CRII: CHS: Exploring IoT Data Transparency in the Home through Creative Data Representations

该项目旨在与艺术家和其他公民合作，为联网设备如何在家中工作产生新的想法。这些连接的设备被称为物联网（IoT）。从婴儿监视器到门锁，物联网将计算和交互工件连接起来，以自动化涉及温度、照明和安全等服务，以支持日常活动。这产生了在家中收集的大量数据。虽然家庭居民可能会从物联网服务中受益，但公民需要更好的透明度：收集哪些数据，如何以及在何处存储数据，与谁共享数据，以及如何分析和使用数据，以及隐私问题。该项目有望通过开辟新的途径使家庭居民能够理解和参与他们的数据，从而使物联网更加开放，负责任，道德和健康，从而造福社会。这有可能广泛影响数据透明度和隐私，而这些问题在人类对计算系统的体验中至关重要。通过将艺术和STEM学科相结合，这项工作也有望引起代表性不足的社区的兴趣，例如，这项研究将通过设计研究作为一种方法，通过创造性的表现，让人们参与自己的物联网数据，开发隐私和透明度的新技术。为了超越当前的数据可视化实践，研究人员将与艺术家合作，创建将国内数据日志转换为（a）陶瓷打印的3D数据实体化和（B）短篇小说形式的数据叙述的表示。印刷陶瓷将建立在这样一个事实上，即触摸和操纵数据可以是一种生成意义的活动。短篇小说将利用人们通过数据叙事理解复杂和抽象概念的方式。随着家庭居民的数据被转换为这些新的表示，研究小组将研究它们如何引发对家庭数据的新理解和思考。预期贡献包括产生新颖的创造性数据表示和设计影响，有助于人们与家中物联网数据的形式和功能的关系的透明度和隐私。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 for engaging with artists and other citizens to generate new ideas for how network-connected devices can work in the home. These connected devices are called the Internet of Things (IoT). From baby monitors to door locks, the IoT connects computational and interactive artifacts to automate services like involving temperature, lighting, and security, to support everyday activities. This produces large amounts of data collected in the home. While home dwellers may benefit from IoT services, citizens need better transparency regarding: what data are collected, how and where they are stored, who they are shared with, and how they are analyzed and used, in conjunction with privacy concerns. This project holds promise for benefitting society by opening new avenues for empowering home dwellers to understand and engage with their data, contributing to making the IoT more open, responsible, ethical, and healthy. This has the potential to broadly impact data transparency and privacy, at a time when these concerns are paramount across human experiences of computing systems. By combining Arts and STEM disciplines, this work is also expected to generate interest in underrepresented communities, e.g., women and students in the Arts and Humanities.This research will use research through design as a method to develop new techniques for privacy and transparency by engaging people with their own IoT data, through creative representations. To go beyond current data visualization practices, the researchers will collaborate with artists to create representations translating domestic data logs into (a) 3D data materializations printed in ceramic, and (b) data narratives in the form of short stories. Printed ceramics will build on the fact that touching and manipulating data can be a generative sensemaking activity. Short stories will capitalize on the ways people understand complex and abstract concepts through data narratives. As home dwellers’ data are transformed into these new representations, the research team will study how they provoke new understandings and reflections around data in the home. Expected contributions involve generating novel creative data representations and design implications that contribute to transparency and privacy in people’s relationships with the forms and functions of IoT data in the home.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.