Cooperative Agreement 2020V3GXK002

This $302,424 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865) will fund the iterative development and evaluation of an interactive handwashing training prototype for students with disabilities in pre-vocational programs. The project aims to create an accessible, engaging digital tool that will teach proper handwashing technique, relevant scenarios, and help...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings will fund the development of haptic technology innovations to guide student gesturing with dynamic STEM visualizations from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025 for a total of $549,997. The award will support a collaborative research project between The University of Iowa to design and develop a custom haptic glove that interacts with a computer visualization of a biological...

This $746,866 federal Project Grant award from the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Research, Evaluation, and Development Project Grants program (CFDA 16.560) supports a comprehensive, multi-phase study to characterize the forensic discipline of hand image comparison. The study aims to provide essential empirical data to improve the methodology, standardization, training, and practice of this emerging forensic science. Key project elements include: Establishing a Hand Comparison Working Group...

This three-year, $243,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, will fund research to develop smart skins for robotic prosthetic hands. The grantee, Villanova University in Pennsylvania, will collaborate with researchers across the country to fundamentally understand adaptive tactile interactions between shape-morphing robotic skins and grasped objects. This will...

This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of haptic technology innovations to guide student gesturing with dynamic STEM visualizations. Specifically, the University of Illinois will design and develop a custom haptic glove that interacts with a computer visualization of a biological cell. The goal is to determine how sensory feedback delivered to students' hands helps them understand representations displayed in computer simulations. Additionally, the...

This two-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $174,368 to develop accurate and real-time 3D hand and full-body pose estimation technologies. The University of Texas at San Antonio will generate a novel synthetic hand dataset and algorithms using an advanced data generation framework, advancing research in 3D hand pose estimation, 3D body...

This four-year, $603,183 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) will support the development of shape-based remote manipulation technologies at Northwestern University. The goals of the research are to overcome limitations in haptic feedback and dexterous control for remote presence systems through innovations in multi-finger haptic interfaces, geometric modeling of grasped objects, and shape-based control...

OT App Design LLC received a $275,993 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation on April 1, 2022 to develop a mobile device-based screening tool for assessing cognitive and motor skills in K-6 students via machine learning analysis of handwriting samples. The tool aims to improve early identification of deficiencies through objective and rapid analysis of a single handwritten sentence photographed on a smart device application. Algorithms will be created to predict handwriting...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems will fund the development of shape-based remote manipulation technologies and educational outreach activities totaling $606,545. Under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the award supports four key objectives over a four-year period from September 2022 to August 2026. First, the grantees at Florida A&M University will develop a remote manipulation...

Tatum Robotics LLC was awarded a $255,975 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to develop an accessible robotic system for deafblind communication. Funded through NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the award aims to create a fully compliant anthropomorphic robotic hand capable of fingerspelling tactile sign language at variable speeds. The system will translate between spoken and signed languages to provide deafblind individuals new independence and access to...