Call for Applications for Faculty Positions, Postdoctoral Fellows, and MPhil/PhD Candidates at HKUST Guangzhou Campus
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Dear colleagues,
I would like to let you know that the Hong Kong University of Science and
Technology Guangzhou Campus (HKUST GZ) is currently inviting applications
for faculty positions, postdoctoral fellows, and MPhil/PhD candidates.
The thrust area of Innovation, Policy and Entrepreneurship explores
innovative approaches to tackling complex, real-world challenges at the
interface of science, technology, and society. Cross-disciplinary focus
areas include innovation and public policy for sustainability.
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Many opportunities are available in the Society Hub.
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Please let me know if you have any questions.
Thank you very much.
Best regards,
YARIME Masaru
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YARIME Masaru, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Public Policy (PPOL), The Hong Kong
University of Science and Technology (HKUST)
Office: Room 4611 (Lift 31/32), PPOL, HKUST, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong
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Honorary Associate Professor, Department of Science, Technology,
Engineering & Public Policy, University College London
Visiting Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public Policy, The
University of Tokyo
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Supporting Federal Decision Making through Participatory Technology Assessment
by A public forum for scientists.
Supporting Federal Decision Making through Participatory Technology Assessment
Authors: Nicholas Weller, Michelle Sullivan Govani, and Mahmud Farooque
Summary
The incoming administration faces complex issues at the intersections of science, technology, and society. As such, the next administration should establish a special unit within the Science and Technology Policy Institute (STPI)—an existing federally funded research and development center (FFRDC)—to provide capacity for Participatory Technology Assessment (pTA) to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and across executive branch agencies.
A pTA unit within STPI would provide pTA as a service for the executive branch regarding emerging scientific and technological issues and questions. By integrating public voices alongside expert assessments, the next administration can ensure that federal science and technology decisions provide the greatest benefit to society.
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Re: Report on government support for entrepreneurship
by A public forum for scientists.
Hi Susan, Caroline,
This is an interesting and timely report---thanks so much for sharing it.
The news media was also reporting this same story earlier this year---see
here for instance: http://cnn.it/2L2HV5E. The reasons the media were giving
for a drop in entrepreneurship ranged from the dot-com bust of 2000 and the
great recession of 2008 to increased regulation, to the increased
"entrepreneurial-ness" of big companies, and the increased
"Wal-Mart-ization" of America. Still, the business startup numbers are
rebounding right now (although still not back to their pre-2008 levels),
with new startups up 43% this year over 2019: http://nyti.ms/37XIWVw.
Also, I think it's important to recognize that long-term, small business
employment has been pretty stable. I'm attaching a flyer from the US Small
Business Administration showing just how steady the market has been over the
last 20 years with regard to small business employment and the huge impact
that these small employers have had on the overall economy. I mention this
because, although I'm not an expert here, I've started and run small
businesses for the last 30 years and have also helped dozens of fellow
entrepreneurs launch their own businesses, so I was just a bit confused to
see "entrepreneurship" defined so narrowly as it is in this report. It's far
more than just startups---the startup/failure dynamic is fascinating, but
it's also just one rung in the ladder of entrepreneurship. In practical
terms, a small business is an entrepreneurial enterprise that has
survived---not necessarily thrived, but learned how to operate as a
business, learned to navigate all the complexities of running a business
(invoicing, taxes, storefronts, staff, marketing, etc.). Some states and
regions are more accommodating than others in this regard---some, for
example, are just better located, with a concentrated customer base (be it
in manufacturing, publishing, transportation, or whatever---some areas are
just more conducive to success). So maybe there's been a gradual shift in
the types of businesses that can succeed in today's economy (more
service-based) and this shift correlates with these demographics?---that
only suitably-located businesses in the service economy are likely to
survive and thrive, and the dynamics of this competition are different than
before. These shifts have no doubt been analyzed somewhere, and at
length---apologies to the economists on this list who have read/authored
these reports.
Anyway---good stuff. I think the takeaway message is that the future looks
steady, even bright.
Best regards,
Glenn
Glenn Hampson
Executive Director
Science Communication Institute (SCI)
Program Director
Open Scholarship Initiative (OSI)
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Would be interesting to us who do not work in this space (like me) to hear
more about the questions or issues raised by this report from those of you
who do. I have a few questions I would very much appreciate having experts
point me to relevant information. If you take a longer and global view - is
there a waxing and waning of new businesses that may add context? The
period of decline noted seems to also track with the rise of the
'entrepreneurship industry' - investments by regional, state and local govts
and various intermediary organization together with built environments,
courses, coaches, and so on. What is the impact, if any, on the rate of
birth and success of new businesses of such investments and are there
"lessons learned?" Finally - I am not sure how entrepreneurship is defined
and determined? In reading reports I am sometimes caught up by the
language concerning new businesses. Welcome your help! Happy New Year, S
Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
President, James S. McDonnell Foundation
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Hi friends,
This came across my computer screen today and I thought that some of you
might be interested in this report by the CBO on government support for
entrepreneurship. Raises very interesting points.
Happy new year, everyone!
Caroline Wagner
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Re: Report on government support for entrepreneurship
by A public forum for scientists.
Would be interesting to us who do not work in this space (like me) to hear
more about the questions or issues raised by this report from those of you
who do. I have a few questions I would very much appreciate having experts
point me to relevant information. If you take a longer and global view - is
there a waxing and waning of new businesses that may add context? The
period of decline noted seems to also track with the rise of the
'entrepreneurship industry' - investments by regional, state and local govts
and various intermediary organization together with built environments,
courses, coaches, and so on. What is the impact, if any, on the rate of
birth and success of new businesses of such investments and are there
"lessons learned?" Finally - I am not sure how entrepreneurship is defined
and determined? In reading reports I am sometimes caught up by the
language concerning new businesses. Welcome your help! Happy New Year, S
Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
President, James S. McDonnell Foundation
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Hi friends,
This came across my computer screen today and I thought that some of you
might be interested in this report by the CBO on government support for
entrepreneurship. Raises very interesting points.
Happy new year, everyone!
Caroline Wagner
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Report on government support for entrepreneurship
by A public forum for scientists.
Hi friends,
This came across my computer screen today and I thought that some of you might be interested in this report by the CBO on government support for entrepreneurship. Raises very interesting points.
Happy new year, everyone!
Caroline Wagner
[The Ohio State University]
Caroline S. Wagner, PhD
Wolf Chair in International Affairs
John Glenn College of Public Affairs Battelle Center for Science & Engineering Policy
Page Hall 210U, 1810 College Road N, Columbus, OH 43210
6142927791 Office / 614-206-8636 Mobile
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Pre-print on virtual collaborative research during COVID-19
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Dear all,
Several months ago, I was inspired to see the rapid response work by Caroline Wagner and colleagues on how COVID-19 was altering international research collaborations. I was interested in exploring how the pandemic has impacted collaborations in the context of knowledge co-coproduction, where researchers work with research users and others stakeholders during one or more phases of the research process. Anticipating that moves to virtual methods of collaboration were occurring, I worked with other social scientists and funders of knowledge co-production in environmental sectors to conduct a rapid response study. Our pre-print with preliminary results is now available on SSRN. I welcome comments, critiques, and ideas for future research on this topic, which aside from being timely during the pandemic, will likely become increasingly relevant as we explore how to scale the benefits of research collaborations with users of research.
Happy holidays to everyone on this list!
James Arnott
Executive Director | Aspen Global Change Institute
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Collaborative research in a virtual world: Implications of COVID-19 for the co-production of environmental knowledge & solutions
Link to pre-print: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3755008
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic offers a unique opportunity to observe widespread use of virtual interaction and understand its influence on collaboration in different settings. This study investigates the impact of virtual interaction on forms of collaborative research where researchers and users meaningfully interact to co-produce knowledge and solutions. We report results from a survey distributed to grantees performing collaborative research on environmental topics before and during the pandemic. Facilitated in partnership with five funders of environmental collaborative research across North America, survey responses (n=45) depict changes in modes, frequencies, and participation levels in collaborative research after the onset of the pandemic. Nearly all grantees came to rely entirely on virtual modes for engagement, and for them, the process illuminated a wide range of constraints (e.g., building relationships, engaging with some types of partners), benefits (e.g., convenience and efficiency), and possible strategies (e.g., incorporating new technologies, adapting meeting formats and durations). Although difficult to disentangle pandemic-related factors from intrinsic opportunities and limitations of virtual collaboration, lessons learned from this rapid response study can inform future research, evaluation, and development of mechanisms to support collaborative research.
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SOSP Job Postings from RTI in Innovation & Environmental Economics
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My organization, RTI International (the Research Triangle Institute) is hiring in my center. We are a large (5,000 employees) nonprofit research organization performing projects for a wide variety of sponsors. Two postings might be of interest to members of this list. Please review the summaries below and visit the links provided for complete information. I encourage candidates to contact me at jmalexander(a)rti.org<mailto:jmalexander@rti.org> to learn more about our group and to ensure that your application is given proper review, as we receive many applications.
