CAREER: Developing, Designing and Distributing Technology to Increase Equitable Outcomes in Energy, Information and Aerospace Sectors

该项目将创建和验证一个框架，以解释、评估和规定设计考虑和增加公平的技术系统的方法。该项目将定义一个尺度来衡量社会与技术的关系，使用四个类别：概念、工件、复杂产品系统和复杂社会技术系统来评估案例研究。这些案例研究将用于制定技术开发、设计和分发方面的干预措施，以及为培训研究生和行业代表创建课程。该项目将引起技术设计师、工业决策者、技术学者和STEM培训学生的兴趣。利用科学史和政治学的学术知识，该项目将创建能源部门和信息与航空航天部门技术系统案例研究的分析叙述。案例研究分析是基于从系统工程中提取的系统架构框架来组织的。研究议程第一阶段的产物是一系列陈述理论命题的出版物。研究议程的第二阶段使用相同的案例研究来执行或观察旨在提高技术设计、开发和分配的公平结果的干预措施。这项研究还将辅以一项教育议程，该议程将为媒体实验室媒体艺术与科学项目的研究生创建课程模块，并为公共部门开设短期课程，反映如何设计、开发和分发考虑到多重压迫和特权轴的技术。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

The project will create and validate a framework to explain, evaluate and prescribe approaches to designing technical systems that consider and increase equity. The project will define a scale to measure society’s relationship to technology using four categories: Concept, Artifact, Complex Product System and Complex Sociotechnical System to evaluate case studies. These case studies will be used to develop interventions in the development, design, and distribution of technology as well as the creation of a curriculum for training graduate students and industry representatives. The project will be of interest to designers of technology, decision makers in industry, scholars of technology and students training in STEM.Using scholarship from the history of science and political science, the project will create analytical narratives of case studies of technical systems from the Energy Sector and the Information & Aerospace Sector. The case study analysis is organized based on a Systems Architecture Framework drawn from Systems Engineering. The product of Phase I of the research agenda is a series of publications stating theoretical propositions. Phase II of the research agenda uses the same case studies to perform or observe an intervention designed to increase equitable outcomes in the design, development, and distribution of technology. The research is complemented by an education agenda that will create curriculum modules for graduate students in the Media Lab’s Program in Media Arts and Sciences as well as short courses for the public sector that reflect how to design, develop, and distribute technology to consider multiple axes of oppression and privilege.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.