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Socio-Technical Systems
A socio-technical
system refers to the interrelatedness of social and technical aspects
of a community. This interaction of social and technical factors
creates the conditions that are beneficial to the community. Communities in
the US and around the world are entering a new era of transformation in
which residents and their surrounding environments are increasingly
connected through rapidly-changing intelligent
technologies. Our research is centered on exploiting this intelligent
technology now accessible to the end users to improve their health and
well-being. In particular, we are focusing on
environmental justice communities faced with planned built environment
disruptions.
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Contact: mishras at cs dot colorado dot edu +1 303-492-4686 Links IUCRC: Pervasive Personalized Intelligence The Colorado Research Center for Democracy and Technology The CU CyberSafety Research Center Department of Computer Science University of Colorado Boulder
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Empowering Environmental Justice Communities with Smart and Connected Technology: Air and Noise Pollution, Wellbeing, and Social Relations in Times of Disruption
The goal of this project is to build a socio-technical system comprised of environment sensors, smartphone platforms, and a data analytics server equipped with predictive modeling and visualization to 1) understand the personal environment (air and noise pollution), individual wellbeing, and social relations of environmental justice communities affected by a major planned disruption in their built environment, 2) mitigate negative impacts of a planned disruption, and 3) equip policy and decision makers with information in advance about potential negative impacts of upcoming disruptions to help them plan appropriate safeguards.
This project will study two planned built environment disruptions in Denver, the C70 project and the NWC redevelopment. The Central 70 project (C70) is a 10-mile stretch of the I-70 interstate through northeast Denver where the interstate is being widened, an underground viaduct removed, and a section lowered. The National Western Center (NWC) redevelopment is doubling the complex footprint and land acquisition. The three affected environmental justice communities, Globeville, Elyria-Swansea, and Cole have a long legacy of environmental contamination. This project is a partnership of the residents, local community organizations, government entities, and three University of Colorado faculty from computer science, air quality engineering and sociology departments. By providing communities access to data with smart and connected cutting-edge tools and the ability to interact with these tools, the project aims to improve community members personal environment, wellbeing, and social relations while enabling evidence-based responses to community members experiences and informing policy and decision makers in real-time.
Recent Publications O. Hammad, Md. R. Rahman, G. Kanugo,
N. Clements, S. Miller, S. Mishra and E. Sullivan. PureConnect: A Localized Social Media System to
Increase Awareness and Connectedness in Environmental Justice Communities.
The 11th Multidisciplinary International Social Networks Conference (MISNC
2024), Bali, Indonesia. To appear.
O. Hammad, Md. R. Rahman, N. Clements, S. Mishra, S. Miller and
E. Sullivan. PureNav: A Personalized
Navigation Service for Environmental Justice Communities Impacted by Planned
Disruptions. The 2023 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in
Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2023), November 2023.
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