FW-HTF-P: Augmenting First Responders' Cognitive Performance for Responses to Electric Vehicle Emergencies

电动汽车(EVS)的广泛应用为社会带来了显著的好处，包括更清洁的环境、更低的运行成本、更少的噪音污染和更少的碳排放。然而，电动汽车的采用也给现有的民用基础设施体系带来了挑战。例如，与使用传统内燃机的车辆发生的火灾相比，电动汽车的火灾燃烧更热、时间更长，需要花费更多的资源来扑灭。与电动汽车突发事件相关的第一反应人员目前的工作标准、培训方案和培训方法已经过时到了危险的地步。在这个项目发展奖中，一个由研究人员和多个公共机构合作伙伴组成的跨学科团队将定义和测试身临其境和直观的培训平台的可行性，该平台将增强第一响应者在应对电动汽车相关火灾时的决策。这项研究所产生的知识将为第一响应者社区提供有价值的信息，并帮助电动汽车制造商设计“响应者友好”的电动汽车系统。人类-技术前沿(FW-HTF)未来工作规划研究项目的目标是测试沉浸式培训平台框架用于未来电动汽车相关应急响应的可行性。有三个主要目标：1)在全国范围内进行调查，然后召开焦点小组会议，以了解现有的电动汽车相关应急响应工作流程；2)设计和开发沉浸式培训平台的框架，以增强第一响应者的认知表现；以及3)与研究人员和其他利益相关者分享初步结果，以测试拟议培训框架的可行性，并为未来的工作制定详细的路线图。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。

The wide adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) provides significant benefits to society, including a cleaner environment, lower running costs, reduced noise pollution, and reduced carbon emissions. However, the adoption of EVs also brings challenges to the existing civil infrastructure system. For example, EV fires burn hotter, longer, and take more resources to extinguish than fires involving vehicles with traditional combustion engines. The first responders’ current work standards, training protocols, and training methods related to EV emergencies are dangerously outdated. In this project development award, an interdisciplinary team of researchers and multiple public agency partners will define and test the feasibility of an immersive and intuitive training platform that would augment first responders’ decision making when responding to EV-related fires. The knowledge generated from this study will provide valuable information to the first responder communities and help EV automakers design “responder friendly” EV systems. The objective of this Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) planning research project is to test the feasibility of the immersive training platform’s framework for future EV-related emergency responses. There are three major objectives: 1) To conduct a nationwide survey followed by focus group meetings to understand existing EV-related emergency response workflows; 2) To design and develop the framework of the immersive training platform that can augment first responders’ cognitive performance; and 3) To share the initial findings with researchers and other stakeholders to test the viability of the proposed training framework and formulate a detailed roadmap for future work.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.