Collaborative Research: CSR: EHS:Smart Buttons: Bio-Enabled Wearable Devices

合作研究：企业社会责任：EHS：智能按钮：生物可穿戴设备

• 批准号: 1525235
• 负责人: Tian He
• 金额: $ 26.9万
• 依托单位: University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
• 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: 2015-10-01 至 2018-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1525235&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CSR; EHS; Smart

This project aims to build Smart Buttons, a bio-enabled wearable device weighing less than 2 grams. A network of smart buttons will be built that scales from a few buttons for each person individually to over a hundred of buttons for a crowd. This network simultaneously records, generates, compiles posture and interaction data spanning various scenarios, time scales and physical settings. The smart button platform will be able to assist domain scientists in understanding human posture and behavior as well as social interaction in a crowd.The intellectual contributions include a novel bio-enable design philosophy and a set of concrete approaches to seamlessly integrate computation with bio-enabled functions. Subjects (e.g., humans) are treated not only as the source of information, but also as the source of functionality. Unlike electronic computation functions, bio-enabled functions are highly unpredictable and have inherent uncertainty in both measurement and control. The research explores (i) how computation from electronic systems interact with physical bio-enabled functions from living subjects, and (ii) how to integrate these functions. The proposal work first demonstrates a few cases of bio-enabled functions and their effectiveness, including bio-enabled proximity detection, ranging, bio-enabled on-demand sensing, bio-enabled networking and energy management. After these case studies, reusable patterns are extracted, and principles and methodologies to design bio-enabled wearable devices are derived. The results of this research can be used in the future by domain scientists to support (i) individual's behavior predictions and generalizations, and (ii) crowd social interaction modeling and control. The broader impact of this work includes (i) utilizing the smart button technology to analyze teaching effectiveness and reveal the issues and desired features in a teaching environment; (ii) improving curriculum development with hand-on smart button projects; (iii) raising interest in technology among K-12 students and under-represented minority groups through smart button demos in open houses; and (iv) supporting talented female and minority PhD students to successfully accomplish their doctoral studies. The ultimate impact of the smart button technology is to provide a low-cost open experimental platform for behavior/social scientists, leading to a solid foundation for a new science of social interaction. The principles based on bio-feedback can give rise to new paradigms, principles, theory and methods in computer system control with bio-in-the-loop.

该项目旨在打造智能按钮，这是一款重量不到 2 克的生物可穿戴设备。将建立一个智能按钮网络，从每个人的几个按钮扩展到人群的一百多个按钮。该网络同时记录、生成、编译跨越各种场景、时间尺度和物理设置的姿势和交互数据。智能按钮平台将能够帮助领域科学家了解人类姿势和行为以及人群中的社交互动。其智力贡献包括新颖的生物启用设计理念和一套将计算与生物无缝集成的具体方法。启用的功能。主体（例如人类）不仅被视为信息源，而且被视为功能源。与电子计算功能不同，生物功能具有高度不可预测性，并且在测量和控制方面都具有固有的不确定性。该研究探讨了（i）电子系统的计算如何与生物体的物理生物功能相互作用，以及（ii）如何整合这些功能。该提案工作首先展示了生物功能的一些案例及其有效性，包括生物功能接近检测、测距、生物功能按需传感、生物功能网络和能源管理。经过这些案例研究，提取了可重复使用的模式，并得出了设计生物可穿戴设备的原理和方法。这项研究的结果将来可以被领域科学家用来支持（i）个人行为预测和概括，以及（ii）人群社交互动建模和控制。 这项工作更广泛的影响包括（i）利用智能按钮技术分析教学效果并揭示教学环境中的问题和所需功能； (ii) 通过实践智能按钮项目改进课程开发； (iii) 通过开放参观中的智能按钮演示，提高 K-12 学生和代表性不足的少数群体对技术的兴趣； (iv) 支持有才华的女性和少数民族博士生成功完成博士学业。智能按钮技术的最终影响是为行为/社会科学家提供一个低成本的开放实验平台，为社会互动的新科学奠定坚实的基础。基于生物反馈的原理可以在生物在环计算机系统控制中产生新的范式、原理、理论和方法。