Workshop: Computing, Information Science, and Access to Justice

职务名称：研讨会：计算机、信息科学和诉诸司法系统社会科学研究表明，由于无力聘请律师，中低收入人群在诉诸民事司法系统方面面临重大障碍。虽然尝试采用新的方法来获得法律的系统已经引起了法院、法律的援助组织和律师界的极大关注，但很少有关于这些新方法的有效性的研究。在人类活动的其他领域，计算机科学家正在创造新的强大技术来研究人们如何与私人和公共机构互动，以及新的通信工具，如应用程序和社交媒体，以改善这些互动。这些基于计算的方法可以带来关于与民事司法系统互动的新知识，以及推进改善诉诸司法系统的目标的新工具。这次研讨会将汇集几个最近的科学，行政和技术趋势，以制定一个新的研究议程，重点是计算和获得司法系统。这些趋势包括对民事司法系统的新兴研究，法律的机构和组织中信息数字化的扩展，以及计算社会科学和以人为本的计算，机器学习和计算连接领域的最近兴起。该研讨会将召集研究人员参与获得司法奖学金，数据科学家，以人为本的计算专家，以及法院，法律的服务提供商和嵌入民事司法系统的其他组织的代表，以产生一个合作研究议程，重点是法律的系统的运作。该讲习班将制定一个研究框架，将计算方法应用于司法救助奖学金，同时产生关于如何改进民事司法系统和加强其在美国民主制度中的作用的可操作知识，该奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估予以支持。

Title: Workshop: Computing, Information Science, and Access to the Justice SystemSocial science research demonstrates that low and middle-income people face significant barriers to obtaining access to the civil justice system because of an inability to afford a lawyer. While experiments with new approaches to access to the legal system have garnered much attention from courts, legal aid organizations, and the bar, there is little research about the efficacy of these new approaches. In other fields of human activity, computer scientists are creating new and powerful technologies to study how people interact with private and public institutions, as well as new communication tools, such as apps and social media, to improve these interactions. These computing-based approaches can lead to new knowledge about interactions with the civil justice system and new tools to advance the goal of improving access to the justice system. This workshop will bring together several recent scientific, administrative, and technological trends to develop a new research agenda focused on computing and access to the justice system. These trends include emerging research on the civil justice system, the expanding digitization of information in legal institutions and organizations, and the recent rise of computational social science and the fields of human-centered computing, machine learning, and computing connectivity. The workshop will convene researchers engaged in access to justice scholarship, data scientists, human-centered computing experts, and representatives of courts, legal service providers, and other organizations embedded in the civil justice system, to generate a collaborative research agenda focused on the workings of the legal system. The workshop will produce a framework for research that applies computing methods to the scholarship on access to justice, while generating actionable knowledge about how to improve the civil justice system and strengthen its role in the United States democratic system.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.