CI-New: Collaborative Research: HomeSHARE - Home-based Smart Health Applications across Research Environments

该项目为开发HomeSHARE提供资金，HomeSHARE是一个社区基础设施，用于就地进行老龄化研究，为社区提供使用标准传感器包的智能家居网络，并能够根据具体研究的需要添加定制技术。 目前，尽管有很多研究兴趣使用基于家庭的传感器来模拟移动性和健康，但建立这类研究是困难的，并且几乎没有基础设施来支持它。这往往会导致重复，浪费精力建立站点;参与家庭的数量非常少，限制了研究的一般性和力量;以及不同团队使用的设置不兼容，这使得很难将不同的研究放在一起。 为了解决这个问题，该团队将创建一个大型家庭网络的骨干，该网络可以支持使用感知信息来预测家中老年人的一些属性的研究，包括移动模式，心理健康，医院再入院和能源使用。 主要活动是在两个合作机构的30个志愿者家中部署传感器和其他计算技术套件，并开发连接和收集家庭数据的软件。 团队成员将与家庭的居民仔细合作，以支付技术成本，并解决他们的隐私和技术问题。 他们还将创建涵盖技术，道德和培训问题的材料，其他研究人员可以使用这些材料作为客户网站，使用现有网络进行研究（收取费用以支付运营成本），并作为安装网站，通过添加自己的智能家居直接加入网络。 为了管理对基础设施的需求，该团队将创建一个由最初来自获奖机构的研究人员组成的管理委员会。 该委员会将审查研究的技术需求和应用，以确保它们符合项目的伦理和研究目标。 希望通过这项研究，基础设施将为自己支付许多倍，不仅在知识方面，而且在改善老年人的健康和生活质量方面;它还将为一些研究生和本科生提供基于服务和项目的学习机会。该网络将由多个家庭组成，使用标准化技术包，以确保在许多研究中进行一致、可靠和安全的数据收集和数据共享，同时解决参与者的隐私和可接受性问题。 它将包括一些窗户和门传感器，可穿戴活动跟踪器，用于与居民通信和收集调查信息的平板电脑，无线接入点和付费互联网接入，以及管理安装设备和数据的家庭服务器。 这些服务器将通过该团队现有的Piloteur框架的增强版本进行连接和管理，以便在家中进行可靠的传感器数据收集。 Piloteur将扩展到支持技术进步和研究需求所需的标准技术包的大规模部署和更改，并将使用现有的开放标准添加一个存储，保护和共享数据的层。 安装地点将由研究小组监督的技术人员管理。技术人员将负责招募和与参与者沟通，以及在家庭中部署和调试技术装置，招募参与者是为了确保沿着人口因素的多样性，以提高结果的普遍性。 该团队还将开发材料，使其他研究人员易于使用和加入网络。 对于那些想要访问现有网络进行个别研究的人，他们将开发一个HomeSHARE研究包，其中包括研究规划和成本，家庭和数据的技术方面的指导，以及已获得机构审查委员会（IRB）批准的先前研究的样本材料。 对于那些想要加入网络的人，他们将创建一个HomeSHARE网站工具包，其中包括有关招聘和安装的最佳实践的信息，现有网站的IRB材料样本，以及用于编写加入网络提案的标准预算信息。 最初由获奖机构的研究人员组成的领导委员会将监督项目管理，包括协调使用网络的研究，标准技术包的发展，向网络添加新的安装地点，以及数据共享和成本的管理。

This project provides funding to develop HomeSHARE, a community infrastructure for doing research around aging in place that provides the community with access to a network of smart homes with a standard sensor package and the ability to add custom technology as needed for specific studies. Currently, although there is much research interest in using home-based sensors to model mobility and health, setting up these kinds of studies is difficult and there is little infrastructure to support it. This tends to cause duplicate, wasted effort in setting up sites; very small numbers of participating homes, limiting the generality and power of the research; and incompatibilities in the setups used by different teams that make it hard to put different pieces of research together. To address this, the team will create the backbone of a large network of homes that can support research that uses sensed information to predict a number of attributes about older adults at home, including mobility patterns, mental health, hospital readmissions, and energy use. The main activities are to deploy their suite of sensors and other computing technology in a total of 30 volunteers' homes at two partner institutions, and develop software that connects and collects data from the homes. Team members will work carefully with residents of the homes to cover the costs of technologies and address privacy and technical concerns they have. They will also create materials that cover technical, ethical, and training issues that other researchers can use both as client sites to conduct studies using the existing network (for a fee to cover operating costs) and as installation sites who join the network directly by adding their own smart homes. To manage demand for the infrastructure, the team will create a governing board of researchers drawn initially from the awardees' institutions. This board will review the technology needs and applications for studies to ensure that they meet the ethical and research goals of the project. The hope is that through this research, the infrastructure will pay for itself many times over not just in knowledge but in improved health and life quality outcomes for older adults; it will also provide service- and project-based learning opportunities for a number of graduate and undergraduate students. The network will consist of a number of homes using a standardized technology package to ensure consistent, reliable, and secure data collection and data sharing across the many studies while also addressing privacy and acceptability concerns for participants. It will include a number of window and door sensors, a wearable activity tracker, a tablet computer for communicating with and collecting survey information from residents, a wireless access point and paid internet access, and an in-home server that manages the installed devices and data. The servers will be connected and managed with an enhanced version of the team's existing Piloteur framework for reliable sensor data collection in homes. Piloteur will be extended to support larger-scale deployment and changes in the standard technology package demanded by technology advances and research needs, and will add a layer for storing, securing, and sharing the data using existing open standards. Installation sites will be run by technicians supervised by the research team. The technicians will handle recruiting and communicating with participants as well as deploying and debugging the technology installations in the homes, and participants will be recruited to ensure diversity along demographic factors that should improve generalizability of results. The team will also develop materials to make it easy for other researchers to use and join the network. For those who want to access the existing network for individual studies, they will develop a HomeSHARE Study Packet that includes guidance on study planning and costs, technical aspects of the homes and data, and sample materials from prior studies that have been approved by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs). For those who want to join the network, they will create a HomeSHARE Site Kit that includes information about best practices around recruitment and installation, sample IRB materials for existing sites, and standard budget information useful for writing proposals to join the network. A leadership committee initially composed of researchers from the awardee institutions will oversee project management, including the coordination of studies using the network, the evolution of the standard technology package, the addition of new installation sites to the network, and the administration of the data sharing and costs.