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.

随着近几年来强大的无线设备的出现，通常为家用计算机和移动终端保留的活动之间的界限已经相当模糊。“永远在线”接入的新机会对个人与他们所组成的社区之间的沟通产生了重大的社会影响。新的网络接入激发了一系列相关的有趣的研究问题。普及的无线网络接入对年轻人（尤其是大学生）的社会交往有什么影响？相反，更好地了解这些社交互动会对底层无线和有线网络产生什么影响？ 这两种制度之间的关系是什么，即，是无线网络真正推动了社会互动，还是社会互动推动了对无线网络的需求？ 该提案的智力价值将是收集高质量，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。 这项工作将提供250个智能手机，以一个不同的一年级的圣母大学本科生队列。 该基础设施将建立在麻省理工学院以前努力的经验教训基础上，以创建第二代系统，用于跟踪两年内群体的社会关系，沟通模式和行为。 这项工作的更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匿名数据，以改善社交和网络性能研究。