Project Grant 2211942

This three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $349,632 to the University of California, Santa Barbara for collaborative research exploring how emerging digital technologies are transforming occupations and organizations in the dairy farming industry. Specifically, the research will investigate evolving relationships between people, sensors, data, animals and other participants in digital agriculture, and the resulting occupational and organizational consequences. It will also generalize findings to develop new theory on how data-driven technologies impact resource management across contexts. By mentoring graduate and undergraduate students, the project will integrate data science and social science inquiries to provide essential research skills. The overarching goals are to explore and document relational transformations in digital agriculture; derive theoretical insights applicable to other data-driven technology contexts; and assess how relationship insights could inform technology design and deployment, including data science models and associated sensors and data streams.