CHS: Medium: Understanding and Improving the Social Impact of High-Bandwidth Farm Networking Infrastructure

CHS：中：了解和改善高带宽农场网络基础设施的社会影响

• 批准号: 1955125
• 负责人: Phoebe Sengers
• 金额: $ 120万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1955125&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CHS; Medium; Understanding; Improving; Social

The goals of this project are to (1) investigate the potential social impact of ubiquitous, low-cost, high-bandwidth communication infrastructure on America's farms, and (2) develop options for improving the social impact of these technologies. New networking solutions to support high-bandwidth on-farm data communication will enable the collection of massive amounts of sensor data, its transmission to the cloud or other servers, and its processing and use for agricultural decision-making. These shifts stand poised to transform agricultural production and economic organization. This project will pursue values in design research into next generation network solutions for agriculture, as well as empirical research with agricultural stakeholders currently engaging information-rich approaches to farm management. The project will integrate concerns of agribusiness stakeholders into the early stages of on-farm networking development; foster informed discussion among technical, agricultural, and policy stakeholders about the potential social impact of this technology; and develop and disseminate practical policy and design options to improve the social impact of on-farm networking. It will support the training of students from underrepresented groups in research through summer research workshops in networking, design for social impact, and the futures of digital agriculture.The research adapts techniques to integrate societal considerations in the early stages of technology design, in order to manage the specific challenges that come up in addressing the social impact of infrastructure. The project will (1) use ethnographic participant-observation in the development of farm networking technology and collaboration with technical partners to identify moments where technical decisions could be associated with social impact challenges; (2) conduct fieldwork with agricultural stakeholders to analyze how existing infrastructures incorporating analogous technologies are shaping and shaped by emerging social practices to create specific impacts; (3) develop future design scenarios that flesh out and concretize potential relationships between technological decisions, future policies and organizational practices, and the resulting benefits and drawbacks; and (4) use these scenarios to collaboratively identify specific technical, organizational, and policy options that could improve the benefits or reduce the drawbacks of on-farm high-bandwidth communication technologies.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.

该项目的目标是：(1)调查美国农场无处不在、低成本、高带宽通信基础设施的潜在社会影响，(2)为改善这些技术的社会影响制定方案。支持高带宽农场数据通信的新网络解决方案将能够收集大量传感器数据，将其传输到云或其他服务器，并对其进行处理和用于农业决策。这些变化将改变农业生产和经济组织。该项目将追求下一代农业网络解决方案的设计研究价值，以及与目前采用信息丰富的农场管理方法的农业利益相关者进行实证研究。该项目将把农业综合企业利益相关者的关切纳入农场网络发展的早期阶段；促进技术、农业和政策利益攸关方就该技术的潜在社会影响进行知情讨论；制定和传播切实可行的政策和设计方案，以改善农场网络的社会影响。它将通过网络、社会影响设计和数字农业未来的夏季研究研讨会，支持对代表性不足群体的学生进行研究培训。该研究采用技术，在技术设计的早期阶段整合社会因素，以应对在解决基础设施的社会影响时出现的具体挑战。该项目将(1)在农场网络技术的发展过程中使用人种学参与者观察，并与技术伙伴合作，以确定技术决策可能与社会影响挑战相关的时刻；(2)与农业利益相关者进行实地考察，分析纳入类似技术的现有基础设施如何形成，以及新兴社会实践如何形成具体影响；(3)制定未来的设计方案，充实和具体化技术决策、未来政策和组织实践之间的潜在关系，以及由此产生的利弊；(4)使用这些场景来协同识别特定的技术、组织和政策选项，这些选项可以提高农场高带宽通信技术的优势或减少其缺点。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

项目成果

Seamless Visions, Seamful Realities: Anticipating Rural Infrastructural Fragility in Early Design of Digital Agriculture

无缝的愿景，无缝的现实：在数字农业的早期设计中预见到农村基础设施的脆弱性

• DOI: 10.1145/3491102.3517579
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: CHI '22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
• 作者: Rubambiza, Gloire;Sengers, Phoebe;Weatherspoon, Hakim
• 通讯作者: Weatherspoon, Hakim

Roam: A Decision Support System for Software-Defined Farms

Roam：软件定义农场的决策支持系统

• DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.4314567
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: SSRN Electronic Journal
• 作者: Chin, Shiang;Rubambiza, Gloire;Malek, Keyvan;Zhao, Yifan;Weatherspoon, Hakim
• 通讯作者: Weatherspoon, Hakim

Comosum: An Extensible, Reconfigurable, and Fault-Tolerant IoT Platform for Digital Agriculture

• 发表时间: 2023
• 作者: Gloire Rubambiza;Shiang-Wan Chin;Mueed Rehman;Sachille Atapattu;José-Fernán Martínez;Hakim Weatherspoon

Toward Cloud‐Native, Machine Learning Base Detection of Crop Disease With Imaging Spectroscopy

• DOI: 10.1029/2022jg007342
• 发表时间: 2023-05
• 期刊: Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences
• 作者: Gloire Rubambiza;Fernando Romero Galvan;R. Pavlick;Hakim Weatherspoon;K. Gold

EdgeRDV: A Framework for Edge Workload Management at Scale

• DOI: 10.1109/edge60047.2023.00051
• 发表时间: 2023-07
• 期刊: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing and Communications (EDGE)
• 作者: Gloire Rubambiza;Braulio Dumba;Andrew J. Anderson;Hakim Weatherspoon