Collaborative Research: HCC: Medium: RUI: Intelligent support for non-experts to navigate large information spaces

协作研究：HCC：中：RUI：为非专家导航大型信息空间提供智能支持

• 批准号: 2106896
• 负责人: Ryan Fisher
• 金额: $ 21.3万
• 依托单位: Christopher Newport University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2106896&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; HCC; Medium; RUI

This project will build our understanding of how to enable non-expert volunteers in a citizen-science project to contribute to analyses of large volumes of data by searching for potentially causal relations. The increasing use of automated scientific-data-collection instruments has led to an explosion in the amount of scientific data collected, challenging the ability of scientists to analyze them. Volunteers have less background knowledge than experts about the purpose, context, content, provenance and processes associated with the data. A system that provides such background knowledge will enable non-experts to make sense of the data. The research plan also includes building system support to augment the capabilities of the volunteers, for example by searching for related data and by performing causal inference in conjunction with volunteers. Citizen-science projects provide a vehicle to disseminate scientific practice, knowledge and findings to the general public to increase awareness and understanding of the practices and techniques of data-intensive science. Findings should be directly applicable to the target context of involving citizen-science volunteers in navigating and analyzing large quantities of science data and generalize to other settings with big data. In this research, volunteers classify noise events (glitches) produced by the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO). Along with glitches observed in the main Gravitational Wave channel, the detectors record around 400,000 auxiliary channels of data that may provide information about the origins of the glitch. The research will test hypotheses about the kind of additional information needed to enable non-experts to productively navigate this large dynamic dataset to find related information and will develop processes, techniques and tools to allow the volunteers to manage and efficiently process the data. It will develop our understanding of how and when to introduce which different types of background knowledge about the data to enable non-experts to work on a task, such as by providing maps and visualizations of particular data and relationships at the time they are most needed in the volunteers' work process. The gravitational physics and astronomy communities will directly benefit from advances in LIGO detector characterization, data quality vetoes and hence signal searches.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.

该项目将建立我们对如何在公民科学项目中实现非专业志愿者的理解，以通过寻找潜在的因果关系来为大量数据分析做出贡献。自动化科学数据收集工具的使用日益增加导致收集的科学数据量爆炸，从而挑战了科学家分析它们的能力。志愿者的背景知识少于专家对与数据相关的目的，上下文，内容，出处和过程。提供此类背景知识的系统将使非专家能够理解数据。研究计划还包括建筑系统支持以增强志愿者的能力，例如，通过搜索相关数据并通过与志愿者结合进行因果推断。公民科学项目为公众提供了一种工具来传播科学实践，知识和发现，以提高人们对数据密集型科学的实践和技术的认识和理解。调查结果应直接适用于涉及公民科学志愿者参与和分析大量科学数据并概括具有大数据的其他环境的目标环境。在这项研究中，志愿者对激光干涉仪重力波观测站（LIGO）产生的噪声事件（故障）进行了分类。除了在主重力波通道中观察到的故障外，检测器还记录了约40万个数据的辅助通道，这些辅助通道可能提供有关小故障起源的信息。该研究将检验有关使非专家能够有效地导航这个大型动态数据集以查找相关信息的假设，并将开发过程，技术和工具，以使志愿者能够管理并有效地处理数据。它将我们对如何以及何时介绍有关数据的不同类型的背景知识的理解，以使非专家能够处理任务，例如通过在志愿者工作过程中提供特定数据和关系的地图和可视化。引力物理和天文学群落将直接受益于LiGo探测器表征的进步，数据质量否决权以及信号搜索。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来获得支持。