CSR: Large: Collaborative Research: Smart earpiece for supporting healthy eating behaviors

CSR：大型：协作研究：支持健康饮食行为的智能耳机

• 批准号: 1565269
• 负责人: David Kotz
• 金额: $ 108.3万
• 依托单位: Dartmouth College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-10-01 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1565269&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSR; Large; Collaborative; Research; Smart

Obesity is one of the most pressing health challenges faced by our country, and has been the target of much attention in the mobile health (mHealth) community. While the science of obesity indicates that diet is a major factor in behavioral change to encourage healthy weight management, we are still not able to effectively, quickly and easily measure eating and drinking behavior. This project's goal is to develop a digital earpiece ­­ small and comfortable enough to wear behind the ear ­­ that can sense and detect actions such as eating and drinking. The project's long­term vision is to enable behavioral­health researchers to better understand health­related behaviors and, subsequently, to support the development of effective behavioral­health interventions that promote healthy diet and behavior.Ultimately, a better understanding of eating­related behaviors, and better design of effective interventions regarding eating behavior, will have profound impact on personal and public health as well as the national economy. The project's hardware and software prototypes will be shared widely in the research community to enable experimentation around the sensing and interaction opportunities possible in an earpiece device. Furthermore, the project directly involves undergraduate and graduate students in interdisciplinary research, and outreach to middle­school students, expanding the supply of scientists educated in this important emerging topic.The goal of the proposed work is to develop a digital earpiece ­­ small and comfortable enough to wear behind the ear ­­ that can sense and detect actions such as eating, drinking, smoking, and speaking, and measure physiological stress. The project's long­term vision is that computational jewelry like this earpiece will enable behavioral­health researchers to better understand health­related behaviors and, subsequently, to support the validation and deployment of effective behavioral­health interventions that promote healthy diet and behavior.The project's approach is to build a prototype wireless earpiece, small enough to wear behind the ear, with low­power (microwatt­scale) electronics and software sufficient to allow for the battery to last a full waking day; to develop efficient algorithms for detecting and distinguishing health­related behaviors (eating, drinking, smoking, speaking, and stress); and to develop easy and effective means for the wearer to interact with the earpiece and its applications.Contributions: The team expects to answer scientific questions important to achieving the above goals. Specifically, they seek to advance scientific knowledge through the design and development of a wireless earpiece capable of sensing behavior and interacting with its wearer; develop novel low­power analog electronics and distributed software algorithms for inferring relevant behaviors from sensor data; develop novel interaction modalities involving bone­conduction audio between the earpiece and its wearer, complemented by tactile interfaces on the earpiece, on the skin, or on auxiliary devices like a wristband or smartphone; and validate these approaches through user studies and experiments inside and outside the lab.

肥胖是我国面临的最紧迫的健康挑战之一，并且一直是移动健康（MHealth）社区中广泛关注的目标。尽管肥胖科学表明饮食是鼓励健康体重管理的行为改变的主要因素，但我们仍然无法有效，快速，轻松地衡量饮食行为。该项目的目标是开发一个足够舒适的数字耳机，可以在耳朵后面磨损，以感知和检测诸如饮食之类的动作。该项目的长期愿景是使行为医疗研究人员更好地了解与健康相关的行为，并随后支持开发有效的行为卫生干预措施，以促进健康的饮食和行为。在文化中，更好地了解与饮食相关的行为以及更好地设计有关饮食行为的有效干预措施将对个人和公共健康以及民族经济产生深远的影响。该项目的硬件和软件原型将在研究社区中广泛共享，以实现围绕Erapiece设备可能的灵敏度和交互机会进行实验。此外，该项目直接涉及跨学科研究的本科和研究生，并向中学生推广，扩大在这个重要的新兴主题中受过教育的科学家的供应。拟议工作的目的是将数字耳机较小且舒适地发展在耳朵后面，以便在耳朵后面佩戴和探测诸如饮食，饮用，吸烟，吸烟，并锻炼诸如饮食，吸烟，并锻炼身体，并锻炼身体，并锻炼身体，并锻炼身体，并锻炼身体，并锻炼身体，并锻炼身体，并锻炼身体。该项目的长期视野是，像这种听筒这样的计算珠宝将使行为健康研究人员能够更好地了解与健康相关的行为，并随后支持验证和部署有效的行为治疗干预措施，以促进健康的饮食和行为。醒来的一天；开发有效的算法来检测和区分与健康相关的行为（饮食，吸烟，说话和压力）；并为佩戴者提供轻松有效的手段与耳机及其应用互动。具体来说，他们试图通过设计和开发能够敏感性行为并与佩戴者互动的无线耳机的设计和开发来推进科学知识。开发新型的低力模拟电子和分布式软件算法，以从传感器数据中推断相关行为；开发出新颖的互动方式，涉及耳机及其佩戴者之间的奖励音频，并由耳机上的触觉接口，皮肤上的触觉接口或腕带或智能手机（如辅助设备）完成；并通过实验室内外的用户研究和实验来验证这些方法。

项目成果

Indutivo: Contact-Based, Object-Driven Interactions with Inductive Sensing

Indutivo：基于接触、对象驱动的感应式交互

• DOI: 10.1145/3242587.3242662
• 发表时间: 2018
• 期刊: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
• 作者: Gong, Jun;Yang, Xin;Seyed, Teddy;Davis, Josh Urban;Yang, Xing-Dong
• 通讯作者: Yang, Xing-Dong