Multimodal AI-Based Mobile App For Forecasting Meltdowns and Supporting ASD Children

基于多模式人工智能的移动应用程序，用于预测崩溃和支持自闭症儿童

• 批准号: 10045606
• 金额: $ 6.36万
• 依托单位: BRITANNIA COLLEGE LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Grant for R&D
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10045606
• 关键词: Multimodal; AI; Based; Mobile; App

As demonstrated by the recent study of Newcastle University in collaboration with the University of Cambridge's Department of Psychiatry and Maastricht University, that was conducted in more than 7 million children, around one in 57 children in the UK are on the autistic spectrum, significantly higher than previously reported. This number is only expected to rise in the future. Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) often suffer from meltdowns that might include behaviors such as crying, shouting, hitting or withdrawing. Meltdowns can make it difficult for ASD children and teenagers to actively participate in everyday activities. It is crucial to help ASD children recognize signs that they have started feeling uncomfortable and a meltdown is coming, and support them develop and apply coping mechanisms to calm down. These sings may include racing heartbeat, churning stomach, difficulty breathing and other physiological and behavioral clues. This project leads to a novel mobile application that will combine in real time diverse inputs from standard smart devices such a smartphone and/or a smartwatch to forecast and prevent meltdowns of ASD children in different situations. Towards this purpose the proposed solution exploits the latest technologies in signal processing, data fusion, deep learning and adaptive fuzzy systems. By utilizing these technologies, the innovation processes different combinations of input signals in real time and provides a forecast concerning an impending meltdown. Based on the child's profile and the intensity of the forecasted event the application generates and outputs user-specific feedback. This feedback includes access to instructions, images, sounds or video that are shown to calm the child in similar meltdown situations. Given the above, the proposed mobile application can make a significant difference in the lives of ASD children and their families. Britannia members are experts in AI technologies and have a multidisciplinary background that aligns perfectly with the project. This background includes working with ASD children, as well as developing intelligent applications using advanced computer technologies to support ASD children. Britannia College has a network of UK and international partners that is able to help the company maximize the uptake of the application and its positive impact to ASD children and their families. This project supports the government's national strategy for improving the lives of autistic people and their families and delivers an innovative product with a global impact that promises to deliver huge benefits to UK economy and society.

最近，纽卡斯尔大学与剑桥大学精神病学系和马斯特里赫特大学合作开展了一项研究，对700多万名儿童进行了研究，结果表明，在英国，每57名儿童中就有一名患有自闭症，明显高于以前的报道。预计这一数字今后还会上升。患有自闭症谱系障碍（ASD）的儿童经常遭受崩溃，可能包括哭泣，大喊大叫，殴打或退缩等行为。情绪崩溃会使ASD儿童和青少年难以积极参与日常活动。帮助ASD儿童识别他们开始感到不舒服和崩溃即将到来的迹象，并支持他们发展和应用应对机制来平静下来，这是至关重要的。这些声音可能包括心跳加速，胃翻腾，呼吸困难和其他生理和行为线索。该项目导致了一种新颖的移动的应用，其将联合收割机在真实的时间中组合来自标准智能设备（例如智能电话和/或智能手表）的不同输入，以预测和防止ASD儿童在不同情况下的崩溃。为此，该解决方案利用了信号处理、数据融合、深度学习和自适应模糊系统的最新技术。通过利用这些技术，该创新可以真实的处理输入信号的不同组合，并提供有关即将发生的熔毁的预测。基于儿童的简档和预测事件的强度，应用程序生成并输出用户特定的反馈。这种反馈包括访问指示、图像、声音或视频，这些指示、图像、声音或视频可以在类似的崩溃情况下让孩子平静下来。鉴于上述情况，所提出的移动的应用程序可以使ASD儿童及其家庭的生活发生重大变化。Britannia的成员都是人工智能技术方面的专家，拥有多学科的背景，与该项目完美契合。这个背景包括与ASD儿童一起工作，以及使用先进的计算机技术开发智能应用程序来支持ASD儿童。Britannia College拥有英国和国际合作伙伴网络，能够帮助公司最大限度地提高应用程序的吸收率及其对ASD儿童及其家庭的积极影响。该项目支持政府改善自闭症患者及其家庭生活的国家战略，并提供具有全球影响力的创新产品，有望为英国经济和社会带来巨大利益。