SCC-PG: Building Community Response to Violence through the Rokwire Smart City Platform

SCC-PG：通过 Rokwire 智慧城市平台建立社区对暴力的响应

• 批准号: 2125389
• 负责人: Sanjay Patel
• 金额: $ 14.99万
• 依托单位: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-10-01 至 2023-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2125389&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; PG; Building; Community; Response

This project builds upon a highly interdisciplinary and well-connected team of researchers and stakeholders from across the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and the local Champaign-Urbana community. Through a series of stakeholder meetings and community outreach, our team will explore and define challenges, barriers, and opportunities for deploying and modifying technology to address community violence. Our investigation will focus on social science issues, such as how best to design smartphone apps to reduce violence, as well as technological issues, such as how to assure data privacy so that users do not risk revealing their identities at any stage of the research and community activity process. This project investigates the creation and scalability of the smart community concept by bringing together a team of engineers, social and behavioral scientists, and a community partner - the municipal government of the City of Champaign - to leverage an open-source digital platform, the Rokwire Smart City Platform, and build an integrative community response to violence. Rokwire is an open-source mobile software platform developed by Smart, Healthy Communities, an interdisciplinary initiative based at UIUC. Designed to be the open-source system for tomorrow’s smart communities, it is a mobile ecosystem that puts people and privacy first while combining multiple streams of data and sensor technologies and integrating that information into a single, open-source platform. This project is proposing to design the coverage and functionality of Rokwire with the local community, and in particular, the City of Champaign, which has a violent crime rate of double the national average, to create functionalities in Rokwire that serve the community’s desire to reduce violence. Our long-term goal is to use this effort as a testbed for interested communities country-wide. The planning grant will seek to address timely research questions in the social science and technological dimensions. In the social science dimension, this project will build Rokwire to create, together with the City of Champaign, a violence reporting, tracking, and intervention capacity for Rokwire that will a) be designed with community input to evaluate the prevalence of, and reduce, violence in Champaign and b) work with the community to investigate and minimize unintended consequences (e.g., racial profiling, victim-blaming) associated with violence reporting technology. In the technological dimension, this project will address pressing questions relating to communities and researchers extracting useful and informative data while preserving individual privacy.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.

该项目建立在一个高度跨学科且人脉广泛的团队之上，该团队由来自伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校 (UIUC) 和当地厄巴纳-香槟社区的研究人员和利益相关者组成。通过一系列利益相关者会议和社区外展，我们的团队将探索和定义部署和修改技术以解决社区暴力的挑战、障碍和机遇。我们的调查将重点关注社会科学问题，例如如何最好地设计智能手机应用程序来减少暴力，以及技术问题，例如如何确保数据隐私，以便用户在研究和社区活动过程的任何阶段都不会冒暴露身份的风险。该项目通过汇集工程师、社会和行为科学家团队以及社区合作伙伴（香槟市政府）来研究智能社区概念的创建和可扩展性，利用开源数字平台 Rokwire 智能城市平台，建立针对暴力的综合社区应对措施。 Rokwire 是由 Smart, Healthy Communities 开发的开源移动软件平台，Smart, Healthy Communities 是 UIUC 的一个跨学科项目。它是一个移动生态系统，旨在成为未来智能社区的开源系统，将人和隐私放在首位，同时结合多个数据流和传感器技术，并将这些信息集成到一个开源平台中。该项目提议与当地社区，特别是暴力犯罪率是全国平均水平两倍的尚佩恩市一起设计 Rokwire 的覆盖范围和功能，以在 Rokwire 中创建满足社区减少暴力愿望的功能。我们的长期目标是利用这项工作作为全国范围内感兴趣的社区的测试平台。规划拨款将寻求解决社会科学和技术层面的及时研究问题。在社会科学层面，该项目将建立 Rokwire，与尚佩恩市一起，为 Rokwire 创建暴力报告、跟踪和干预能力，该能力将 a) 根据社区意见进行设计，以评估尚佩恩暴力的普遍程度并减少暴力；b) 与社区合作，调查并尽量减少与暴力报告技术相关的意外后果（例如，种族定性、指责受害者）。在技​​术层面，该项目将解决与社区和研究人员在保护个人隐私的同时提取有用和信息数据有关的紧迫问题。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。