JST: SCC-PG: Bridging the Digital Gap and Identifying Cross-Cultural Pathways for Adoption of IoT Technologies to Support Super-Aging Societies in the U.S. and Japan

JST：SCC-PG：弥合数字鸿沟并确定采用物联网技术支持美国和日本超级老龄化社会的跨文化途径

• 批准号: 1952032
• 负责人: Anupam Joshi
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-05-15 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1952032&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: JST; SCC; PG; Bridging; Digital

Aging is a recognized global societal issue. It is expected that between now and 2050, every Nation in the world will see a substantial increase in their number of citizens older than 60. Furthermore, there will be more than a dozen super-aged societies in 2020, where more than one in five of the population is 65 years or older. The U.S. and Japan, specifically, are experiencing dramatic population aging and share several similarities. This planning grant will bring together experts bridging disciplines and countries to explore research and development of effective strategies to address healthy aging. Specifically, to achieve the ambitious goals of NSF’s Smart and Connected Communities and Japan’s Society 5.0 and Sustainable Development initiatives and to meet the growing societal expectations, there is a need to realize trustworthy, reliable, safe, secure, and effective smart and connected technologies to empower older adults in all aspects of life. Despite ongoing efforts, there remains a significant digital gap in adoption and user acceptability of assistive technologies among older adult communities. Furthermore, cross-cultural and socio-economic factors play a significant role in achieving scalability. This JST:SCC-PG proposal assembled a convergent, multi-disciplinary team of researchers from four institutions across two Nations, UMBC and Northeastern University from the U.S. and Kyushu University and Keio University from Japan. The research expertise within the team covers relevant disciplines including gerontology, sociology, health sciences, decision science for sustainable society, information systems, cybersecurity, cyber-physical systems, robotics, and computer science. Built upon international consensus, the team will realize innovation far more effectively than any single-nation research team. The team collectively has comprehensive expertise in not just the research areas, but has facilities, best practices, cyber-infrastructure (e.g., cloud-computing and big data servers), and hardware and software design expertise. This JST: S&CC-PG will focus on team-building, user-centered design ideation, and community participation activities to develop a tight and sustainable collaboration among U.S. and Japan researchers to realize new digital solutions based on Internet of Things, Information and Communication Technologies, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Trust Services, Security, and Assistive robotics in support of super-aging societies and to educate a new cadre of scientists, engineers, technologists, and entrepreneurs cognizant of global societal challenges. The goal of this Planning Grant is to develop an Integrative Research Grant proposal to NSF and JST, applying these key technologies to create Smart and Connected Communities that address the key challenges of super-aging societies.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

老龄化是一个公认的全球社会问题，预计从现在到2050年，世界上每个国家60岁以上的公民数量都将大幅增加。此外，全球将出现十几个超级老龄化社会。到 2020 年，美国和日本将有超过五分之一的人口年龄在 65 岁或以上，这两个国家有一些相似之处，这项规划拨款将汇集跨学科和国家的专家来探索研究。具体来说，为了实现 NSF 智能互联社区和日本社会 5.0 和可持续发展倡议的宏伟目标，并满足日益增长的社会期望，需要实现值得信赖、可靠、安全的目标。尽管我们不断努力，但在老年人社区对辅助技术的采用和用户接受度方面仍然存在巨大的数字差距。经济因素起着重要作用这项 JST:SCC-PG 提案汇集了来自两国四个机构（美国的 UMBC 和东北大学以及日本的九州大学和庆应义塾大学）的多学科研究人员团队。团队涵盖老年学、社会学、健康科学、可持续社会决策科学、信息系统、网络安全、网络物理系统、机器人和计算机科学等相关学科，基于国际共识，团队将实现远距离创新。该团队不仅在研究领域拥有全面的专业知识，而且还拥有设施、最佳实践、网络基础设施（例如云计算和大数据服务器）以及硬件和软件设计。 JST：S&CC-PG 将重点关注团队建设、以用户为中心的设计理念和社区参与活动，以在美国和日本研究人员之间建立紧密且可持续的合作，以实现基于物联网、信息和技术的新数字解决方案。通信技术，人工智能、数据科学、信任服务、安全和辅助机器人技术，支持超级老龄化社会，并培养一批新的科学家、工程师、技术人员和企业家认识到全球社会挑战。这项规划拨款的目标是：向 NSF 和 JST 制定综合研究资助提案，应用这些关键技术创建智能互联社区，解决超级老龄化社会的关键挑战。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。