I-Corps: Effective software tool for reducing recreational boating accidents and fatalities

这个I-Corps项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为休闲船运营商的手机开发一个移动软件应用程序（移动应用程序），旨在减少休闲船事故和死亡。这类事故是由三个相互关联的因素造成的：船舶操作员、船舶和环境。这款移动应用程序使用众包数据（直接来自休闲船只运营商），为船只运营商提供增强的水上态势感知；例如，获取美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）的高分辨率海图、社交连接、综合潮汐/洋流数据、由可信赖的朋友或亲戚监测的自动浮力计划/跟踪、快速获取紧急服务等。该应用程序的商业途径是专注于为休闲划船公众免费提供基本的移动应用程序和相关的安全工具，但提供更高级的（客户要求的）功能，如社交连接和团体跟踪，需要额外付费。该应用程序的第二个商业途径是专注于（去识别的）水上休闲船民模式和行为的数据收集。由于精算的原因，这些数据在海上保险行业中具有特别重要的意义，并且在商业划船行业中也具有商业潜力。I-Corps项目的基础是开发当前的、可持续的、全面的、权威的、非事故的休闲船数据，这些数据对于完善和更好地理解休闲船事故的性质和因果关系所需的地理空间分析至关重要。这款手机应用基于一个公式，其中事故的时空阵列与人为、技术和环境因素的时空函数有关。主要的技术障碍是开发一款能被休闲划船者广泛采用的移动应用程序，从而促进实时、众包数据的有效收集。这个移动应用程序旨在弥合目前可用数据稀缺与划船事故公式之间的数据差距，并在这样做时更密切地解决州和联邦划船监管机构的挑战；即减少游船事故和死亡人数。为了实现这一目标，需要一种更优化的休闲划船数据收集方法，以更好地了解事故因果关系的潜在本质。这款移动应用程序旨在实现数据收集，提高休闲船操作员的安全（态势感知），减少休闲船事故，并挽救生命。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this I-Corps project is the development of a mobile software application (mobile app) for recreational boat operators mobile phones intended to reduce recreational boating accidents and fatalities. Such accidents result from three interrelated factors: the boat operator, the vessel, and the environment. This mobile app uses crowdsourcing data (directly from recreational boat operators) to provide boat operators with enhanced situational awareness when on the water; e.g., access to high resolution National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) charts, social connectivity, integrated tide/current data, automated float plan/tracking monitored by trusted friends or relatives, rapid access to emergency services, etc. The commercial pathway of this app is focused on providing the basic mobile app and related safety tools to the recreational boating public for free but offering more advanced (customer requested) features such as social connectivity and group tracking for an additional fee. A second commercial pathway for this application is focused on (de-identified) data gathering of recreational boater on-the-water patterns and behavior. These data have particular significance within the marine insurance industry for actuarial reasons and also have commercial potential within the commercial boating industry as well.This I-Corps project is based on the development of current, sustainable, comprehensive, authoritative, non-accident based recreational boater data that is critical to the geospatial analytics needed to refine and better understand the nature and causality of recreational boat accidents. The proposed mobile app is based on a formula where the space-time array of accidents relates to a space-time function of human, technological, and environmental factors. The primary technical hurdle is to develop a mobile app in a way that will be adopted broadly by recreational boaters and will thus facilitate the effective collection of real-time, crowdsourced data. This mobile app is intended to bridge the data gap between the scarcity of data currently available and the boating accident formula and in so doing more closely address the challenge of state and federal boating regulatory agencies; i.e., to reduce recreational boating accidents and fatalities. To accomplish this, a more optimal means of recreational boating data collection is required to better understand the underlying nature of accident causality. This mobile application is designed to enable that data collection, to enhance recreational boat operator safety (situational awareness), to reduce recreational boating accidents, and to save lives.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.