I attended the CSST Summer Research Institute in 2008 and found it to be a tremendously rewarding experience. I met lots of new people, received a lot of feedback on my dissertations ideas, and enjoyed a week’s break from the scorching NC summer! It looks like the 2009 CSST, to be held in the Adirondack Mountains, will be just as amazing. Find the full CFP at the AOIR listserv archive.
A science of socio-technical systems is emerging from research in the fields of HCI, social computing, social informatics, CSCW, sociology of computing, and other domains. The Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems (CSST) is a new organization devoted to advancing research on socio-technical systems. Building on the success of the 2008 Summer Research Institute, the CSST will, again, be hosting a summer research institute for advanced doctoral students and pre-tenure faculty in summer, 2009. A primary goal of the institute is to build a new cohort of faculty and graduate students who are interested in research on the design and interplay of technology and humans at the level of individuals, groups, organizations, and larger communities. Examples of this kind of work include research on: * new forms of organizing (e.g., virtual organizations, massive online activities) * social computing (e.g., online communities, social network sites); * distributed work (e.g., collaboratories, virtual teams and organizations); * new technologies (e.g., recommender systems, prediction markets, ubiquitous computing); * novel forms of production (e.g., open source software, Wikipedia); * new forms of expression and entertainment (e.g., blogs, wikis, massive multiplayer online role-playing games); and * information and communication technologies for developing regions (e.g., cell phone-based applications to assist economic development, infrastructure development for local economic action).
Again, I can’t recommend this institute enough. If you have any questions feel free to drop me a line.
Tags: academic, CSST, socio-technical
