SBIR Phase I: Smartwatch-powered tag games for improving vaccination awareness

SBIR 第一阶段：智能手表驱动的标签游戏，提高疫苗接种意识

• 批准号: 1621976
• 负责人: Nirit Glazer
• 金额: $ 22.5万
• 依托单位: SVN, Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-07-01 至 2017-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1621976&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Smartwatch; powered; tag

This SBIR Phase I project will develop attractive and stimulating educational activities to improve vaccination awareness and understanding. Scientific evidence shows that vaccines are effective in preventing infectious diseases such as influenza, a contagious respiratory illness. However, despite CDC's recommendation for universal influenza vaccination, fewer than 50% of all children in the US, and only 1 in 3 of African-American children, are vaccinated each year. The proposed activities are designed to educate kids and parents about the benefits of vaccinations, in order to increase the number of vaccinated children. Through a tag game and wearable devices, participants simulate transmission of influenza, and thereby better visualize the health risks of going unvaccinated. The long-term goal is to improve the health literacy of young students in a fun and exciting way. Educating children about health concepts promotes healthy behaviors, and leads families toward better health-related decisions. Improving health literacy, especially in a technology-oriented society, is key to developing a thriving population that can understand and use new information. The commercial outcome of the proposed SBIR project will lead to a marketable product that will be targeted toward hands-on museums and has both individual and societal benefits. The scalable educational technology in this project will engage children in modeling scientific phenomena in a fun and exciting way, while at the same time help them to better understand such phenomena. The system uses smartwatches for managing tag games that educate children about the benefits of vaccination against influenza. Each participant is assigned a health status, such as infectious, healthy, or immune, and then runs around to simulate the spread of the flu. Through these participation-based activities, students will develop better understandings of the underlying concepts of infectious disease transmission, community-level (herd) immunity, and disease outbreaks. Similar activities can be used to teach other scientific phenomena such as chemical reactions and phase changes. The project will evaluate the effectiveness of activities using systematic surveys producing feedback from participants. This work fills a market need for educational technology tools that provide powerful and memorable learning experiences that not only improve health literacy but also foster student interest and confidence in science and math. Educating children by exposing them to the sciences, especially in health-related areas, is essential to improving wellbeing, and aligns with NSF?s mission of promoting science education.

SBIR第一期项目将开展有吸引力和刺激性的教育活动，以提高对疫苗接种的认识和理解。科学证据表明，疫苗对预防传染性呼吸道疾病流感等传染病有效。然而，尽管疾病预防控制中心建议普遍接种流感疫苗，但每年接种疫苗的美国儿童不到50%，非洲裔美国儿童中只有三分之一。拟议的活动旨在教育儿童和家长接种疫苗的好处，以增加接种疫苗的儿童人数。通过标签游戏和可穿戴设备，参与者模拟流感的传播，从而更好地了解未接种疫苗的健康风险。长期目标是以有趣和令人兴奋的方式提高年轻学生的健康素养。对儿童进行健康概念教育可促进健康行为，并引导家庭做出更好的健康相关决定。提高卫生知识素养，特别是在以技术为导向的社会中，是培养能够理解和使用新信息的繁荣人口的关键。拟议的SBIR项目的商业成果将导致面向动手博物馆的可销售产品，并具有个人和社会效益。这个项目中可扩展的教育技术将以一种有趣和令人兴奋的方式让孩子们参与科学现象的建模，同时帮助他们更好地理解这些现象。该系统使用智能手表管理标签游戏，教育儿童接种流感疫苗的好处。每个参与者被分配一个健康状态，如感染、健康或免疫，然后跑来跑去模拟流感的传播。通过这些以参与为基础的活动，学生将更好地理解传染病传播、社区（群体）免疫和疾病暴发的基本概念。类似的活动可以用来教授其他科学现象，如化学反应和相变化。该项目将利用从参与者那里得到反馈的系统调查来评价活动的有效性。这项工作满足了市场对教育技术工具的需求，这些工具提供强大而难忘的学习体验，不仅可以提高卫生素养，还可以培养学生对科学和数学的兴趣和信心。通过让孩子接触科学来教育他们，特别是在与健康相关的领域，对于改善福祉至关重要，这与国家科学基金会的目标是一致的。美国推动科学教育的使命。