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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) Calls for Participation in the 2015 Summer Research Institute</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">When: July 20 – 24, 2015 </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Where: The Nature Place, near Colorado Springs, CO </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Deadline: Apply by February 25, 2015 </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Personal health and well-being; open innovation, eScience, and citizen science; co-production, open source, and new forms of work; cultural heritage and information access; energy management and climate change;
civic hacking, engagement and government; disaster response; cybersecurity and privacy; education and learning – these are just a few problem domains where effective design and robust understanding of complex sociotechnical systems are critical.</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">To meet these challenges, a trans-disciplinary community has come together, drawing together scholars from intellectual communities such as CSCW, HCI, social computing, organization studies, information visualization,
social informatics, sociology, information systems, medical informatics, computer science, ICT for development, education, learning science, journalism, and political science. Through Summer Research Institutes, extended workshops, preconference workshops,
and other activities, this community of researchers from academia and industry has developed a strong focus on problems and opportunities arising from the interplay of social and technological systems that span individuals, groups, organizations, and societies.</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The 2015 Summer Research Institute builds on this tradition to strengthen and expand this diverse community by bringing together graduate students, post-doctoral students, faculty, and other researchers in three
groups:</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Doctoral students, post-doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers – Mentoring, peer networking, and skill-building tutorials will help doctoral students, post-doctoral students, pre-tenure
faculty, and early career researchers identify substantive ways that the theories, approaches, and tools within the larger community can advance their work with the design and study of sociotechnical systems.</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams – Groups of researchers seeking to develop cross-disciplinary collaborations will work with mentors to refine problem statements and research goals; connect with collaborators
with complementary skills and interests; and create actionable research agendas and funding proposals. Preference will be given to groups interested in designing and studying sociotechnical systems that address societal grand challenges such as (but not limited
to) healthcare; energy management and climate change; cybersecurity and privacy; education and learning; disaster response; technology development and innovation; economic development and work; and civic engagement and participation.</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Research infrastructure development teams – Groups of researchers interested in creating computational or analytic tools, data resources, training materials, or other infrastructure to support the design and
study of sociotechnical systems will come together to work on new challenges. These infrastructure “hackathon” sessions will result in community resources such as use cases, prototypes, draft materials, and deployable systems.</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Applying for CSST 2015 Summer Research Institute </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">We encourage applications from all academic, industry, NGO, and public sector organizations worldwide. To apply for the 2015 Summer Research Institute, select the group that best fits your needs and situation:
Doctoral students, post-doctoral students, pre-tenure faculty, and early career researchers should send their CV and a short (up to 300 words) response to the question “How does/will your work advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical
systems?” Include three relevant references to situate your work within the larger research community. Doctoral students should have completed their dissertation proposal prior to attending and should seek a letter of recommendation from their advisor/department
chair indicating their expected graduation date as well as how the CSST Summer Research Institute will advance their scholarship.</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Emerging multi-disciplinary research teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (up to 500 words) response to these questions: “What is the research focus/problem domain? What types of activities/studies
are needed to engage that domain? How will pursuing this agenda help advance our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?” Include references and potential funding sources, if known, to situate the proposal within the larger research
community. Your team may have from three to six people. Preference will be given to cross-institutional teams in which junior/mid-career researchers play significant leadership roles.</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Research infrastructure development teams should apply as a group, sending their CVs and a short (up to 500 words)) response to these questions: “What is the problem you are seeking to address? What will you do
to address that problem? How will creating these technologies, tools, materials or infrastructure improve our ability to design and understand critical sociotechnical systems?” Include references to examples from other domains, if possible, to situate your
proposal. Your team may have from three to six people from multiple disciplines and institutions. </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Lodging, meals, and other onsite costs will be covered for all Summer Research Institute participants. Limited travel support is available, if needed, for participants from US and Canadian institutions (with preference
given to doctoral and post-doctoral students). To be considered for all available financial support you should provide the following information when you apply:</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* What college or university do you attend? </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* What is your primary department affiliation? </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* If you are applying from a Canadian university, are you a member of the GRAND network? </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Send your application materials to Summer Research Institute Co-Director Diane Bailey at diane.bailey@ischool.utexas.edu by February 25, 2015. The CSST Summer Research Institute Advisory Group will review applications
beginning March 1, 2015 using the following criteria: </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">* Clear articulation of the hoped-for contribution to the theory, practice, or design of sociotechnical systems * Likelihood of Summer Research Institute participation providing significant practical benefit for
the individual/team * Contribution to a balanced and diverse group of participants </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">The number of participants we select will depend on the available funding and the fit between applicants’ interests and CSST goals. </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">For more information about the Summer Research Institute, contact the Summer Research Institute Co-Directors, Diane Bailey (diane.bailey@ischool.utexas.edu) and Dan Cosley (drc44@cornell.edu). </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">For information about the broader community of researchers interested in design and study of sociotechnical systems, see: CSST (www.sociotech.net), the “Researchers of the Socio-Technical” Facebook group, or the
