SCC-IRG Track 1: Empowering Environmental Justice Communities with Smart and Connected Technology: Air and Noise Pollution, Wellbeing, and Social Relations in Times of Disruption

美国各地的重大建设项目可能会对社区产生长达数十年的严重影响。这些项目可能产生噪音和空气污染，扰乱交通，影响个人和社区健康以及社会结构。环境正义社区，或有大量少数群体和/或低收入家庭的社区，不成比例地受到不利的健康和环境影响。该项目与科罗拉多丹佛的三个环境正义社区合作，了解并帮助减轻两个主要项目造成的破坏，包括高速公路重建项目和相关的社区重建。这一努力将创建一个社会技术系统，为社区成员配备环境传感器，以监测他们的个人环境（空气和噪音污染），以及一套智能手机应用程序，以报告他们的个人健康和社会关系。通过社会技术系统报告的数据将使我们能够1）了解社区成员如何受到计划的环境破坏的影响，2）减轻未来计划破坏的负面影响，3）将政策制定者与当地社区公民产生的数据联系起来。通过为社区提供智能和连接的尖端工具以及与这些工具互动的能力来访问数据，该项目旨在改善社区成员的个人环境，福祉和社会关系，同时能够对社区成员的经验做出循证回应，并以真实的方式向政策制定者和决策者提供信息，该项目的总体目标是改善环境正义社区的生活质量，这些社区受到有计划的重大建筑环境破坏的影响，如新公路和基础设施项目的建设。为了实现这一目标，正在设计由环境传感器、智能手机平台和配备有预测建模和可视化的数据分析服务器组成的社会技术系统（STS），并将其集成到社区中，以便：（空气和噪音污染）、福祉和社会关系受到计划性中断的影响; 2）减轻计划性中断的负面影响;以及3）为政策制定者和决策者提供有关即将发生的中断的潜在负面影响的预测信息，以帮助他们计划适当的保障措施。这个社区嵌入式研究项目将研究两个典型的，计划在丹佛科罗拉多建成环境破坏：中央70项目和国家西部中心重建。在这个项目中提出的研究合作是与三个受影响的环境正义社区：Globeville，Elyria-Swansea和科尔。该奖项由居民、当地社区组织、政府机构和科罗拉多大学计算机科学、空气质量工程、社会学和工程教育专业的教师组成。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Major construction projects across the U.S. can have heavy impacts on communities that can last decades. These projects can generate noise and air pollution, disrupt traffic, and affect individual and community health and social structure. Environmental justice communities, or communities with large numbers of minority and/or low-income households, are disproportionately subject to negative health and environmental effects. This project partners with three environmental justice communities in Denver, Colorado to understand and help mitigate disruption caused by two major projects, including a highway reconstruction project and related neighborhood redevelopment. This effort will create a socio-technical system that equips community members with environmental sensors to monitor their personal environment (air and noise pollution) and a set of smartphone apps to report their individual wellbeing and social relations. The data reported through the sociotechnical system will allow us to 1) understand how community members are affected by planned environmental disruptions, 2) mitigate negative impacts of future planned disruptions, and 3) connect policymakers to data generated by citizens within local communities. By providing communities access to data with smart and connected cutting-edge tools and the ability to interact with these tools, the project aims to improve community members’ personal environment, wellbeing, and social relations, while enabling evidence-based responses to community members’ experiences and informing policy and decision makers in real-time.The project’s overarching goal is to improve the quality of life within environmental justice communities that are impacted by planned, major built environment disruptions, such as the construction of new highways and infrastructure projects. To meet this goal, a socio-technical system (STS) composed of environment sensors, smartphone platforms, and a data analytics server equipped with predictive modeling and visualization is being designed and integrated into communities in order to: 1) understand how individuals’ personal environment (air and noise pollution), wellbeing, and social relations is affected by a planned disruption; 2) mitigate negative impacts of a planned disruption; and 3) equip policy and decision makers with predictive information about potential negative impacts of upcoming disruptions to help them plan appropriate safeguards. This community-embedded research project will study two prototypical, planned built environment disruptions in Denver Colorado: the Central 70 project and the National Western Center redevelopment. The research collaboration proposed in this project is with three affected environmental justice communities: Globeville, Elyria-Swansea, and Cole. It is a partnership of the residents, local community organizations, government entities, and University of Colorado faculty in computer science, air quality engineering, sociology, and engineering education.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.