Ethics Education for Participatory Urban Sensing

移动电话网络正在成为地球上最大的传感器网络。然而，移动电话用户一般不知道这个网络的双重用途，在这个网络中，他们的通信设备也是信息收集设备。在参与式城市传感中，日常移动设备成为协调调查环境和人类活动的平台。但将手机转变为数据收集工具，既带来了技术上的挑战，也带来了伦理上的挑战。PI认为，研究人员应该在用户同意和积极参与的情况下利用这个传感器网络。利用城市遥感系统促进负责任、社会信任和参与性的数据收集和分析道德仍然是一个悬而未决的问题，也是本研究和教育项目面临的挑战。在这个项目中，PI和她的团队将正式确定并定性评估参与式伦理中的一个重要测试案例：在城市传感应用中管理隐私的参与式方法。他们将创建沉浸式课程(使用动手实验室方法)和跨学科研讨会式的课程，向不同的STEM本科生和研究生教授参与城市遥感伦理，并将评估这些课程并将课堂结果综合为最佳实践，然后通过白皮书、客座讲座、视频演示和讨论以及活跃的网站，将这些课程传播到城市传感、泛在计算和更广泛的技术教育社区的参与性城市传感伦理教育。系统开发的多学科和快速步伐、用户的社会多样性以及城市遥感应用的多样性令人振奋，但对制定参与式道德框架构成了重大挑战。就像传统的人类受试者研究指南适用于广泛和多样化的研究范围一样，PI认为同样强大的原则也可以被指定用于人类感知研究。在该项目的教育阶段开发的教学工具将培训不同的STEM学生群体，使技术进步与人类实践和道德规范相一致。让学生参与讨论和实际实施参与式伦理将把价值观的考虑融入他们的研究和设计实践中。受过参与式城市遥感伦理培训的学生和研究人员将设计反映参与式伦理并平衡技术和人文价值的系统。学生还将把他们在教育过程中形成的伦理思考和价值承诺带到学术界、科技行业和政策领域的职业生涯中。作为城市传感参与性伦理的关键测试案例，正式和完善参与性隐私监管将有助于在有意义的隐私设计领域苦苦挣扎，包括移动和无处不在的计算、社交网络和网络社区系统设计。

The mobile phone network is emerging as the largest sensor network on the planet. Mobile phone users, however, are generally unaware of the dual uses of this network, in which their communication devices are also information gathering devices. In participatory urban sensing, everyday mobile devices become a platform for coordinated investigation of the environment and human activity. But transforming phones into data collection instruments raises both technical and ethical challenges. The PI believes that researchers should utilize this network of sensors with the consent and active participation of users. Facilitating responsible, socially trusted, and participatory ethics for data collection and analysis with urban sensing systems remains an open problem, and is the challenge undertaken in this research and education project. In this project, the PI and her team will formalize and qualitatively assess an important test case in participatory ethics: a participatory approach to managing privacy in urban sensing applications. They will create both an immersion curriculum (using a hands-on laboratory approach) and an interdisciplinary seminar-style curriculum to teach participatory ethics for urban sensing to diverse STEM undergraduate and graduate students, and will evaluate these curricula and synthesize classroom findings into best practices which will then be disseminated for education in participatory urban sensing ethics to urban sensing, ubiquitous computing, and broader technology education communities through white papers, guest lectures, video presentations and discussions, and an active website.Broader Impacts: This work will benefit many areas of mobile and ubiquitous technology research. The multidisciplinarity and rapid pace of system development, the social diversity of users, and the diversity of urban sensing applications are exhilirating yet pose significant challenges to developing a participatory ethics framework. Much as traditional human subjects research guidelines apply to a broad and diverse research scope, the PI believes that similarly powerful principles can be specified for human sensing research. The pedagogical tools developed in the education phase of this project will train a diverse group of STEM students to align technological advances with human practices and ethics. Involving students in discussions and practical implementation of participatory ethics will integrate considerations of values into their research and design practice. Students and researchers trained in participatory urban sensing ethics will design systems that reflect participatory ethics and balance technical and human values. Students will also bring the ethical thinking and value commitments formed during their education to careers in academia, technology industries, and policy arenas. As a critical test case in participatory ethics for urban sensing, formalizing and refining participatory privacy regulation will contribute to fields struggling with meaningful privacy design, including mobile and ubiquitous computing, social networking, and web community systems design.