Hoping you all are able to enjoy the year-end holidays and a happy New Year,
Jeffrey Alexander
Director, Innovation Policy
RTI International
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Innovation and Economic Development Economist
We have an immediate need for a mid-level candidate to work in our Innovation Economics and Tech-Based Economic Development programs. We perform contract- and grant-funded research for federal and state governments, foundations, and private firms in topics such as R&D funding program evaluation, innovation support program analysis, technology-based economic development strategy, and STEM workforce assessment. Some of our key project sponsors include the National Institutes of Health, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Department of Defense, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
This position is appropriate for a candidate who holds a Masters degree plus some experience, or an early-career PhD graduate. We are interested in people with a fairly quantitative background, and the position requires data-intensive analysis using STATA, R, and SAS, plus modeling regional economic impacts using IMPLAN and RIMS II. This person would be an integral part of project teams, supervising junior staff and providing guidance and expertise on methodological issues. The position also requires the ability to present data analysis in an accessible manner to project sponsors, participation in proposal development, and contributions to both sponsored reports and manuscripts submitted to peer-reviewed journals for publishing. We have particular interest in people with backgrounds that include:
* Previous experience in research consulting or client-driven research projects.
* Specific knowledge of and interest in the following topics: big tech investment strategies, biomedical innovation, sustainable energy, data centers, and big data applications.
* Experience analyzing the economic impact of complex investments, programs, and policies.
* Cost-benefit analysis of new technologies and technology development initiatives.
We are accepting applications from any US location, but candidates must have legal authorization to work in the US without the need for employer sponsorship. We would also want someone who is willing to move to the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, region (where RTI is headquartered) once pandemic travel restrictions are lifted. Until then, the candidate could work from any location-RTI has very good telework support and our workforce is accustomed to remote collaboration.
Please visit http://m.rfer.us/RTIcsH8TH for the full announcement and to submit an application.
Senior Environmental Economist
We are hiring for a highly quantitative and technical position as a leader in our environmental economics group. This group performs contract and grant funded research in the areas of environment and natural resources, energy, innovation, and economic development. The focus of this position is on the development and implementation of large-scale econometric models and other forms of advanced analytics to support decision-making on regulation and investments in environmental protection and alternative energy, understanding and forecasting scenarios for environmental impact (e.g., rapid deforestation, global climate change), and economy-wide impact analysis. We are especially interested in candidates working at the intersection of transportation, energy, and environmental analysis. Past project sponsors include the Environmental Protection Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and the US Department of Energy, plus various philanthropic foundations and non-US governments.
Due to the technical nature of this position, candidates should be proficient in one or more of the following languages or software packages: R, Python, and/ or other mathematical software packages commonly used for large-scale modelling (e.g. GAMS). We also have a strong interest in candidates with demonstrated experience with geospatial analysis, especially in QGIS and in partial equilibrium modeling, computable general equilibrium and/or other relevant optimization modeling experience.
This position is appropriate for an early-career PhD graduate, or a candidate with a Masters degree and extensive professional experience in these areas. As noted above, we are hiring candidates from any location but who are willing to move to the Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina area once pandemic travel restrictions are lifted. (Relocation may or may not be compensated depending on circumstances.) Candidates must be authorized to work in the US without the need for employer sponsorship.
See http://m.rfer.us/RTIO_78TM for details.
Note: beginning on 18 March 2020, RTI instituted
a mandatory telework policy in response to the
COVID-19 threat. Please contact me by e-mail and
not by telephone for the foreseeable future.
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RTI International
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Re: Message: Why being stuck at home - and unable to hang out in cafes and bars - drains our creativity
by A public forum for scientists.
Point taken Steve. It would be helpful if we actually knew what was increasing or decreasing. To me, “creativity” is too vague and subjective to be truly measured. Or perhaps I feel this way because my own creativity is diminished?
Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
President, James S. McDonnell Foundation
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Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 12:52 PM
To: Susan Fitzpatrick <susan(a)jsmf.org>
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Subject: Re: Message: Why being stuck at home - and unable to hang out in cafes and bars - drains our creativity
Sure, overgeneralization will always present problems. And, as should also be clear, I seldom posit unidirectional hypotheses. That's why I phrased the question as whether there has been an increase or decrease in creativity. With that said, the harder problem, but more interesting issue, is understanding "why" there was/is an increase or decrease. And that is where the focused research need truly arises; that is, designing the right kind of studies to elicit responses accurately capturing any behavioral changes related to positive/negative outcomes. I know this community has the intellectual capital for this kind of work. But it's up to the funders to decide if they want to support it.
Cheers,
Steve
On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 11:27 AM Susan Fitzpatrick <susan(a)jsmf.org <mailto:susan@jsmf.org> > wrote:
Interesting question – as social beings there is no doubt that both planned and impromptu (or a mixture – such as a workshop) can spark creativity. Such activities can also be giant time sinks. Sorry to be the store bought eggnog at the holiday party. I have found, somewhat to my surprise, that this year I have had time to read more, walk more, think more – especially across areas of knowledge that are not necessarily obviously related. And I have allowed my thoughts to range freer – much the way you do when shooting the breeze with companions. When I do have conversations they are with people I really want to talk with and learn from as we mull through tough questions.
SO, it will not surprise anyone familiar with my posts on these kinds of questions – I think overgeneralizing is unsatisfying. I don’t believe just walking into a bar sparks creativity. True creativity comes from a still mysterious ability to know a great deal about something and to still be able to shift your gaze slightly and see new and exciting aspects you had not considered. Interactions can help with this gaze shift. But I am less likely to credit any place – even bars and cafes with the magic of spontaneous intellectual combustion. Lots of really uninteresting conversations occur in bars.
Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
President, James S. McDonnell Foundation
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Subject: Message: Why being stuck at home – and unable to hang out in cafes and bars – drains our creativity
Hi Everyone - I am writing to follow up on a very old thread that has been discussed in various forms over the years - how the built environment alters collaboration. I'm sure some of you have had discussions during your Zoom meetings about the loss of unplanned visits, the drop-in, or the infamous "productive collisions" given that most have been working from home. This article in The Conversation reminded me of this as they discuss how the pandemic might be altering creative output due to the loss of impromptu workplace encounters along with decreases in other forms of action (and interaction) that can influence our creativity. The degree to which creativity has increased or decreased in 2020 is an important question and one that I hope this community can help us understand.
Best,
Steve
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Subject: Impacts of architecture on collective behaviour
Hi Everyone – as you know, some in the scholarly study of science have examined how the built environment influences collaboration and knowledge production. Indeed, this has come up on the list at various times over the years (below is my compilation of these). For example, a few years back, we spent some time discussing a study coming out of the University of Michigan, which was picked up by the Chronicle of Higher Education. This topic was sufficiently important enough that we included it in the 2015 National Academies of Sciences report on team science (see Chapter 8 on "Institutional and Organizational Support for Team Science").
With that as background, I wanted to let you know about a special issue, on "collective behavior" and the built environment, that was just published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (PTRS). We’re excited about this for a number of reasons. First, it is very interdisciplinary, discussing not just interactions between humans, but also other mammals as well as insects. Second, if you’re not familiar with PTRS, it is the oldest scholarly journal in the world dating back to the 1600s. Here is a link to their history (https://royalsociety.org/journals/publishing-activities/publishing350/histo…) and their collection has been digitized, so if you want to take a tour of scientific history, you're able to do so.
As for the special issue, it was supported by a grant from the National Academies “Keck Futures Initiative”. After a conference on Collective Behavior, we were awarded a grant on “How do architectural designs affect interaction patterns and collective behavior?". The funding was used to primarily support a workshop to develop an interdisciplinary scholarship of how the built environment alters collective behavior. But the grant also produced this perspectives piece (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0111) as well as the new special issue (co-edited with Noa Pinter-Wollman (UCLA), Alan Penn (University College London), and Guy Theraulaz (Université de Toulouse).
As you'll see, we've got articles from a variety of disciplines – psychologists, sociologists, biologists, mathematicians, and architects, to name a few. And we included two that are directly relevant to the topic on human collaboration and the built environment. One article was authored by Felix Kabo of the University of Michigan (co-author of the article discussed in the earlier thread). In this new article, he discusses how characteristics of the built environment interact with social and organizational factors. This paper combined methods from social network analysis with proximity in work settings. Another paper was on a set of studies combining digital data of physical interactions with electronic communications. Here, Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turbin, of Harvard University, study the outcomes when organizations change from traditional workspace design to open office architectures.
Putting together this special issue was a lot of fun and we hope it ignites interest in many others to pursue an interdisciplinary study of how the built environment influences collective behavior. We purposely designed the issue to introduce folks to a variety of methods and concepts to spark ideas for adoption and adaption by others similarly interested in the broad topic of architecture and collective behavior. I’m attaching our introductory article where we lay out the research space for this topic, as well as present a set of open questions/issues. You can find information on the entire issue at this link (http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/373/1753).
If you have any questions, let me know.
