SBIR Phase I: Coding the Affective Domain and Visuospatial Ability

小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目的更广泛影响/商业潜力支持了视觉空间教育评估工具的开发。视觉空间能力是智力的一个方面，是创新思维的基础，也就是说，新想法是如何出现的？其中涉及哪些生理过程？今天，社会上存在着对数字视觉刺激的压倒性接触，国家评估机构承认视觉空间抽象推理是一种被接受和追求的认知能力。未来的课程设计必须随着人们如何改变和感知知识而发展。这个项目试图通过引入一种新的评估来设定视觉空间能力教育的标准。这个视觉空间评估工具将利用一个软件平台，允许客户在线进行评估，并具有商业潜力来改进工业、科学和教育项目，以促进人类交流。这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目调查信息技术的发展，其中包括视觉空间能力评估，以衡量创造性所需的生物过程。人类在生物学上倾向于感知和复制对称性，主要是以视觉形式，但也在听觉上；这一拟议的视觉空间评估工具衡量了感知和复制对称性所需的一些生物过程。具体地说，这个评估测量了一种形式的感觉运动知觉行动，在这个项目中被称为‘情感对称性测量’(ASG)。ASG由受试者与生俱来的视觉知觉/对给定图案中的极端和平均比率点(DEMR；即对称点)的划分的识别组成。由于这一过程衡量了受试者在给定图案中感知/识别和重现对称点的程度，该工具还建议受试者可能倾向于重现对称性的程度，将这种倾向标记为与愉悦相一致的创造力的自然人类表达。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力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 impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project supports the development of a visuospatial educational assessment tool. Visuospatial aptitude is a facet of intelligence that underlies innovative thinking, i.e., how do new ideas emerge? and What are the physiological processes involved? Today, there is an overwhelming exposure within society to digital visual stimuli and national assessment authorities acknowledge visuospatial abstract reasoning as an accepted and sought after cognitive ability. Future curriculum designs must develop along with how people are changing and perceiving knowledge. This project seeks to set standards in education on visuospatial ability by introducing a novel assessment. This visuospatial assessment tool will utilize a software platform that allows customers to take the assessment online, and has commercial potential to improve industry, science, and educational programs for the advancement of human communication.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project investigates the development of an information technology consisting of a visuospatial ability assessment for measuring the biological processes that are required for being creative. Humans are biologically predisposed both to perceive and to reproduce symmetry, mainly in visual form, but also aurally; This proposed visuospatial assessment tool measures some of the biological processes that are required for the perception and reproduction of symmetry. Specifically, this assessment measures a form of sensorimotor perceptual action referred to in this project as ‘affective symmetry gauging’ (ASG). ASG consists of a subject’s innate visual perception/identification of the division in extreme and mean ratio point (DEMR; i.e., the symmetry point) in a given pattern. Because this process measures the extent to which a subject can perceive/identify and reproduce the symmetry point in given patterns, the tool also suggests the degree to which a subject may be inclined to reproduce symmetry, marking this inclination as a natural human expression of creativity aligned to pleasingness.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.