I-Corps: Effective software tool for reducing recreational boating accidents and fatalities

I-Corps项目更广泛的影响/商业潜力是为休闲游艇运营商开发一个移动软件应用程序(移动应用程序)，旨在减少休闲游艇事故和死亡人数。这类事故是由三个相互关联的因素造成的：船主、船只和环境。这款移动应用使用众包数据(直接来自游艇运营商)为游艇运营商提供增强的水上形势感知；例如，可以访问高分辨率的国家海洋和大气管理局(NOAA)海图、社交连接、综合潮汐/海流数据、由可信任的朋友或亲戚监控的自动浮标计划/跟踪、快速获得紧急服务等。该应用的商业路径专注于向休闲游艇公众免费提供基本的移动应用和相关的安全工具，但提供更高级的(客户要求的)功能，如社交连接和团体跟踪，并收取额外费用。这个应用程序的第二个商业途径专注于(未识别的)游艇在水上的模式和行为的数据收集。由于精算原因，这些数据在海上保险行业具有特别重要的意义，在商业游艇行业也具有商业潜力。i-Corps项目基于当前、可持续、全面、权威、非基于事故的游艇数据的开发，这些数据对于完善和更好地理解游艇事故的性质和因果关系所需的地理空间分析至关重要。拟议的移动应用程序基于一个公式，其中事故的时空序列与人类、技术和环境因素的时空函数有关。主要的技术障碍是开发一款移动应用程序，其方式将被娱乐船民广泛采用，从而促进实时、众包数据的有效收集。这款移动应用程序旨在弥合目前可用数据稀缺与船艇事故公式之间的数据鸿沟，从而更紧密地解决州和联邦船艇监管机构面临的挑战，即减少休闲船艇事故和死亡人数。要做到这一点，需要一种更优化的游艇数据收集手段，以更好地了解事故因果关系的潜在性质。这一移动应用程序旨在实现数据收集，提高游艇操作员的安全(情景感知)，减少游艇事故，并拯救生命。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 I-Corps project is the development of a mobile software application (mobile app) for recreational boat operators mobile phones intended to reduce recreational boating accidents and fatalities. Such accidents result from three interrelated factors: the boat operator, the vessel, and the environment. This mobile app uses crowdsourcing data (directly from recreational boat operators) to provide boat operators with enhanced situational awareness when on the water; e.g., access to high resolution National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) charts, social connectivity, integrated tide/current data, automated float plan/tracking monitored by trusted friends or relatives, rapid access to emergency services, etc. The commercial pathway of this app is focused on providing the basic mobile app and related safety tools to the recreational boating public for free but offering more advanced (customer requested) features such as social connectivity and group tracking for an additional fee. A second commercial pathway for this application is focused on (de-identified) data gathering of recreational boater on-the-water patterns and behavior. These data have particular significance within the marine insurance industry for actuarial reasons and also have commercial potential within the commercial boating industry as well.This I-Corps project is based on the development of current, sustainable, comprehensive, authoritative, non-accident based recreational boater data that is critical to the geospatial analytics needed to refine and better understand the nature and causality of recreational boat accidents. The proposed mobile app is based on a formula where the space-time array of accidents relates to a space-time function of human, technological, and environmental factors. The primary technical hurdle is to develop a mobile app in a way that will be adopted broadly by recreational boaters and will thus facilitate the effective collection of real-time, crowdsourced data. This mobile app is intended to bridge the data gap between the scarcity of data currently available and the boating accident formula and in so doing more closely address the challenge of state and federal boating regulatory agencies; i.e., to reduce recreational boating accidents and fatalities. To accomplish this, a more optimal means of recreational boating data collection is required to better understand the underlying nature of accident causality. This mobile application is designed to enable that data collection, to enhance recreational boat operator safety (situational awareness), to reduce recreational boating accidents, and to save lives.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.