Ethical and Responsible Research for Augmented Reality

研究小组将与博物馆合作，开发新的增强现实（AR）应用程序，用于纪念和交流。该项目将有助于我们了解AR以数字方式呈现人类体验所带来的风险和好处。该项目将采用共同开发过程来概念化协作技术研究框架，使具有敏感叙事的道德媒体表现专业知识的从业者参与其中。该项目的成果将引起教育工作者、政策制定者、技术开发人员、从业人员和公民的兴趣。该项目将专注于增强现实的发展，同时努力制定对社会负责的研究框架，这些框架可推广到其他沉浸式技术领域，包括虚拟和混合现实。通过案例研究、合作设计伙伴关系、设计研讨会和黑客马拉松的方法，该项目有望通过以下方式为未来的社会责任AR研究提供信息：1)为博物馆、文化中心和人权组织的社会责任信息技术开发提供描述性基线模型；2)通过与人权组织共同开发AR纪念应用程序，研究AR技术如何通过敏感的非虚构叙事创造公众参与；3)制定教育课程，教学生如何进行道德和负责任的STEM研究；4)促进早期教师和研究生研究人员与政策专家和人权机构之间的跨学科网络的发展，以促进未来的共同发展研究，并可能扩展到其他技术及其社会影响。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 research team will collaborate with museums to develop new Augmented Reality (AR) applications for memorialization and communication. The project will contribute to our understanding of the risks and benefits AR poses to digitally representing human experiences. The project will use a co-development process to conceptualize collaborative technology research frameworks that engage practitioners with expertise in the ethical media representation of sensitive narratives. The outcomes of the project will be of interest to educators, policy makers, technology developers, practitioners and citizens. The project will focus on Augmented Reality development while working to formulate socially-responsible research frameworks that are generalizable to other domains of immersive technology including virtual and mixed reality. Through a methodology of case studies, collaborative design partnerships, and design workshops and hackathons, the project is expected to inform future research in socially-responsible AR by: 1) providing a descriptive baseline of models for socially responsible information technology development within museums, cultural centers, and human-rights organizations; 2) investigating how AR technology can create public engagement with sensitive nonfictional narratives through co-developing AR memorialization applications with human rights organizations; 3) developing educational curricula to teach students how to conduct ethical and accountable STEM research; and, 4) facilitating the development of interdisciplinary networks between early stage faculty and graduate student researchers with policy experts and human rights institutions for future co-development research, potentially extending to other technologies and their social impacts.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.