Workshop: Rethinking the Value of Busyness in IT

研讨会：重新思考 IT 业务的价值

• 批准号: 1049359
• 负责人: Phoebe Sengers
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2011-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1049359&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Rethinking; Value; Busyness

While information technologies (IT) promise to liberate us of hard labor and save us time by offering efficiency and productivity, improving our quality of life, at the same time they raise the standards of what we should accomplish and increase the amount of information we need to deal with and foster a sense of increased pace and accessibility. As such, the value of busyness may be implicitly embedded in IT design. This award funds a research workshop to create a research agenda on the design of future IT to account for the culture of busyness. The workshop participants will address two question: (1) What are the roles of IT in coping with and/or promoting a culture of busyness?, and (2) To what extent is it possible to intervene in the culture of busyness by altering the design of IT or its use practices? Through these initial questions the participants will identify theoretical and empirical gaps in understanding sociotechnical aspects of busyness at the individual, organizational, and societal level and will identify both technical and social opportunities and challenges in the design and application of IT interventions for this purpose. Workshop participants will be recruited and selected in three ways: (1) specific scholars who have done research related to this topic will be individually invited; (2) a general solicitation to submit position papers will be sent out through relevant mailing lists; and (3) local graduate students with interest in this topic will be invited to take part. The outcome of this workshop will be to develop a research agenda for better understanding and addressing the value of busyness embedded in IT. Specifically, we plan to submit an article to a general audience journal to describe this research agenda. Further, as we identify specific research being done, we plan to propose a special issue at a major journal in order to group together results about this topic.

虽然信息技术（IT）有望通过提供效率和生产力，提高我们的生活质量来使我们摆脱艰苦的劳动，并节省我们的时间，同时他们提高了我们应该完成的目标的标准，并增加了我们所需的信息量处理并培养提高步伐和可访问性的感觉。因此，忙碌的价值可能被隐式嵌入IT设计中。该奖项为研究研讨会提供了资金，以制定有关未来设计的研究议程，以说明忙碌的文化。研讨会的参与者将解决两个问题：（1）它在应对和/或促进忙碌文化中的作用是什么？它的设计还是它的使用实践？通过这些最初的问题，参与者将在理解个人，组织和社会层面的社会技术方面确定理论和经验差距，并确定为此目的的IT干预设计和应用在设计和应用中的技术和社会机会以及挑战。研讨会的参与者将通过三种方式招募和选择：（1）将邀请与此主题相关的研究的特定学者； （2）将通过相关邮件列表发送提交职位论文的一般性征求； （3）将邀请对该主题感兴趣的本地研究生参加。该研讨会的结果将是制定研究议程，以更好地理解并解决其中嵌入的繁忙价值。具体来说，我们计划向一般听众杂志提交一篇文章，以描述这一研究议程。此外，当我们确定正在进行的特定研究时，我们计划在主要期刊上提出一个特殊问题，以便将有关此主题的结果组合在一起。