CSST listserv (csst@listserv.syr.edu).</div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">2015 CSST Summer Research Institute Mentors </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Ken Anderson<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>Intel </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Cecilia Aragon<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>University of Washington </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Diane Bailey<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>University of Texas (Co-Director) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Elizabeth Churchill<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>Google </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Dan Cosley<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>Cornell University (Co-Director) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Cliff Lampe<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>University of Michigan </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Bonnie Nardi<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>University of California, Irvine </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Leysia Palen<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>University of Colorado, Boulder </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Scott Robertson<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>University of Hawaii </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Michael Twidale<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>University of Illinois </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">With support from these Digital Societies Research Coordination Network members: </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Brian Butler<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>University of Maryland </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Wayne Lutters<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>University of Maryland, Baltimore County </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Steve Sawyer<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>Syracuse University </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Andrea Tapia<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;">
</span>The Pennsylvania State University </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">2015 CSST Summer Research Institute Advisory Board </div>
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<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Mark Ackerman (University of Michigan) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Warren Allen (Florida State University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Morgan Ames (University of Irvine/Intel) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Ken Anderson (Intel) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Cecilia Aragon (University of Washington) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Diane Bailey (University of Texas) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Steve Barley (Stanford) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Jeremy Birnholtz (Northwestern University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Geoffrey Bowker (University of California, Irvine) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Amy Bruckman (Georgia Tech) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Jenna Burrell (University of California, Berkeley) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Brian Butler (University of Maryland) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Kathy Chudoba (Utah State University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Elizabeth Churchill (Google) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Derrick Cogburn (American University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Nosh Contractor (Northwestern University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Dan Cosley (Cornell University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Kevin Crowston (Syracuse University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Jonathon Cummings (Duke University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Laura Dabbish (Carnegie Mellon University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Nicole Ellison (University of Michigan) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Sanda Erdelez (University of Missouri) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Ingrid Erickson (Rutgers University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Thomas Finholt (University of Michigan) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Megan Finn (University of Washington) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Susan Fussell (Cornell University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Matt Germonprez (University of Nebraska, Omaha) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Sean Goggins (University of Missouri) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Beki Grinter (Georgia Tech University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Keith Hampton (Rutgers University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Derek Hansen (Brigham Young University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Gillian Hayes (University of California, Irvine) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Caroline Haythornthwaite (University of British Columbia) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Pamela Hinds (Stanford University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">James Howison (University of Texas) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Josh Introne (Michigan State University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Steve Jackson (Cornell University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi (University of North Carolina) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Erik Johnston (Arizona State University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Nicolas Jullien (Telecom Bretagne) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Jofish Kaye (Yahoo) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Sara Kiesler (Carnegie Mellon University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Niki Kittur (Carnegie Mellon University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Karim Lakhani (Harvard Business School) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Cliff Lampe (University of Michigan) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Paul Leonardi (University of California, Santa Barbara) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Sylvia Lindtner (University of Michigan) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Wayne Lutters (UMBC) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Kalle Lyytinen (Case Western Reserve University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Gloria Mark (University of California, Irvine) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Sorin Matei (Purdue University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Melissa Mazmanian (University of California, Irvine) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Joi Moore (University of Missouri) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Dawn Nafus (Intel) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Bonnie Nardi (University of California, Irvine) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Gina Neff (University of Washington) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Mark Newman (University of Michigan) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Gary Olson (University of California, Irvine) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Wanda Orlikowski (MIT) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Felipe Ortega (University Rey Juan Carlos) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Leysia Palen (University of Colorado) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Marshall Scott Poole (University of Illinois) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Jenny Preece (University of Maryland) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Rebecca Reynolds (Rutgers University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Lionel Robert (University of Michigan) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Scott Robertson (University of Hawaii) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Tony Salvador (Intel) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Steve Sawyer (Syracuse) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Chi-Ren Shyu (University of Missouri) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Jaime Snyder (University of Washington) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Diane Sonnenwald (Copenhagen) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Susan Straus (RAND Corporation) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Cassidy Sugimoto (Indiana University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Dan Suthers (University of Hawaii) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Andrea Tapia (The Pennsylvania State University) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Michael Twidale (University of Illinois) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">John Walsh (Georgia Tech) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Molly Wasko (University of Alabama, Birmingham) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Mary Beth Watson-Manheim (University of Illinois, Chicago) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Andrea Wiggins (University of Maryland) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Susan Winter (University of Maryland) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck (University of Michigan) </div>
<div id="bloop_customfont" style="margin: 0px;">Youngjin Yoo (Temple University) </div>
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