Collaborative Research: HCC: Designing Technologies for Marginalized Communities

该奖项支持研究正在经历重大生活变化的边缘化社区成员的经历。它的重点是增强现实如何解决这些变化背后的社会和行为因素。该项目通过将边缘化的社区成员作为合作伙伴纳入项目的每个阶段来设计、构建和评估应对这些挑战的技术。它有望通过促进(1)对技术如何代表和扭曲个人身份；(2)这些技术对人们的身心健康和经济福祉的影响；(3)更公平和更具包容性的技术设计的方法和范例，通过增加公共领域的公平和包容性来更广泛地改善社会。它还为代表性不足的学生提供研究培训。这项研究的结果将引起政策制定者、教育工作者和普通公众的兴趣。这项研究增加了在人机交互和社会计算方面的科学知识，即技术如何有助于解决传统上被排除在设计过程之外的人所面临的挑战。研究人员的跨学科团队使用参与性设计和定性研究来研究、构建和评估支持边缘化社区的技术。这项研究预计将产生以下结果：1)为经历重大生活变化的人描述当前技术创新方面的差距；2)为技术如何解决边缘化个人的需求和挑战设计建议；3)支持社会次社区的创新、以人为中心的增强现实原型和技术；以及4)包容性增强现实的指导方针和启发式方法。这有望带来潜在的变革性的理论和实践见解，扩展人机交互研究；它将通过结合我们通过与传统上不属于设计过程的人设计的技术所学到的知识来实现这一目标。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports research that examines the experiences of marginalized community members who are going through significant life changes. It focuses on how augmented reality can address social and behavioral factors underlying such changes. The project designs, builds, and evaluates technologies to address these challenges by including marginalized community members as partners in each stage of the project. It is expected to improve society more broadly by increasing equity and inclusion in the public sphere by advancing (1) understanding of how technologies represent and distort individual identities; (2) the impact of these technologies on people’s physical, mental, and economic well-being; and (3) methods for and examples of technology designs that are more equitable and inclusive. It also provides research training for underrepresented students. The results of this research will be of interest to policy makers, educators, and the general public. This research increases scientific knowledge in Human-Computer Interaction and Social Computing about how technology can contribute to addressing challenges faced by people who are traditionally left out of design processes. The interdisciplinary team of researchers uses participatory design and qualitative research to study, build, and evaluate technologies to support marginalized communities. This research is expected to yield the following outcomes: 1) a comprehensive framework describing current gaps in technological innovation for people experiencing a significant life change; 2) design recommendations for how technology can address the needs and challenges of marginalized individuals; 3) innovative, human-centered augmented reality prototypes and techniques for supporting subcommunities in society; and 4) guidelines and heuristics for inclusive augmented reality. This is expected lead to potentially transformative theoretical and practical insights that extend Human-Computer Interaction research; it will do so by incorporating what we learn via technology designed with and for people who are not traditionally part of design processes.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.