SBIR/STTR Research Award
COMPUTER-ASSISTED SMOKING CESSATION
Award amount
$49,946Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
1992Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- Not reported
- Recipient company
- FLORIDA MAXIMA CORPORATION
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- XULRWJVVL8V3
- Solicitation number
- Not reported
- Topic code
- Not reported
Research abstract
THE LONG-TERM GOAL OF THE RESEARCH IS TO DEVELOP A HAND-HELD COMPUTER THAT WILL ASSIST SMOKERS IN THEIR EFFORT TO QUIT SMOKING. PHASE I RESEARCH IS DESIGNED TO ASSESS THE FEASIBILITY OF THIS APPROACH. THE PHASE I RESEARCH WILL HAVE FOUR SPECIFIC AIMS: (1) TO CONCEPTUALIZE AND DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE, THEORETICALLY BASED OUTLINE OF THE THERAPEUTIC STRATEGIES/ROUTINES THAT A COMPUTER WOULD HAVE IF IT WERE TO ASSIST A SMOKER; (2) TO IDENTIFY TWO METHODS CAPABLE OF IMPLEMENTING ONE OF THE LIKELY THERAPEUTIC ROUTINES, NAMELY, THE INDUCTION OF A POSITIVE MOOD; (3) TO WRITE THE PROGRAM CODE FOR THE POSITIVE MOOD INDUCTION PROCEDURE; AND (4) TO PILOT TEST THE MOOD INDUCTION PROCEDURE WITH 30 CURRENT SMOKERS WITH A 2 X (NEUTRAL OR POSITIVE MOOD) 2 (AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL VERSUS SOCIAL FEEDBACK) DESIGN.
Technology keywords
Not reported
Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- Fatigue Countermeasures: A Meta-Analytic Integration
- Smart Machinery Spaces
- Assessment of Team Competencies
- Not Available
- Not Available
Research funding history
11 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (1990–2002). Reported award amounts total $1,355,946. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase I, Phase II
Agencies: Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Science Foundation, Department of Health and Human Services