CI-New: Collaborative Research: HomeSHARE - Home-based Smart Health Applications across Research Environments

CI-New：协作研究：HomeSHARE - 跨研究环境的基于家庭的智能健康应用

• 批准号: 1629437
• 负责人: Kelly Caine
• 金额: $ 1.45万
• 依托单位: Clemson University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2019-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1629437&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CI; New; Collaborative; Research; HomeSHARE

This project provides funding to develop HomeSHARE, a community infrastructure for doing research around aging in place that provides the community with access to a network of smart homes with a standard sensor package and the ability to add custom technology as needed for specific studies. Currently, although there is much research interest in using home-based sensors to model mobility and health, setting up these kinds of studies is difficult and there is little infrastructure to support it. This tends to cause duplicate, wasted effort in setting up sites; very small numbers of participating homes, limiting the generality and power of the research; and incompatibilities in the setups used by different teams that make it hard to put different pieces of research together. To address this, the team will create the backbone of a large network of homes that can support research that uses sensed information to predict a number of attributes about older adults at home, including mobility patterns, mental health, hospital readmissions, and energy use. The main activities are to deploy their suite of sensors and other computing technology in a total of 30 volunteers' homes at two partner institutions, and develop software that connects and collects data from the homes. Team members will work carefully with residents of the homes to cover the costs of technologies and address privacy and technical concerns they have. They will also create materials that cover technical, ethical, and training issues that other researchers can use both as client sites to conduct studies using the existing network (for a fee to cover operating costs) and as installation sites who join the network directly by adding their own smart homes. To manage demand for the infrastructure, the team will create a governing board of researchers drawn initially from the awardees' institutions. This board will review the technology needs and applications for studies to ensure that they meet the ethical and research goals of the project. The hope is that through this research, the infrastructure will pay for itself many times over not just in knowledge but in improved health and life quality outcomes for older adults; it will also provide service- and project-based learning opportunities for a number of graduate and undergraduate students. The network will consist of a number of homes using a standardized technology package to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure data collection and data sharing across the many studies while also addressing privacy and acceptability concerns for participants. It will include a number of window and door sensors, a wearable activity tracker, a tablet computer for communicating with and collecting survey information from residents, a wireless access point and paid internet access, and an in-home server that manages the installed devices and data. The servers will be connected and managed with an enhanced version of the team's existing Piloteur framework for reliable sensor data collection in homes. Piloteur will be extended to support larger-scale deployment and changes in the standard technology package demanded by technology advances and research needs, and will add a layer for storing, securing, and sharing the data using existing open standards. Installation sites will be run by technicians supervised by the research team. The technicians will handle recruiting and communicating with participants as well as deploying and debugging the technology installations in the homes, and participants will be recruited to ensure diversity along demographic factors that should improve generalizability of results. The team will also develop materials to make it easy for other researchers to use and join the network. For those who want to access the existing network for individual studies, they will develop a HomeSHARE Study Packet that includes guidance on study planning and costs, technical aspects of the homes and data, and sample materials from prior studies that have been approved by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). For those who want to join the network, they will create a HomeSHARE Site Kit that includes information about best practices around recruitment and installation, sample IRB materials for existing sites, and standard budget information useful for writing proposals to join the network. A leadership committee initially composed of researchers from the awardee institutions will oversee project management, including the coordination of studies using the network, the evolution of the standard technology package, the addition of new installation sites to the network, and the administration of the data sharing and costs.

该项目为开发 HomeSHARE 提供资金，HomeSHARE 是一个社区基础设施，用于围绕就地老龄化进行研究，为社区提供使用标准传感器包访问智能家居网络的权限，并能够根据具体研究的需要添加定制技术。 目前，尽管人们对使用家用传感器来模拟移动性和健康状况有很多研究兴趣，但开展此类研究很困难，而且几乎没有基础设施来支持它。 这往往会导致建立网站时重复、浪费精力；参与家庭的数量非常少，限制了研究的普遍性和力量；不同团队使用的设置不兼容，使得很难将不同的研究放在一起。 为了解决这个问题，该团队将创建一个大型家庭网络的骨干网络，该网络可以支持利用感知信息来预测家中老年人的许多属性的研究，包括行动模式、心理健康、再入院和能源使用。 主要活动是在两个合作机构的总共 30 个志愿者家中部署他们的传感器套件和其他计算技术，并开发连接和收集这些家庭数据的软件。 团队成员将与房屋居民仔细合作，以支付技术成本并解决他们所关心的隐私和技术问题。 他们还将创建涵盖技术、道德和培训问题的材料，其他研究人员可以将其用作客户端站点，使用现有网络进行研究（收取运营成本费用），也可以用作通过添加直接加入网络的安装站点他们自己的智能家居。 为了管理对基础设施的需求，该团队将成立一个由最初来自获奖机构的研究人员组成的管理委员会。 该委员会将审查研究的技术需求和应用，以确保它们满足项目的伦理和研究目标。 希望通过这项研究，基础设施不仅能在知识方面，而且在改善老年人的健康和生活质量方面，获得数倍的回报；它还将为许多研究生和本科生提供基于服务和项目的学习机会。该网络将由许多使用标准化技术包的家庭组成，以确保许多研究中一致、可靠和安全的数据收集和数据共享，同时也解决参与者的隐私和可接受性问题。 它将包括多个门窗传感器、一个可穿戴活动跟踪器、一台用于与居民通信并收集居民调查信息的平板电脑、一个无线接入点和付费互联网接入，以及一个管理已安装设备和服务的家庭服务器。数据。 这些服务器将通过该团队现有 Piloteur 框架的增强版本进行连接和管理，以实现家庭中可靠的传感器数据收集。 Piloteur 将进行扩展，以支持技术进步和研究需求所要求的标准技术包的更大规模部署和变化，并将使用现有开放标准添加一个用于存储、保护和共享数据的层。 安装地点将由研究团队监督的技术人员负责管理。技术人员将负责招募和与参与者沟通，以及在家中部署和调试技术装置，招募参与者以确保人口因素的多样性，从而提高结果的普遍性。 该团队还将开发材料，使其他研究人员能够轻松使用和加入该网络。 对于那些想要访问现有网络进行个人研究的人，他们将开发一个 HomeSHARE 研究包，其中包括研究计划和成本的指导、家庭和数据的技术方面以及已获得机构审查批准的先前研究的样本材料董事会 (IRB)。 对于那些想要加入该网络的人，他们将创建一个 HomeSHARE 站点工具包，其中包括有关招聘和安装最佳实践的信息、现有站点的 IRB 材料示例以及有助于编写加入网络提案的标准预算信息。 最初由获奖机构的研究人员组成的领导委员会将监督项目管理，包括协调使用网络的研究、标准技术包的演变、在网络中添加新的安装站点以及数据共享的管理和成本。