EAGER: DCL: SaTC: Enabling Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Evolutionary Insights into Digital Ecologies of Fear

互联网是一个虚拟的社会环境，在那里很难辨别真正的威胁。这项研究的目标是对父母对子女在线风险的看法提出新的见解。该项目的重点是6-12岁儿童的父母。主要目标是获得洞察力，为数字环境的发展提供信息，更准确地将在线危险和父母的恐惧结合起来。为了解决这一问题，该项目汇集了进化人类学，计算机科学和数字体验设计方面的专家，进行了一次新颖的跨学科合作。该项目将揭示一个理论框架，恐惧的数字生态。该项目将推动一个新兴的研究和设计领域，可能会影响家庭的网络安全。该项目将追求以下三个目标：（1）开发方法和理论，以建立基本的行为知识，可以为数字生态的新设计提供信息，更准确地调整风险和恐惧，（2）确定设计指南，考虑到恐惧的数字生态的影响，以及（3），通过交叉培训研究生在两个学科的相关方法和概念，丰富计算机科学和人类学之间的合作。生态学受到几个因素的影响：环境背景、威胁、风险认知、适应性反应、成本和收益。该项目正在使用现有的研究技术确定影响恐惧的数字生态的生态因素，并研究新技术，以揭示激活数字-现实世界连续体恐惧的生态，社会和个人因素。该项目对恐惧的数字生态的绘制将确定考虑和改善这些因素影响的指导方针。该奖项反映了NSF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 internet is a virtual social environment, where it can be difficult to discern genuine threats. The goal of this research is to develop new insights into parents' perceptions of online risks to their children. The project focuses on the parents of children in middle childhood, ages 6-12. The main goal is to gain insights that will inform the development of digital environments that more accurately align online dangers and parental fears. To address this alignment, this project brings together experts in evolutionary anthropology, computer science, and digital experience design in a novel interdisciplinary collaboration. The project will shed light on a theoretical framing, the digital ecology of fear. The project will advance a burgeoning new area of research and design that can impact cybersecurity for families. The project will pursue the following three objectives: (1) develop method and theory to build basic behavioral knowledge that can inform new designs for digital ecologies that more accurately align risk and fear, (2) identify design guidelines, taking into consideration the effects of the digital ecology of fear, and (3), enrich the collaboration between computer science and anthropology by cross-training graduate students in relevant methods and concepts from both disciplines. Ecologies are influenced by several factors: environmental context, threats, risk perception, adaptive response, costs, and benefits. This project is identifying the ecological factors that influence the digital ecologies of fear using established research techniques and investigating new techniques to reveal the ecological, social, and individual factors activating fear of the digital-real world continuum. The project's mapping of the digital ecology of fear will identify guidelines that consider and ameliorate the effects of those factors.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.