I-Corps: Tracking Cognitive Functions with Ear-worn Bio-sensing Device

I-Corps：用耳戴式生物传感设备跟踪认知功能

• 批准号: 1938994
• 负责人: Tam Vu
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 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: 2019-07-01 至 2020-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1938994&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Tracking; Cognitive; Functions; Ear

The broader impact of this I-Corps project will be to enable bio-sensing earphones for personalized healthcare. It can benefit a wide range of systems and applications that require continuous and long-term personal monitoring, such as user behavior analysis, seizure suppression, sleep improvement, and personalized education. Currently, there are 3 billion people without access to healthcare who could potentially benefit from the device. Mobile healthcare is rapidly growing, emerging industry in need of a socially acceptable, platform technology to enable healthcare applications outside the hospital. This project will directly support national level initiatives on improving healthcare practices and enhancing future workforce capability. To make the broadest impact possible, the project will initially focus on individual customers, to improve lives in ways that were technologically impossible before. The potential innovation enables a mobile healthcare platform for everyday use with high accuracy, low cost, and high comfort to users.This I-Corps project includes several innovations to enable previously impossible mobile physiological sensing. This ear-worn device enables everyday users to access the medically valuable physiological data from the human head in a comfortable, small, and wearable form factor placed in or around the ears. The project's algorithms, hardware, and software can infer the wearer's mental, physiological, and physical states from the ears. The resulting innovation enables immediate access to vital health information such as sleep deprivation, attention, and even seizure onset without using obtrusive, expensive hospital equipment. The team will evaluate the platform through customer discovery and other commercialization focused evaluations.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I-Corps项目的更广泛影响将是使生物传感耳机能够用于个性化医疗保健。它可以使需要持续和长期个人监控的各种系统和应用程序受益，例如用户行为分析，癫痫发作抑制，睡眠改善和个性化教育。目前，有30亿人无法获得医疗保健，他们可能会从该设备中受益。 移动的医疗保健正在迅速发展，需要一种社会可接受的平台技术来实现医院外的医疗保健应用。该项目将直接支持国家一级改善医疗保健实践和提高未来劳动力能力的举措。为了使最广泛的影响成为可能，该项目最初将专注于个人客户，以以前技术上不可能的方式改善生活。 潜在的创新使移动的医疗保健平台的日常使用具有高精度，低成本，高舒适度的users.This I-Corps项目包括几个创新，使以前不可能的移动的生理传感。这种耳戴式设备使日常用户能够以放置在耳朵中或周围的舒适、小型和可穿戴的形状因子从人类头部访问具有医学价值的生理数据。该项目的算法、硬件和软件可以从耳朵推断佩戴者的心理、生理和身体状态。由此产生的创新能够立即获取重要的健康信息，例如睡眠不足、注意力不集中，甚至癫痫发作，而无需使用引人注目、昂贵的医院设备。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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。