Getto Awarded a Grant for Work on SOBOS App

Dr. Guiseppe Getto, with several colleagues at the university (Marti Van Scott and Ariana Billingsley), was recently awarded an Innovation Corps – National Innovation Network Teams Program grant for $50,000. The grant will help the team behind the Self-Reported On-the-Water Boat Operators Safety app develop a business model for funding their continuing work to improve boater safety.

SOBOS is an iOS and Android mobile app, providing information about normal, non-accident based recreational boaters designed to reduce recreational boating accidents. The goal is to test the efficacy of crowdsourcing recreational boating data as an evidence-based public health approach to reducing boating accidents.

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