SBIR Phase II: Making Makers- Developing Multiple Pathways to Invention through a Low Cost Maker Device

SBIR 第二阶段：创客——通过低成本创客设备开发多种发明途径

• 批准号: 1758663
• 负责人: Jay Silver
• 金额: $ 74.19万
• 依托单位: Joylabz LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-03-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1758663&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Making; Makers

This Small Business Innovation Research Phase II project will continually refine and move towards production of this project's Creative Maker Tool, an augmented reality experience where the act of playing is inherently inventing. The system uses modern technology to avoid digital screens. Throughout this experience, learners tap into their natural proclivities to make and shape ideas in the non-digital world, and develop the ability to fluently construct new ideas in a technical medium. The commercialization of this project will address two, nationally important issues. First, by scaffolding young learners through progressively bringing their ideas into reality, this project will foster creative confidence: the natural ability to come up with ideas and the courage to act on them. Next, there is a gender gap in innovation and entrepreneurship in the United States. Women patent at 40% the rate of men, only 9% of information technology related patents have one or more female inventors, and only 8% of the beneficiaries of incubators meant to commercialize innovations were women. This project will address gender equity issues in the maker community (currently 80% male) and by widening pathways to engage in making.The system is composed of a projection system that allows real-time programmable interactions between everyday and virtual objects without a computer screen. Throughout this research, we will create and refine STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics) Apps, which are built-in augmented activities where users create small inventions with everyday objects to code interactions and affect program flow or gameplay, develop Augmented Tutorials, bridge seamlessly to existing STEM tools through real-time interfacing, as well as manufacture and prepare the system.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.

这个小企业创新研究第二阶段项目将不断完善和走向生产这个项目的创意制造者工具，增强现实体验的行为是天生的发明。该系统使用现代技术来避免数字屏幕。在整个过程中，学习者利用他们在非数字世界中创造和塑造想法的自然倾向，并培养在技术媒介中流畅构建新想法的能力。该项目的商业化将解决两个全国性的重要问题。首先，通过逐步将他们的想法变为现实，这个项目将培养年轻学习者的创造性信心：提出想法的自然能力和采取行动的勇气。其次，美国在创新和创业方面存在性别差距。妇女申请专利的比例是男子的40%，只有9%的信息技术相关专利有一名或多名女性发明人，只有8%的旨在将创新商业化的孵化器受益人是妇女。该项目将解决创客社区（目前80%为男性）中的性别平等问题，并拓宽参与制作的途径。该系统由一个投影系统组成，可以在没有计算机屏幕的情况下实现日常和虚拟对象之间的实时可编程交互。在整个研究过程中，我们将创建和完善STEM（科学技术工程和数学）应用程序，这是内置的增强活动，用户可以使用日常物品创建小发明来编码交互并影响程序流程或游戏玩法，开发增强Tuesday，通过实时接口无缝连接到现有的STEM工具，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。