EAGER: Collaborative Research: SmartPhone App for Residential Testing of Formaldehyde (SmART-Form)

1645048/1645070/1645090Dannemiller/Zhang/ShapiroAmericans 90%的时间都待在室内，暴露在包括甲醛在内的一种复杂的化学混合物中。尽管已经确定了甲醛对健康的影响，但相关公民目前还没有方法来廉价而可靠地测量他们的甲醛暴露。目前的方法需要昂贵的分析仪器，这些仪器容易受到污染，受到干扰化合物的影响，或者很难完成。这项工作的目标是开发和推出一种可访问、廉价和可靠的甲醛检测技术，用于公民科学。工业界、学术界和公民科学组织之间的多学科合作将确保该方法成功地从设计流向公民科学家的使用。拟议的研究提供了一个关键工具，使个人能够测量和了解他们的室内甲醛暴露。这项工作的关键新奇创新是使用智能手机App准确读取徽章并报告集中度。测量的简便性将产生严格可靠的结果，并通过将最终读数的计算内在化来防止测量误差。这种范式转换技术可能会在未来扩展到其他感兴趣的化学品。此外，这项工作将创建一个关于相关公民和公民科学家家中甲醛浓度的广泛和独特的数据集。公民科学家将通过使用协作开发方法感受到对该设备的所有权。该项目将创建一个甲醛测量系统，与公民科学家合作，研究佐治亚州韦克罗斯家庭的甲醛浓度。该项目有三个目标：1.开发比色甲醛检测徽章和基于智能手机的新型应用程序来读取徽章。在24小时采样期间，市民科学家将用他们的智能手机拍摄前后照片，App将对像素比色数据进行处理，以显示甲醛浓度。社区反馈将在整个开发过程中纳入设计。建筑能源和环境系统实验室(BEESL)的独立验证将确认徽章功能正常。2.)确保公民科学界和有关公民采用这项新技术。这将通过与Morphix Technologies合作以低成本制造该设备，并通过与非营利性公民科学组织Public Lab联系基地社区来实现。3.)将收集到的数据公开提供给公民科学家进行解释。结果将被解释并以开放获取的手稿发表，信息也将在博客帖子中总结。在线社区论坛将允许持续的社区反馈、讨论和信息共享。

1645048/1645070/1645090Dannemiller/Zhang/ShapiroAmericans spend 90% of their time indoors where they are exposed to a complex mixture of chemicals, including formaldehyde. Despite established health effects, concerned citizens currently have no method to inexpensively and reliably measure their formaldehyde exposure. Current methods require expensive analytical instruments that are prone to contamination, suffer from interfering compounds, or are difficult to complete. The goal of this work is to develop and launch an accessible, inexpensive and reliable formaldehyde detection technique for use in citizen science. A multidisciplinary collaboration between industry, academia, and a citizen science organization will ensure that the method successfully flows from design to utilization by citizen scientists.The proposed research provides a critical tool to allow individuals to measure and understand their indoor formaldehyde exposure. The key novel innovation of this work is the use of a Smartphone App to accurately read the badges and report the concentration. The ease of measurement will produce rigorous and reliable results and prevent measurement error by internalizing calculations for the final reading. This paradigm-shifting technique could potentially be expanded to other chemicals of interest in the future. Additionally, this work will create a broad and unique dataset about formaldehyde concentrations in homes of concerned citizens and citizen scientists. Citizen scientists will feel ownership in the device through the use of a collaborative development approach. The project will create a formaldehyde measurement system to study concentrations in homes in Waycross, GA in conjunction with citizen scientists. The project has three objectives: 1.) To develop a colorimetric formaldehyde detection badge and novel Smartphone-based App to read the badge. During the 24 hour sampling period, a citizen scientist will use their Smartphone to take before and after pictures, and the App will process the pixel colorimetry data to display the formaldehyde concentration. Community feedback will be incorporated in the design throughout development. Independent verification at the Building Energy and Environmental Systems Laboratory (BEESL) will confirm that badges function properly. 2.) To ensure adoption of the new technology by the citizen science community and concerned citizens. This will be done by pairing with Morphix Technologies to manufacture the device at low cost and by reaching out to the base community in contact with Public Lab, a non-profit citizen science organization. 3.) To make the collected data publicly available to citizen scientists for interpretation. Results will be interpreted and published in an open-access manuscript and information will also be summarized in a blog post. An online community forum will allow for continued community feedback, discussions, and information sharing.