Ethical and Responsible Research in the Design of Sociotechnical Systems

在这个项目中，研究小组将促进道德和负责任研究（ER2）教学原型的发展，旨在促进有关卫生研究的社会和计算（社会技术）系统中ER2实践的对话。ER2教学原型将通过三个阶段的过程进行开发，包括：(1)评估提供人机交互（HCI）培训的学术项目中现有的ER2培训和实践；(2)采访使用/研究/开发社会技术系统的卫生研究人员；(3)开展社区共同设计研讨会。主要贡献将包括ER2教学原型，供设计用于卫生研究的技术的人员使用，以及在行为生态系统模型内为利益攸关方提供的教育干预/战略建议。这项研究将对卫生研究人员、卫生保健提供者、卫生保健使用者及其家庭感兴趣，并用于卫生保健工作人员的培训。该项目将探索如何在卫生研究交叉领域提供HCI培训的学术项目中培养道德和负责任的研究（ER2）。研究小组将检查和记录HCI和设计学校课程的当前ER2景观，以确定引入正式和临时教学活动的优势、劣势、机会和威胁，以促进应用于健康研究的尊重社会技术系统设计。本研究采用以人为本的设计流程，旨在提高人们对ER2实践和相关社会责任的认识，这些实践和责任贯穿于健康研究的日常周期。首先，与阶段1-2相关的活动将产生学术贡献，包括来自相关文献的系统回顾和前瞻性访谈的数据，以检查人机交互和跨学科设计项目之间和内部的ER2态度和实践。这些项目是有针对性的，因为这些环境是社会技术系统正在被概念化和开发用于健康研究和医疗保健的地方。其次，通过使用生态框架创建现有ER2培训景观的地图，研究团队将记录ER2培训如何在实践中应用（例如，设计数据库，创建数据挂钩，开发数据可视化仪表板）。这将形成实施社会技术卫生系统研究ER2工具包的战略。第三，通过第三阶段概述的社区协同设计过程开发的教学原型将为工具的“设计空间”提供定义和示例，以促进人机交互教育项目中的ER2培训和实践。就更广泛的影响而言，该研究将为道德教育者和更大的社会技术卫生系统研究界开发基于行为生态系统模型的教学工具和建议。这项研究的一个长期影响是促进卫生研究人员之间关于在研究中（错误地）使用社会技术系统的伦理、法律和社会影响的对话。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。

In this project, the research team will facilitate the development of ethical and responsible research (ER2) instructional prototypes designed to prompt dialogue about ER2 practices in social and computing (sociotechnical) systems for health research. The ER2 instructional prototypes will be developed through a three-phased process that includes: (1) an assessment of existing ER2 training and practices in academic programs that provide training in human computer interaction (HCI) (2) interviews with health researchers who use/study/develop sociotechnical systems, and (3) conducting community co-design workshops. Key contributions will include the ER2 instructional prototypes for use by those designing technologies for use in health research as well as recommendations for educational interventions/strategies that are anchored to stakeholders within a behavioral ecological systems model. This research will be of interest to health researchers, health care providers, and health care users and their families, as well as be used to inform the training of the health care workforce. The project will explore how ethical and responsible research (ER2) is cultivated in academic programs that provide training in HCI at the intersection of health research. The research team will examine and document the current ER2 landscape of HCI and design school programs to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats to introducing formal and ad hoc instructional activities to foster respectful sociotechnical systems design applied to health research. Using a human centered design process, the research aims to increase awareness of ER2 practices and related social responsibilities that occur throughout the day-to-day cycle of health research. First, activities related to Phases 1-2 will generate academic contributions that include data from a systematic review of relevant literature and prospective interviews to examine ER2 attitudes and practices among and within human computer interaction and interdisciplinary design programs. These programs are targeted as these settings are where sociotechnical systems are being conceptualized and developed for use in health research and healthcare. Second, by creating a map of the existing ER2 training landscape, using an ecological framework, the research team will document how ER2 training is applied in practice (e.g., designing databases, creating hooks into the data, developing data visualization dashboards). This will shape strategies for implementation of an ER2 Toolkit for sociotechnical health systems research. Third, the instructional prototypes developed through the community co-design process outlined in Phase 3 will contribute definitions and examples to a "design space" for tools to promote ER2 training and practice in HCI educational programs. In terms of broader impacts, the research will develop instructional tools and recommendations for ethics educators and the larger sociotechnical health systems research community that are anchored to the behavioral ecological systems model. A long-term impact of this research is to promote dialogue among health researchers about the ethical, legal, and social implications associated with the (mis)use of sociotechnical systems in research.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.