Virtual Reality and Web Tools for Children with FAS/FAE

针对 FAS/FAE 儿童的虚拟现实和网络工具

• 批准号: 6942961
• 负责人: Dorothy Cay Strickland
• 金额: $ 56.02万
• 依托单位: VIRTUAL REALITY AIDS, INC.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-09-30 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6942961
• 关键词: Internet; behavioral /social science research tag; child (0-11); child behavior; child psychology; clinical research; cognition; comprehension; computer human interaction; computer simulation; computer system design /evaluation; education evaluation /planning; educational resource design /development; fetal alcohol syndrome; health behavior; human subject; injury prevention; learning transfer; medical complication; perception disorder; psychological tests; training

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Fetal Alcohol Syndrome and Fetal Alcohol Effects (FAS/FAE) are a series of irreversible birth defects that persist throughout the life span of the individual. Because of developmental delays and deficits in abstract thinking, children with these disorders can miss the connection between cause and effect, which often results in risky behaviors and dangerous encounters with their environment. Phase II proposes to develop a virtual reality Safety Skills Training Program to help children with these special learning needs better understand and practice correct safety actions. It will use a series of virtual situations that model hazardous real-life situations. All four milestones in Phase I were met. These included: (1) establishing the program design for the special learning requirements of children with FAS/FAE, (2) developing a virtual reality program, worlds, and characters to teach home fire safety actions, customized for these special learning needs, (3) demonstrating the playability of the program on a home PC to establish commercial viability, and (4) testing the program with children with this disorder. Efficacy of the program was tested using a multiple baseline, multiple probe design, with five children who had been diagnosed with fetal alcohol related disorders. The results indicated that all the children reached 100% accuracy in identifying fire safety components, defined as doing the correct safety steps in the virtual world, and that eighty percent of these children were able to perform all actions correctly in both generalization and follow-up probes in the real world following virtual training. Phase II will extend the learning concepts developed in Phase I to a final Safety Skills Training Program product to be delivered for game play on a home PC. It will include safety modules, an integrated safety game, and support tools to allow a child to practice correct safety actions in controlled virtual worlds and to help the child generalize these actions to the real world. Program efficacy will be measured with thirty children ages four to ten years old with fetal alcohol related disorders. Phase II will utilize a two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to detect differences between groups trained on different selected safety skills.

胎儿酒精综合征和胎儿酒精效应（FAS/FAE）是一系列不可逆的出生缺陷，在个体的整个生命周期中持续存在。由于抽象思维的发育迟缓和缺陷，患有这些疾病的儿童可能会错过因果关系，这往往会导致危险行为和与环境的危险接触。第二阶段建议开发虚拟现实安全技能培训计划，以帮助有这些特殊学习需求的儿童更好地理解和实践正确的安全行动。它将使用一系列模拟现实生活中危险情况的虚拟情况。第一阶段的所有四个里程碑都已实现。其中包括：（1）建立用于患有FAS/FAE的儿童的特殊学习需求的程序设计，（2）开发虚拟现实程序、世界和人物来教导家庭消防安全动作，为这些特殊学习需求定制，（3）在家用PC上演示程序的可玩性以建立商业可行性，以及（4）用患有这种障碍的儿童测试程序。该计划的有效性进行了测试，使用多个基线，多探头设计，与5名儿童谁已被诊断为胎儿酒精相关的疾病。结果表明，所有的孩子都达到了100%的准确率，在识别消防安全组件，定义为做正确的安全步骤，在虚拟世界中，这些孩子中的80%能够正确地执行所有的动作，在概括和后续探头在真实的世界虚拟培训。第二阶段将把第一阶段中开发的学习概念扩展到最终的安全技能培训计划产品，以便在家用PC上进行游戏。它将包括安全模块、集成安全游戏和支持工具，以允许儿童在受控的虚拟世界中练习正确的安全动作，并帮助儿童将这些动作推广到真实的世界。将对30名4至10岁患有胎儿酒精相关疾病的儿童进行项目疗效评估。第II阶段将利用双向方差分析（ANOVA）检测接受不同选定安全技能培训的组之间的差异。