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If you find some of these questions difficult or are struggling to come up with answers, rather than skipping the questions or providing an unsatisfying answer, use the text box to note what it is that you're finding difficult or challenging. If you come back to the template in the future, perhaps once you're further along in your research, you may find that you're then able to overcome these difficulties or challenges.  \nWhy would you want to use this template  \nBased on interviews with industry researchers across organizations and research areas, we have found that completing this template could potentially:  \n● Help you surface and concretize the positive societal impacts of your work  \n● Help you consider the potential negative societal impacts of your work  \n● Help you strengthen your research design and methods  \n● Help you surface potential future research directions  \n● Help you prepare an impact statement to include in your publications, as is increasingly suggested or required by publication venues like conferences, journals, etc.  \n● Help you prepare an impact statement to share with product teams.  \n1 For more information about this template, see Wesley Hanwen Deng, Solon Barocas, and Jennifer Wortman Vaughan. Supporting Industry Computing Researchers in Assessing, Articulating, and Addressing the Potential Negative Societal Impact of Their Work, 28th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2025,  Paper)  \nSocietal Impact Assessment Template  \nSection 1. Research Project Background  \nDescribe your project in a paragraph or two. If you intend to share a completed version of this template with other researchers, a review panel, a compliance team, a product team, and/or general audiences, please describe your project in sufficient detail and in sufficiently accessible language that the intended audience can understand your project.  \n\n| 1A: Project Description |\n| --- |\n| \u003CYour Answer Here> |\n\nWhat are some of the assets you are planning to release? Think separately about the assets you plan to release internally and externally, as this might affect how you assess and address the potential impact of your work.  \nSome potential assets you might consider include: research papers, blog posts, demos, source code, model(s), datasets, patents, project web pages, white papers, policy briefs, etc.  \n\n| 1 B: What are some assets you are planning to release publicly as intended outcomes of this research? |\n| --- |\n| \u003CYour Answer Here> |\n\n\n| 1C: What are some assets you are planning to release internally as intended outcomes of this research? |\n| --- |\n| \u003CYour Answer Here> |\n\nSection 2. Intended Uses and Applications  \nThis section is intended to help you think through the intended uses and imagined applications of your research. These may include, for example, direct use in the context of products and services or use by others in the research community.  \n\n| 2A: What are the intended uses and imagined applications of this research? |\n| --- |\n| \u003CYour Answer Here> |\n\n\n| 2 B: Does this research project relate to any existing or potential new products or services in your organization? Please elaborate. |\n| --- |\n| \u003CYour Answer Here>\u003Cbr>For example, does your research aim to improve certain aspects of existing products or services within your organization? Would your research contribute to the design and development of a new product or service within your organization? |\n\nSection 3. Potential Impact  \nResearch is a complex process whose ultimate impact may depend on various contingencies, making it sometimes difficult to contemplate its potential impacts. This section nevertheless serves as a starting point for introspection, prompting you to think through various scenarios that might res","cbCaiqWjV8sZQj8W","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqWjV8sZQj8W","pdf",280460,10,"English","# Section 1. Research Project Background\n## 1A: Project Description\n## 1B: What are some assets you are planning to release publicly as intended outcomes of this research?\n## 1C: What are some assets you are planning to release internally as intended outcomes of this research?\n# Section 2. Intended Uses and Applications\n## 2A: What are the intended uses and imagined applications of this research?\n## 2B: Does this research project relate to any existing or potential new products or services in your organization?\n# Section 3. 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