Best,
Steve Fiore
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Stephen M. Fiore, Ph.D.
Professor, Cognitive Sciences, Department of Philosophy
Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Institute for Simulation & Training ( <http://csl.ist.ucf.edu/> http://csl.ist.ucf.edu/)
University of Central Florida
sfiore(a)ist.ucf.edu <mailto:sfiore@ist.ucf.edu>
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV] On Behalf Of Schultz, Jack C.
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 5:05 PM
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The attached article should amuse you. From today’s Chronicle of Higher Ed
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October 29, 2012
Scientific Discovery, Inspired by a Walk to the Restroom
In the push to increase research collaboration, studies try to identify the building-design elements that really matter.
<http://chronicle.com/article/Scientific-Discovery-Inspired/135476/> http://chronicle.com/article/Scientific-Discovery-Inspired/135476/
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Evidently, the University of Michigan is just discovering this principle. BTW, when it’s safe I often joke about the importance of meeting in the restrooms.
In case you ever need this fact, the ’50 foot rule’, which states that 90% of collaborations happen among people who work less than fifty feet apart, originated here (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/managing-flow-technology) and is essentially what better building design attempts to overcome.
Jack
Jack C. Schultz, Director
Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7957
@jackcschultz
http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Falk-Krzesinski, Holly (ELS-STL) [h.falk-krzesinski(a)ELSEVIER.COM <mailto:h.falk-krzesinski@ELSEVIER.COM> ]
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Some other social ecology for interdisciplinary research references, if interested:
· Cech, T.R. (2003). Janelia Farm Research Campus: Report on Program Development.
· Sá, C. (2007). Planning for Interdisciplinary Research. Planning for Higher Education 35, 18-28.
· Harris, M.S., and Holley, K. (2008). Constructing the Interdisciplinary Ivory Tower: The Planning of Interdisciplinary Spaces on University Campuses. Planning for Higher Education 36, 34-43.
· Goldberger, P. (2011). Laboratory Conditions: Architects Reimagine the Science Building. In The New Yorker (Condé Nast Digital), pp. 88-89.
· Lehrer, J. (2012). Annals of Ideas GROUPTHINK: The brainstorming myth. In The New Yorker (New York, NY: Condé Nast Digital), pp. 11.
· McNeill, D. (2012). A Science Institute in Okinawa Breaks Down Academic Barriers. In The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, DC: The Chronicle of Higher Education).
· Basken, P. (2012). Scientific Discovery, Inspired by a Walk to the Restroom. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, Ph.D.
Vice President, Global Academic & Research Relations
Elsevier
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Dan Stokols [dstokols(a)UCI.EDU <mailto:dstokols@UCI.EDU> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:23 AM
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Thanks Jack-
Also, for those interested, see also this course on Environmental Psychology available on iTunes U and OpenCourseWare Consortium:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/environmental-psychology/id529650093
Best, Dan
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From: Fiore, Steve
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:27 AM
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Subject: RE: We're ahead of Michigan / environmental design and collaboration
Thanks Jack, Holly, and Dan. I'm glad this is being discussed because I see this as a significant and costly gap in our understanding of successful collaboration in interdisciplinary research. Although there have been some findings published on designing for collaboration, it seems that, relative to other research, the field would benefit from more studies on how to design for "scientific collaboration". Given that we have hundreds of millions of dollars spent annually on new buildings, I applaud any attempt to understand how environment influences scientific collaboration and cognition. I have heard plenty of talks from directors of science centers/institutes claim that they “designed for collaboration” but I have never heard them cite any studies and it seems to have been done more from intuition than anything else. And, although Thomas Allen's book was a good one, I don't think we should rely on research that is nearly 30-years old given how science has changed so dramatically. So I think we need to continue promoting this as a research issue/need for SciTS particularly when we can have a more interdisciplinary perspective brought to this question.
Best,
Steve
P.S. In addition to his course on iTunes, Dan Stokols did a great job covering this topic at our most recent SciTS conference.
P.P.S. In addition to the citations that Holly listed, below are some others I've been collecting.
Georgia Tech's "Clough Commons"
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-s07/neighbor.htm
Lehrer, J. (2011). Steve Jobs: Technology is not enough. The New Yorker, October 7.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/10/steve-jobs-pixar.html
Can Architecture Support Team Science?
The NIH Porter Neuroscience Research Center—named for former Illinois Representative John Edward Porter, a strong supporter of the NIH—was constructed with the specific intention of providing an environment to encourage interaction and communication among researchers. Phase I of the project, which was completed in 2004, was planned by a diverse group of individuals from multiple NIH Institutes, including scientists, engineers, facility managers, and others. The designers set out to create a space that would be flexible and house thematic research areas that cut across Institutes. It is interesting to note that architects have recently been turning to research in the neurosciences for information about the “features of the environment that trigger various neural and physiological responses that…induce a sense of comfort or anxiety” (Sternberg & Wilson, 2006). Efforts to employ architectural means to support team science have addressed some concerns and raised new ones.
[From Bennett, L.M., Gadlin, H., Levine-Finley, S. (2010). Collaboration and team science: a field guide. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health. http://ombudsman.nih.gov/collaborationTS.html]
Building around the mind: How room designs affect your work
http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview <http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview&ARTICLEI…> &ARTICLEID_CHAR=39537146-237D-9F22-E8BDCFEB0050B8F7
Sternberg, E. M., & Wilson, M. A. (2006). Neuroscience and architecture: Seeking common ground. Cell, 127 (2), 230-242.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867406013043
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From: Schultz, Jack C. [schultzjc(a)missouri.edu <mailto:schultzjc@missouri.edu> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:30 AM
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Oh, I hasten to say that Allen's '50 foot rule' has been debunked successfully. But I find that the distance concept hasn't occurred to most people with whom I'm discussing the importance of architecture and being in the same physical space for successful interdisciplinary centers.
Jack
Jack C. Schultz, Director
Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7957
@jackcschultz
<http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/> http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Julie Klein [julietklein(a)COMCAST.NET <mailto:julietklein@COMCAST.NET> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:49 AM
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Just a quick note because just got power back on in my part of the western edge of the storm and not sure if it will last with continuing high winds - nothing like disruption in the East, though.
At the last SciTS conference, Dan made an excellent presentation that included cognitive dynamics of collaboration space. In an earlier report to architects designing a new multidisciplinary building for collaboration on my campus, I also called attention to other models around the country and mixed views in the literature. One of the primary assumptions I found was that all space should be open and changeable, when in fact a careful balance of open and private meeting space is crucial, including strategic arrangement of those spaces that Dan commented on.
And while you're walking through the halls to the restroom, btw, don't forget the coffee room and cafeteria (the latter example highlighted in the 2004 NAS report on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research).
Julie T. Klein, Wayne State University
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Schultz, Jack C. [schultzjc(a)MISSOURI.EDU <mailto:schultzjc@MISSOURI.EDU> ]
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Hi Julie,
We have a café in our building for this reason, and kitchenettes on each lab wing. Both are very important.
Changeable space presents problems for life sciences, because of equipment/instrument needs, difficulty moving stuff, and cross-contamination issues. Having some ‘swing space’ is excellent, but it’s difficult to be too impermanent.
Jack
Jack C. Schultz, Director
Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7957
@jackcschultz
<http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/> http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Wagner,Caroline [wagner.911(a)OSU.EDU <mailto:wagner.911@OSU.EDU> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:00 AM
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Hi All,
When RAND built its’ first office/lab building in the late 1950s, a team of mathematicians sat down to design a building that would maximize the probability of cross-disciplinary encounters. Hallway designs, outdoor spaces, snack bars, and restrooms were all placed in such a way that people would be bound to run into random others. I would be happy to dig up that story if anyone is interested in the design principles involved.
Caroline Wagner
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of TSCHAN SEMMER Franziska [Franziska.Tschan(a)UNINE.CH <mailto:Franziska.Tschan@UNINE.CH> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:13 AM
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Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
An interesting example is the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland …
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Fiore, Steve [sfiore(a)IST.UCF.EDU <mailto:sfiore@IST.UCF.EDU> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:42 PM
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Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
Hi All - I think the RAND and the Novartis example illustrate quite well what I see as the primary issues needing to be studied.
First, Caroline's description of the RAND folks provides an intriguing example of how to think about designing for collaboration. And the designers’ attempts to be strategic about this and "maximize the probability of cross-disciplinary encounters", should be lauded. When I was up at MIT, I was told that CSAIL (http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/4) was similarly designed to maximize the probability that researchers would run into each other and to ensure a lack of linear thought on the part of their personnel.
