Survey and Test Platform for Use in Underserved Populations

用于服务不足人群的调查和测试平台

• 批准号: 8201880
• 负责人: Gislin Dagnelie
• 金额: $ 35.9万
• 依托单位: ADVANCED MEDICAL ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-30 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8201880
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Under the acronym "Survey and Test Platform for use in Underserved Populations, Phase II (STeP- UP2)," Advanced Medical Electronics Corp, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and several secondary partners, proposes to expand the prototype hardware/software platform called STeP-UP created in the first phase of this STTR project. We have demonstrated the feasibility of a platform that can easily accommodate hardware and software services with different applications in the field of vision testing running as classes, and parameters and data being passed among these classes as XML tokens. We now propose to broaden the range of applications with auditory, perceptual, and cognitive tests, as well as a range of survey instruments for interview and self-reporting purposes. We have obtained commitments from several researchers and companies interested in bundling their tests and surveys into a single portable platform. The hardware for the proposed phase 2 units will consist of a touch screen portable PC with an external flat screen, sound card, and earphones for stimulus presentation; screen calibration subsystem; and optional chin rest and gaze tracking subsystem. The system will be sufficiently light-weight and portable to administer a variety of tests and survey instruments in settings ranging from living rooms to libraries, from community centers to nursing homes, and from inner cities and rural counties in the US to locations throughout the developing world. The hardware will be physically durable and have built-in calibration and monitoring services; optional gaze- tracking capability will continue to be an integral part of the design and prototype. The graphical user interface of the software will be sufficiently simple to allow administration by non-professionals, following a brief instruction through a built-in on-screen course, and will have built-in redundancy and error checking. The objective for phase 2 of the project is for the AME team to work with outside researchers and companies to expand the platform for functional data collection in visual and auditory function, attention, cognition, and health and wellness surveys; and for the JHU team to validate the integrated test and control software in a wide-ranging population of unaffected and special needs subjects of varying ages; this validation stage will include test and survey administration by minimally trained individuals. This should form the basis for a production and marketing program by multiple vendors. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Health studies of underserved populations, whether in the inner city and rural US or in the developing world, often lack precise and versatile test and survey instruments, and trained professionals to operate these instruments. The major objective of this proposal is to further enhance a previously constructed prototype test and survey platform based on a tablet PC with a secondary screen and high quality sound, with integrated calibration and monitoring hardware and software tools and a gaze-tracking subsystem. The upgraded system will be geared towards screening tests and surveys of visual and auditory function, attention, cognition, and health and wellness in general. Such a platform can be used by surveyors in the community to rapidly screen for sensory and wellness problems that may warrant medical attention.

描述（由申请人提供）： Advanced Medical Electronics Corp 与约翰霍普金斯大学医学院和几个二级合作伙伴合作，以“服务不足人群使用的调查和测试平台第二阶段 (STeP-UP2)”为缩写，提议扩展在该 STTR 项目第一阶段创建的名为 STeP-UP 的原型硬件/软件平台。我们已经证明了一个平台的可行性，该平台可以轻松地容纳硬件和软件服务以及视觉测试领域中作为类运行的不同应用程序，并且参数和数据作为 XML 令牌在这些类之间传递。我们现在建议扩大听觉、知觉和认知测试的应用范围，以及一系列用于访谈和自我报告目的的调查工具。我们已经获得了一些研究人员和公司的承诺，他们有兴趣将他们的测试和调查捆绑到一个便携式平台中。拟议的第二阶段装置的硬件将包括一台带有外部平面屏幕的触摸屏便携式电脑、声卡和用于刺激演示的耳机；屏幕校准子系统；以及可选的下巴托和视线跟踪子系统。该系统重量轻且便于携带，可在从客厅到图书馆、从社区中心到疗养院、从美国内城区和农村县到整个发展中国家的各种环境中管理各种测试和调查仪器。硬件物理耐用，并具有内置校准和监控服务；可选的注视跟踪功能将继续成为设计和原型的一个组成部分。该软件的图形用户界面将非常简单，允许非专业人员按照内置屏幕课程的简短说明进行管理，并且具有内置冗余和错误检查功能。 该项目第二阶段的目标是 AME 团队与外部研究人员和公司合作，扩展视觉和听觉功能、注意力、认知以及健康和保健调查方面的功能数据收集平台；约翰霍普金斯大学团队在广泛的不同年龄的未受影响和有特殊需要的受试者中验证集成测试和控制软件；该验证阶段将包括由经过最低限度培训的人员进行测试和调查管理。这应该构成多个供应商生产和营销计划的基础。 公共卫生相关性： 对服务不足人群的健康研究，无论是在美国内城和农村还是在发展中国家，往往缺乏精确和通用的测试和调查仪器，以及训练有素的专业人员来操作这些仪器。该提案的主要目标是进一步增强先前构建的原型测试和调查平台，该平台基于具有辅助屏幕和高品质声音的平板电脑，并具有集成校准和监控硬件和软件工具以及注视跟踪子系统。升级后的系统将用于视觉和听觉功能、注意力、认知以及总体健康和保健的筛选测试和调查。社区中的调查员可以使用这样的平台来快速筛查可能需要医疗关注的感官和健康问题。