Feasibility of Mobile Augmented Reality Intervention Preventing Youth Alcohol Use

 描述（由申请人提供）：拟议项目的总体目标是利用广泛传播的初级酒精和其他药物使用预防课程，以创建一个移动的版本，提高参与度，促进学习转移到课堂外的决定。该项目代表了三家企业之间的合作，致力于创新使用技术预防酒精。真实的Prevention（RP）是一家致力于将创新技术商业化的有限责任公司，旨在提供基于证据的健康促进实践。RP的传播专长是设计以叙事为基础的预防干预措施，以吸引青年受众。RP正在与Verasim（VS）合作，Verasim是一家专门开发增强现实（AR）方法的公司，利用技术动员健康干预措施，并与D.A.R.E.美国是学校酒精和其他毒品预防教育的最大提供者之一，旨在为预防青少年吸毒创造一种现代化的移动的学习体验。第一阶段SBIR将展示使用VS的3D专有AR技术提供五年级keepin' it真实的（kiR）社交和情感发展以及酒精预防课程的移动的版本的可行性，并创建一个新颖的现实世界决策工具，用于课堂内外的指导决策和风险评估。该产品利用增强现实来跟踪学习到教室外环境的转移。在美国，青少年饮酒的流行率相对较高，其严重后果包括终身成瘾的风险增加以及其他随之而来的不良身心健康结果，这强调了在儿童晚期和青春期早期实施循证努力以预防青少年饮酒的重要性。本项目将开发5级EkiR移动的技术的原型，对EkiR移动的进行试点测试并根据需要进行修订，对产品进行独立的可用性评估以确定可行性，并根据这些评估制定修订EkiR移动的的计划。在II期，将在D.A.R.E.进行国家RCT。美国各地的教室，以建立有效性。如果成功，鉴于国际组织使用kIR，该项目的商业潜力很大。 D.A.R.E.光是，就有250万年轻人。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the proposed project is to leverage a widely disseminated elementary alcohol and other drug use prevention curriculum to create a mobile version that enhances engagement and promotes transfer of learning to out of class decisions. The project represents a collaboration among three businesses dedicated to innovative use of technology for alcohol prevention. REAL Prevention (RP), the lead business, is a LLC dedicated to commercializing innovative technologies for delivering evidence-based health promotion practices. RP's communication expertise is in designing narrative-based prevention interventions to engage youth audiences. RP is partnering with Verasim (VS), a company specializing in developing Augmented Reality (AR) approaches to mobilizing health interventions using technology, and with D.A.R.E. America, one of the largest providers of school-based alcohol and other drug prevention education, to create a modern and mobile learning experience for preventing youth substance use. This Phase I SBIR will demonstrate the feasibility of delivering a mobile version of the 5th grade keepin' it REAL (kiR) social and emotional development and alcohol prevention curriculum using VS's 3-D proprietary AR technology and create a novel real-world decision making tool for guided decision making and risk assessment within and beyond the classroom. This product leverages Augmented Reality to track the transfer of learning to environments outside of the classroom. The relatively high prevalence of adolescent alcohol use in the U.S. with severe consequences such as increased risk of lifetime addiction and other attendant adverse physical and mental health outcomes, underscores the importance of implementing evidence-based efforts in late childhood and early adolescence to prevent adolescent alcohol use. This project will develop a prototype of the 5th grade EkiR Mobile technology, pilot test EkiR Mobile and revise as needed, conduct an independent usability evaluation of the product to determine feasibility, and develop a plan for revising EkiR mobile based on these assessments. In Phase II a national RCT will be conducted in D.A.R.E. classrooms across the United States to establish effectiveness. If successful, the commercial potential of the project is great given the use of kiR by organizations internationally. D.A.R.E.'s reach, alone, is 2.5 million youth.