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，移动电话用户通常不知道这个网络的双重用途，其中他们的通信设备也是信息收集设备。在参与式城市感知中，日常移动设备成为环境和人类活动协调调查的平台。但将手机转变为数据收集工具会带来技术和道德上的挑战。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。促进城市传感系统数据收集和分析的负责任、社会信任和参与性伦理仍然是一个悬而未决的问题，也是本研究和教育项目所面临的挑战。在这个项目中，PI和她的团队将正式并定性地评估参与性伦理的一个重要测试案例：在城市传感应用中管理隐私的参与性方法。他们将创建浸入式课程（使用动手实验室方法）和跨学科研讨会式课程，向不同的STEM本科生和研究生教授城市感知的参与性伦理，并将评估这些课程并将课堂研究结果整合为最佳实践，然后将其传播给城市感知、普适计算、通过白皮书、客座讲座、视频演示和讨论以及一个活跃的网站，扩大技术教育社区。更广泛的影响：这项工作将使移动和无处不在的技术研究的许多领域受益。系统发展的多学科性和快速步伐、用户的社会多样性和城市传感应用的多样性令人振奋，但也对制定参与性伦理框架提出了重大挑战。就像传统的人类受试者研究指南适用于广泛而多样的研究范围一样，PI认为，同样强大的原则也可以指定用于人类传感研究。该项目在教育阶段开发的教学工具将培养多样化的STEM学生群体，使技术进步与人类实践和道德保持一致。让学生参与讨论和实践参与式伦理，将把对价值的考虑融入到他们的研究和设计实践中。接受参与式城市感知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类价值的系统。学生还将把他们在教育中形成的道德思维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。作为城市感知参与性伦理的关键测试案例，规范和完善参与性隐私法规将有助于努力实现有意义的隐私设计的领域，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.