The CSST series of Summer Institutes is a critical step toward unifying this diverse community and enhancing its visibility, by providing an immersive experience for the next generation of SST leaders (both advanced doctoral students and pre-tenure faculty) so that they will be well prepared to engage in distributed scientific inquiry. The Summer Institutes build critical intellectual and social capital by fostering creation of a cohort group of new researchers whose work is shaped by hearing experts in socio-technical systems research provide encouragement and give advice on how to advance the field's intellectual basis, methodological approaches, and potential for sustained, meaningful and even transformative impact. The 2012 workshop will adhere to the successful format that has evolved and been refined over the course of the prior Summer Institutes. The workshop will bring together early career researchers selected through a competitive review process with a set of more senior researchers for an intensive five-day research exchange. The event will be residential and located in a semi-isolated locale to encourage the maximum amount of social interaction among participants. Senior faculty, junior faculty, and advanced doctoral students will collectively strive to articulate in more coherent and contemporary forms the basic principles, goals and approaches to doing socio-technical science across a range of relevant intellectual communities. They will explore topics and methods for advancing the science of socio-technical systems, while focusing on intellectual development of individual research that is aligned with core aspects of the socio-technical perspective. Broader Impacts: The diversity of Summer Institute participants across a number of dimensions (e.g., institutional, disciplinary, geographic, gender, minority group status), serves to broaden participants' perspectives at a critical stage in their careers. The immersive intellectual experience during the workshop will facilitate creation of a social network among the participants and the senior researchers who serve as instructors for the Summer Institute. This network will play a major role both in the professional development of the participants and in the evolution of the field of socio-technical systems research.