I-Corps: Video Interface for Behavioral Evaluation

行为观察是早期诊断儿童神经系统疾病的重要工具。像重复动作、凝视和发脾气这样的行为可能是自闭症、癫痫和多动症等严重疾病的早期迹象。这种间歇性的行为在短暂的临床访问中很难捕捉，并且护理人员的描述通常是有偏见和不精确的。行为观察的圣杯是在家庭或学校等自然环境中连续观察数天甚至数周。这种系统不仅可用于诊断，而且可用于跟踪治疗的有效性和对问题行为的详细功能分析。现有的视频行为编码系统不能使用，因为它们缺乏某些法律（HIPPA和FERPA法律）所要求的对患者和旁观者的隐私保护。本项目的重点是开发和商业化的视听记录和编码系统的临床使用，专门设计用于捕捉人类在自然环境中的行为，如家庭和学校。本项目的重点是开发和商业化的视频界面行为评估（VIBE）系统。VIBE的一个关键使能特性是其视觉隐私保护的创新使用：可以在患者周围设置一个“隐私气泡”以供观察，而环境的其他部分则是模糊的。所有利益相关者可以共同决定泡沫的程度，以平衡隐私需求和录制视频的实用性。除了“隐私气泡”之外，VIBE还支持各种自动事件过滤器，帮助临床医生不仅识别行为事件，还识别行为的前因和后果，从而能够设计更全面的治疗计划。

Behavioral observation is an important tool for early diagnosis of many neurological disorders in children. Behaviors like repetitive movements, staring spells, and tantrums can be early signs of serious disorders like autism, epilepsy and ADHD. Such intermittent behaviors are difficult to capture during brief clinical visits, and accounts from caregivers are usually biased and imprecise. The holy grail of behavioral observation is continuous observation over days or even weeks in naturalistic environments such as home or school. Such a system is useful not only for diagnosis but also for tracking effectiveness of treatments and detailed functional analysis of problematic behaviors. Existing video behavior-coding systems cannot be used as they lack privacy protection of patients and bystanders as required by certain laws (the HIPPA and FERPA laws). This project focuses on the development and commercialization of an audiovisual recording and coding system for clinical use, specifically designed to capture human behaviors in naturalistic environments such as home and school.This project focuses on the development and commercialization of the Video Interface for Behavioral Evaluation (VIBE) system. A key enabling feature of VIBE is its innovative use of visual privacy protection: a "privacy bubble" around the patient can be set up for observation, whereas the rest of the environment is blurred. All the stakeholders can jointly decide on the extent of the bubble to balance the privacy needs and the utility of the recorded video. In addition to the 'privacy bubble,' VIBE supports a wide array of automatic event filters that help clinicians to identify not only the behavioral episodes, but also the antecedent and the consequence of the behaviors, enabling the design of a more comprehensive treatment plan.