Emergent Technologies: New Opportunities to Advance Psychological Research and Science Education

社会心理学网络(SPN)已经成为社会科学研究和教学中最国际化和使用率最高的在线网络之一。然而，它的大部分网络资源是在智能手机、平板电脑和其他移动计算机被广泛采用之前设计的，这些设备现在是用于访问互联网的最常见的设备。为了解决这个问题，拟议的项目将通过重新设计SPN来推进心理学研究和教育，使其页面、互动功能、数据库和合作伙伴网站与移动设备一起工作。除了通过移动技术推进研究和科学教育外，该项目还将建立在SPN 18年来“传递心理学”、告知社会问题和扩大代表不足群体的参与方面的记录。例如，创建便于移动的网页将促进SPN导师方案的使用，在该方案中，600多名拥有博士学位的志愿者为来自代表性不足群体的学生提供免费职业援助。它还将增加对SPN合作伙伴网站的访问，如斯坦福监狱实验(PrisonExp.org)、Jigsaw课堂(Jigsaw.org)和Understand ingPredicice.org，每个网站都专注于保护人权、防止校园暴力和减少偏见等社会问题。通过使用“移动优先”设计方法重构SPN，该项目将确保该网络在各种计算设备上具有互操作性和响应性，从而使SPN更容易访问，并更好地为现场服务，因为新的移动技术继续宣称社交网络的未来。这项工作将分阶段完成，首先是招聘一名移动设计专家和一次技术审计，以审查SPN的社交媒体使用情况、搜索引擎优化、网络托管、服务器配置和编程工具的选择。然后，SPN网站的重新设计和转换将从PrisonExp.org和eInterview.org等相对较小的网站开始，然后为SocialPenology.org开发新的移动设计和编程。接下来将是对SPN系统的重新设计，该系统有10,000多个用户配置文件和成员页面，随后将转换其他SPN页面和功能。最终，这个项目将使网络处于有利地位，利用移动革命的力量来推动心理学研究和教育。

The Social Psychology Network (SPN) has become one of the most international and heavily used online networks for research and teaching in the social sciences. Most of its web resources, however, were designed before the widespread adoption of smartphones, tablets, and other mobile computers, which are now the most common devices used to access the Internet. To address this problem, the proposed project will advance psychological research and education by redesigning SPN so that its pages, interactive features, databases, and partner sites work with mobile devices. In addition to advancing research and science education through mobile technology, this project will also build on SPN's 18-year record of "giving psychology away," informing social issues, and broadening the participation of underrepresented groups. For example, the creation of mobile-friendly web pages will facilitate usage of the SPN Mentorship Program, in which more than 600 volunteers with doctoral degrees offer free career assistance to students from underrepresented groups. It will also increase access to SPN partner sites such as the Stanford Prison Experiment (PrisonExp.org), the Jigsaw Classroom (Jigsaw.org), and UnderstandingPrejudice.org, each of which focuses on social issues such as protecting human rights, preventing school violence, and reducing prejudice.By refactoring SPN with a "mobile first" design approach, this project will ensure that the Network is interoperable and responsive across a wide array of computing devices, thereby making SPN more accessible and better equipped to serve the field as new mobile technologies continue to claim the future of social networking. This work will be completed in phases, beginning with the recruitment of a mobile design specialist and a technical audit to review elements including SPN's social media usage, search engine optimization, web hosting, server configuration, and choice of programming tools. The redesign and conversion of SPN sites will then begin with relatively small sites such as PrisonExp.org and eInterview.org before developing a new mobile design and programming for SocialPsychology.org. Next will come a redesign of SPN's system of 10,000+ user profiles and member pages, followed by a conversion of other SPN pages and features. In the end, this project will leave the Network well positioned to harness the power of the mobile revolution to advance psychological research and education.