Second, Franziska's example of the Novaritis campus shows how much forethought is put into the development of a multi-million dollar space. To illustrate what I mean, I found the following description about that campus: "Fostering Innovation - The Campus design facilitates the sharing of knowledge and ideas to enable the discovery, development and delivery of new medicines to patients. Offices and laboratories are “multi-space” environments, where associates have a combination of individual, shared, open and private working areas at their disposal. This creates a flexible, dynamic atmosphere that allows for increased interaction and collaboration across work groups and functional disciplines." (FROM: www.novartis.com/downloads/about-novartis/locations/campus-project-fact-she…)
My point/question with my email this morning was that, although we continually hear about these ideas and lofty design goals, is there any evidence that they work? To paraphrase Jerry Maguire, "Show me the data!". So, does any data exist on measuring the effectiveness of the RAND Corp's mathematical modeling of maximal random bumpage? Does Novartis know whether or not their “multi-space” environments have led to "increased interaction and collaboration across work groups and functional disciplines"?
Dan Stokols and his colleagues in Environmental Psychology may have some data on these kinds of questions. But, I suspect that, because this is such a complicated research question, we need an interdisciplinary approach to answering it. For example, we need to study these issues along ethnomethodological lines using grounded interviewing techniques. We need traditional survey methodologies to assess the degree to which people's interactions are centering around designed spaces and whether or not they are producing new ideas and/or collaborations. We should leverage new technologies, like socio-metric badges, in combination with social network analysis, to provide quantitative insights, etc. etc.
Best,
Steve Fiore
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Quyen Wickham [qgecko(a)GMAIL.COM <mailto:qgecko@GMAIL.COM> ]
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We have a couple of examples of attempting collaborative building design on the University of Oklahoma campus, the most notable one being the National Weather Center. Anecdotal evidence (my own conversations with administrators and occupants) suggests proximity had limited effect, unless the occupants were already collaborators. I suspect proximity alone would have little effect and that collaboration success would necessitate either a history or other means to induce networking. In simple terms, scientists may be too busy to meet even if they are 50 feet from one another… but induce socialization in another context, then proximity could be beneficial.
I agree with Steve Fiore that a comprehensive study would be beneficial... ideally, a longitudinal network study with a new facility would be a good start.
Quyen Wickham
CRPDE, OU
I suspect trying to isolate collaborative design as a single factor will be difficult
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Jackson, Sally A [sallyj(a)ILLINOIS.EDU <mailto:sallyj@ILLINOIS.EDU> ]
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The Keating Bioresearch Building at the University of Arizona was purpose-built for interdisciplinary collaboration. There is an interesting description of the space (and the BIO5 Institute) here:
http://bio5.arizona.edu/node/1488
I was part of the University's space committee at the time this was being planned, and it was very much based on the future occupants' visions of how they planned to work together. Proximity was taken into account, but only as one of many environmental factors that would encourage creativity and collaboration.
Sally Jackson
Professor of Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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From: Kisselburgh, Lorraine G [lorraine(a)purdue.edu <mailto:lorraine@purdue.edu> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:24 PM
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Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
Although I'm still relatively new to the field, I've just received funding from NSF to do this kind of research on design and collaboration with colleagues in Design Engineering. We're focusing first on team-level collaboration and interactions with local space, and will be measuring collaboration dynamics (using sociometrics and 3D cameras), material/spatial interactions, and their relationship with design thinking and innovation outcomes.
You can see a description of our project here — we just started last month!: http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1227639
I would love to hear from those of you also doing work in this field (if I haven't contacted you already) -- from any perspective -- and always appreciate seeing background references of interest.
Regards,
Lorraine
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Lorraine Kisselburgh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Brian Lamb School of Communication
Susan Bulkeley Butler Faculty Scholar 2012
CERIAS Fellow (Information Security)
Affiliate Faculty: Women’s Studies, Discovery Learning Center, and Center for Research on Diversity and Inclusion
Purdue University
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of William Newell [newellwh(a)MUOHIO.EDU <mailto:newellwh@MUOHIO.EDU> ]
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Agree with Steve that we need an interdisciplinary approach such as he lays out.
Bill Newell
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Julie [julietklein(a)COMCAST.NET <mailto:julietklein@COMCAST.NET> ]
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Bill Newell's welcome affirmation of the need for an interdisciplinary approach along the lines Steve describes also leads me to remind readers of this list of the importance of incorporating approaches to critical analysis from Science and Technology Studies and well as the oft-neglected humanities. I would add a hybrid mode of inquiry along the lines of Doucet and Janssens in their important 2011 collection on Transdisciplinary Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism. They argue for a transdisciplinary, not just interdisciplinary, understanding of knowledge production in space-related research that bridges academic and "non-academic" knowledge, theory and practice, discipline and profession. Their notions of "projective design" are especially relevant to this discussion. As we continue to invoke Transdisciplinarity in SciTS-related contexts, we should heed their argument.
Julie T. Klein, Wayne State University
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Sanford Eigenbrode [sanforde(a)UIDAHO.EDU <mailto:sanforde@UIDAHO.EDU> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 4:50 PM
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Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
All,
Allow me to weigh in with a related issue. As director of two inter-institutional cross-disciplinary collaborative projects, one of which is a $20M climate change and agriculture project, I am faced with the problem of creating the environment to enhance creative and spontaneous collaboration among faculty and students who are distributed across three land-grant institutions. I am trying to create a virtual architecture that encourages the kinds of interactions that bathrooms, kitchenettes and water coolers can do in research buildings and campuses. This problem may be significant for the future of collaborative science, as our networks for needed collaboration expand and as expertise becomes more distributed around the globe. And I suspect many on this list are facing similar challenges with multi-institutional projects. My attempts have been feeble, but include creating a “virtual watercooler” where meetings hosted by a web based collaborative tool, without agenda take place regularly. We open these for students and faculty for virtual drop ins and have been doing this for about 5 months now. They feel right to me in that a lot of spontaneous ideas occur. Our project evaluator sometimes participates and is positive in his feedback about these sessions. But of course, what we can do this way is a far cry from the atmosphere of Building 20 at MIT (see Lehrer, New Yorker, Jan. 30, 2012, p. 22) and in contemporary institutions where the physical infrastructure has been carefully planned to be conducive to interactions.
Thoughts on promoting virtual spaces to enhance creative and spontaneous collaboration are welcome!
Sanford Eigenbrode
University of Idaho
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Schultz, Jack C. [schultzjc(a)MISSOURI.EDU <mailto:schultzjc@MISSOURI.EDU> ]
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Hi Sanford,
When I arrived for my current position I was a believer in virtual centers. No longer. My job involves suggesting and nurturing collaborations. So I convene groups who may have something exciting to do together periodically, brainstorm, and at some point hand off leadership in hopes that the snowball will continue rolling downhill and pick up more snow.
It may be a shortcoming of my own, but that process works far more readily and frequently when people meet face to face than via any electronic medium. That goes for long-distance collaborations, too. If they don’t meet at a table fairly frequently, they don’t achieve (as) much. Evidently (IMO) electronic communication can substitute for face-to-face in only certain ways, usually after a collaboration has gotten going. I find it worth the money to get even larger, distant groups together physically.
Two examples: this week the SPITTER group is meeting in our building. That’s a group collaborating on signals in nematode spit that overcome their host plant’s defenses. That group has been together for a decade or more, with or without shared funding, and is scattered all over the country. They will tell you that the only thing that has held them together this long is their annual meeting. I’ve known other examples like that, too.
Our building is 225,000 sq ft and houses around 400 people (including staff, students, grad students, etc.) in 40 main “lab groups”. We have plenty of collaborations. But the number of new collaborations grew rapidly when we began having regular Friday “happy hour” events. The investigators will tell you that running into people in person, lubricated by alcohol, presented many more opportunities with people down the hall. I recently saw an article demonstrated the importance of alcohol to such events, too.
My personal perspective aside, there is quite a large literature on the relationship between distance and collaboration, as well as on how to get the most from electronic communication. The ‘water cooler’ idea seems to be well liked by many. So you may be doing all you can. I’m sure the members of this list are among some of the experts on that.
Cheers,
Jack
Jack C. Schultz, Director
Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7957
@jackcschultz
<http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/> http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Fiore, Steve [sfiore(a)IST.UCF.EDU <mailto:sfiore@IST.UCF.EDU> ]
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And here is the article Jack referenced below on the social bonding influence of alcohol. Two of the authors were the 2011 winners of INGRoup's "Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups" (see http://www.ingroup.net/awards.html). And, it may come as no surprise, this is one of the reasons we always have a bar at our SciTS and INGRoup poster sessions...
Best,
Steve Fiore
Sayette, M.A., Creswell, K.G., Dimoff, J.D., Fairbairn, C.E., Cohn, J.F., Heckman, B.W, Kirchner, T.R., Levine, J.M, & Moreland, R.L. (2012). Alcohol and group formation: A multimodal investigation of the effects of alcohol on emotion and social bonding. Psychological Science, 23(8), 869-878. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22760882]
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From: Schultz, Jack C. [schultzjc(a)missouri.edu <mailto:schultzjc@missouri.edu> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:32 PM
To: Fiore, Steve; SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: RE: environmental design and collaboration
Thanks, Steve! I know I can always count on the deep reference list in your head! Jack
Jack C. Schultz, Director
Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7957
@jackcschultz
<http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/> http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Julie [julietklein(a)COMCAST.NET <mailto:julietklein@COMCAST.NET> ]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:35 PM
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Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
Thanks very much first, Sanford, for raising the virtual.
