SBIR Phase I: A Computerized Test Battery to Evaluate Workplace Stresses

9861127这个小企业创新研究第一阶段项目从RSK评估，公司。将开发一个计算机化的电池，以评估不同压力源环境（包括有毒环境）对工人的影响，以及对人类表现和人类福祉的影响。 当前测试电池的一个限制是，当在不同硬件上实现时，在相同的测试电池上可能获得不同的结果。 当前提案的目标之一是消除不同接口之间的这种可变性。 该项目将需要开发更新的软件系统（例如，Windows），并在几个现代系统（桌面、笔记本电脑、掌上电脑等）上进行了测试。这将允许关于心理可比性（因素结构、平均值和标准差等）的满意答案。在不同的系统上进行测试。 基于RSK Assessments的认知电池，该电池可靠，稳定且对各种代理敏感，该公司将扩大该电池，以包括视觉和心理测试，并以现代语言对其进行编程，以便轻松地将原始数据转换为分析。 第一阶段的研究需要对这些电池进行重新编程，在分级剂量的酒精下将它们用于大样本，以评估灵敏度和其他指标，并检查设备差异。该项目提供了一个敏感的，可销售的计算机化评估电池，它对多个认知领域进行采样，对军事和商业社区具有广泛的价值，其中对人的表现能力的监测是重要的。

9861127 This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project from RSK Assessments, Inc. will develop a computerized battery to assess effects on workers of different stressor environments, including toxic ones, on human performance and human well being. One limitation of current test batteries has been that different results may be obtained on the same test battery when it is implemented on different hardware. One of the goals of the current proposal is to eliminate such variability across different interfaces. The project will need to develop newer software systems (e.g., Windows), with tests implemented on several modern systems (desk top, lap top, palm top, etc.) which will permit satisfactory answers regarding psychological comparability (factor structure, means and standard deviations, etc.) of tests on different systems. Building on RSK Assessments' cognitive battery which is reliable, stable and sensitive to various agents, the firm will broaden that battery to include visual and psychomotor tests and program it in a modern language in order to permit easy translation from raw data to analysis. The Phase I research entails reprogramming these batteries, administering them to a large sample under graded dosages of alcohol in order to evaluate sensitivity and other metrics, and examining equipment differences. This project proffers a sensitive, marketable computerized assessment battery which samples multiple cognitive domains and that has wide value for the military and commercial communities in which the monitoring of human performance capabilities is important.