CHS: Small: Collaborative Research: Examining the Design and Use of Internet of Things Technology in Public Life

CHS：小型：协作研究：检验物联网技术在公共生活中的设计和使用

• 批准号: 1523562
• 负责人: Carl DiSalvo
• 金额: $ 24.87万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1523562&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CHS; Small; Collaborative; Research; Examining

The goal of this research is to advance an empirical and systematic understanding of the design and use of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for enabling, organizing, and monitoring collective social activities. The IoT is the ubiquitous system of objects imbued with computational capacity, connected to and communicating with one another. A key result of this work will be a comprehensive set of design guidelines for creating IoT technologies that can be used by anyone, that will be disseminated through a series of products and public engagement strategies targeting community stakeholders and more general audiences in media venues. Such guidelines are commonly understood as high-level heuristics that people can take up and apply to their work to generate effective designs. By embodying the guidelines in the design of novel prototypes that enable public life, this project will help people more easily participate in public life at varying scales. Lastly, by evaluating the strengths and limitations of these prototypes in collective design reviews, it will generate methodological insights that may be adopted and extended by other researchers in the fields of human-centered computing, science and technology studies, and design.This empirical design research will provide insight into how the social-technical configurations of IoT products and services might contribute to more understanding of, and participation in, the networks of interaction that comprise our public lives. In particular, leveraging "tracing" as both a design tactic and a novel capacity of IoT, the research will demonstrate and explain how the technical connectedness that characterizes IoT might be communicated in ways that foster a greater sense of social connectedness. Traces are marks that indicate the passing of some other phenomenon, for example data generated as a by-product of people's online activity. Charting traces in the engineering and use of information technology may produce an understanding of the complex networks of actors, structures, and processes within our public life that leads to new possibilities for action, insight and engagement. As a design tactic, traces can serve to foster a greater sense of the connectedness of socio-technical systems. Thus, this research will discover and codify new design guidelines for successful IoT design for public life. Additionally, it will develop an innovative fusion of research methods, combining the prototyping of IoT technologies with external design reviews from both design experts and community members to validate those prototypes.

本研究的目标是促进对物联网 (IoT) 技术的设计和使用的实证和系统理解，以实现、组织和监控集体社会活动。 物联网是一种无处不在的系统，由具有计算能力、相互连接和通信的物体组成。 这项工作的一个关键成果将是一套全面的设计指南，用于创建任何人都可以使用的物联网技术，这些指南将通过一系列针对社区利益相关者和媒体场所更广泛受众的产品和公众参与策略进行传播。此类指南通常被理解为高级启发法，人们可以将其应用到工作中以生成有效的设计。通过在支持公共生活的新颖原型设计中体现这些准则，该项目将帮助人们更轻松地参与不同规模的公共生活。最后，通过在集体设计评审中评估这些原型的优点和局限性，它将产生方法论见解，这些见解可以被以人为中心的计算、科学技术研究和设计领域的其他研究人员采用和扩展。这种实证设计研究将深入了解物联网产品和服务的社会技术配置如何有助于更好地理解和参与构成我们公共生活的互动网络。特别是，利用“追踪”作为物联网的一种设计策略和一种新颖的能力，该研究将展示并解释如何以培养更大的社会联系感的方式传达物联网特征的技术联系性。痕迹是表明某些其他现象的经过的标记，例如作为人们在线活动的副产品生成的数据。绘制信息技术的工程和使用轨迹可以让我们了解公共生活中的参与者、结构和流程的复杂网络，从而为行动、洞察力和参与带来新的可能性。 作为一种设计策略，痕迹可以增强人们对社会技术系统的连通性的认识。 因此，这项研究将发现并编纂新的设计指南，以实现公共生活中成功的物联网设计。此外，它将开发一种创新的研究方法融合，将物联网技术的原型设计与设计专家和社区成员的外部设计审查相结合，以验证这些原型。