Collaborative Research: CSR---EHS: An Open, Dependable and Evolvable Software Infrastructure for Assisted Living

合作研究：CSR---EHS：一个开放、可靠、可进化的辅助生活软件基础设施

• 批准号: 0509268
• 负责人: Jennifer Hou
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-15 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0509268&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; CSR; EHS; Open

The aging of baby boomers has become a social and economical challenge. With an expected doubling of the number of US residents over age 65,(from 35 million in 2000 to 70 million in 2030) and the growth of US expenditures for health-care (projected by some sources to reach 15.9% of GDP by 2010), the cost of senior care is a critical issue for society and for the future of Social Security and Medicare programs. This project aims to design, implement, and evaluate infrastructure technologies to support assisted living, emphasizing: (i) software infrastructure that allows disparate technologies, software components, and wireless devices of different protocol families to work together in a low cost, dependable, and secure fashion with predictable properties; (ii) an interface that adapts this software infrastructure for technology-naive users and incorporates social translucency to provide user-controlled privacy.To achieve the goal, the project seeks to develop the followings: (1) dependable, robust, plug-and-play infrastructure that coordinates sensing, localization, communication, and event/data management, (2) Quality-of-service annotation and analysis technologies that make assumptions explicit and machine checkable for COTS component interfaces, (3) role-based access control and workflow modeling techniques for a rigorous security and privacy framework, (4) QoS manager that handles the surges of workload and adjusts QoS settings of difference services, (5) interference mitigation techniques that allows various wireless devices and protocol stacks co-exist harmoniously sharing the unlicensed frequency band, and (6) a Human Computer Interaction (HCI) component that addresses how directed and ambient information, reminders and alerts should be presented to users and to what extent users can control the degree of information disclosure.

婴儿潮一代的老龄化已经成为一个社会和经济挑战。随着美国65岁以上的居民数量预计翻一番（从2000年的3500万到2030年的7000万）和美国医疗保健支出的增长（一些消息来源预测到2010年将达到GDP的15.9%），老年人护理的成本是社会和社会保障和医疗保险计划未来的关键问题。该项目旨在设计、实施和评估支持辅助生活的基础设施技术，强调：（i）软件基础设施，允许不同协议系列的不同技术、软件组件和无线设备以低成本、可靠和安全的方式协同工作，并具有可预测的属性;（ii）一个界面，使这套软件基础设施能配合未接触科技的用户，并结合社交互动功能，以提供用户控制的私隐。为达致这个目标，该项目旨在发展以下各项：（1）协调传感、定位、通信和事件/数据管理的可靠、健壮、即插即用的基础设施，（2）服务质量注释和分析技术，其使COTS组件接口的假设明确且可机器检查，（3）用于严格的安全和隐私框架的基于角色的访问控制和工作流建模技术，（4）QoS管理器，其处理工作负荷的激增并调整不同服务的QoS设置，（5）干扰减轻技术，其允许各种无线设备和协议栈和谐地共存共享未许可频带，以及（6）人机交互（HCI）组件，其解决如何引导和环境信息，应向用户提供提醒和警告，以及用户可以在多大程度上控制信息披露的程度。