CAREER: Designing An Information Savvy Society: Assessable Participatory Information Environments

这个项目涉及设计参与性制度，以便能够评价信息质量和鼓励贡献。它通过设计系统接口来做到这一点，使人们能够更好地了解信息生产的过程，更好地评估他们的产品，并进一步确定有价值的贡献形式。该项目包括(1)构建具有不同类型和水平的信息生产专业知识的人如何理解和评估参与式环境中的信息质量以及这些理解如何与参与模式交叉的模型；(2)创建支持信息评估的实验接口；(3)在迭代部署中研究这些接口，为可评估的参与式信息环境开发设计框架和指导方针；(4)在新环境下通过总结性评估验证该设计框架。该项目还包括为学生设计和实施参与性信息素养教育活动，鼓励他们参与新闻制作。本研究结果将促进对参与式媒体使用者资讯评估习惯的科学认识。为知名和熟悉的系统开发新的接口将提供从学术和技术角度可访问和可扩展的设计框架和指导方针。该项目产生的设计框架和指导方针将改善对国家至关重要的一个领域的设计和教育实践，即信息素养。提高信息素养技能很重要，因为这影响到公民在一个技术丰富、自由和民主的社会中发挥作用的能力，以及对科学、医疗、教育和其他问题作出知情决定的能力。

This project addresses the design of participatory systems to enable assessment of information quality and to encourage contributions. It does so by designing system interfaces that allow people to better see into processes of information production to better assess their products and, by extension, to identify valued forms of contribution. The project includes (1) construction of models of how people with different kinds and levels of expertise in information production understand and assess the quality of information in participatory environments and how these understandings intersect with patterns of participation; (2) creating experimental interfaces that support information assessment; (3) studying these interfaces in iterative deployments to develop a design framework and guidelines for assessable participatory information environments; and (4) validating this design framework through summative evaluation in a novel context. The project also includes the design and implementation of participatory information literacy education activities for students that encourage participation in public information production.The results of this research will advance scientific understanding of information assessment habits among users of participatory media. The development of novel interfaces for well-known and familiar systems will provide design framework and guidelines that are accessible and extensible from both a scholarly and technical perspective. The design framework and guidelines that result from this project will improve design and educational practice in an area of critical national importance, namely information literacy. Improving information literacy skills is important, as they affect citizens' ability to function in a technologically rich, free and democratic society and to make informed decisions about scientific, medical, educational and other issues.