Collaborative Research: Mark This! - Operationalizing the Notion of "Place" For Interactive Community Systems

合作研究：标记这一点！

• 批准号: 0308018
• 负责人: Quentin Jones
• 金额: $ 34.76万
• 依托单位: New Jersey Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-07-01 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0308018&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Mark; Operationalizing; Notion

Mobile, location-aware devices raise the potential for fundamentally new information services. However, this potential has not been realized. This is due in part to the absence of a firm conceptual and empiricalfoundation. This proposal explores one basis for constructing the requisite foundation: socially defined places. How places (such as schools, offices, or theaters) shape behavior has been explored in environmentalpsychology and architecture, but the notion of 'place' has not been operationalized for use in interactive systems. This project takes on that task. The key hypotheses are that (a) people's information andcommunication needs are relative to place types, and (b) making 'place' a first-class computational object will increase the effectiveness and usability of location-based systems. This project will test the hypothesesthrough a combination of ethnographic studies, development of novel algorithms and interfaces, and laboratory and field studies, leading to the following results: 1) additional empirical knowledge about the concept of place and its role in organizing people's activities; 2) a conceptual framework and guidelines useful to designers of location-based systems; 3) a general infrastructure for place-centered community information sharing systems; and 4) field studies and laboratory evaluations that demonstrate the utilityand acceptability of such systems.

移动的位置感知设备提高了提供全新信息服务的潜力。然而，这一潜力尚未实现。这在一定程度上是由于缺乏坚实的概念和经验基础。这项建议探索了构建必要基础的一个基础：社会定义的地方。环境心理学和建筑学已经探索了场所(如学校、办公室或剧院)如何塑造行为，但“场所”的概念还没有在互动系统中使用。这个项目承担了这项任务。关键假设是：(A)人们的信息和通信需求与地点类型有关，以及(B)将地点作为一流的计算对象将增加基于位置的系统的有效性和可用性。该项目将通过人种学研究、新算法和界面的开发以及实验室和实地研究相结合的方式来检验假设，结果如下：1)关于场所概念及其在组织人们活动中的作用的更多经验知识；2)对基于场所的系统的设计者有用的概念框架和指导方针；3)以场所为中心的社区信息共享系统的一般基础设施；以及4)实地研究和实验室评估，证明这种系统的实用性和可接受性。