SBIR Phase I: Novel device to enhance the traditional paper book reading experience for young children

SBIR第一阶段：增强幼儿传统纸质图书阅读体验的新型设备

• 批准号: 2323385
• 负责人: Carinne Meyrignac
• 金额: $ 27.5万
• 依托单位: CALI'S BOOKS, LLC
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-09-01 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2323385&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Novel; device; enhance

The broader/commercial impact of this Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project is the development of an innovative, screenless, interactive educational device for early childhood education. The project will bring to market a book-like device that delivers audio content when the pages are pressed, establishing the viability of delivering mixed-media interactive content in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics for children from kindergarten to second grade. By performing a scientific study of how children engage with content on the device relative to the same content in paper and tablet form, this project seeks to prove the benefits of alternative, screenless, interactive learning. The project leverages fundamental educational science. It also has the potential to improve public scientific literacy and engagement with science and technology in the United States while offering important health benefits by reducing screen addiction in young children. Excessive screen time has been linked to a range of negative health outcomes, including increased risk of obesity, decreased sleep quality, and impaired social and emotional development. The project has the potential to generate significant revenue by commercializing the device both directly to consumers and through partnerships with schools.This project will see the development of an innovative, screenless learning tool for young children, by seamlessly integrating technology into a traditional book format. The proposed platform consists of three major components: a book cover that houses swappable book inserts, embedded electronics that play audio in response to a page touch, and software that powers interactions and connectivity. A microcontroller recognizes an inserted paper book and offers a personalized interactive experience using content stored on the device. Button icons printed on the book pages line up precisely with a physical button grid embedded in the device, supporting learning activities. The success of this project requires the development of three hardware components and three software components that seamlessly work together in a connected ecosystem. The research and development team focuses on developing a workable device that can be brought to market and sold to customers, releasing an initial story-based content library, and conducting a user-testing study to learn about how children engage with the device relative to screen-based alternatives.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.

这项小型企业创新研究（SBIR）I阶段项目的更广泛/商业影响是开发一种创新，无屏，互动的教育设备，用于幼儿教育。该项目将推销类似书籍的设备，该设备在按下页面时提供音频内容，从而为从幼儿园到二年级的儿童提供科学，技术，工程和数学中混合媒体互动内容的生存能力。通过对儿童如何相对于纸张和平板电脑形式相同内容的内容进行科学研究，该项目旨在证明替代性，无筛分，互动学习的好处。该项目利用基本的教育科学。 它还有潜力提高美国的公共科学素养和与科学技术的参与，同时通过减少幼儿的筛查成瘾来提供重要的健康益处。过度的屏幕时间与一系列负面健康结果有关，包括增加肥胖风险，降低睡眠质量以及社交和情感发展的障碍。该项目有可能通过将设备直接向消费​​者进行商业化，并通过与学校的合作伙伴关系来产生可观的收入。该项目将通过将技术无缝整合到传统的书籍格式中，从而为幼儿创新，无筛网学习工具的开发。所提出的平台由三个主要组成部分组成：一本书封面，可容纳可交换书籍插入物，嵌入式电子设备，这些电子设备可以播放音频，以响应页面触摸，以及为交互和连接性提供动力的软件。微控制器识别一本插入的纸质书，并使用存储在设备上的内容提供个性化的互动体验。书页上打印的按钮图标与设备中的物理按钮网格精确对齐，支持学习活动。该项目的成功需要开发三个硬件组件和三个软件组件，这些组件在连接的生态系统中无缝合作。研发团队专注于开发可行的设备，该设备可以被推向市场并出售给客户，发布了最初的基于故事的内容库，并进行用户测试的研究，以了解儿童如何与设备相对于基于屏幕的替代方案进行互动。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并认为通过基金会的知识优点和广泛的crietia crietia cripitia crigitia criperia rection the Supportiation the Alteria the Andive and Issportion the Grounia the Supportiation。