I hope Gary Olson will weigh in because he has made valuable comments and caveats to this list in the past on related matters. Spending a lot of my time in digital environments for learning (in fact tomorrow in my Digital Humanities seminar teaching about video/online games as spaces of learning), I appreciate your contribution all the more. Steve rightly admonished us to think about gaps to be filled, not the least of which is productive links across the literature on digital environments for learning and the demands of crossing disciplinary, professional, and interdisciplinary boundaries in dispersed locations.
Jack ups the stakes of debate by arguing face-to-face (f2f) trumps virtual spaces. I don't dispute some of his concerns but they do not account for lack of access to f2f forums across the globe. Moreover, we are not just talking about "centers" but "distributed learning" - strong ground for deliberation on cognition and learning.
Julie
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV> ] On Behalf Of Wasson, Christina [cwasson(a)UNT.EDU <mailto:cwasson@UNT.EDU> ]
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Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
I am fascinated by this discussion! If someone puts together a team to conduct an interdisciplinary study, I would love to be included. And I think it would be valuable to look at both face-to-face issues as well as the challenges of virtual collaboration. I agree that virtual collaboration is more difficult, but it is inevitable for many teams in today’s world.
I could contribute ethnographic, linguistic, and user-centered design research methods to an interdisciplinary study of how interdisciplinary teams use their work space.
To introduce myself briefly, I am a linguistic anthropologist whose research focuses on face-to-face and virtual communication and collaboration. I examine design, technology, and organizational issues. After my PhD, I worked for several years at a design consulting firm, where I conducted a research project for Steelcase on how teams use their physical environment to engage in collaborative work activities. I have subsequently compared face-to-face and virtual collaboration in the business world, higher education, and am now applying for funds to examine environmental scientists and stakeholders in environmental resource management. Much of my work has involved interdisciplinary collaboration, connecting anthropology with linguistics, design, and engineering, as well as linking theory with application.
Peace,
Christina
Christina Wasson
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas
http://courses.unt.edu/cwasson/
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Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 1:25 PM
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Subject: Are neuroscientists the next great architects?
Hi Everyone - Salon just published an article related to the thread below on "environmental design and collaboration". This lends more credence to the argument that SciTS needs to include, as part of its research agenda, the systematic study of the relationship between environmental design, effective collaboration, and innovative scientific outcomes.
Enjoy,
Steve Fiore
Are neuroscientists the next great architects?
The Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture thinks so, and it's spending thousands of dollars to find out
"Early in his career, when he was still struggling to find a cure for polio, Jonas Salk retreated to Umbria, Italy, to the monastery at the Basilica of Assisi. The 13th-century Franciscan monastery rises out of the hillside in geometric white stone, with Romanesque arches framing its quiet courtyards. Salk would insist, for the rest of his life, that something about this place—the design and the environment in which he found himself—helped to clear his obstructed mind, inspiring the solution that led to his famous polio vaccine. “He really thought there was something to this,” says the architect Alison Whitelaw, “that the quality of the built environment could affect the performance of the brain.”
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/11/are_neuroscientists_the_next_great_architec…
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Re: Why being stuck at home - and unable to hang out in cafes and bars - drains our creativity
by A public forum for scientists.
Interesting question as social beings there is no doubt that both planned
and impromptu (or a mixture such as a workshop) can spark creativity.
Such activities can also be giant time sinks. Sorry to be the store bought
eggnog at the holiday party. I have found, somewhat to my surprise,
that this year I have had time to read more, walk more, think more
especially across areas of knowledge that are not necessarily obviously
related. And I have allowed my thoughts to range freer much the way you
do when shooting the breeze with companions. When I do have conversations
they are with people I really want to talk with and learn from as we mull
through tough questions.
SO, it will not surprise anyone familiar with my posts on these kinds of
questions I think overgeneralizing is unsatisfying. I dont believe just
walking into a bar sparks creativity. True creativity comes from a still
mysterious ability to know a great deal about something and to still be able
to shift your gaze slightly and see new and exciting aspects you had not
considered. Interactions can help with this gaze shift. But I am less
likely to credit any place even bars and cafes with the magic of
spontaneous intellectual combustion. Lots of really uninteresting
conversations occur in bars.
Susan M. Fitzpatrick, Ph.D.
President, James S. McDonnell Foundation
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Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 9:03 AM
To: drsfiore(a)gmail.com
Subject: Message: Why being stuck at home and unable to hang out in cafes
and bars drains our creativity
Hi Everyone - I am writing to follow up on a very old thread that has been
discussed in various forms over the years - how the built environment alters
collaboration. I'm sure some of you have had discussions during your Zoom
meetings about the loss of unplanned visits, the drop-in, or the infamous
"productive collisions" given that most have been working from home. This
article in The Conversation reminded me of this as they discuss how the
pandemic might be altering creative output due to the loss of impromptu
workplace encounters along with decreases in other forms of action (and
interaction) that can influence our creativity. The degree to which
creativity has increased or decreased in 2020 is an important question and
one that I hope this community can help us understand.
Best,
Steve
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Stephen M. Fiore, Ph.D.
Vice-president, President-elect, <https://www.inscits.org/> International
Network for the Science of Team Science
Professor, Cognitive Sciences, <https://philosophy.cah.ucf.edu/> Department
of Philosophy
Director, <http://csl.ist.ucf.edu/> Cognitive Sciences Laboratory,
<https://www.ist.ucf.edu/> Institute for Simulation & Training
<https://www.ucf.edu/> University of Central Florida
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Why being stuck at home and unable to hang out in cafes and bars drains
our creativity
https://theconversation.com/why-being-stuck-at-home-and-unable-to-hang-out-i
n-cafes-and-bars-drains-our-creativity-150929
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From: Fiore, Steve
Sent: Thursday, July 5, 2018 12:15 AM
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Subject: Impacts of architecture on collective behaviour
Hi Everyone as you know, some in the scholarly study of science have
examined how the built environment influences collaboration and knowledge
production. Indeed, this has come up on the list at various times over the
years (below is my compilation of these). For example, a few years back, we
spent some time discussing a study coming out of the University of Michigan,
which was picked up by the Chronicle of Higher Education. This topic was
sufficiently important enough that we included it in the 2015 National
Academies of Sciences report on team science (see Chapter 8 on
"Institutional and Organizational Support for Team Science").
With that as background, I wanted to let you know about a special issue, on
"collective behavior" and the built environment, that was just published in
the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society (PTRS). Were excited
about this for a number of reasons. First, it is very interdisciplinary,
discussing not just interactions between humans, but also other mammals as
well as insects. Second, if youre not familiar with PTRS, it is the oldest
scholarly journal in the world dating back to the 1600s. Here is a link to
their history
(https://royalsociety.org/journals/publishing-activities/publishing350/histo
ry-philosophical-transactions/) and their collection has been digitized, so
if you want to take a tour of scientific history, you're able to do so.
As for the special issue, it was supported by a grant from the National
Academies Keck Futures Initiative. After a conference on Collective
Behavior, we were awarded a grant on How do architectural designs affect
interaction patterns and collective behavior?". The funding was used to
primarily support a workshop to develop an interdisciplinary scholarship of
how the built environment alters collective behavior. But the grant also
produced this perspectives piece
(https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-017-0111) as well as the new special
issue (co-edited with Noa Pinter-Wollman (UCLA), Alan Penn (University
College London), and Guy Theraulaz (Université de Toulouse).
As you'll see, we've got articles from a variety of disciplines
psychologists, sociologists, biologists, mathematicians, and architects, to
name a few. And we included two that are directly relevant to the topic on
human collaboration and the built environment. One article was authored by
Felix Kabo of the University of Michigan (co-author of the article discussed
in the earlier thread). In this new article, he discusses how
characteristics of the built environment interact with social and
organizational factors. This paper combined methods from social network
analysis with proximity in work settings. Another paper was on a set of
studies combining digital data of physical interactions with electronic
communications. Here, Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turbin, of Harvard
University, study the outcomes when organizations change from traditional
workspace design to open office architectures.
Putting together this special issue was a lot of fun and we hope it ignites
interest in many others to pursue an interdisciplinary study of how the
built environment influences collective behavior. We purposely designed the
issue to introduce folks to a variety of methods and concepts to spark ideas
for adoption and adaption by others similarly interested in the broad topic
of architecture and collective behavior. Im attaching our introductory
article where we lay out the research space for this topic, as well as
present a set of open questions/issues. You can find information on the
entire issue at this link
(http://rstb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/373/1753).
If you have any questions, let me know.
Best,
Steve Fiore
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Stephen M. Fiore, Ph.D.
Professor, Cognitive Sciences, Department of Philosophy
Director, Cognitive Sciences Laboratory, Institute for Simulation & Training
( <http://csl.ist.ucf.edu/> http://csl.ist.ucf.edu/)
University of Central Florida
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[mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV] On Behalf Of Schultz, Jack C.
