SBIR Phase I: The Resilience Gym

SBIR 第一阶段：弹性健身房

• 批准号: 2322376
• 负责人: Raj Bhargava
• 金额: $ 27.5万
• 依托单位: WAVERLEY CREATIONS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2322376&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Resilience; Gym

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is the creation of a "Resilience Gym", where mid-career, college-educated employees can proactively develop their emotional health in the same way they do their physical health at a regular gym. The current pandemic and mental health crisis have affected society deeply. In a 2021 survey, McKinsey found that 85% of frontline employees and managers do not find meaning at work. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reported 4.3 million people, or 2.9% of the entire workforce, quit their jobs in August 2021. These statistics demonstrate the urgent need to address the issue of workplace dissatisfaction and support individuals in finding meaning and purpose in their lives. Since 2017, the team has successfully taught over 150 adult students to achieve their potential by studying behavioral science research and applying it to their lives. Over 50% of these students, despite having accomplished careers, are dissatisfied with their lives and seek more meaning. The team has found that adopting an empowering mindset is the most effective resilient action for these students to achieve more and find deeper meaning in life. The Resilience Gym uses technology to provide a scalable solution to improve the emotional health and prosperity of working adults.The team's innovation is a mobile and web app subscription service that delivers a step-by-step Resilience Gym process and guides users to adopt new, empowering mindsets. The product is based on decades of behavioral science research and uses virtual reality, artificial intelligence and mobile nudges to provide a scalable solution that is personalized the individual user. Based on real-time progress, users may adopt new mindsets. The team will also incorporate neuroscience research to enrich the solution. To develop the design, the team uses the 5-step Stanford d.school design thinking approach (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test) for which the team has deep expertise. The approach is complimented with the agile methodology to have short milestones, scrum meetings, and backlog tracking to ensure new learnings can be adapted from users and delivered on schedule and within the planned budget. Combining the expertise of technology startups and university researchers, the team develops scientifically driven products that achieve both significant impact and commercial success.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）第一阶段项目的更广泛/商业影响是创建一个“弹性健身房”，在那里，职业生涯中期，受过大学教育的员工可以积极发展他们的情绪健康，就像他们在普通健身房做身体健康一样。当前的流行病和心理健康危机对社会产生了深刻影响。麦肯锡在2021年的一项调查中发现，85%的一线员工和管理者在工作中找不到意义。美国劳工统计局报告称，2021年8月有430万人（占全部劳动力的2. 9%）辞职。这些统计数据表明，迫切需要解决工作场所不满的问题，并支持个人找到生活的意义和目标。自2017年以来，该团队已经成功地教导了150多名成年学生，通过学习行为科学研究并将其应用于他们的生活来实现他们的潜力。超过50%的学生，尽管有成就的职业生涯，不满意他们的生活，并寻求更多的意义。该团队发现，采用赋权心态是这些学生实现更多目标并找到生活中更深层次意义的最有效的弹性行动。Resilience Gym使用技术提供可扩展的解决方案，以改善工作成年人的情绪健康和繁荣。该团队的创新是一个移动的和Web应用程序订阅服务，提供一个循序渐进的Resilience Gym过程，并引导用户采用新的，赋予权力的心态。该产品基于数十年的行为科学研究，并使用虚拟现实，人工智能和移动的轻推来提供个性化的可扩展解决方案。基于实时进度，用户可能会采用新的思维模式。 该团队还将结合神经科学研究来丰富解决方案。为了开发设计，该团队使用了斯坦福d.school的5步设计思维方法（同情，定义，构思，原型和测试），该团队拥有深厚的专业知识。该方法与敏捷方法相结合，具有较短的里程碑，研讨会会议和积压跟踪，以确保新的学习可以从用户那里进行调整，并在计划预算内按时交付。该团队结合了科技初创企业和大学研究人员的专业知识，开发出科学驱动的产品，实现了重大影响和商业成功。该奖项反映了NSF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。