NRT-FW-HTF: Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering (NISE)

NRT-FW-HTF：神经多样性启发的科学与工程 (NISE)

• 批准号: 1922697
• 负责人: Keivan Stassun
• 金额: $ 299.98万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1922697&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NRT; FW; HTF; Neurodiversity; Inspired

Neurodiversity is an emerging concept through which certain neurological differences - Autism, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Dyslexia, and others - are considered a natural part of human neurocognitive variation, associated not only with impairments but also with unique strengths. Indeed, many neurodiverse people have capabilities that are in high demand across many sectors, yet their potential remains vastly underutilized. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to Vanderbilt University will address this potential by training graduate students in a new interdisciplinary field of Neurodiversity Inspired Science and Engineering (NISE), which links human-technology frontiers (HTF) research and education across STEM disciplines through a cohesive focus on autism. The project anticipates providing a unique and comprehensive training opportunity for one hundred fifty (150) MS and PhD students, including forty-five (45) funded trainees, from computer science, mechanical engineering, data science, psychology, organizational science, and neuroscience. Students will engage in research that has as its goals: (i) understanding the unique capabilities associated with autism and learning to match these capabilities to 21st-century workforce needs, (ii) prototyping assistive technologies to enable employment and workplace success, and (iii) exploring organizational practices that help leverage the talents of autistic individuals and enhance organizational innovation.The NISE NRT project seeks to train a new type of engineer and scientist, one who can devise innovations that support workforce engagement of individuals with autism and/or that are inspired by autistic capabilities. Building on the strengths of Vanderbilt's new Frist Center for Autism & Innovation, this NRT project will engage trainees in the development, deployment, and commercialization of HTF approaches and devices, providing broadly applicable skills in artificial intelligence, data science, robotics, virtual reality, and inclusive design. Collaboration with practitioners in clinical psychology, special education, and business, will ensure relevance of trainees' projects to the clinical, educational, and/or commercial domains. Trainees will participate in the Vanderbilt NSF I-Corps program as well as invention disclosure and patents. Research projects will also impact K-12 students and teachers in the communities where NRT trainees conduct their work. A central part of the program's plan to recruit, mentor, and advance women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities is the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program, a national exemplar in STEM graduate diversity. Trainees will undertake, in addition to their regular graduate program requirements, a common core of three new NISE courses, summer school, workshops, and internships, culminating in a graduate certificate in NISE. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.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.

神经多样性是一个新兴的概念，通过某些神经系统差异（自闭症，注意力缺陷多动障碍，阅读障碍和其他）被认为是人类神经认知变化的自然组成部分，不仅与损害有关，而且与独特的优势相关。的确，许多神经多样性人的能力在许多领域都有需求很高，但是他们的潜力仍然很少充分利用。 范德比尔特大学（NRT）这项国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）奖将通过在新的神经多样性跨学科领域培训研究生启发的科学与工程学（NISE）来解决这一潜力，该领域将人类技术领域（HTF）研究与教育联系起来，通过对自身抗管的凝聚力将人类技术领域（HTF）研究与教育联系起来。该项目预计，来自计算机科学，机械工程，数据科学，心理学，组织科学和神经科学的一百五十（150）个MS和博士生提供独特而全面的培训机会。学生将参与具有其目标的研究：（i）了解与自闭症相关的独特功能，并学习将这些能力与21世纪的劳动力需求相匹配，（ii）原型辅助技术能够使就业和工作场所取得成功和工作场所成功，以及（iii），（iii）探索组织的实践，以培训一定的组织，并培训了一项新的Inneriations Innerotisation Inner nert nrt nrt nrt nrt nrt nrt nrt nr nrt nrt nrt nrt nrt nrt nrt nrt nrt nrt nrt sister。谁能设计创新，以支持自闭症和/或受自闭症能力启发的人的劳动力参与。该NRT项目以范德比尔特（Vanderbilt）新的自闭症与创新中心的优势为基础，将吸引受训者的HTF方法和设备的开发，部署和商业化，从而在人工智能，数据科学，机器人技术，虚拟现实和包容性设计方面提供广泛适用的技能。与临床心理学，特殊教育和商业的从业人员的合作将确保受训者项目与临床，教育和/或商业领域的相关性。学员将参加Vanderbilt NSF I-Corps计划以及发明披露和专利。研究项目还将影响NRT学员进行工作的社区的K-12学生和教师。该计划招募，导师和促进妇女，人数不足的少数群体和残疾人的计划的核心是Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-Phd桥计划，这是STEM研究生多样性的国家典范。除了定期的研究生课程要求外，学员还将承担三个新课程，暑期学校，讲习班和实习的共同核心，并在NISE的研究生证书中达到最终。 NSF研究训练（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施用于STEM研究生教育培训的大胆，新的潜在变革模型。该计划致力于通过全面的跨学科或收敛性研究领域的STEM研究生进行有效培训，通过全面的培训模型，这些模型具有创新性，基于循证的，并且与不断变化的劳动力和研究需求保持一致。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过使用基金会的知识优点和广泛影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被视为值得的支持。

项目成果

Social Cognition Paradigms ex Machinas

机械社会认知范式

• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Computational Theory of Mind for Human-Machine Teams
• 作者: Michelson, J.;Sanyal, D.;Ainooson, J.;Yang, Y.;Kunda, M.
• 通讯作者: Kunda, M.

A measure of visuospatial reasoning skills: Painting the big picture

视觉空间推理能力的衡量标准：描绘大局

• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS
• 作者: Michelson, J.;Sanyal, D.;Ainooson, J.;Kunda, M.
• 通讯作者: Kunda, M.

Project AIM: Autism intervention meta-analysis for studies of young children.

• DOI: 10.1037/bul0000215
• 发表时间: 2020-01
• 期刊: Psychological bulletin
• 影响因子: 22.4
• 作者: Sandbank M;Bottema-Beutel K;Crowley S;Cassidy M;Dunham K;Feldman JI;Crank J;Albarran SA;Raj S;Mahbub P;Woynaroski TG
• 通讯作者: Woynaroski TG

A review of decreased sound tolerance in autism: Definitions, phenomenology, and potential mechanisms.

自闭症声音耐受性下降的回顾：定义、现象学和潜在机制。

• DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.11.030
• 发表时间: 2021-03
• 期刊: Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
• 影响因子: 8.2
• 作者: Williams ZJ;He JL;Cascio CJ;Woynaroski TG
• 通讯作者: Woynaroski TG

Sensory Responsiveness Is Linked With Communication in Infant Siblings of Children With and Without Autism

• DOI: 10.1044/2021_jslhr-20-00196
• 发表时间: 2021-06-01
• 期刊: JOURNAL OF SPEECH LANGUAGE AND HEARING RESEARCH
• 影响因子: 2.6
• 作者: Feldman, Jacob I.;Raj, Sweeya;Woynaroski, Tiffany G.
• 通讯作者: Woynaroski, Tiffany G.