WORKSHOP: 2015 CSST Summer Research Institute

这笔资金用于支付约40名与会者的机票、地面旅行和某些其他费用（30名有前途的初级研究人员加上10名有成就的高级学者作为导师，8名来自学术界，2名来自工业界）（讲习班）由PI在社会技术系统科学联合会（CSST）的赞助下组织，该会议将于2015年7月20日至24日在自然广场举行，该自然广场是位于科罗拉多州科罗拉多斯普林斯市外的国家公园管理局的国家环境研究中心。CSST源于对人类与技术相互作用研究日益重要性的认识。 社会技术系统（SST）的科学是快速增长的“虚拟组织”的主题领域，除其他外，因此，迫切的国家需要的研究，是牢固地扎根于SST的传统。 然而，这个学者社区，其中包括教师在不同的领域，如社会信息学，社会计算，CSCW，计算社会科学，HCI和信息科学，仍然是破碎的，在很大程度上是看不见的。CSST系列暑期研究所是统一这个多元化社区并提高其知名度的关键一步，通过为下一代SST领导者（高级博士生和终身教职员工）提供身临其境的体验，使他们做好充分准备参与分布式科学探究。 暑期研究所通过促进创建一个新的研究人员群体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中的听力专家塑造，鼓励并就如何推进该领域的知识基础，方法论方法以及持续，有意义甚至变革性影响的潜力提供建议。 iConference越来越多地成为暑期研究所校友的展示平台;例如，2011年，超过三分之一的活动涉及社会技术学者和暑期研究所校友。2015年的研讨会将坚持在以前的暑期研究所课程中发展和完善的成功形式。 该研讨会将汇集通过竞争性审查过程选择的早期职业研究人员与一组更资深的研究人员进行为期五天的密集研究交流。 该活动将是住宅和位于一个半隔离的地方，以鼓励参与者之间的社会互动的最大量。 高级教师，初级教师和高级博士生将共同努力，以更加连贯和现代的形式阐明在一系列相关知识社区中进行社会技术科学的基本原则，目标和方法。 他们将探索推进社会技术系统科学的主题和方法，同时专注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。超过55名有成就的高级学者和210名有前途的初级研究人员参加了前七个CSST夏季研究所。机构、学科、地域、性别、少数群体地位），有助于在学员职业生涯的关键阶段拓宽他们的视角。 讲习班期间身临其境的知识体验将有助于在参与者和担任研究所讲师的高级研究人员之间建立一个社交网络。 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, ground travel and certain other expenses for approximately 40 attendees (30 promising junior investigators plus 10 accomplished senior scholars as mentors, eight from academic and two from industry) at the 8th Summer Research Institute (workshop) being organized by the PI under the auspices of the Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST), which will be held July 20-24, 2015, at The Nature Place, a National Environmental Study Center of the National Park Service located outside of Colorado Springs, CO. 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 Research 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 Research 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. Increasingly, the iConference has become a showcase for Summer Research Institute alumni; for example, in 2011 more than one third of all events involved a sociotechnical scholar and Summer Research Institute alumni.The 2015 workshop will adhere to the successful format that has evolved and been refined over the course of the prior Summer Research 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. More than 55 accomplished senior scholars and 210 promising junior investigators have participated in the previous seven CSST Summer Research Institutes The diversity of 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 Institute instructors. 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.