PFI-TT: Novel mobile platform technology to both prevent and respond to teen dating violence

这一创新技术转化伙伴关系(PFI-TT)项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力是开发一种智能手机应用程序/平台技术，以预防和应对约会暴力事件，这是一个影响超过35%的高中生的重大公共卫生问题，具有长期的健康、社会和经济后果。尽管这个问题很严重，68%的高中校长报告说，他们缺乏关于如何帮助青少年约会暴力受害者的正式培训。这项拟议的技术为高中提供了一种经济上可行的约会暴力预防策略。现有的移动应用程序并不是为高中生设计的，不是为了帮助自己(或朋友)青少年约会暴力的受害者，也没有一个简单的机制，让高中管理人员能够协调和定制他们的学生正在访问的预防和应对消息。如果成功，这项拟议中的技术将填补目前现有解决方案未能解决的一个空白，这些解决方案并不是为了帮助美国35163所高中注册的学生谨慎地摆脱有可能变得危险的情况。拟议的项目将由三个要素组成，这三个要素结合在一起，代表着一种针对普遍存在的公共卫生问题的高度创新的技术解决方案。首先是以新的方式使用现有的智能手机功能(例如，使用户看起来像是收到紧急短信或电话，这些短信或电话实际上是模拟的，为学生离开危险环境提供了一个社会敏感的理由)。第二是将广泛的循证研究应用于APP中的预防和应对技术功能。第三是一个简单易用的仪表板，通过它，高中管理人员可以轻松地定制后端数据库中的数据，使其特定于学生和学校，并监控其在学生中的使用。这个互动移动平台所需的具体功能要求将通过机构审查委员会(IRB)审查的访谈、焦点小组和对学生、家长/监护人和学校管理人员的在线调查来告知。拟议中的混合智能手机应用程序将在Apple iOS和Android操作系统上运行，使用谷歌的Firebase SDK进行分析，并从后端SQL数据库访问数据。APP平台将包括一个简单易用的数据库仪表板界面，使学校能够轻松定制内容，以适应学校和州的政策，并监控有关其机构内APP使用的匿名统计数据。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Partnerships for Innovation - Technology Translation (PFI-TT) PFI project is to develop a smartphone app/platform technology to prevent and respond to dating violence incidences, a significant public health problem affecting over 35% of high school students with long-term health, social and economic consequences. Despite the magnitude of this problem, 68% of high school principals reported lacking formal training on how to assist teen dating violence victims. The proposed technology offers an economically viable dating violence prevention strategy for high schools. The existing mobile apps are not designed for high school students to assist themselves (or a friend) who is a victim of teen dating violence and do not have a have a simple mechanism enabling high school administrators to coordinate and customize the prevention and response messaging their students are accessing. If successful, the proposed technology will fill a gap not addressed by currently available solutions, which are not designed to help the students enrolled in the 35,163 US high schools discretely extricate themselves from situations with the potential to become dangerous. The proposed project will consist of three elements that, combined, represent a highly innovative technology solution to a prevalent public health problem. First is the use of existing smartphone capabilities in new ways (e.g., enabling users to appear to receive urgent texts or phone calls, which are, in reality, simulated, to provide a socially sensitive reason for a student to leave a risky situation). Second is the application of extensive evidence-based research to both prevention and response technology features within the app. Third is a simple-to-use dashboard, through which high school administrators can easily customize data in the back-end database, to make it specific to their students and institution, and monitor its use among their students.The specific feature requirements needed for this interactive mobile platform will be informed by institutional review board (IRB)-reviewed interviews, focus groups and online surveys with students, parents/guardians and school administrators. The proposed hybrid smartphone app will run on Apple iOS and Android operating systems, using Google's Firebase SDK for analytics and accessing data from a back-end SQL database. The app platform will include a simple-to-use dashboard interface to the database, enabling schools to easily customize content to adapt to school and state policies and to monitor anonymous statistics about app use within their institution.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.