Refresh Wellness Application: developing mental wellness tools using AI

Refresh Wellness Application：利用人工智能开发心理健康工具

• 批准号: 553248-2020
• 负责人: Blum, Susan
• 金额: $ 5.46万
• 依托单位: Saskatchewan Polytechnic
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2021-01-01 至 2022-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=722644
• 关键词: Refresh; Wellness; Application; developing; mental

People experiencing mental wellness challenges or mental illness often struggle to obtain or maintain a position in the workplace. This costs the Canadian economy $50B/yr and results in five hundred thousand unemployed citizens. With lack of employment, individuals also lose mental, emotional, and physiological benefits generated through work. Disconnection perpetuates further psychological sickness. In response, the Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE) at Saskatchewan Polytechnic (Sask Polytech), Refresh Enterprises, Inc. (Refresh), and the Canadian Mental Health Association, Saskatchewan Division (CMHA-SK) are collaborating to finalize the development of the Refresh Wellness App (RWA), a multifaceted lifestyle program that will promote healthy mentality and facilitate relational support through peers and professionals. RWA will leverage artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automatic personality recognition (APR) technology in order to automatically respond to users' mental and emotional states, offering helpful suggestions and resources. With the individual user's permission, information could be shared with health care workers to inform their services. Service providers will be able to list themselves in the app's business directory. RWA will be a first-of-its-kind service for organizations, enabling them to analyze their corporate wellbeing as a single entity by merging data obtained from anonymized tracking of individual employees. Data encryption, anonymization, and limitation techniques will safeguard users' identities and information; local and international data management regulations will inform how the RWA handles sensitive information. In short, the Refresh Wellness App intends to become the nexus of all Canadian mental health services. Health care workers will be better connected to their patients, with access to analytic tools that will enhance their own services. Organizations will be able to both assess their strength in a completely new way and to eventually capture and utilize intersectional data.

经历心理健康挑战或精神疾病的人往往很难在工作场所获得或维持一个职位。这使加拿大经济每年损失500亿美元，并导致50万失业公民。由于缺乏就业机会，个人也失去了通过工作产生的精神，情感和生理利益。与外界的脱节会使更多的心理疾病延续下去。作为回应，萨斯喀彻温省理工学院（Sask Polytech）的数字集成卓越中心（DICE），刷新企业公司。（刷新）和加拿大心理健康协会萨斯喀彻温省分部（CMHA-SK）正在合作完成刷新健康应用程序（RWA）的开发，这是一个多方面的生活方式计划，将促进健康的心态，并通过同龄人和专业人士促进关系支持。RWA将利用人工智能（AI）、数据分析和自动个性识别（APR）技术，自动响应用户的心理和情绪状态，提供有用的建议和资源。在个人用户的许可下，信息可以与卫生保健工作者共享，以告知他们的服务。服务提供商将能够在应用程序的企业目录中列出自己。RWA将成为企业的首个此类服务，使他们能够通过合并从匿名跟踪单个员工获得的数据来分析他们作为一个实体的企业福祉。数据加密、匿名化和限制技术将保护用户的身份和信息;本地和国际数据管理法规将告知RWA如何处理敏感信息。简而言之，刷新健康应用程序打算成为所有加拿大心理健康服务的纽带。医疗保健工作者将更好地与患者联系，并获得分析工具，以加强他们自己的服务。组织将能够以全新的方式评估其实力，并最终捕获和利用交叉数据。