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

参与式传感中心将侧重于探索和促进新型参与式传感技术和系统的开发和使用，方法是让创建创新的参与式传感生态系统所需的各种行业伙伴参与进来。加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)和纽约大学(NYU)正在合作建立这个拟议的中心，加州大学洛杉矶分校是牵头机构。参与性感知是数据收集、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，客观地探索他们世界的有趣方面，从健康到文化。拟建的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。这是一个正在出现并正在迅速定义的新领域。该提案有三个相互关联的活动：(1)设计、开发、发展和传播通用软件体系结构，包括模块化、特定于应用程序的组件、发布的接口规范和参考实现；(2)仪表化的试点部署，以收集定量数据，识别技术瓶颈，并培育紧急应用机会；(3)行业合作伙伴参与，通过成员使用和贡献体系结构、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提供总体指导。对拟建中心的更广泛影响包括更多代表不足的群体的参与，以及在卫生、社区参与和教育方面开发参与性传感应用程序，以服务于不同的人口。该提案声称，参与式感知即将加入博客和社交网络的行列，成为一支重要的社交力量，因为它利用了手机的大规模渗透，越来越多地拥有先进的感知功能，这些功能始终处于开启状态，并伴随着所有者度过他们的生活背景。Twitter和Facebook被认为是最近兴起的参与式传感创新的例子。参与式感知可能是另一类影响消费者选择的移动到网络应用程序，并为设备制造商和服务提供商提供了一种在市场上差异化的手段。

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.