SBIR Phase I: Anatomy Reimagined in an Educational Tool with Gaming and 3D Models

SBIR 第一阶段：通过游戏和 3D 模型在教育工具中重新构想解剖学

• 批准号: 2035933
• 负责人: Sean Maloney
• 金额: $ 25.6万
• 依托单位: DISSECT 360 LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-03-01 至 2021-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2035933&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Anatomy; Reimagined; Educational

The broader impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will lead to new educational software for learning human anatomy. The software will serve 54,000 healthcare professional students studying anatomy each year in the U.S., as well as 450,000 undergraduate students. Anatomy is the cornerstone of medical education with cadaver dissection serving as the gold standard teaching method. However, many students have limited or no access to cadavers during their academic experience. Learning resources in human anatomy (textbooks, models, apps) are generally color-coded, computer-generated images that lack the complexities and appearance of cadavers. These learning materials do not match dissected specimens, making knowledge transfer more difficult. To overcome these challenges, the proposed software will marry digital cadaveric models with captivating educational gaming strategies. The software will bring high-quality anatomy education to low resource settings in the U.S. and abroad.The proposed project will incorporate principles of educational psychology and learning science to develop a gaming platform for healthcare professional students (e.g. medical, physical therapy, dental, physician assistant) to learn human anatomy. The games will be built on a virtual atlas of human anatomy created from high-resolution images of dissected human cadavers. For this proof-of-feasibility project, we will focus on the human heart. Technical hurdles to this project include incorporating learning principles into the games and converting anatomy images into a software package that can run on devices, such as iPads and smartphones, while maintaining resolution and usability features. During this project, we will capture images of the human heart, transfer them into the appropriate software development platform, and then add education features and games in an iterative process.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（SBIR）第一阶段项目的广泛影响将导致学习人体解剖学的新教育软件。该软件将为每年在美国学习解剖学的54,000名医疗保健专业学生以及45万名本科生提供服务。解剖学是医学教育的基石，尸体解剖是医学教育的金标准教学方法。然而，许多学生在他们的学术经历中很少或根本没有接触过尸体。人体解剖学的学习资源（教科书、模型、应用程序）通常是彩色编码的、计算机生成的图像，缺乏尸体的复杂性和外观。这些学习材料与解剖标本不匹配，使得知识转移更加困难。为了克服这些挑战，拟议中的软件将把数字尸体模型与迷人的教育游戏策略结合起来。该软件将为美国和国外资源匮乏的环境带来高质量的解剖学教育。计划将结合教育心理学和学习科学的原理，为医疗专业学生（如内科、物理治疗、牙科、医师助理）开发一个游戏平台，以学习人体解剖学。游戏将建立在人体解剖学的虚拟地图集上，该地图集是由解剖的人体尸体的高分辨率图像创建的。对于这个证明可行性的项目，我们将把重点放在人类的心脏上。这个项目的技术障碍包括将学习原理融入游戏，并将解剖学图像转换成可以在ipad和智能手机等设备上运行的软件包，同时保持分辨率和可用性。在这个项目中，我们将捕捉人类心脏的图像，并将其转移到合适的软件开发平台，然后在迭代的过程中添加教育功能和游戏。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。