Cooperative Agreement 70NANB11H167

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) to the Regents of the University of Minnesota provides $50,000 in funding to conduct fundamental research on enhancing the trustworthiness and authenticity of online information. The key objectives are to investigate social network structures and communication patterns to develop a framework for helping people find safe, useful, and trustworthy information in cyberspace. This...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $100,000 to Northeastern University provides funding for a 3-year collaborative research project titled "SATC: CORE: SMALL: Empathy-Based Privacy Education and Design Through Synthetic Persona Data Generation." The project aims to develop new frameworks and tools to enhance privacy education and design through the use of AI-generated synthetic...

This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of an empathy-based framework to enhance privacy education and design. The project team at the University of Notre Dame is using generative AI to create synthetic personas with AI-generated personal data. These personas are then used to design interactive sandboxes and developer tools that allow individuals to empathize with the...

This Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Federal Grant Program for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075). The project, conducted by New York University (NYU), is examining the causal impact of social media usage on individual well-being and out-group animosity across multiple countries through a global field experiment. The research team is incentivizing a large sample of people to temporarily reduce...

The Pennsylvania State University received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075). The award will support research from June 2023 to May 2026 to address concerns about privacy risks from personal information sharing on social media, especially for low-income and underrepresented groups. The university will study how socioeconomic status...

This $175,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at New Mexico State University (NMSU) to develop usable interfaces for end-to-end encrypted messaging apps that enable users to choose between plausible deniability and non-repudiation. The key goals are to: Create interaction techniques that allow users to alter the content, timing, and authorship of messages in a conversation...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) will fund a research project titled "CRII: SATC: A Framework to Defend Against Sockpuppet Connection Requests in Social Networks". The $112,610 award, effective October 1, 2024 through May 31, 2025, will be executed by the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP). The goal of this project is to expand the understanding of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) is focused on designing educational materials to promote responsible parental sharing of children's information online. The $175,000 award to Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, aims to: Understand how family interaction styles contribute to parental sharing practices and outcomes; Identify strategies...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $200,000 to Duke University to conduct a cross-national study using generative artificial intelligence, social simulation models, and online experiments. The goal is to identify how social media algorithms can be redesigned to promote mutual understanding, increase trust, and reduce polarization. The research design involves training large language models...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program provides $150,000 in funding to Georgetown University to conduct research on improving transparency between social media platforms and users regarding the handling of reported harmful content. The key objectives are to: Understand what information users want to receive from social media platforms about reported harmful content through user interviews....