CAREER: The Role of Advanced Simulation Technologies in Innovation Processes

职业：先进仿真技术在创新过程中的作用

基本信息

批准号：
1544119
负责人：
Paul Leonardi
金额：
$ 27.66万
依托单位：
University of California-Santa Barbara
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2014-07-01 至 2017-09-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1544119&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
CAREER Role Advanced Simulation Technologies

项目摘要

This set of studies will examine the role of advanced, computer-based simulations in managerial and policy-making decisions by comparing the work of scientists, engineers, managers and policymakers in three different disciplines: automotive engineering, atmospheric research, and urban planning. Research suggests that if the outputs of computer simulations appear to have high visual fidelity with the physical systems they represent, lay users are likely to believe that simulations make accurate predictions. This project will examine the use of simulation-based evidence by both technical and non-technical users during the search, generation and persuasion phases of decisions. The project will employ ethnographic methods to identify and assess representations and understandings of simulation products, patterns in acceptance and use, and associated changes in organizations' formal and informal influence structures. The results from these studies will give managers and policy makers insight into the consequences that new simulation technologies have for decision-making and, by association, decision-related organizational structures. By improving our understanding of how simulation models become persuasive communication devices, the results of this study will also provide policymakers with the appropriate questions to ask to determine the assumptions underlying simulation models and will give them a more general understanding of when and how simulations can be misleading or helpful.

这组研究将通过比较汽车工程、大气研究和城市规划这三个不同学科的科学家、工程师、管理者和政策制定者的工作，探讨先进的计算机模拟在管理和政策制定中的作用。研究表明，如果计算机模拟的输出与其所代表的物理系统具有很高的视觉保真度，那么非专业用户可能会相信模拟可以做出准确的预测。该项目将检查技术和非技术用户在决策的搜索、生成和说服阶段对基于模拟的证据的使用情况。该项目将采用人种学方法来识别和评估对模拟产品的表示和理解、接受和使用的模式以及组织正式和非正式影响结构的相关变化。这些研究的结果将使管理者和政策制定者深入了解新的模拟技术对决策以及与决策相关的组织结构的影响。通过提高我们对模拟模型如何成为有说服力的沟通工具的理解，这项研究的结果还将为政策制定者提供适当的问题来确定模拟模型的假设，并使他们对模拟何时以及如何进行有更全面的了解。具有误导性或有帮助。