I-Corps: Digital Solution for Preventing Interpersonal Violence

I-Corps：预防人际暴力的数字解决方案

• 批准号: 2124526
• 负责人: Mangai Natarajan
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: CUNY John Jay College of Criminal Justice
• 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 2023-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2124526&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Digital; Solution; Preventing; Interpersonal

The broader/commercial impact of this I-Corps project is the development of a digital solution that would address a long-standing societal problem of Inter-Personal Violence (IPV) that primarily affects women and girls worldwide. Social science research has proven that millions of people do not report and suffer in silence because of the normalizations of violence instilled by the “patriarchal system.” Empowering people, especially women, girls, and sexual minorities to take proactive measures in breaking their silence in ending violence is the primary goal of this digital intervention. The proposed digital technology provides a proactive capability that may have wide cost-saving public benefits as well as commercial prospects in providing rapid IPV prevention solutions to organizations such as the government (especially criminal justice agencies), women’s and faith-based organizations, educational institutions (college and universities), and corporations (companies promoting diversity and resilience). Successful commercialization of such a product would bring this one-stop awareness and empowerment digital platform to the market with the potential to make significant impact on IPV prevention. The technology could improve the lives of millions of women from varied socio-economic strata, delivering tangible economic benefits to communities and corporations across the U.S.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a digital tool that involves unique integration of social science principles in criminal justice and cognitive science with state-of-the-art software engineering technology, data science, and computer science. Prior research suggests that a digital technology-based web application may overcome major challenges in digital privacy, safety, accessibility under low resources environments, and usability in dealing with Inter-Personal Violence (IPV). IPV is a sensitive, personal issue, and its varied ecosystems and archetypes posit unique challenges. The proposed technology is a software product grounded in social science research using mathematical algorithms (e.g., based on data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence) at its core. The focus is on proactively empowering people to understand their personal circumstances from social science research-based evaluations and then providing them with resources to prevent IPV or to better manage an ongoing situation. The product is envisioned as a digital modular platform that would be designed to be usable on all mobile phones and laptops, and bandwidth limited cellular environments. The data analytics built into the software and integrated with artificial intelligence will provide instant feedback to users to help them make informed decisions.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.

这一i-Corps项目的更广泛/商业影响是开发一种数字解决方案，以解决主要影响全世界妇女和女孩的个人间暴力这一长期存在的社会问题。社会科学研究已经证明，由于“父权制度”灌输的暴力常态化，数以百万计的人不举报并默默受苦。增强人们，特别是妇女、女孩和性少数群体采取积极主动的措施，打破他们在结束暴力方面的沉默，是这种数字干预的主要目标。拟议的数字技术提供了一种积极主动的能力，在向政府(特别是刑事司法机构)、妇女和宗教组织、教育机构(学院和大学)以及公司(促进多样性和复原力的公司)等组织提供快速IPV预防解决方案方面，可能具有广泛的节省成本的公共利益和商业前景。这种产品的成功商业化将把这一一站式提高认识和赋权的数字平台推向市场，有可能对预防IPV产生重大影响。这项技术可以改善来自不同社会经济阶层的数百万女性的生活，为美国各地的社区和公司带来切实的经济利益。i-Corps项目基于数字工具的开发，该工具涉及刑事司法和认知科学中的社会科学原理与最先进的软件工程技术、数据科学和计算机科学的独特整合。先前的研究表明，基于数字技术的网络应用程序可以克服在数字隐私、安全性、低资源环境下的可访问性以及处理个人间暴力(IPV)的可用性方面的主要挑战。IPV是一个敏感的个人问题，其多种多样的生态系统和原型构成了独特的挑战。所提议的技术是以社会科学研究为基础的软件产品，其核心使用数学算法(例如，基于数据挖掘、机器学习和人工智能)。重点是使人们能够主动地从基于社会科学研究的评估中了解他们的个人情况，然后为他们提供资源，以防止IPV或更好地管理正在进行的情况。该产品被设想为一个数字模块化平台，旨在适用于所有手机和笔记本电脑，以及带宽有限的蜂窝环境。内置在软件中并与人工智能集成的数据分析将为用户提供即时反馈，帮助他们做出明智的决定。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。