Sensing bodies: urban exposure and asthma in Delhi, India

空气污染是一个关乎健康、社会和环境的问题。呼吸受污染的空气可能会导致肺部问题或使其恶化。据估计，全世界有数百万人患有哮喘。然而，很难定义什么是空气污染，也很难确定它对健康的确切影响是什么。因此，在世界各地，有许多关于污染的研究。他们使用不同的方式试图收集有关污染的信息。这个项目是关于印度德里的一项空气污染研究，那里的污染水平很高，肺部问题也很严重，特别是对年轻人来说。空气污染研究涉及一项新技术：可以佩戴在身体上的传感器来测量污染。患有哮喘的16岁至18岁的年轻人将佩戴这些传感器，科学家们将研究这些传感器的发现，以找出不同地区的空气污染是如何不同的，以及随着时间的推移而发生的变化。这个拟议的项目涉及与年轻人和空气污染研究的科学家们合作。它将着眼于这项研究如何为理解暴露在空气污染中对健康的影响提供新的方法。该项目将考察佩戴这些传感器是什么感觉，以及科学家如何使用它们提供的信息。为了做到这一点，我们将与年轻人交谈，并在他们戴着传感器时带着他们在城市里走动。我们还将采访科学家，观察他们是如何进行研究的，以及他们对结果做了什么。我们还将使用小组研讨会。这些课程将探索佩戴这些身体佩戴的传感器的哮喘年轻人如何理解、体验和贡献有关空气污染和健康的科学知识。研究这项研究的参与者如何使用这些个人传感器将提供有关暴露的社会背景以及空气污染被视为(或不被视为)影响健康的方式的知识。这项研究还将提高人们对让人们参与空气污染研究的潜在社会和伦理挑战的认识。这项研究旨在通过研究这些传感器如何帮助我们更好地了解接触环境对健康的影响，以及由此可能产生的潜在风险和伦理问题，为涉及个人传感器的空气污染研究做出贡献。这将通过以下方式实现：i)在德里周围对戴着空气污染传感器的哮喘年轻人进行采访和步行采访。Ii)与一些患有哮喘的年轻人一起绘制地图，以了解他们在城市中走动时如何管理自己的哮喘。Iii)研究参与科学研究的青壮年和进行研究的科学家如何互动和交流。四)研究德里的研究如何被用来了解世界其他城市的空气污染。V)与在研究中使用这些传感器的科学家分享对年轻人的采访结果，以考虑其社会和伦理影响。六)在伦敦和德里向公众开放的展览中展示哮喘青年绘制的地图。该项目的研究成果将有助于制定有助于减少暴露于空气污染和改善健康的政策。目前对一些人暴露在不同程度的空气污染中，从而面临更高的健康问题风险的方式知之甚少。然而，已知的是，一些人比其他人更容易受到空气污染的威胁。这意味着社会并没有平等地分享空气污染对健康的影响。如果我们要帮助建设现在和未来保护公民健康的城市，就迫切需要了解人们如何使用城市，以及为什么一些人可能比其他人更容易受到污染的风险。

Air pollution is a problem for health, society and the environment. Breathing polluted air can cause lung problems or make them worse. It is estimated that millions of people worldwide suffer from asthma. Yet, it is difficult to define what air pollution is, or identify exactly what its effects on health are. Across the world, there therefore many studies addressing pollution. They use different ways of trying to gather information about pollution. This project is about an air pollution study in Delhi, India, where there are high levels of pollution, and high levels of lung problems, particularly for young people. The air pollution study involves a new technology: sensors which can be worn on the body to measure pollution. Young people aged between 16 and 18 who have asthma will be wearing these sensors, and scientists will be studying the findings from the sensors to find out how air pollution is different in different places and changes over time. This proposed project involves working with the young people and the scientists from the air pollution study. It will look at how this research is making new ways of understanding the health effects of exposure to air pollution. The project will look at what it is like to wear these sensors, and how scientists use the information they provide. To do this, we will talk to the young people, and walk around the city with them as they are wearing the sensors. We will also interview the scientists, and observe how they do the research and what they do with the results. We will also use group workshops. These will explore how young people with asthma who wear these bodily-worn sensors understand, experience and contribute to scientific knowledge about air pollution and health. Studying how participants in this research use these personal sensors will provide knowledge about the social contexts of exposure and the way in which air pollution is seen (or not) as affecting health. The research will also raise awareness of the potential societal and ethical challenges of involving people in research about air pollution. The research aims to contribute to air pollution research involving personal sensors by examining how these may help us better understand the health effects of exposure, but also the potential risks and ethical problems that may arise as a result. This will be achieved by: i) Conducting interviews and walking interviews around Delhi with young people with asthma wearing the air pollution sensors on their body. ii) Drawing maps with some of the young people with asthma to understand how they manage their asthma as they move around the city. iii) To study how the young adults participating in the scientific research and scientists conducting the research interact and communicate. iv) Examine how the research in Delhi can be used to understand air pollution in other cities around the world. v) Share the findings from the interviews with the young adults with the scientists using these sensors in their research to consider their social and ethical implications. vi) Present the drawn maps by the young adults with asthma in exhibitions open to the public in London and Delhi. The research findings of this project will contribute to the development of policies that can help reduce exposure to air pollution and improve health. There is currently little knowledge about the ways in which some people are exposed to different levels of air pollution and therefore at higher risk of health problems. What is known, however, is that some people are more at risk to air pollution than others. This means the health effects of air pollution are not equally shared by society. Generating knowledge about how people use cities and why some people may be more at risk to pollution than others is urgently needed if we are going to help build cities that protect their citizens' health now and in the future.