FW-HTF: Collaborative Research: An Embodied Intelligent Cognitive Assistant to Enhance Cognitive Performance of Shift Workers

FW-HTF：协作研究：增强轮班工人认知表现的具体智能认知助手

• 批准号: 1839999
• 负责人: Deepak Ganesan
• 金额: $ 62.79万
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Amherst
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-15 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1839999&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: FW; HTF; Collaborative; Research; Embodied; FW; HTF; Collaborative; Research; Embodied

The Future of Work at the Human-Technology Frontier (FW-HTF) is one of 10 new Big Ideas for Future Investment announced by NSF. The FW-HTF cross-directorate program aims to respond to the challenges and opportunities of the changing landscape of jobs and work by supporting convergent research. This award fulfills part of that aim.This project develops a closed-loop embodied Intelligent Cognitive Assistant (e-ICA) to infer circadian rhythm, alertness, and stress levels and to provide personalized feedback to enhance users' cognitive ability and wellbeing in an unobtrusive and effortless manner. Approximately 20% of the labor force engages in shift work, which often leads to inadequate and poor sleep. Being out of synch with one's natural body clock, or circadian rhythm, can lead to many complications over time, including a higher likelihood for cardiovascular disease, cancer, obesity, and mental health problems. In addition, there can be serious deficits in cognitive performance, with productivity loss and more accidents in the workplace. This research program will design and develop a novel sensor-based e-ICA that can monitor shift workers' circadian rhythms, sleep patterns, and stress levels. The platform will be flexible so that it can be used to study broad populations in addition to shift workers. Given that 70 percent of the population suffers from circadian rhythm disruption, this technology has the potential to impact a wide range of workers and firms. In addition, the anonymized data and information about developed hardware and software will be shared in the community. The technology will impact the needs of a broad cross-section of stakeholders, but will be tested initially with medical residents and other health practitioners who typically work long shift that change every few weeks. Moreover, this project will also allow interdisciplinary cross fertilization between science, engineering, psychology, sleep and circadian biology, and psychiatry.The investigators explore ways to provide biologically and physiologically attuned support in the areas of cognitive ability, performance, sleep, and well-being based on the inferred individual circadian rhythm and personalized embodied assistance by: a) passively and continuously gathering behavioral and physiological streams through wearable, mobile and remote devices from workers in an effortless manner; b) continuously inferring each person's individual circadian rhythm, alertness, and stress in daily life settings; and c) providing personalized multi-sensory feedback or actionable behavioral suggestions to modulate circadian rhythm, alertness and stress levels with the aim of enhancing cognitive ability, performance and wellbeing. The investigators will test the efficacy, usability and acceptability of the system both in a series of laboratory studies and in an in-situ work environment.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.

人类技术领域（FW-HTF）的工作未来是NSF宣布的未来投资的10个新想法之一。 FW-HTF跨指导计划旨在通过支持融合研究来应对不断变化的工作和工作环境的挑战和机遇。该奖项实现了该目标的一部分。该项目开发了一个闭环体现的智能认知助手（E-IA），以推断昼夜节律，机敏和压力水平，并提供个性化的反馈，以增强用户的认知能力和以一种不受欢迎和轻松的方式。大约20％的劳动力从事轮班工作，这通常导致睡眠不足和睡眠不足。随着时间的流逝，与一个人的自然时钟或昼夜节律不同步会导致许多并发症，包括较高的心血管疾病，癌症，肥胖和心理健康问题的可能性更高。此外，在认知表现中可能会严重缺陷，生产率丧失和工作场所的更多事故。该研究计划将设计和开发一种新型的基于传感器的E-KIA，可以监视转变工人的昼夜节律，睡眠模式和压力水平。该平台将是灵活的，因此除了转班工人外，还可以用于研究广泛的人群。鉴于70％的人口遭受昼夜节律破坏，这项技术有可能影响广泛的工人和公司。此外，有关开发硬件和软件的匿名数据和信息将在社区中共享。该技术将影响利益相关者的广泛横截面的需求，但最初将与医疗居民和其他健康从业人员进行测试，他们通常每隔几周就会发生长时间的变化。此外，该项目还将允许科学，工程，心理学，睡眠和昼夜节律生物学和精神病学之间跨学科的跨施肥。研究人员探索在认知能力，表现，睡眠和良好的良性和良好的cindressigration Chieldry and intermity and thryperienationally and and and and and and and and and and and and and thermiential and and and and anderaligationally的良性和良性的良性和良性的良性和良性的良性和良好的良好的疗法和良性的良性和良性的良性和良性的助长性和良性的助长性和良性的良性，以下方式提供生物学和生理学上的支持。工人以轻松的方式可穿戴，移动和远程设备； b）在日常生活中不断推断每个人的昼夜节律，机敏和压力； c）提供个性化的多感觉反馈或可行的行为建议，以调节昼夜节律，机敏和压力水平，以增强认知能力，表现和福祉。研究人员将在一系列实验室研究和原位工作环境中测试该系统的功效，可用性和可接受性。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评估来评估值得支持的。