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 5:05 PM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: We're ahead of Michigan
The attached article should amuse you. From todays Chronicle of Higher Ed
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October 29, 2012
Scientific Discovery, Inspired by a Walk to the Restroom
In the push to increase research collaboration, studies try to identify the
building-design elements that really matter.
<http://chronicle.com/article/Scientific-Discovery-Inspired/135476/>
http://chronicle.com/article/Scientific-Discovery-Inspired/135476/
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Evidently, the University of Michigan is just discovering this principle.
BTW, when its safe I often joke about the importance of meeting in the
restrooms.
In case you ever need this fact, the 50 foot rule, which states that 90%
of collaborations happen among people who work less than fifty feet apart,
originated here (https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/managing-flow-technology)
and is essentially what better building design attempts to overcome.
Jack
Jack C. Schultz, Director
Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7957
@jackcschultz
http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of Falk-Krzesinski, Holly (ELS-STL) [h.falk-krzesinski(a)ELSEVIER.COM]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 11:46 PM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: We're ahead of Michigan
Some other social ecology for interdisciplinary research references, if
interested:
· Cech, T.R. (2003). Janelia Farm Research Campus: Report on Program
Development.
· Sá, C. (2007). Planning for Interdisciplinary Research. Planning for
Higher Education 35, 18-28.
· Harris, M.S., and Holley, K. (2008). Constructing the
Interdisciplinary Ivory Tower: The Planning of Interdisciplinary Spaces on
University Campuses. Planning for Higher Education 36, 34-43.
· Goldberger, P. (2011). Laboratory Conditions: Architects Reimagine
the Science Building. In The New Yorker (Condé Nast Digital), pp. 88-89.
· Lehrer, J. (2012). Annals of Ideas GROUPTHINK: The brainstorming
myth. In The New Yorker (New York, NY: Condé Nast Digital), pp. 11.
· McNeill, D. (2012). A Science Institute in Okinawa Breaks Down
Academic Barriers. In The Chronicle of Higher Education (Washington, DC: The
Chronicle of Higher Education).
· Basken, P. (2012). Scientific Discovery, Inspired by a Walk to the
Restroom. The Chronicle of Higher Education.
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Holly J. Falk-Krzesinski, Ph.D.
Vice President, Global Academic & Research Relations
Elsevier
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of Dan Stokols [dstokols(a)UCI.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:23 AM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: We're ahead of Michigan / environmental design and
collaboration
Thanks Jack-
Also, for those interested, see also this course on Environmental Psychology
available on iTunes U and OpenCourseWare Consortium:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/course/environmental-psychology/id529650093
Best, Dan
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From: Fiore, Steve
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:27 AM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: RE: We're ahead of Michigan / environmental design and
collaboration
Thanks Jack, Holly, and Dan. I'm glad this is being discussed because I see
this as a significant and costly gap in our understanding of successful
collaboration in interdisciplinary research. Although there have been some
findings published on designing for collaboration, it seems that, relative
to other research, the field would benefit from more studies on how to
design for "scientific collaboration". Given that we have hundreds of
millions of dollars spent annually on new buildings, I applaud any attempt
to understand how environment influences scientific collaboration and
cognition. I have heard plenty of talks from directors of science
centers/institutes claim that they designed for collaboration but I have
never heard them cite any studies and it seems to have been done more from
intuition than anything else. And, although Thomas Allen's book was a good
one, I don't think we should rely on research that is nearly 30-years old
given how science has changed so dramatically. So I think we need to
continue promoting this as a research issue/need for SciTS particularly when
we can have a more interdisciplinary perspective brought to this question.
Best,
Steve
P.S. In addition to his course on iTunes, Dan Stokols did a great job
covering this topic at our most recent SciTS conference.
P.P.S. In addition to the citations that Holly listed, below are some others
I've been collecting.
Georgia Tech's "Clough Commons"
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/reshor/rh-s07/neighbor.htm
Lehrer, J. (2011). Steve Jobs: Technology is not enough. The New Yorker,
October 7.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2011/10/steve-jobs-pixar.html
Can Architecture Support Team Science?
The NIH Porter Neuroscience Research Centernamed for former Illinois
Representative John Edward Porter, a strong supporter of the NIHwas
constructed with the specific intention of providing an environment to
encourage interaction and communication among researchers. Phase I of the
project, which was completed in 2004, was planned by a diverse group of
individuals from multiple NIH Institutes, including scientists, engineers,
facility managers, and others. The designers set out to create a space that
would be flexible and house thematic research areas that cut across
Institutes. It is interesting to note that architects have recently been
turning to research in the neurosciences for information about the features
of the environment that trigger various neural and physiological responses
that
induce a sense of comfort or anxiety (Sternberg & Wilson, 2006).
Efforts to employ architectural means to support team science have addressed
some concerns and raised new ones.
[From Bennett, L.M., Gadlin, H., Levine-Finley, S. (2010). Collaboration and
team science: a field guide. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health.
http://ombudsman.nih.gov/collaborationTS.html]
Building around the mind: How room designs affect your work
http://www.sciamdigital.com/index.cfm?fa=Products.ViewIssuePreview
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D_CHAR=39537146-237D-9F22-E8BDCFEB0050B8F7>
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Sternberg, E. M., & Wilson, M. A. (2006). Neuroscience and architecture:
Seeking common ground. Cell, 127 (2), 230-242.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867406013043
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From: Schultz, Jack C. [schultzjc(a)missouri.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:30 AM
To: Fiore, Steve; SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: RE: We're ahead of Michigan / environmental design and
collaboration
Oh, I hasten to say that Allen's '50 foot rule' has been debunked
successfully. But I find that the distance concept hasn't occurred to most
people with whom I'm discussing the importance of architecture and being in
the same physical space for successful interdisciplinary centers.
Jack
Jack C. Schultz, Director
Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7957
@jackcschultz
<http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/> http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of Julie Klein [julietklein(a)COMCAST.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:49 AM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: We're ahead of Michigan / environmental design and
collaboration
Just a quick note because just got power back on in my part of the western
edge of the storm and not sure if it will last with continuing high winds -
nothing like disruption in the East, though.
At the last SciTS conference, Dan made an excellent presentation that
included cognitive dynamics of collaboration space. In an earlier report to
architects designing a new multidisciplinary building for collaboration on
my campus, I also called attention to other models around the country and
mixed views in the literature. One of the primary assumptions I found was
that all space should be open and changeable, when in fact a careful balance
of open and private meeting space is crucial, including strategic
arrangement of those spaces that Dan commented on.
And while you're walking through the halls to the restroom, btw, don't
forget the coffee room and cafeteria (the latter example highlighted in the
2004 NAS report on Facilitating Interdisciplinary Research).
Julie T. Klein, Wayne State University
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of Schultz, Jack C. [schultzjc(a)MISSOURI.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 9:54 AM
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Subject: Re: We're ahead of Michigan / environmental design and
collaboration
Hi Julie,
We have a café in our building for this reason, and kitchenettes on each lab
wing. Both are very important.
Changeable space presents problems for life sciences, because of
equipment/instrument needs, difficulty moving stuff, and cross-contamination
issues. Having some swing space is excellent, but its difficult to be too
impermanent.
Jack
Jack C. Schultz, Director
Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7957
@jackcschultz
<http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/> http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of Wagner,Caroline [wagner.911(a)OSU.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:00 AM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: environmental design and collaboration
Hi All,
When RAND built its first office/lab building in the late 1950s, a team of
mathematicians sat down to design a building that would maximize the
probability of cross-disciplinary encounters. Hallway designs, outdoor
spaces, snack bars, and restrooms were all placed in such a way that people
would be bound to run into random others. I would be happy to dig up that
story if anyone is interested in the design principles involved.
Caroline Wagner
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of TSCHAN SEMMER Franziska [Franziska.Tschan(a)UNINE.CH]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 10:13 AM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
An interesting example is the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of Fiore, Steve [sfiore(a)IST.UCF.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 12:42 PM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
Hi All - I think the RAND and the Novartis example illustrate quite well
what I see as the primary issues needing to be studied.
First, Caroline's description of the RAND folks provides an intriguing
example of how to think about designing for collaboration. And the
designers attempts to be strategic about this and "maximize the probability
of cross-disciplinary encounters", should be lauded. When I was up at MIT,
I was told that CSAIL (http://www.csail.mit.edu/node/4) was similarly
designed to maximize the probability that researchers would run into each
other and to ensure a lack of linear thought on the part of their personnel.
Second, Franziska's example of the Novaritis campus shows how much
forethought is put into the development of a multi-million dollar space. To
illustrate what I mean, I found the following description about that campus:
"Fostering Innovation - The Campus design facilitates the sharing of
knowledge and ideas to enable the discovery, development and delivery of new
medicines to patients. Offices and laboratories are multi-space
environments, where associates have a combination of individual, shared,
open and private working areas at their disposal. This creates a flexible,
dynamic atmosphere that allows for increased interaction and collaboration
across work groups and functional disciplines." (FROM:
www.novartis.com/downloads/about-novartis/locations/campus-project-fact-shee
t.pdf
<http://www.novartis.com/downloads/about-novartis/locations/campus-project-f
act-sheet.pdf> )
My point/question with my email this morning was that, although we
continually hear about these ideas and lofty design goals, is there any
evidence that they work? To paraphrase Jerry Maguire, "Show me the data!".
