CI-P: Collaborative Research: HomeSHARE - Home-based Smart Health Applications across Research Environments

该奖项支持“跨研究环境的基于家庭的智能健康应用程序”（HomeSHARE）测试床的规划，旨在成为一个地理分布的现场测试床，以设计，开发和评估普遍的基于家庭的技术。为了满足日益增长的支持人口老龄化的社会需求，研究人员继续创建创新的家庭系统，以支持老年人在家养老。然而，研究人员发现很难评估系统的普遍有用性，因为它们缺乏资源，无法接触到不同的人群和研究基础设施。这项计划资助的工作将确定下一步发展一个强大的基础设施，以支持在这一领域更好的研究，最终导致更好的家庭为基础的系统，为老龄化的地方。具体来说，这项计划资助的研究目标是确定各种CISE研究社区的需求，为HomeSHARE测试平台方面的硬件，软件，数据共享和协调机制。PI将与研究人员合作，以更好地了解标准的基线HomeSHARE安装所需的技术，在特定项目的拟议基线包之外可能需要哪些技术，应该采取哪些流程将技术添加到家庭子集，以及PI如何使每个HomeSHARE站点尽可能自给自足和易于维护。为了确定和验证这些要求，PI将在普及医疗保健，无处不在的计算，人机交互，软件工程，机器学习，隐私增强技术和老年学的顶级会议上举办研讨会，以确定研究社区的需求，并与每个领域的专家合作以确认结果。除了提出100个家庭的初始测试床外，PI将解决随着时间的推移维持这样一个测试平台的问题，以及在未来发展最初的HomeSHARE测试平台。HomeSHARE将借鉴业界和学术界的最佳实践，以确保研究人员能够轻松利用测试平台，并共享结果以进行复制和进一步分析。该奖项支持为单一目标领域规划HomeSHARE，即就地老化，以允许在多个研究中招募参与者时使用共同的共享参数，但这个试验台的创建将告知其他CISE家庭-HomeSHARE计划活动的更广泛影响包括为研究人员提供专业发展机会，他们参加HomeSHARE规划研讨会，并与老年学研究社区进行跨学科的外联。如果实施，HomeSHARE测试平台本身将通过支持下一代老年人的发展系统产生积极的社会影响，从而提高老年人参与者的生活质量。支持的研究有进一步的潜力，以提高医疗保健的经济竞争力，通过提供具有现实世界影响的研究机会，吸引代表性不足的群体的成员，增加STEM劳动力的多样性，并提供创新的跨学科教育机会。

This award supports planning for the "Home-based Smart Health Applications across Research Environments" (HomeSHARE) test bed, intended to be a geographically-distributed, in-situ test bed to design, develop, and evaluate pervasive home-based technologies. Addressing the growing societal need to support an aging population, researchers continue to create innovative home-based systems to support older adults as they age in-place. However, researchers find it hard to assess how generally useful systems will be because they lack resources, access to diverse populations and research infrastructure. The work supported by this award will identify the next steps to developing a robust infrastructure to support better research in this area, leading eventually to better home-based systems for aging in place.Specifically, the research objectives of this planning grant are to identify the needs of various CISE research communities for a HomeSHARE testbed with respect to hardware, software, data sharing and coordination mechanisms. The PIs will work with researchers to better understand what technologies are required for a standard, baseline HomeSHARE installation, what technologies may be needed beyond the proposed baseline package for specific projects, what processes should be in place to add technologies to a subset of homes, and how the PIs can make each HomeSHARE site as self-sufficient and easy to maintain as possible. To determine and validate these requirements, the PIs will facilitate workshops at top conferences in pervasive healthcare, ubiquitous computing, human-computer interaction, software engineering, machine learning, privacy-enhanced technologies, and gerontology to identify research community needs and work with experts in each domain to confirm findings.In addition to proposing an initial test bed of 100 homes, the PIs will address the issues around sustaining such a test bed over time, as well as growing the initial HomeSHARE test bed in the future. HomeSHARE will be informed by best practices in industry and academia to ensure that researchers can easily utilize the test bed and results can be shared for replication and further analysis. This award supports planning HomeSHARE for a single target domain, aging-in-place, to allow for common, shared parameters for the recruitment of participants across multiple research studies, but the creation of this test bed will inform other CISE home-based research efforts and accelerate the pace of discoveries and their implementation as well.The broader impacts of the HomeSHARE planning activity include professional development opportunities for researchers who take part in HomeSHARE planning workshops, and cross-disciplinary outreach to gerontology research communities. If implemented, the HomeSHARE test bed itself will have a positive societal impact by supporting development systems for the next generation of older adults to age in place, thus improving the quality of life for older adult participants. The supported research has the further potential to increase economic competitiveness for health care, to increase diversity of the STEM workforce by attracting members of underrepresented groups by providing research opportunities with real-world impacts, and to provide innovative interdisciplinary educational opportunities.