SBIR Phase II: Virtual reality platform that accurately and rapidly assesses meaningful brain function outside the lab

SBIR 第二阶段：虚拟现实平台，可在实验室外准确快速地评估有意义的大脑功能

• 批准号: 1950948
• 负责人: Jeff Nyquist
• 金额: $ 75万
• 依托单位: NEUROTRAINER, INC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1950948&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Virtual; reality

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to provide new infomration on cognitive health. The support includes 60 M people who identify as athletes, 3 M annually suffering traumatic brain injuries, and the 40 M more looking to measure brain health. Current healthcare assessments are available at specialized facilities with trained professionals and detect only significant changes to cognition. In contrast, this project develops an affordable, reliable way to measure brain health and to monitor changes after treatment, training, and rehabilitation. This project leverages expertise in human performance, cognitive neuroscience, computer science and virtual reality simulation. Furthermore, it offers athletes a way to assess cognitive abilities such as focus, decision making and multitasking.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will focus on the technical aspects of training, measuring, analyzing and reporting how people perform athletic and cognitive tasks in unison. These domains of research and technical knowledge come together to form a unique cognition platform that accounts for both physical and cognitive behavior. The platform's measurement instruments reflect cutting-edge research on (1) human perception, specifically in fast-paced and dynamic environments; and (2) the interplay of perception and action in a virtual reality environment. The analytics engine captures and processes thousands of data points per minute describing object locations in simulated space; users' hands, body and head behavior; and cognitive performance.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.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）II期项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为认知健康提供新的信息。支持包括60 m的人，他们确定为运动员，每年3 M遭受创伤性脑损伤，还有40 m的人希望衡量大脑健康。当前的医疗保健评估可在具有训练有素的专业人员的专业设施中获得，并且仅检测认知的重大变化。相比之下，该项目开发了一种负担得起的可靠方法来衡量大脑健康并在治疗，培训和康复后监测变化。该项目利用人类绩效，认知神经科学，计算机科学和虚拟现实模拟的专业知识。此外，它为运动员提供了一种评估认知能力的方式，例如重点，决策和多任务处理。本小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目将重点关注培训，衡量，分析和报告人们如何在不容易发生方面执行运动和认知任务的技术方面。这些研究和技术知识的领域融合在一起，形成了一个独特的认知平台，可以说明身体和认知行为。该平台的测量工具反映了对（1）人类感知的尖端研究，特别是在快节奏和动态的环境中； （2）在虚拟现实环境中的感知和行动的相互作用。分析引擎每分钟捕获并处理数千个数据点，以描述模拟空间中的对象位置；用户的手，身体和头部行为；该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准的评估来支持的。