So, does any data exist on measuring the effectiveness of the RAND Corp's
mathematical modeling of maximal random bumpage? Does Novartis know whether
or not their multi-space environments have led to "increased interaction
and collaboration across work groups and functional disciplines"?
Dan Stokols and his colleagues in Environmental Psychology may have some
data on these kinds of questions. But, I suspect that, because this is such
a complicated research question, we need an interdisciplinary approach to
answering it. For example, we need to study these issues along
ethnomethodological lines using grounded interviewing techniques. We need
traditional survey methodologies to assess the degree to which people's
interactions are centering around designed spaces and whether or not they
are producing new ideas and/or collaborations. We should leverage new
technologies, like socio-metric badges, in combination with social network
analysis, to provide quantitative insights, etc. etc.
Best,
Steve Fiore
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of Quyen Wickham [qgecko(a)GMAIL.COM]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 2:24 PM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: We're ahead of Michigan / environmental design and
collaboration
We have a couple of examples of attempting collaborative building design on
the University of Oklahoma campus, the most notable one being the National
Weather Center. Anecdotal evidence (my own conversations with administrators
and occupants) suggests proximity had limited effect, unless the occupants
were already collaborators. I suspect proximity alone would have little
effect and that collaboration success would necessitate either a history or
other means to induce networking. In simple terms, scientists may be too
busy to meet even if they are 50 feet from one another
but induce
socialization in another context, then proximity could be beneficial.
I agree with Steve Fiore that a comprehensive study would be beneficial...
ideally, a longitudinal network study with a new facility would be a good
start.
Quyen Wickham
CRPDE, OU
I suspect trying to isolate collaborative design as a single factor will be
difficult
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Behalf Of Jackson, Sally A [sallyj(a)ILLINOIS.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:16 PM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: We're ahead of Michigan / environmental design and
collaboration
The Keating Bioresearch Building at the University of Arizona was
purpose-built for interdisciplinary collaboration. There is an interesting
description of the space (and the BIO5 Institute) here:
http://bio5.arizona.edu/node/1488
I was part of the University's space committee at the time this was being
planned, and it was very much based on the future occupants' visions of how
they planned to work together. Proximity was taken into account, but only as
one of many environmental factors that would encourage creativity and
collaboration.
Sally Jackson
Professor of Communication
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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From: Kisselburgh, Lorraine G [lorraine(a)purdue.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 3:24 PM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Cc: Fiore, Steve
Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
Although I'm still relatively new to the field, I've just received funding
from NSF to do this kind of research on design and collaboration with
colleagues in Design Engineering. We're focusing first on team-level
collaboration and interactions with local space, and will be measuring
collaboration dynamics (using sociometrics and 3D cameras), material/spatial
interactions, and their relationship with design thinking and innovation
outcomes.
You can see a description of our project here we just started last month!:
http://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward.do?AwardNumber=1227639
I would love to hear from those of you also doing work in this field (if I
haven't contacted you already) -- from any perspective -- and always
appreciate seeing background references of interest.
Regards,
Lorraine
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Lorraine Kisselburgh, PhD
Assistant Professor, Brian Lamb School of Communication
Susan Bulkeley Butler Faculty Scholar 2012
CERIAS Fellow (Information Security)
Affiliate Faculty: Womens Studies, Discovery Learning Center, and Center
for Research on Diversity and Inclusion
Purdue University
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of William Newell [newellwh(a)MUOHIO.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 4:11 PM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
Agree with Steve that we need an interdisciplinary approach such as he lays
out.
Bill Newell
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Behalf Of Julie [julietklein(a)COMCAST.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 4:43 PM
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Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
Bill Newell's welcome affirmation of the need for an interdisciplinary
approach along the lines Steve describes also leads me to remind readers of
this list of the importance of incorporating approaches to critical analysis
from Science and Technology Studies and well as the oft-neglected
humanities. I would add a hybrid mode of inquiry along the lines of Doucet
and Janssens in their important 2011 collection on Transdisciplinary
Knowledge Production in Architecture and Urbanism. They argue for a
transdisciplinary, not just interdisciplinary, understanding of knowledge
production in space-related research that bridges academic and
"non-academic" knowledge, theory and practice, discipline and profession.
Their notions of "projective design" are especially relevant to this
discussion. As we continue to invoke Transdisciplinarity in SciTS-related
contexts, we should heed their argument.
Julie T. Klein, Wayne State University
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Behalf Of Sanford Eigenbrode [sanforde(a)UIDAHO.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 4:50 PM
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Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
All,
Allow me to weigh in with a related issue. As director of two
inter-institutional cross-disciplinary collaborative projects, one of which
is a $20M climate change and agriculture project, I am faced with the
problem of creating the environment to enhance creative and spontaneous
collaboration among faculty and students who are distributed across three
land-grant institutions. I am trying to create a virtual architecture that
encourages the kinds of interactions that bathrooms, kitchenettes and water
coolers can do in research buildings and campuses. This problem may be
significant for the future of collaborative science, as our networks for
needed collaboration expand and as expertise becomes more distributed around
the globe. And I suspect many on this list are facing similar challenges
with multi-institutional projects. My attempts have been feeble, but include
creating a virtual watercooler where meetings hosted by a web based
collaborative tool, without agenda take place regularly. We open these for
students and faculty for virtual drop ins and have been doing this for about
5 months now. They feel right to me in that a lot of spontaneous ideas
occur. Our project evaluator sometimes participates and is positive in his
feedback about these sessions. But of course, what we can do this way is a
far cry from the atmosphere of Building 20 at MIT (see Lehrer, New Yorker,
Jan. 30, 2012, p. 22) and in contemporary institutions where the physical
infrastructure has been carefully planned to be conducive to interactions.
Thoughts on promoting virtual spaces to enhance creative and spontaneous
collaboration are welcome!
Sanford Eigenbrode
University of Idaho
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Behalf Of Schultz, Jack C. [schultzjc(a)MISSOURI.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:09 PM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
Hi Sanford,
When I arrived for my current position I was a believer in virtual centers.
No longer. My job involves suggesting and nurturing collaborations. So I
convene groups who may have something exciting to do together periodically,
brainstorm, and at some point hand off leadership in hopes that the snowball
will continue rolling downhill and pick up more snow.
It may be a shortcoming of my own, but that process works far more readily
and frequently when people meet face to face than via any electronic medium.
That goes for long-distance collaborations, too. If they dont meet at a
table fairly frequently, they dont achieve (as) much. Evidently (IMO)
electronic communication can substitute for face-to-face in only certain
ways, usually after a collaboration has gotten going. I find it worth the
money to get even larger, distant groups together physically.
Two examples: this week the SPITTER group is meeting in our building.
Thats a group collaborating on signals in nematode spit that overcome their
host plants defenses. That group has been together for a decade or more,
with or without shared funding, and is scattered all over the country. They
will tell you that the only thing that has held them together this long is
their annual meeting. Ive known other examples like that, too.
Our building is 225,000 sq ft and houses around 400 people (including staff,
students, grad students, etc.) in 40 main lab groups. We have plenty of
collaborations. But the number of new collaborations grew rapidly when we
began having regular Friday happy hour events. The investigators will
tell you that running into people in person, lubricated by alcohol,
presented many more opportunities with people down the hall. I recently saw
an article demonstrated the importance of alcohol to such events, too.
My personal perspective aside, there is quite a large literature on the
relationship between distance and collaboration, as well as on how to get
the most from electronic communication. The water cooler idea seems to be
well liked by many. So you may be doing all you can. Im sure the members
of this list are among some of the experts on that.
Cheers,
Jack
Jack C. Schultz, Director
Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7957
@jackcschultz
<http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/> http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of Fiore, Steve [sfiore(a)IST.UCF.EDU]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:30 PM
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Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
And here is the article Jack referenced below on the social bonding
influence of alcohol. Two of the authors were the 2011 winners of INGRoup's
"Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups"
(see http://www.ingroup.net/awards.html). And, it may come as no surprise,
this is one of the reasons we always have a bar at our SciTS and INGRoup
poster sessions...
Best,
Steve Fiore
Sayette, M.A., Creswell, K.G., Dimoff, J.D., Fairbairn, C.E., Cohn, J.F.,
Heckman, B.W, Kirchner, T.R., Levine, J.M, & Moreland, R.L. (2012). Alcohol
and group formation: A multimodal investigation of the effects of alcohol on
emotion and social bonding. Psychological Science, 23(8), 869-878.
