IUCRC Collaborative Research Planning Grant: I/UCRC for Participatory Sensing

参与式传感中心将专注于探索和促进新型参与式传感技术和系统的开发和使用，通过吸引不同的行业合作伙伴来创建一个创新的参与式传感生态系统。加州大学洛杉矶分校（UCLA）和纽约大学（NYU）正在合作建立拟议中的中心，UCLA是牵头机构。参与式感知是数据收集、解释和参与的过程，在这个过程中，个人（单独或集体行动）使用他们的个人移动设备、网络服务、云计算和社交网络，客观地探索他们的世界中有趣的方面，从健康到文化。该中心将开发与参与式传感平台和试点相关的系统架构、算法、机制和数据集。这是一个新兴的领域，正在迅速被定义。该提案有三个相互关联的活动：(1)设计、开发、演变和传播一个通用的软件体系结构，包括模块化的、特定于应用程序的组件、发布的接口规范和参考实现；(2)仪器化试点部署，收集定量数据，识别技术瓶颈，培育新兴应用机会；(3)通过行业合作伙伴的参与，成员使用和贡献，架构，特定组件，和新颖的试点，以及通过行业咨询委员会对研究计划的总体指导。对拟议中心的更广泛影响包括增加代表性不足群体的参与，以及在保健、社区参与和教育方面发展参与式传感应用，为不同人口服务。该提案声称，参与式感知已准备好加入博客和社交网络，成为一股重要的社会力量，因为它利用了手机的大规模渗透，越来越多的先进感知功能始终处于开启状态，并伴随着用户的生活环境。Twitter和Facebook是最近兴起的参与式传感创新的例子。参与式传感可以成为影响消费者选择的另一类移动到网络的应用程序，并为设备制造商和服务提供商在市场上提供差异化的手段。

The Center for Participatory Sensing will focus on exploring and promoting the development and the use of novel Participatory Sensing technologies and systems by engaging the diversity of industry partners needed to create an innovative Participatory Sensing ecosystem. University of California-Los Angeles (UCLA) and the New York University (NYU) are collaborating to establish the proposed center, with UCLA as the lead institution. Participatory Sensing is the process of data collection, interpretation and engagement in which individuals (acting alone or in groups) use their personal mobile devices, web services, cloud computing, and social networking, to objectively explore interesting aspects of their worlds, ranging from health to culture. The proposed center will develop systems architectures, algorithms, mechanisms, and data sets associated with Participatory Sensing platforms and pilots. This is a new field that is emerging and being defined rapidly. The proposal has three interrelated activities: (1) design, development, evolution, and dissemination of a common software architecture with modular, application-specific components, published interface specifications, and reference implementations; (2) instrumented pilot deployments to gather quantitative data, identify technology bottlenecks, and foster emergent application opportunities; and (3) industry partner engagement through, member use of, and contribution to, the architecture, specific components, and novel pilots, as well as overall guidance to the research program though the industrial advisory board. The broader impacts for the proposed center include increasing participation of underrepresented groups and development of participatory sensing applications in health, community engagement, and education that serve diverse populations. The proposal claims that Participatory Sensing is poised to join blogging and social networking as a significant social force because it capitalizes on the massive penetration of mobile phones, increasingly with advanced sensing capabilities that are always on and accompany their owners through the context of their lives. Twitter and Facebook are cited as examples of participatory sensing innovation that have taken off recently. Participatory Sensing can be another class of mobile-to-web applications that influences consumer choice and offers a means of differentiation in the market for makers of devices and service providers.