STTR Phase I: An Intelligent Mental Health Therapy Tool

该小型企业技术转让第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是帮助使治疗与患者的偏好、信念和价值观更加一致，以最大限度地参与治疗并改善患者结局。 心理健康问题的治疗非常有效，但许多患者在获得全部益处之前就退出了，因为他们不满意或不参与治疗。 在线治疗师辅助（TAO）提供了一系列在线心理治疗工具，包括教育材料，移动的设备上的家庭作业，与治疗师的视频会议，以及每周的进度监控。 该项目涉及收集所有患者的数据？TAO系统中的操作沿着他们对每项活动的评级和他们随时间的症状改善。 研究和开发团队将使用这些数据创建一个机器学习系统，该系统将根据数千名其他用户的体验为治疗的最佳后续步骤提供建议。 这就是智能咨询系统。 它的工作原理与电影流媒体服务或在线图书销售商非常相似，他们根据一个人向你推荐电影或书籍？用户过去的偏好和成千上万其他用户的偏好。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Technology Transfer, Phase I project is to help make therapy more consistent with patient preferences, beliefs, and values to maximize engagement in therapy and improve patient outcomes. Therapy for mental health problems is highly effective, yet many patients drop out before getting the full benefit because they are not satisfied or engaged in the therapy. Therapist Assisted Online (TAO) provides an array of tools for online psychotherapy including educational materials, homework on mobile devices, video conferencing with a therapist, and weekly monitoring of progress. The proposed project involves collecting data on all of patients? actions in the TAO system along with their ratings of each activity and their symptom improvement over time. The research and development team will use this data to create a machine learning system that will make suggestions for best next steps in therapy based on what thousands of other users experienced. This is the intelligent counseling system. It will work very similarly to movie streaming services or online book sellers who recommend movies or books to you based on a person?s past preferences and the preferences of thousands of other users.