[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22760882]
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From: Schultz, Jack C. [schultzjc(a)missouri.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:32 PM
To: Fiore, Steve; SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: RE: environmental design and collaboration
Thanks, Steve! I know I can always count on the deep reference list in your
head! Jack
Jack C. Schultz, Director
Christopher Bond Life Sciences Center
University of Missouri
Columbia, MO 65211
573-882-7957
@jackcschultz
<http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/> http://bondlsc.missouri.edu/
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Behalf Of Julie [julietklein(a)COMCAST.NET]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 5:35 PM
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Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
Thanks very much first, Sanford, for raising the virtual.
I hope Gary Olson will weigh in because he has made valuable comments and
caveats to this list in the past on related matters. Spending a lot of my
time in digital environments for learning (in fact tomorrow in my Digital
Humanities seminar teaching about video/online games as spaces of learning),
I appreciate your contribution all the more. Steve rightly admonished us to
think about gaps to be filled, not the least of which is productive links
across the literature on digital environments for learning and the demands
of crossing disciplinary, professional, and interdisciplinary boundaries in
dispersed locations.
Jack ups the stakes of debate by arguing face-to-face (f2f) trumps virtual
spaces. I don't dispute some of his concerns but they do not account for
lack of access to f2f forums across the globe. Moreover, we are not just
talking about "centers" but "distributed learning" - strong ground for
deliberation on cognition and learning.
Julie
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From: Science of Team Science (SciTS) Listserv [SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV] On
Behalf Of Wasson, Christina [cwasson(a)UNT.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:05 AM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Re: environmental design and collaboration
I am fascinated by this discussion! If someone puts together a team to
conduct an interdisciplinary study, I would love to be included. And I think
it would be valuable to look at both face-to-face issues as well as the
challenges of virtual collaboration. I agree that virtual collaboration is
more difficult, but it is inevitable for many teams in todays world.
I could contribute ethnographic, linguistic, and user-centered design
research methods to an interdisciplinary study of how interdisciplinary
teams use their work space.
To introduce myself briefly, I am a linguistic anthropologist whose research
focuses on face-to-face and virtual communication and collaboration. I
examine design, technology, and organizational issues. After my PhD, I
worked for several years at a design consulting firm, where I conducted a
research project for Steelcase on how teams use their physical environment
to engage in collaborative work activities. I have subsequently compared
face-to-face and virtual collaboration in the business world, higher
education, and am now applying for funds to examine environmental scientists
and stakeholders in environmental resource management. Much of my work has
involved interdisciplinary collaboration, connecting anthropology with
linguistics, design, and engineering, as well as linking theory with
application.
Peace,
Christina
Christina Wasson
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of North Texas
http://courses.unt.edu/cwasson/
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Behalf Of Fiore, Steve [sfiore(a)IST.UCF.EDU]
Sent: Sunday, November 11, 2012 1:25 PM
To: SCITSLIST(a)LIST.NIH.GOV <mailto:SCITSLIST@LIST.NIH.GOV>
Subject: Are neuroscientists the next great architects?
Hi Everyone - Salon just published an article related to the thread below on
"environmental design and collaboration". This lends more credence to the
argument that SciTS needs to include, as part of its research agenda, the
systematic study of the relationship between environmental design, effective
collaboration, and innovative scientific outcomes.
Enjoy,
Steve Fiore
Are neuroscientists the next great architects?
The Academy of Neuroscience for Architecture thinks so, and it's spending
thousands of dollars to find out
"Early in his career, when he was still struggling to find a cure for polio,
Jonas Salk retreated to Umbria, Italy, to the monastery at the Basilica of
Assisi. The 13th-century Franciscan monastery rises out of the hillside in
geometric white stone, with Romanesque arches framing its quiet courtyards.
Salk would insist, for the rest of his life, that something about this
placethe design and the environment in which he found himselfhelped to
clear his obstructed mind, inspiring the solution that led to his famous
polio vaccine. He really thought there was something to this, says the
architect Alison Whitelaw, that the quality of the built environment could
affect the performance of the brain.
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/11/are_neuroscientists_the_next_great_architect
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[Call for Participation in Shared Tasks] LongSumm, SciVer, 3C at 2nd Scholarly Document Processing workshop at NAACL 2021
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Dear Colleagues,
The 2nd Workshop on Scholarly Document Processing (SDP 2021) is hosting *3
Shared Tasks* tackling key NLP challenges in *summarization, claim
verification, and citation context classification*. Participating teams
will be invited to submit their works for presentation at the *SDP 2021
workshop on June 10 at NAACL 2021*.
The call for participation is described below. More details can be found
on our website, alongside our usual call for Research track papers.
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*** Task 1: LongSumm - Generating Long Summaries for Scientific Documents
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Most of the work on scientific document summarization focuses on generating
relatively short summaries (250 words or less). While such a length
constraint can be sufficient for summarizing news articles, it is far from
sufficient for summarizing scientific work. In fact, such a short summary
resembles more to an abstract than to a summary that aims to cover all the
salient information conveyed in a given text. Writing such summaries
requires expertise and a deep understanding of a scientific domain, as can
be found in some researchers’ blogs.
The LongSumm task opted to leverage blogs created by researchers in the NLP
and Machine learning communities and use these summaries as reference
summaries to compare the submissions against.
The corpus for this task includes a training set that consists of 1705
extractive summaries and around 700 abstractive summaries of NLP and
Machine Learning scientific papers. These are drawn from papers based on
video talks from associated conferences (TalkSumm:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.01351) and from blogs created by NLP and ML
researchers. In addition, we create a test set of abstractive summaries.
Each submission is judged against one reference summary (gold summary) on
ROUGE and should not exceed 600 words.
The training data is composed of abstractive and extractive summaries. To
download both datasets, and for further details, see the LongSumm GitHub
repository: https://sdproc.org/2021/sharedtasks.html and our website:
https://sdproc.org/2021/sharedtasks.html#longsumm.
*** Task 2: SciVer - Scientific Claim Verification** *
Due to the rapid growth in scientific literature, it is difficult for
scientists to stay up-to-date on the latest findings. This challenge is
especially acute during pandemics due to the risk of making decisions based
on outdated or incomplete information. There is a need for AI systems that
can help scientists with information overload and support scientific
fact-checking and evidence synthesis.
In the SciVer shared task, we will build systems that can take a scientific
claim as input, identify all relevant abstracts from a large corpus that
Supports or Refute the claim, and also provide rationales/supporting
evidence. Here’s a live demo <https://scifact.apps.allenai.org/> of what
such a system would do.
We will use the SciFact dataset of 1409 expert-annotated biomedical claims
verified against 5183 abstracts from peer-reviewed publications. Download
the full dataset and any baseline models from GitHub
<https://github.com/allenai/scifact>. Find out more from the EMNLP 2020
paper <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.emnlp-main.609/>.
To register, please send an email to sciver-info(a)allenai.org with:
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Team name
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Participant (full) names
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Participant affiliation(s)
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Email(s) for primary contact(s)
Feel free to contact the organizers at sciver-info(a)allenai.org. More
details are available on the shared task page:
https://sdproc.org/2021/sharedtasks.html#sciver.
*** Task 3: 3C - Citation Context Classification** *
Recent years have witnessed a massive increase in the amount of scientific
literature and research data being published online, providing revelation
about the advancements in the field of different domains. The introduction
of aggregator services like CORE (https://core.ac.uk/) has enabled
unprecedented levels of open access to scholarly publications. The
availability of full text of the research documents facilitates the
possibility of extending the bibliometric studies by identifying the
context of the citations (http://oro.open.ac.uk/51751/). The shared task
organized as part of the SDP 2021 workshop focuses on classifying citation
context in research publications based on their influence and purpose:
*Subtask A:* A task for identifying the purpose of a citation. Multiclass
classification of citations into one of six classes: Background, Uses,
Compares_Contrasts, Motivation, Extension, and Future.
*Subtask B:* A task for identifying the importance of a citation. Binary
classification of citations into one of two classes: Incidental, and
Influential.
A sample training dataset can be downloaded by filling the following
registration form: https://forms.gle/AjYfMrTzZXjfBjgS6. The full training
dataset will be released shortly via the Kaggle platform (
https://www.kaggle.com/).
More information about the dataset and the shared task can be found on the
workshop website: https://sdproc.org/2021/sharedtasks.html#3c
To register please use the following form:
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LongSumm: shmueli(a)il.ibm.com and guyf(a)il.ibm.com
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kylel(a)allenai.org
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3C: david.pride(a)open.ac.uk and suchetha.nambanoor-kunnath(a)open.ac.uk
Participants in our shared tasks will be invited to submit papers
describing their systems for publication in the ACL Anthology; see examples
<https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/2020.sdp-1/> of these papers from
the SDP shared tasks at EMNLP 2020.
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Hope to have you participating in our shared tasks!
Thank you.
Best regards,
Tirthankar
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Visvesvaraya Research Fellow <http://meity.gov.in/esdm/phd-scheme>
Elsevier Center of Excellence for Natural Language Processing
<http://www.iitp.ac.in/~ai-nlp-ml/collaboration.html>
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology Patna <http://www.iitp.ac.in/>
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