SBIR Phase II: Developing a Novel Platform for Teaching Emotional Literacy

这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是通过将软技能培训与主要流媒体网站相结合，提供一个引人入胜、可扩展和有效的社会情感学习平台。通过利用流行流媒体平台的影响力和吸引力，以及最新的情感和学习科学，该项目可能会改善美国年轻人的学习成绩、健康和生活质量。该产品旨在使心理健康专业人员和K-12学校受益，在企业培训和社会情感技能认证方面具有潜在的未来增长领域。这个小企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目旨在大规模提高儿童、青少年和年轻人的社会和情感技能，如情感素养、同理心和适应能力。该项目旨在提供一种解决方案，以解决现有社会情感学习（SEL）产品的一些缺点，即内容质量和多样性。该技术将通过开发一个平台来实现，该平台使用浏览器扩展技术将SEL直接集成到主要的媒体流平台上。这项技术将使利用这些平台上广泛的流行内容来培养同理心和情绪调节等关键技能成为可能。该平台将由基于既定情感科学原理的训练引擎提供动力，以实现灵活性和个性化。该平台将支持用户协作以及详细的性能分析，并将用于促进最终与移动设备和智能电视上的流媒体应用程序的集成。将进行功效研究，以评估该平台对社交情感技能的影响。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 impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project is to deliver an engaging, scalable, and effective social emotional learning platform by integrating soft skills training with major streaming media sites. By leveraging the reach and appeal of popular streaming media platforms with the latest emotion and learning science, the project may lead to improved academic performance, health, and quality of life for America’s youth. The product seeks to benefit mental health professionals and K-12 schools, with potential future areas of growth in corporate training and social emotional skills certification This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project seeks to improve social and emotional skills like emotional literacy, empathy, and resilience among children, adolescents, and young adults at scale. The project aims to deliver a solution that addresses some of the shortcomings of existing social emotional learning (SEL) offerings, namely content quality and diversity. The technology will do so through the development of a platform that integrates SEL directly with major media streaming platforms using a browser extension technology. This technology will make it possible to leverage the wide range of popular content available on those platforms to build critical skills like empathy and emotion regulation. The platform will be powered by a training engine based on established emotion science principles to enable flexibility and personalization. The platform will support user collaboration as well as detailed performance analytics and will be designed to facilitate eventual integration with streaming applications on mobile devices and smart televisions. Efficacy studies will be conducted to evaluate the platform’s impact on social emotional skills.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.