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

该项目建立在来自伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校（UIUC）和当地香槟-厄巴纳社区的研究人员和利益相关者的高度跨学科和良好联系的团队基础上。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，障碍和机会。我们的调查将集中在社会科学问题上，例如如何最好地设计智能手机应用程序以减少暴力，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暴露自己的身份。该项目通过汇集工程师、社会和行为科学家以及社区合作伙伴--尚潘市政府--的团队，利用开源数字平台Rokwire智慧城市平台，研究智慧社区概念的创建和可扩展性，并建立对暴力的综合社区响应。Rokwire是一个开源的移动的软件平台，由智能健康社区开发，这是一个基于UIUC的跨学科计划。它是一个移动的生态系统，旨在成为未来智能社区的开源系统，将人和隐私放在首位，同时将多个数据流和传感器技术结合起来，并将这些信息集成到一个开源平台中。该项目建议与当地社区，特别是暴力犯罪率是全国平均水平两倍的尚潘市一起设计Rokwire的覆盖范围和功能，以在Rokwire中创建服务于社区减少暴力愿望的功能。我们的长期目标是将这一努力作为全国感兴趣社区的试验平台。规划补助金将设法及时解决社会科学和技术方面的研究问题。在社会科学方面，该项目将建立Rokwire，与尚潘市一起建立Rokwire的暴力报告、跟踪和干预能力，该能力将a）与社区投入一起设计，以评估尚潘的暴力发生率并减少暴力，以及B）与社区合作，调查并尽量减少意外后果（例如，种族貌相，指责受害者）与暴力报告技术。在技术方面，该项目将解决与社区和研究人员有关的紧迫问题，在保护个人隐私的同时提取有用和信息数据。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。

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.