CHS: Small: Tools and Techniques for Supporting the Urban Public

该项目采用了一套全面的经验和基于设计的方法，以加强我们对技术介导的实践的科学理解，这些实践在当地社区参与和管理之间架起了桥梁。这项研究将产生经验见解和新颖的软件系统，这些系统将指导设计实用、可扩展和可用的技术，将社区参与与政策制定和地方治理联系起来。它还将为了解如何将新的审议和管理形式纳入旨在产生问责制和广泛参与政策制定和地方政府的做法和程序提供经验基础。该研究将有助于网络人系统的设计，通过技术设计来协调与选民的互动，以实现广泛的参与，并将强大的通信工具集成到日常工作实践中，以促进更有效和高效的工作场所，从而支持数字民主。研究的具体步骤为：1。对城市政策制定的合作工作实践进行定性分析，特别注意整个社区和地方政府成员之间的信息共享和意义制定实践。2. 开发实验接口，以支持从合作工作实践的定性见解中获得的信息共享和意义构建，并在迭代部署中评估和比较这些接口。3. 为计算机支持的社区参与开发设计框架，并通过总结性评估验证设计框架。了解如何设计社区参与系统，将合作工作实践与新颖的数据生产形式、社区参与的新模式和合作工作的创新结合起来，不仅对补充数字民主的目标有直接影响，而且对参与科学、医疗、教育和其他领域也有直接影响，在这些领域，通过众包和基于公民的举措整合广泛的公众参与正在推动创新。

This project uses a comprehensive set of empirical and design-based methods to strengthen our scientific understanding of technology-mediated practices that bridge local community engagement and administration. This research will result in empirical insights and novel software systems that will guide the design of practical, scalable, and usable technologies that connect community-based participation with policy making and local governance. It will also provide an empirical basis for understanding how new forms of deliberation and management can be integrated into practices and procedures designed to engender accountability and broad access to policy development and local government. The research will contribute to the design of cyber-human systems that support digital democracy through the design of technology to mediate interaction with constituents in order to enable broad participation, and integrating robust communication tools into daily work practices to facilitate a more effective and efficient workplace.The specific steps of the research are to: 1. Develop qualitative insight into the cooperative work practices of urban policy making, paying particular attention to information sharing and sense-making practices in both the community at large and members of local government. 2. Develop experimental interfaces to support information sharing and sense-making derived from the qualitative insights of cooperative work practices and evaluate and compare these interfaces over iterative deployments. 3. Develop a design framework for computer-supported community engagement and validate the design framework through summative evaluation. Understanding how to design systems for community engagement that incorporate cooperative work practices with novel forms of data production, new modes of community participation, and innovations in cooperative work has direct implications for complementing the goals of digital democracy, but also for participation in scientific, medical, educational and other domains where the integration of broad public involvement through crowdsourcing and citizen-based initiatives is driving innovation.