Collaborative Research: The Role of People with Disability in the Innovation of Online Technology

合作研究：残疾人在在线技术创新中的作用

• 批准号: 1459219
• 负责人: Tom Boellstorff
• 金额: $ 27.69万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1459219&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Role; People; Disability

How is the internet changing the ways that Americans think of themselves as individuals and interact as members of communities? While there has been considerable scientific research on this question, there has been far less attention paid to the experiences of people with disabilities. This is unfortunate because the effects of these technologies may be more pronounced for them and therefore easier for us to observe and analyze. This project focuses on the experiences of people with disabilities in on-line, virtual worlds. In these three-dimensional, immersive online spaces, people with disabilities can appear as they choose and do things they may not be able to do in the physical world. The researchers also will study other dimensions of the on-line lives of people with disabilities, including interactions on social network sites, blogs, and e-commerce venues. The research will contribute to improving health care and social support for people with disabilities.Thomas Boellstorff of the University of California, Irvine and Donna Davis of the University of Oregon, Eugene, will collaborate to explore: (a) how people with disabilities use digital media with regard to embodiment and social interaction; (b) how this changes self-understanding as disabled and affects physical-world experiences of disability; (c) what aspects of embodied online social interaction are linked to specific disabilities; (d) the role of digital making and the effect of differing platforms and devices. The research will involve a range of ethnographic methods conducted in online digital media, as well as interviews with a subset of people with disabilities provided with devices like 3D goggles. Virtual world interviews will be conducted with at least 80 individuals, and a smaller subset of intensive, ethnographic interviews will be conducted to address issues of how online embodiment is conceptualized. In addition to offering scholarly contributions to disability studies, science and technology studies, media studies, and cultural anthropology, this project explores the experiences of an underrepresented group, and offer insights into increasingly relevant public debates about the role of digital culture. The project's investigation of the insights of people with disabilities will help us better understand how new online technologies influence the relationship between the human body and technology, how we think about social interaction in light of these massive technological innovations, and how we think about the role of the internet in everyday life.

互联网如何改变美国人将自己视为个人并作为社区成员互动的方式？尽管在这个问题上进行了大量科学研究，但人们对残疾人的经历的关注要少得多。 这是不幸的，因为这些技术的影响可能对它们更为明显，因此我们更容易观察和分析。该项目着重于在线，虚拟世界中残疾人的经历。在这三维身临其境的在线空间中，残疾人可以在选择和做他们在物理世界中无法做的事情时出现。研究人员还将研究残疾人在线生活的其他方面，包括社交网站，博客和电子商务场地上的互动。这项研究将有助于改善残疾人的医疗保健和社会支持。 （b）这如何改变自我理解为残疾，并影响残疾的身体世界经历； （c）体现在线社会互动的哪些方面与特定的残疾有关； （d）数字制造的作用以及不同平台和设备的效果。这项研究将涉及在线数字媒体中进行的一系列民族志方法，以及对提供3D护目镜等设备的残疾人的访谈。虚拟世界访谈将与至少80个人进行，并将进行较少的密集民族志访谈，以解决如何概念化在线体现的问题。除了为残疾研究，科学和技术研究，媒体研究和文化人类学提供学术贡献外，该项目还探讨了人为人数不足的群体的经验，并提供了有关越来越多的有关数字文化作用的公开辩论日益相关的见解。该项目对残疾人的见解的调查将有助于我们更好地了解新的在线技术如何影响人体与技术之间的关系，根据这些巨大的技术创新，我们如何看待社会互动，以及我们如何看待互联网在日常生活中的作用。