SHB: Small: Collaborative Research: Reducing Alcohol Use Among College Students Using Virtual Role Playing

SHB：小型：合作研究：利用虚拟角色扮演减少大学生饮酒

• 批准号: 1116615
• 负责人: Charles Hughes
• 金额: $ 25.77万
• 依托单位: The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-09-01 至 2015-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1116615&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHB; Small; Collaborative; Research; Reducing

The project's main objective is devising a means to meet the challenge of excessive alcohol use by college students. The transition to the first year of college, in particular, is a critical age and life period when health and wellbeing are put to the test by the convergence of opportunity and peer pressure to drink heavily. Specifically, the project hypothesizes that adding the opportunity for role play in a web-based required online alcohol prevention program will improve the results compared to the web-based program only in a secondary prevention trial. All participants receive the standard alcohol prevention program required at the University of Central Florida (UCF), AlcoholEdu. Half of the randomly assigned participants have the opportunity to practice cognitive-behavioral skills through role plays. These immersive practice sessions are realistic in presenting situations that college students face in the real world. Armed with these skills and practice it is expected they will engage in less excessive alcohol use than those participants lacking this experience.A unique aspect of the proposed treatment is the use of a state-of-the-art interactive role play experience based on digital puppetry of virtual characters. Here, digital puppetry refers to the use of a human to control the actions of animated characters in real-time. Such artistry has been employed for several decades in a number of venues including television and location-based entertainment. Digital puppetry is currently employed by one of the PIs in education and peer-pressure resistance programs. By affording natural and highly versatile behaviors, puppetry greatly increases interactivity and immersion while affording flexibility in the appearance and traits of the characters and choices for the interactive scenes.An evaluation of this type of alcohol secondary prevention technique with college students is an advance in the field. Specifically, it allows the investigation of whether one-on-one virtual role-plays (e.g., a party scene in which college students can practice refusing to join a drinking game) can help students avoid difficult peer pressure situations. It could provide a new method to enhance and complement the programs currently used for alcohol secondary prevention.

该项目的主要目标是设计一种方法来应对大学生过度饮酒的挑战。特别是向大学一年级的过渡，是一个关键的年龄和人生阶段，此时健康和福祉受到机会和同伴酗酒压力的考验。具体来说，该项目假设，与仅在二级预防试验中基于网络的计划相比，在基于网络的必需的在线酒精预防计划中增加角色扮演的机会将改善结果。所有参与者都会接受中佛罗里达大学 (UCF) 要求的标准酒精预防计划，AlcoholEdu。一半随机分配的参与者有机会通过角色扮演练习认知行为技能。这些沉浸式练习课程真实地呈现了大学生在现实世界中面临的情况。有了这些技能和实践，预计他们将比那些缺乏这种经验的参与者减少过度饮酒。所提议的治疗的一个独特之处是使用基于数字的最先进的互动角色扮演体验虚拟人物的木偶。这里，数字木偶是指利用人类实时控制动画角色的动作。几十年来，这种艺术技巧已在电视和现场娱乐等许多场所得到运用。目前，一名 PI 正在教育和抵抗同伴压力项目中使用数字木偶。通过提供自然且高度灵活的行为，木偶极大地增加了互动性和沉浸感，同时为角色的外观和特征以及互动场景的选择提供了灵活性。对大学生的这种类型的酒精二级预防技术的评估是在酒精二级预防技术方面的进步。场地。具体来说，它可以调查一对一的虚拟角色扮演（例如，大学生可以练习拒绝参加饮酒游戏的聚会场景）是否可以帮助学生避免困难的同伴压力情况。它可以提供一种新方法来增强和补充目前用于酒精二级预防的计划。