Refresh Wellness Application: developing mental wellness tools using AI

Refresh Wellness Application：利用人工智能开发心理健康工具

• 批准号: 553248-2020
• 负责人: Blum, SusanSC
• 金额: $ 5.46万
• 依托单位: Saskatchewan Polytechnic
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Applied Research and Development Grants - Level 2
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=755287
• 关键词: Refresh; Wellness; Application; developing; mental

People experiencing mental wellness challenges or mental illness often struggle to obtain or maintain a position in the workplace. This costs the Canadian economy $50B/yr and results in five hundred thousand unemployed citizens. With lack of employment, individuals also lose mental, emotional, and physiological benefits generated through work. Disconnection perpetuates further psychological sickness. In response, the Digital Integration Centre of Excellence (DICE) at Saskatchewan Polytechnic (Sask Polytech), Refresh Enterprises, Inc. (Refresh), and the Canadian Mental Health Association, Saskatchewan Division (CMHA-SK) are collaborating to finalize the development of the Refresh Wellness App (RWA), a multifaceted lifestyle program that will promote healthy mentality and facilitate relational support through peers and professionals. RWA will leverage artificial intelligence (AI), data analytics, and automatic personality recognition (APR) technology in order to automatically respond to users' mental and emotional states, offering helpful suggestions and resources. With the individual user's permission, information could be shared with health care workers to inform their services. Service providers will be able to list themselves in the app's business directory. RWA will be a first-of-its-kind service for organizations, enabling them to analyze their corporate wellbeing as a single entity by merging data obtained from anonymized tracking of individual employees. Data encryption, anonymization, and limitation techniques will safeguard users' identities and information; local and international data management regulations will inform how the RWA handles sensitive information. In short, the Refresh Wellness App intends to become the nexus of all Canadian mental health services. Health care workers will be better connected to their patients, with access to analytic tools that will enhance their own services. Organizations will be able to both assess their strength in a completely new way and to eventually capture and utilize intersectional data.

经历心理健康挑战或精神疾病的人通常很难在工作场所获得或维持职位。这使加拿大经济每年损失 50 亿美元，并导致 50 万公民失业。由于缺乏就业，个人也会失去通过工作产生的精神、情感和生理益处。断绝联系会进一步加剧心理疾病。作为回应，萨斯喀彻温省理工学院 (Sask Polytech) 的数字集成卓越中心 (DICE)、Refresh Enterprises, Inc. (Refresh) 和加拿大心理健康协会萨斯喀彻温省分部 (CMHA-SK) 正在合作，最终开发Refresh Wellness 应用程序 (RWA) 是一项多方面的生活方式计划，将促进健康心态并促进同行和专业人士的关系支持。 RWA将利用人工智能（AI）、数据分析和自动个性识别（APR）技术，自动响应用户的心理和情绪状态，提供有用的建议和资源。经个人用户许可，可以与医疗保健工作者共享信息，以告知他们的服务。服务提供商将能够在应用程序的业务目录中列出自己。 RWA 将为组织提供首创的服务，使他们能够通过合并从单个员工的匿名跟踪中获得的数据来分析作为单一实体的企业福祉。数据加密、匿名和限制技术将保护用户的身份和信息；当地和国际数据管理法规将告知 RWA 如何处理敏感信息。简而言之，Refresh Wellness 应用程序旨在成为加拿大所有心理健康服务的纽带。医护人员将能够更好地与患者建立联系，获得能够增强自身服务的分析工具。组织将能够以全新的方式评估其实力，并最终捕获和利用交叉数据。