Collaborative Research: A virtual workshop on conducting language research online: Enhancing the resilience of the language sciences in a time of social distancing

合作研究：在线进行语言研究的虚拟研讨会：在社会疏远时期增强语言科学的弹性

• 批准号: 2029637
• 负责人: Joshua Hartshorne
• 金额: $ 3.39万
• 依托单位: Boston College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-06-01 至 2021-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029637&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; virtual; workshop; conducting

This project supports a five-week long virtual workshop for language scientists. The purpose is to train language scientists to conduct language studies with human subjects over the Internet. There are two primary motivations. First, in response to the COVID-19 crisis, laboratories around the world have ceased in-person human data collection. That means ideas being left untested, discoveries not being made, students not getting trained, and human talent left untapped. Second, Internet-based experiments offer a number of advantages for research: they can be cheaper, faster, provide better data, and allow researchers to work on questions that are impossible to study in the lab. In fact, a number of researchers have pointed out that language science research would be advanced if more studies could be undertaken using Internet-based data collection. Thus, by enabling researchers to rapidly move research online, this project will not only help mitigate the costs of the COVID-19 crisis, but will result in a science that is more robust and faster-moving than before the crisis. The workshop will be free and open to all. All materials will be available online for individuals who could not attend the live workshop. In each of the first four weeks, there will be a 2 to 3 hour live video presentation, including a live question and answer (Q&A) session. Each presentation will be followed several days later by a live, message board-based Q&A. During the fifth week, there will be an additional message board-based Q&A. Topics will include technical skills, such as using popular software platforms, as well as other research implementation skills, such as handling ethics issues and subject recruitment. The workshop will be facilitated by the teams experienced in the design and use of two robust software packages for online experiments.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.

该项目为语言科学家提供了为期五周的虚拟研讨会。目的是培训语言科学家通过互联网与人类学科进行语言研究。有两个主要动机。首先，为了回应19日的危机，世界各地的实验室已经停止了人类数据收集。这意味着想法未经测试，没有被发现，学生没有接受培训以及人才未开发。其次，基于Internet的实验为研究提供了许多优势：它们可以更便宜，更快，提供更好的数据，并允许研究人员研究实验室无法研究的问题。实际上，许多研究人员指出，如果使用基于Internet的数据收集可以进行更多的研究，则语言科学研究将得到提高。因此，通过使研究人员能够快速地在线进行研究，该项目不仅可以帮助减轻COVID-19危机的成本，而且会导致一项比危机之前更强大和更快的科学。研讨会将是免费的，并向所有人开放。所有材料均可在线提供无法参加现场工作坊的个人。在最初的四个星期中的每个星期中，都会有2到3小时的实时视频演示，包括现场问答（问答）会议。每次演示文稿将在几天后进行现场消息板的问答。在第五周，将还有一个基于留言板的问答。主题将包括技术技能，例如使用流行的软件平台以及其他研究实施技能，例如处理道德问题和主题招聘。该研讨会将由设计和使用两个可靠的软件包进行在线实验的团队促进。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估标准通过评估来支持的。