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Visual Vestibular Test Device for Screening and Desensitization Training

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Navy
Contract: N00014-06-M-0060
Agency Tracking Number: O052-H13-3054
Amount: $99,879.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: OSD05-H13
Solicitation Number: 2005.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2005
Award Year: 2006
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2006-04-14
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2007-04-14
Small Business Information
P.O. Box 71
Hanover, NH 03755
United States
DUNS: 072021041
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Anthony Dietz
 Principal Investigator
 (603) 643-3800
 ajd@creare.com
Business Contact
 Gordon Willett
Title: Business Administration Manager
Phone: (603) 643-3800
Email: contractsmgr@creare.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The maneuvers and vibrations of modern military vehicles result in accelerations that can affect the ability of operators and occupants to read platform-fixed displays. Reflexive interactions between the visual and vestibular systems and pathology that affects these reflexes can affect dynamic visual acuity, impairing the performance of vehicle and system operators, and risking mission success. The motion stimuli can also induce motion sickness in susceptible individuals, resulting in further performance impairment. There are no field devices for evaluating dynamic visual acuity during non-voluntary translational motion. We propose to develop a computer controlled Visual Vestibular Test Device (VVTD) that will enable dynamic visual acuity testing and motion sickness desensitization training to be routinely administered by technicians with minimal training. The feasibility of the proposed device will be demonstrated in Phase I, and the device will be fabricated, validated, and installed at a military base in Phase II. The results of a detailed test program using this device will then be used to develop a low-cost lightweight device that can be used in the field.

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