IConference 2009
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[edit] Workshop Overview
This workshop builds on and extends an effort begun in 2005 that led to the 2008 Summer Research Institute of the Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST). This Research Institute, supported by the National Science Foundation and held at the University of Michigan, brought together a diverse set of researchers, including the fields of science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, management and organizational studies, library and information science, sociology, social informatics, and computer science, to begin exploring and framing a future research agenda centered on socio-technical research. We now propose a workshop as a follow-on to the 2009 iConference to invite iSchool faculty and students to join the emerging CSST network and work to tailor its broad goals to both reflect and support the research being pursued within the greater iSchool community. We see this workshop as continuing and expanding on the 2008 Summer Research Institute.
Workshop Organizers: Sean P. Goggins, Ingbert Floyd, Steve Sawyer, Jonathan Grudin, Laura Dabbish, Ingrid Erickson, David Ribes, Madhu Reddy
[edit] Expected Outcomes
We anticipate at least three outcomes from this workshop:
- Increased awareness of, and connections between scholars employing and developing socio-technical principles and outcomes.
- Continued development of a research agenda regarding socio-technical principles, issues and questions inclusive of a broad set of disciplinary perspectives.
- Identification of a core set of materials to represent the intellectual and empirical aspects of socio-technical scholarship.
[edit] Workshop Organization
[edit] Opening Overviews (1:15 - 2pm)
The workshop will commence with brief talks (approx. 5 minutes each) representing a core scholarly tradition from which the science of socio-technical systems draws: library science, science and technology studies, human-computer interaction, organizational studies, sociology, communication, and computer science.
- Human-Computer Interaction – Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft
- CSCW – Laura Dabbish, Carnegie Mellon University
- Library and Information Science – Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Science and Technology Studies – David Ribes, Georgetown University
- Management and Organizational Studies– Kevin Crowston, Syracuse University
- Sociology – Andrea Tapia, The Pennsylvania State University
- Social Informatics – Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
[edit] Round Table Discussion (2pm - 3pm)
Round tables organized to construct a diagram of the scholarly lineage from the home constituencies represented to the science of the Science of Socio-Technical Systems. This may include STS, HCI/CSCW, OCIS, LIS, Social Informatics, Sociology & Computer Science The roundtable format will use presentations as probes to identify salient socio-technical research that is being done by members of the iSchool community
Ommitted Research Areas
- Industrial Engineering
- Anthropology of Technology
- New Media and Studies
- Education
- CSCL
- Feminist Theory
- Women's Studies
- Architecture
- Urban Planning and Design
- Law
- Public Policy
- Social Work
- Innovation Sciences
- Health Sciences
- Design
- Software Engineering
- Requirements Analysis
- Communications
- Information Sciences
- Economics
- Psychology
- Ubicomp
- Philosophy
- History
- Math
- Rhetoric
- Geography
- Urban Informatics
- Bio Informatics
[edit] Group Discussion (3pm - 4pm)
Group discussion to collaboratively identify means/mechanisms of developing CSST community with iSchool participation
[edit] Questions from the Whiteboard
Incomplete & redundant list (by far) of issues that came up in the workshop:
Open questions:
- Where is the line between the social and the technical?
- Individuals - can this still be sociotechnical. (not a question)
- Number of Variables that make context?
- What do you mean by social?
- More than one person studied?
- Include others?
- Cognitive? (yes!)
- People are not fungible! Non-lego people!
- What is technical/technology?
- ?
- How to represent the relation between 2 of them?
[edit] Framing Agenda for Future Work / Next Steps (4pm - 5pm)
[edit] Optional Dinner @ TBD (6pm)
[edit] Airport Ride Sharing
Shuttles and cabs to/from RDU are ~$35-40 each person, so let's coordinate AirportRideSharing.
[edit] Confirmed Participants
- Lisa Nathan, University of Washington
- Wayne Lutters, University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Prudence Dalrymple, Drexel University
- David Gurzick, University of Maryland Baltimore County
- Michael Khoo, Drexel University
- Paula Bach, College of Information Sciences and Technology, The Pennsylvania State University
- Ingrid Erickson, Social Science Research Council
- Ingbert Floyd, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Sean Goggins, University of Missouri
- James Howison, Carnegie Mellon University
- Carleen Maitland, The Pennsylvania State University
- Wendy Kellogg, IBM
- Tatjana Aparaac-Jelusic, University of Zadar, Croatia
- Andrea Wiggins, Syracuse University
- Michael B. Twidale, University of Illinois
- Kristin Eschenfelder, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Johanna Birkland, Syracuse University
- Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi, Syracuse University
- I-Chun Tsai, University of Toledo
- David Ribes, Georgetown University
- Andrea Tapia, The Pennsylvania State University
- Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft
- Steve Sawyer, Syracuse
- Kevin Crowston, Syracuse
- Laura Dabbish, Carnegie Mellon University
- Fred Stutzman, SILS, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
[edit] Workshop Organizers
- Sean P. Goggins, University of Missouri
- Ingbert Floyd, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
- Jonathan Grudin, Microsoft Corporation
- Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University
- Ingrid Erickson, Social Science Research Council
- Laura Dabbish, Carnegie Mellon University
- Madhu Reddy, Penn State
- David Ribes, Georgetown
