SCC-RCN: One Bridge at a Time: Bridging the Digital Divide for the Well-Being of Aging Populations in Smart and Connected Communities

SCC-RCN：一次一座桥梁：弥合数字鸿沟，促进智能互联社区老龄化人口的福祉

• 批准号: 1737483
• 负责人: Mustafa Anil Yazici
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-09-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1737483&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; RCN; Bridge; Time; Bridging

To achieve truly smart and connected communities and improve the quality of life for citizens, it is crucial to understand not only the needs of all community segments but also the devices necessary to respond to those needs in order to improve quality of life and provide mobility and access. Community characteristics (e.g., demographics, socioeconomic factors including income level) and urban density (i.e., urban vs. rural) influence the required services and necessary connectedness for a community's economic, social and physical health. Smart-ness and connected-ness of communities rely heavily on technological developments and tools which are mostly emergent in nature, evolve rapidly, and often disrupt the existing practices. In addition, for the aging population, mobility restrictions (physical, cognitive, and/or perceptual) can deter movement, and result in individuals' loss of accessibility to crucial services (i.e., health services) and activities needed for a good quality of life (i.e., meeting with friends). In case of such mobility restrictions, the movement of services (and goods) to the individuals should be established for their well-being. Smart and Connected Communities (S&CC) have such a significant potential to help solve these problems and improve the lives of the aging population through satisfying their crucial needs in an efficient manner. However, the aging population also faces physical, cognitive and economic challenges to adopting technologies which would enable the aforementioned improvements in their lives and lead to comprehensive implementation of S&CC strategies. The objective of this Research Coordination Network (RCN) is to develop a collaborative, multidisciplinary research platform and to study the relationship between S&CC and the built environment (e.g., varying urban densities and demographics), centered on creating S&CC that incorporate the aging population to improve the welfare of growing aging population in the U.S. The RCN will focus on three thrusts related to the aging population: 1) transportation, 2) public safety/emergency services, and 3) housing. These focus areas will all serve the RCN's main objective of maintaining mobility and access to services for the aging population. The RCN advances the S&CC research by (a) integrating and coordinating research on S&CC across the social sciences and engineering, (b) connecting national and international researchers and community organizations, who otherwise carry out studies in their respective fields with limited interaction, and tackling S&CC challenges within a network which is true to the interdisciplinary nature of S&CC, (c) introducing the discussion of urban density impacts on S&CC with a geographically diverse group of institutions and communities, which can be scalable to rural locations, (d) identifying the mobility challenges and needs with the current transportation options in both urban and rural older communities, (e) incorporating the relatively ignored disadvantaged populations, both in urban and rural settings, into the S&CC context and providing a comprehensive S&CC framework which serves the population as a whole, (f) approaching the concept of the digital divide in a comprehensive manner under S&CC, (g) creating a collaborative platform to discuss, document and share theoretical and practical approaches as well as necessary data sources for the aging population, and (h) establishing avenues to investigate S&CC implementations for the aging population on a national and international scale, and informing policy makers of the scalability and transferability of successful practices. The RCN has a unique composition of researchers and community organizations from various localities. This special mix of backgrounds creates a fertile interdisciplinary environment which has the potential to advance S&CC research as a whole along multiple frontiers. The young researchers, including not only undergraduate and graduate students but also high school students, who are nurtured within the multidisciplinary RCN environment, are expected to be the future leaders in S&CC research. The RCN's scope of varying national urban density, as well as the international reach, lead to a high potential to inform policy makers and city governments with the best practices, as well as best strategies for the adoption, education and integration with respect to the emerging S&CC technologies.

为了实现真正的智能互联社区，提高市民的生活质量，不仅要了解所有社区群体的需求，还要了解满足这些需求所需的设备，以提高生活质量，提供移动性和访问权，这一点至关重要。社区特征（如人口特征、包括收入水平在内的社会经济因素）和城市密度（即城市与农村）影响社区经济、社会和身体健康所需的服务和必要的连通性。社区的智能和连接在很大程度上依赖于技术发展和工具，这些技术发展和工具大多是自然出现的，发展迅速，经常破坏现有的实践。此外，对于老龄人口，行动限制（身体、认知和/或知觉）会阻碍行动，并导致个人无法获得关键服务（即保健服务）和良好生活质量所需的活动（即会见朋友）。在这种流动限制的情况下，应为个人的福祉建立服务（和货物）的流动。智能互联社区（Smart and Connected Communities，简称CC）具有巨大的潜力，可以帮助解决这些问题，并通过有效地满足老龄化人口的关键需求来改善他们的生活。然而，老龄化人口在采用技术方面也面临着身体、认知和经济方面的挑战，这些技术将使他们的生活得到上述改善，并导致S&amp；CC战略的全面实施。该研究协调网络（RCN）的目标是开发一个协作的、多学科的研究平台，并研究城乡结合部与建筑环境（例如，不同的城市密度和人口统计）之间的关系，重点是创建城乡结合部，将老龄化人口纳入其中，以改善美国日益增长的老龄化人口的福利。1)交通，2)公共安全/应急服务，以及3)住房。这些重点领域都将服务于RCN的主要目标，即保持老年人口的流动性和获得服务的机会。RCN通过以下方式推进S&amp；CC研究：(a)整合和协调社会科学和工程领域的S&amp；CC研究；(b)将国内和国际研究人员和社区组织联系起来，否则他们将在各自的领域进行有限的互动研究，并在一个符合S&amp；CC跨学科性质的网络中解决S&amp；CC挑战。(c)引入城市密度对S&amp；CC的影响与地理上不同的机构和社区的讨论，这可以扩展到农村地区，(d)确定当前城市和农村老年社区交通选择的流动性挑战和需求，(e)纳入城市和农村环境中相对被忽视的弱势群体，(f)在S&amp；CC下全面探讨数字鸿沟的概念；(g)创建一个协作平台，讨论、记录和分享老龄化人口的理论和实践方法以及必要的数据来源；(h)建立途径，调查在国家和国际范围内对老龄化人口实施的标准和标准控制，并向政策制定者通报成功实践的可扩展性和可转移性。RCN由来自各地的研究人员和社区组织组成。这种特殊的背景组合创造了一个肥沃的跨学科环境，有可能沿着多个前沿推进S&amp；CC研究作为一个整体。在多学科RCN环境中培养的年轻研究人员，不仅包括本科生和研究生，还包括高中生，预计将成为S&amp；CC研究的未来领导者。RCN在不同国家城市密度的范围内，以及国际范围内，为政策制定者和城市政府提供了很大的潜力，为采用、教育和整合新兴的S&amp；CC技术提供了最佳实践和最佳战略。

项目成果

Power Resilience Assessment from Physical and Socio-Demographic Perspectives

从自然和社会人口角度进行电力弹性评估

• DOI: 10.1109/icsrs48664.2019.8987673
• 发表时间: 2019
• 期刊: 4th International Conference on System Reliability and Safety (ICSRS
• 作者: Ulak, Mehmet Baran;Yazici, Anil;Ozguven, Eren Erman;Vanli, Arda;Arghandeh, Reza
• 通讯作者: Arghandeh, Reza