STTR Phase I: Educational Gaming for Teen Driver Safety

这个小型企业技术转让（STTR）第一阶段项目将开发一系列基于理论、基于证据的多人游戏中的第一个，旨在解决青少年面临的主要健康风险——机动车碰撞。该STTR将提供一种新的模式，将青少年驾驶员安全方面的发现转化为驾驶员教育，抓住通过经验获得的知识中难以表达的方面，即隐性知识。我们的研究已经转化为一个理论基础，证明有效的项目，像朋友一样乘坐（RLAF），以减少来自同伴乘客的风险。这项新研究的长期目标是利用我们的基础科学和专业知识来开发一套理论驱动的、经过评估的游戏，以促进青少年的安全驾驶行为。作为第一步，这个STTR将开发和评估一个原型RLAF游戏。多人策略游戏为青少年提供了一个独特的机会来体验他们驾驶决策的影响，尤其是与乘客的互动。研究结果不仅将推动驾驶员培训领域的发展，还将促进青少年其他健康行为的教育。在导师项目之外，这类知识很少有明确的指导。我们将展示实施经验知识的正式培训的好处，以改善青少年对其安全、健康和社会交往进行推理和作出决定的方式，特别是与缺乏榜样来传授健康和有效战略的青少年有关。这个项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力包括将关于青少年驾驶风险的科学研究，特别是来自同行乘客的危险，转化为游戏，这将为教育工作者和青少年提供提高青少年驾驶安全的机会。交通事故仍然是青少年死亡和受伤的主要原因，每年造成3000多人死亡，受伤人数是青少年的100倍，相关费用超过140亿美元。CHOP/CChIPS一直处于研究的前沿，致力于理解社会压力、发展认知限制和缺乏经验的结合，这些可能是青少年乘客驾驶风险的根源。这个STTR将把这一科学基础转化为游戏，当商业化和分发时，将提高青少年驾驶安全。

This Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Phase I project will develop the first in a series of theoretically grounded, evidence-based multi-player games designed to address the leading health risk to teens - motor vehicle crashes. This STTR will provide a new model for translating discoveries in teen driver safety to driver education that captures the difficult to articulate aspects of knowledge that are gained through experience, i.e. tacit knowledge. Our research has been translated into a theoretically grounded, demonstrated efficacious program, Ride Like a Friend (RLAF), to reduce risk from peer passengers. The long-term goal of this new research effort is to leverage our foundational science and expertise to develop a suite of theoretically-driven, evaluated games that promote safe driving behaviors among teens. As a first step, this STTR will develop and assess a prototype RLAF game. Multi-player strategy games provide a unique opportunity for teens to experience the effects of their driving decisions, especially passenger interactions. Findings will advance not only the field of driver training but also education of teens about other health behaviors. Outside of mentorship programs, this type of knowledge is rarely targeted for explicit instruction. We will demonstrate the benefits of implementing formal training for experiential knowledge in improving the ways that teens reason and make decisions about their safety, health and social interactions, particularly relevant for teens who lack role models to pass on healthy and effective strategies. The broader impact/commercial potential of this project includes the translation of scientific research on teen driving risks, particularly dangers from peer passengers, into games that will offer educators and teens the opportunity to improve teen driving safety. Vehicle accidents remain the leading cause of death and injury for teens, accounting annually for over 3000 deaths, 100 times as many injuries, and over 14 billion dollars in associated costs. CHOP/CChIPS has been at the forefront of research devoted to understanding the combination of social pressures, developmental cognitive limits, and lack of experience that may be at the root of teen passenger driving risks and this STTR will translate this scientific foundation into games that when commercialized and distributed will improve teen driver safety.