SoCS: Explorations on the Effects of Pervasive Networking on Social Relationships and Resource Planning

SoCS：普适网络对社会关系和资源规划影响的探索

• 批准号: 0968529
• 负责人: Aaron Striegel
• 金额: $ 74.88万
• 依托单位: University of Notre Dame
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0968529&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SoCS; Explorations; Effects; Pervasive; Networking

With the advent of powerful wireless devices over the last several years, the delineation between activities typically reserved for the home computer and the mobile device has blurred considerably. The new opportunities for "always on" access have significant sociological impacts with respect to communication between individuals and the communities that they form. The new network access inspires a set of related fascinating research questions. What effect does pervasive, wireless network access have on the social interactions of young adults, in particular college-aged students? Conversely, what impact would a better understanding of these social interactions have on the underlying wireless and wired networks? What is the relationship between the two systems, i.e., does the wireless network truly drive social interactions or do social interactions drive demand on the wireless network? The intellectual merit of the proposal will be to gather high quality, long-term social network and behavioral data and then to analyze the data from sociological and technical perspectives. The work will provide two hundred and fifty smart phones to a diverse cohort of first-year University of Notre Dame undergraduate students. The infrastructure will build on lessons from previous efforts at MIT to create a second-generation system for the purpose of tracking the social ties, communication patterns, and behaviors of the cohort over two years. The broader impact of the work will include inter-disciplinary contributions for both computer science and sociology. The work will make available a tremendous body of anonymized data to improve both social and network performance research.

在过去几年中，随着强大的无线设备的出现，通常为家用计算机和移动设备保留的活动之间的描述大大模糊。关于个人与他们形成的社区之间的沟通，“始终”访问的新机会具有重大的社会学影响。新的网络访问激发了一系列相关的迷人研究问题。无线网络访问对年轻人，尤其是大学生的社交互动有什么影响？相反，对这些社交互动的更好理解对基础无线和有线网络会有什么影响？ 这两个系统之间的关系，即无线网络是否真正驱动社交互动或社交互动推动了无线网络的需求？ 该提案的智力优点是收集高质量，长期的社交网络和行为数据，然后从社会学和技术角度分析数据。 这项工作将为一年级的圣母大学本科生提供250个智能手机。 基础设施将基于麻省理工学院以前的努力的课程，以创建第二代系统，目的是在两年内跟踪队列的社会联系，沟通模式和行为。 这项工作的广泛影响将包括计算机科学和社会学的跨学科贡献。 这项工作将提供大量的匿名数据，以改善社交和网络绩效研究。