Award Abstract # 2133391
SCC-CIVIC-FA Track B: CaReDeX: Enabling Disaster Resilience in Aging Communities via a Secure Data Exchange

NSF Org: CNS
Division Of Computer and Network Systems
Recipient: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE
Initial Amendment Date: September 16, 2021
Latest Amendment Date: June 21, 2022
Award Number: 2133391
Award Instrument: Standard Grant
Program Manager: David Corman
dcorman@nsf.gov
 (703)292-8754
CNS
 Division Of Computer and Network Systems
CSE
 Direct For Computer & Info Scie & Enginr
Start Date: October 1, 2021
End Date: March 31, 2025 (Estimated)
Total Intended Award Amount: $999,997.00
Total Awarded Amount to Date: $1,199,996.00
Funds Obligated to Date: FY 2021 = $999,997.00
FY 2022 = $199,999.00
History of Investigator:
  • Nalini Venkatasubramanian (Principal Investigator)
    nalini@ics.uci.edu
  • Nikil Dutt (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • LIsa Gibbs (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Sharad Mehrotra (Co-Principal Investigator)
  • Julie Rousseau (Co-Principal Investigator)
Recipient Sponsored Research Office: University of California-Irvine
160 ALDRICH HALL
IRVINE
CA  US  92697-0001
(949)824-7295
Sponsor Congressional District: 47
Primary Place of Performance: University of California, Irvine -Department of Computer Science
2086 Donald Bren Hall UC Irvine
Irvine
CA  US  92617-3213
Primary Place of Performance
Congressional District:
47
Unique Entity Identifier (UEI): MJC5FCYQTPE6
Parent UEI:
NSF Program(s): S&CC: Smart & Connected Commun,
CPS-Cyber-Physical Systems
Primary Program Source: 01002223DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
01002021RB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002122RB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT

01002122DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT
Program Reference Code(s): 042Z
Program Element Code(s): 033Y, 7918, U353, V259
Award Agency Code: 4900
Fund Agency Code: 4900
Assistance Listing Number(s): 47.070

ABSTRACT

Disasters disproportionately impact older adults who experience increased fatality rates; such individuals often live in age-friendly communities and senior health facilities (SHFs). During a crisis, older adults are often unable to shelter safely in place or self-evacuate due to a range of physical conditions (need for life-sustaining equipment, impaired mobility) and cognitive afflictions (e.g. dementia, Alzheimer?s). First responders assisting older adults could benefit from seamless, real-time access to critical life-saving information about the living facilities (e.g., floor plans, operational status, number of residents) and about individual residents (e.g., health conditions such as need for dialysis, oxygen, personal objects to reduce anxiety). Such information, siloed within organizational logs or held by caregivers, is inaccessible and/or unavailable at the time of response. This interdisciplinary project brings together IT, geriatrics and resilience experts with disaster-response agencies and SHF providers to create information preparedness and transform disaster resilience for older adults.

The team will design, develop and deploy CareDEX, a novel community contributed data-exchange platform, that empowers SHFs to readily assimilate, ingest, store and exchange information, both apriori and in real-time, with response agencies to care for older adults in extreme events. The CareDEX information pipeline enables SHFs to capture individual information about changing health conditions and personalized needs and share them with responders to help improve response. Information co-produced with civic partners will identify and refine resident-specific data via tools for proactive collection/update. Given the sensitive nature of personal information, e.g., health-profiles, CareDEX will incorporate policy-based information sharing mechanisms that balance needs for individual privacy with authorized information release. CareDEX?s hybrid-cloud architecture seamlessly enables data to be securely stored on-premise (at SHF) and in the cloud for remote access by responders and temporary caregivers. Relocation of older adults requires regional information (e.g. road-conditions, facility status) - CareDEX will integrate GIS tools to provide first-responders with uptodate region-level situational awareness for dynamic decision-support. The prototype CareDEX platform will be co-developed with core civic partners, e.g. Front Porch (a nation-wide senior-care provider) and deployed at a SHF in Anaheim, CA. Collaborations with local response agencies (Los Angeles, Orange County, San Bernardino, San Diego) and national entities (FEMA, Red Cross, NFPA/FPRF) will mesh needs of emergency responders with caregivers. CareDEX will be evaluated using diverse scenarios - a wildfire event triggering relocation, wildfires coupled with a pandemic, and rapid onset earthquake events with small warning times and increased uncertainty.

The CIVIC Innovation Challenge is a collaboration with Department of Energy, Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), and the National Science Foundation

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.

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Bhope, Rahul Atul and Jayaram, K. R. and Venkatasubramanian, Nalini and Verma, Ashish and Thomas, Gegi "FLIPS: Federated Learning using Intelligent Participant Selection" , 2023 https://doi.org/10.1145/3590140.3629123 Citation Details
Aaron Allred, Alfonso Arauz "TESTING CAREDEX: SAGAT METHODOLOGY DEPLOYED FOR A DISASTER DRILL AT A SENIOR LIVING COMMUNITY" Issues In Information Systems , 2023 https://doi.org/10.48009/1_iis_2023_101 Citation Details
Sharma, Shantanu and Mehrotra, Sharad and Panwar, Nisha and Venkatasubramanian, Nalini and Gupta, Peeyush and Han, Shanshan and Wang, Guoxi "QUEST: Privacy-Preserving Monitoring of Network Data" IEEE World Congress on Services (SERVICES), 2022. , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1109/SERVICES55459.2022.00034 Citation Details
Sharma, Shantanu and Mehrotra, Sharad and Panwar, Nisha and Venkatasubramanian, Nalini and Gupta, Peeyush and Han, Shanshan and Wang, Guoxi "Quest: Privacy-Preserving Monitoring of Network Data: A System for Organizational Response to Pandemics" IEEE Transactions on Services Computing , v.15 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1109/TSC.2022.3166802 Citation Details
Chio, Andrew and Jiang, Daokun and Gupta, Peeyush and Bouloukakis, Georgios and Yus, Roberto and Mehrotra, Sharad and Venkatasubramanian, Nalini "SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-driven Simulations" 2022 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom) , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1109/PerCom53586.2022.9762405 Citation Details
Yus, Roberto and Bouloukakis, Georgios and Mehrotra, Sharad and Venkatasubramanian, Nalini "The SemIoTic Ecosystem: A Semantic Bridge between IoT Devices and Smart Spaces" ACM Transactions on Internet Technology , v.22 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1145/3527241 Citation Details
Chio, Andrew and Jiang, Daokun and Gupta, Peeyush and Bouloukakis, Georgios and Yus, Roberto and Mehrotra, Sharad and Venkatasubramanian, Nalini "Artifact: SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-driven Simulations" IEEE PERCOM 2022 , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1109/PerComWorkshops53856.2022.9767264 Citation Details
Allred, Aaron L. and Boomershine, Erin M. and Davison, Christopher B. and Wimmer, Jayci L. and Penney, Celeste and Rousseau, Julie and Venkatasubramanian, Nalini "Analyzing Student Experiences and Career Pathways for Healthcare Student Volunteers Participating in a Disaster Response Drill: A Mixed-Methods Study" CTE Journal , v.11 , 2023 Citation Details
Gupta, Peeyush and Mehrotra, Sharad and Sharma, Shantanu and Yus, Roberto and Venkatasubramanian, Nalini "Sentaur: Sensor Observable Data Model for Smart Spaces" 31st ACM Int?l Conference on Information and Knowledge Management , 2022 https://doi.org/10.1145/3511808.3557147 Citation Details

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