I-Corps: Digital Solution for Preventing Interpersonal Violence

I-Corps项目的更广泛/商业影响是开发一种数字解决方案，以解决长期存在的人际暴力（IPV）社会问题，该问题主要影响全世界的妇女和女孩。社会科学研究证明，由于“父权制度”所灌输的暴力正常化，数百万人没有报告并在沉默中受苦。增强人们的权能，特别是妇女、女童和性少数群体的权能，使他们能够主动采取措施，打破沉默，结束暴力，这是这项数字干预的主要目标。拟议的数字技术提供了一种主动能力，可以为政府（特别是刑事司法机构）、妇女和宗教组织、教育机构（学院和大学）和公司（促进多样性和弹性的公司）等组织提供快速预防IPV的解决方案，具有广泛的节约成本的公共效益和商业前景。这种产品的成功商业化将使这种一站式认识和赋权数字平台进入市场，并有可能对IPV预防产生重大影响。这项技术可以改善来自不同社会经济阶层的数百万妇女的生活，为美国各地的社区和公司带来切实的经济利益。I-Corps项目基于一种数字工具的开发，该工具将刑事司法和认知科学中的社会科学原理与最先进的软件工程技术、数据科学和计算机科学相结合。先前的研究表明，基于数字技术的web应用程序可以克服在数字隐私、安全、低资源环境下的可访问性和处理人际暴力（IPV）的可用性方面的主要挑战。IPV是一个敏感的个人问题，其不同的生态系统和原型提出了独特的挑战。所提出的技术是一种基于社会科学研究的软件产品，其核心是使用数学算法（例如，基于数据挖掘、机器学习和人工智能）。重点是积极主动地使人们能够从基于社会科学研究的评估中了解他们的个人情况，然后向他们提供资源，以预防IPV或更好地管理正在发生的情况。该产品被设想为一个数字模块化平台，可用于所有移动电话和笔记本电脑，以及带宽有限的蜂窝环境。软件内置的数据分析与人工智能相结合，将为用户提供即时反馈，帮助他们做出明智的决定。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The broader/commercial impact of this I-Corps project is the development of a digital solution that would address a long-standing societal problem of Inter-Personal Violence (IPV) that primarily affects women and girls worldwide. Social science research has proven that millions of people do not report and suffer in silence because of the normalizations of violence instilled by the “patriarchal system.” Empowering people, especially women, girls, and sexual minorities to take proactive measures in breaking their silence in ending violence is the primary goal of this digital intervention. The proposed digital technology provides a proactive capability that may have wide cost-saving public benefits as well as commercial prospects in providing rapid IPV prevention solutions to organizations such as the government (especially criminal justice agencies), women’s and faith-based organizations, educational institutions (college and universities), and corporations (companies promoting diversity and resilience). Successful commercialization of such a product would bring this one-stop awareness and empowerment digital platform to the market with the potential to make significant impact on IPV prevention. The technology could improve the lives of millions of women from varied socio-economic strata, delivering tangible economic benefits to communities and corporations across the U.S.This I-Corps project is based on the development of a digital tool that involves unique integration of social science principles in criminal justice and cognitive science with state-of-the-art software engineering technology, data science, and computer science. Prior research suggests that a digital technology-based web application may overcome major challenges in digital privacy, safety, accessibility under low resources environments, and usability in dealing with Inter-Personal Violence (IPV). IPV is a sensitive, personal issue, and its varied ecosystems and archetypes posit unique challenges. The proposed technology is a software product grounded in social science research using mathematical algorithms (e.g., based on data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence) at its core. The focus is on proactively empowering people to understand their personal circumstances from social science research-based evaluations and then providing them with resources to prevent IPV or to better manage an ongoing situation. The product is envisioned as a digital modular platform that would be designed to be usable on all mobile phones and laptops, and bandwidth limited cellular environments. The data analytics built into the software and integrated with artificial intelligence will provide instant feedback to users to help them make informed decisions.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.