SCC-CIVIC-PG Track B: Community Informed AI-Based System for Driver Training to Advance Neurodiverse Independence and Employment

SCC-CIVIC-PG 轨道 B：社区知情的基于人工智能的驾驶员培训系统，以促进神经多样化的独立和就业

• 批准号: 2228370
• 负责人: Nilanjan Sarkar
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2228370&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SCC; CIVIC; PG; Track; Community

In 2022, approximately 70,000 young adults with autism will leave high school and face a litany of disheartening statistics regarding independent living, community participation, and employment. Adults with autism rate employment as their top concern. A major impediment for autistic individuals to access work opportunities specifically is lack of independence with transportation; fewer than a third of driving-age individuals with autism are licensed to drive while many more are capable with the right training. This project offers a community-driven planning process to explore how a prototype of an advanced artificial-intelligence-based driving-training (AIDT) system, specifically designed for neurodiverse individuals, that together with a curriculum built on a cognitive behavioral intervention for driving, can offer an effective solution for communities to help capable autistic individual become licensed drivers, who are confident in their driving ability and able to more fully participate in community life.This Stage-1 project seeks to plan for a full pilot deployment with multiple types of civic partners and support providers – including community-based training centers and clinics, schools, and others – toward an effective, low-cost, commercializable, driving-instruction platform, with a value proposition that offers increased independence and expanded career options for individuals with autism. An AIDT prototype has been tested and demonstrated in Nashville, Tennessee, and San Diego, California. The research in this Planning Grant will involve a large group of civic entities in a community-engaged, mixed methods quantitative and qualitative data collection process to identify context determinants that are important to address within the AIDT system and in constructing a training protocol in preparation for Stage-2 pilot deployment across vocational rehabilitation, clinical services and education sites. The project expects to learn how to make the AIDT system adaptable to use within multiple employment contexts and multiple employment outcomes of relevance to stakeholder communities, how to make the AIDT outputs responsive to community service providers’ needs for maximal useability and minimal training demands, and how to finance its long-term sustainment and growth. This project is in response to the Civic Innovation Challenge program — Track B. Bridging the gap between essential resources and services & community needs — and is a collaboration between NSF, the Department of Homeland Security, and the Department of Energy.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.

2022年，大约有70,000名自闭症年轻人将离开高中，面临有关独立生活，社区参与和就业的一系列令人沮丧的统计数据。自闭症利率就业的成年人是他们的首要关注。有效的人特别获得工作机会的主要障碍是缺乏交通工具的独立性。只有三分之一以下的自闭症患者中，只有三分之一的人获得驾驶许可，而该项目的更多人提供了一个以社区为导向的计划过程，以探索如何使用高级基于人工 - 智能的驾驶训练（AIDT）系统的原型，专门为神经脱位设计而设计的，该系统专门为神经化的个人而设计，该系统可以与驾驶能力的驾驶能力相同，可以使人能够在驾驶方面进行驾驶，从而有助于驾驶的驾驶，从而有助于有效的社区，有效的是有效的，有效的是，有效的是，有效的是有效的，有效的是，有效的是，有效的是，有效的是，有效的是，有效的是，有效的是，有效的是驾驶的驾驶。他们的驾驶能力并能够更充分地参与社区生活。该阶段1项目旨在计划进行多种类型的公民合作伙伴和支持提供者（包括基于社区的培训中心和诊所，学校和其他人）的全面飞行员部署，以有效，低成本，可竞争性，可商业化，可商业化，驾驶的驾驶平台，并提供更多的价值建议，以增加独立性和扩展职业生涯的自动选择。 AIDT原型在田纳西州纳什维尔和加利福尼亚州圣地亚哥进行了测试和演示。该计划赠款中的研究将涉及一大批公民实体，参与社区参与的，混合的方法定量和定性数据收集过程，以确定对艾滋病系统内解决的上下文确定词，并在构建培训方案中为2期飞行员部署做准备，以准备跨职业康复，临床服务和教育地点。该项目希望学习如何使AIDT系统适应在多个就业环境中使用，以及与利益相关者社区相关的多种就业成果，如何使AIDT输出响应社区服务提供商的最大使用和最小的培训需求的需求以及如何为其长期的可持续性和增长提供资金。该项目是对公民创新挑战计划的回应 - 跟踪B。弥合基本资源与服务和社区需求之间的差距 - 是NSF，国土安全部和能源部之间的合作。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估基金会的智力功能和广泛的影响来评估NSF的法定任务，并被认为是珍贵的支持。