SBIR Phase I: A Computerized Test Battery to Evaluate Workplace Stresses

9861127该小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目来自RSK评估公司，将开发一种计算机化电池，以评估不同应激源环境(包括有毒环境)对员工绩效和人类福祉的影响。当前测试电池的一个限制是，当在不同的硬件上实现时，在相同的测试电池上可能获得不同的结果。当前提案的目标之一是消除不同接口之间的这种差异。该项目将需要开发较新的软件系统(例如，Windows)，并在几个现代系统(台式、笔记本、掌上电脑等)上进行测试。这将允许对心理可比性(因素结构、均值和标准差等)做出令人满意的回答。在不同的系统上进行测试。在RSK评估的认知电池的基础上，该公司将扩大这种电池的范围，将其包括视觉和精神运动测试，并用现代语言对其进行编程，以便能够轻松地从原始数据转换到分析。RSK评估的认知电池可靠、稳定，对各种媒介敏感。第一阶段的研究需要对这些电池进行重新编程，在分级剂量的酒精下对它们进行大样本测试，以评估灵敏度和其他指标，并检查设备的差异。该项目提供了一个敏感的、有市场价值的计算机化评估单元，它对多个认知域进行抽样，并对军事和商业社区具有广泛的价值，在军事和商业社区中，对人的表现能力的监测是重要的。

9861127 This Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project from RSK Assessments, Inc. will develop a computerized battery to assess effects on workers of different stressor environments, including toxic ones, on human performance and human well being. One limitation of current test batteries has been that different results may be obtained on the same test battery when it is implemented on different hardware. One of the goals of the current proposal is to eliminate such variability across different interfaces. The project will need to develop newer software systems (e.g., Windows), with tests implemented on several modern systems (desk top, lap top, palm top, etc.) which will permit satisfactory answers regarding psychological comparability (factor structure, means and standard deviations, etc.) of tests on different systems. Building on RSK Assessments' cognitive battery which is reliable, stable and sensitive to various agents, the firm will broaden that battery to include visual and psychomotor tests and program it in a modern language in order to permit easy translation from raw data to analysis. The Phase I research entails reprogramming these batteries, administering them to a large sample under graded dosages of alcohol in order to evaluate sensitivity and other metrics, and examining equipment differences. This project proffers a sensitive, marketable computerized assessment battery which samples multiple cognitive domains and that has wide value for the military and commercial communities in which the monitoring of human performance capabilities is important.