NRT-FW-HTF: Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering (NISE)

NRT-FW-HTF：神经多样性启发的科学与工程 (NISE)

• 批准号: 1922697
• 负责人: Keivan Stassun
• 金额: $ 299.98万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1922697&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; FW; HTF; Neurodiversity; Inspired

Neurodiversity is an emerging concept through which certain neurological differences - Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyslexia, and others - are considered a natural part of human neurocognitive variation, associated not only with impairments but also with unique strengths. Indeed, many neurodiverse people have capabilities that are in high demand across many sectors, yet their potential remains vastly underutilized. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to Vanderbilt University will address this potential by training graduate students in a new interdisciplinary field of Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering (NISE), which links human-technology frontiers (HTF) research and education across STEM disciplines through a cohesive focus on autism. The project anticipates providing a unique and comprehensive training opportunity for one hundred fifty (150) MS and PhD students, including forty-five (45) funded trainees, from computer science, mechanical engineering, data science, psychology, organizational science, and neuroscience. Students will engage in research that has as its goals: (i) understanding the unique capabilities associated with autism and learning to match these capabilities to 21st-century workforce needs, (ii) prototyping assistive technologies to enable employment and workplace success, and (iii) exploring organizational practices that help leverage the talents of autistic individuals and enhance organizational innovation.The NISE NRT project seeks to train a new type of engineer and scientist, one who can devise innovations that support workforce engagement of individuals with autism and/or that are inspired by autistic capabilities. Building on the strengths of Vanderbilt's new Frist Center for Autism & Innovation, this NRT project will engage trainees in the development, deployment, and commercialization of HTF approaches and devices, providing broadly applicable skills in artificial intelligence, data science, robotics, virtual reality, and inclusive design. Collaboration with practitioners in clinical psychology, special education, and business, will ensure relevance of trainees' projects to the clinical, educational, and/or commercial domains. Trainees will participate in the Vanderbilt NSF I-Corps program as well as invention disclosure and patents. Research projects will also impact K-12 students and teachers in the communities where NRT trainees conduct their work. A central part of the program's plan to recruit, mentor, and advance women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities is the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program, a national exemplar in STEM graduate diversity. Trainees will undertake, in addition to their regular graduate program requirements, a common core of three new NISE courses, summer school, workshops, and internships, culminating in a graduate certificate in NISE. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.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.

神经多样性是一个新兴的概念，通过这个概念，某些神经差异--自闭症、注意缺陷多动障碍、阅读障碍等--被认为是人类神经认知变异的自然组成部分，不仅与障碍有关，而且与独特的优势有关。事实上，许多不同神经的人拥有在许多行业都有很高需求的能力，但他们的潜力仍然远远没有得到充分利用。授予范德比尔特大学的国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)奖将通过培训研究生在神经多样性启发的科学与工程(NISE)这一新的跨学科领域发挥这一潜力，NISE通过集中关注自闭症，将人类技术前沿(HTF)研究和教育联系起来。该项目预计将为150(150)名MS和博士生提供独特和全面的培训机会，其中包括来自计算机科学、机械工程、数据科学、心理学、组织科学和神经科学的45(45)名资助学员。学生将从事的研究目标是：(I)了解与自闭症相关的独特能力，并学习将这些能力与21世纪的劳动力需求相匹配，(Ii)建立辅助技术的原型，以实现就业和工作场所的成功，以及(Iii)探索有助于利用自闭症患者的才华并增强组织创新的组织实践。NISE NRT项目旨在培养新型工程师和科学家，他们能够设计创新，支持自闭症患者和/或受自闭症能力启发的劳动力参与。在范德比尔特新成立的First自闭症与创新中心的优势基础上，这个NRT项目将让学员参与HTF方法和设备的开发、部署和商业化，提供人工智能、数据科学、机器人、虚拟现实和包容性设计方面的广泛适用技能。与临床心理学、特殊教育和商业领域的从业者合作，将确保学员的项目与临床、教育和/或商业领域的相关性。学员将参加范德比尔特国家科学基金会i-Corps计划以及发明披露和专利。研究项目还将影响到NRT学员工作所在社区的K-12学生和教师。该计划的核心部分是Fisk-Vanderbilt硕士到博士桥计划，该计划旨在招聘、指导和提升妇女、代表性不足的少数族裔和残疾人，这是STEM毕业生多样性的全国典范。受训者除了他们的常规研究生课程要求外，还将承担三个新的NISE课程、暑期学校、研讨会和实习的共同核心，最终获得NISE的研究生证书。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革意义的STEM研究生教育培训模式。该计划致力于通过创新的、基于证据的、与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致的综合实习生模式，在高度优先的跨学科或趋同研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Social Cognition Paradigms ex Machinas

机械社会认知范式

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Computational Theory of Mind for Human-Machine Teams
• 作者: Michelson, J.;Sanyal, D.;Ainooson, J.;Yang, Y.;Kunda, M.
• 通讯作者: Kunda, M.

A measure of visuospatial reasoning skills: Painting the big picture

视觉空间推理能力的衡量标准：描绘大局

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS
• 作者: Michelson, J.;Sanyal, D.;Ainooson, J.;Kunda, M.
• 通讯作者: Kunda, M.

Increased pain sensitivity and pain-related anxiety in individuals with autism.

• DOI: 10.1097/pr9.0000000000000861
• 发表时间: 2020-11
• 期刊: Pain reports
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: Failla MD;Gerdes MB;Williams ZJ;Moore DJ;Cascio CJ
• 通讯作者: Cascio CJ

Psychometric validation and refinement of the Interoception Sensory Questionnaire (ISQ) in adolescents and adults on the autism spectrum.

• DOI: 10.1186/s13229-021-00440-y
• 发表时间: 2021-06-07
• 期刊: Molecular autism
• 影响因子: 6.2
• 作者: Suzman E;Williams ZJ;Feldman JI;Failla M;Cascio CJ;Wallace MT;Niarchou M;Sutcliffe JS;Wodka E;Woynaroski TG
• 通讯作者: Woynaroski TG

Project AIM: Autism intervention meta-analysis for studies of young children.

• DOI: 10.1037/bul0000215
• 发表时间: 2020-01
• 期刊: Psychological bulletin
• 影响因子: 22.4
• 作者: Sandbank M;Bottema-Beutel K;Crowley S;Cassidy M;Dunham K;Feldman JI;Crank J;Albarran SA;Raj S;Mahbub P;Woynaroski TG
• 通讯作者: Woynaroski TG