Cooperative Agreement AIDOAAA1200033

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) provides $599,898 to The University of Kentucky Research Foundation to develop advanced task-oriented dialog systems that can adapt to new user intents, provide comprehensive responses beyond structured databases, and personalize interactions based on user traits. The key objectives are to enhance the adaptability, flexibility, and personalization...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders federal grant program (CFDA 93.173), aims to investigate the impact of modeling verbal mediation on shifting task performance in school-aged children with Developmental Language Disorder (DLD). The $192,289 award to The MGH Institute Of Health Professions, Inc. will fund a study to determine whether training children with...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the federal Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), provides $122,654 to the University of California, Irvine to document the home and community storytelling practices of Mexican-American bilingual children with developmental language disorder. The key products of this 2-year project include: (1) providing ethnographic documentation of the...

This $263,319 Project Grant, awarded by the Inter-American Foundation (IAF) under the IAF Assistance for Overseas Programs (CFDA 85.750), supports the organization Fundacion Dreaming Colombia in facilitating dialogues among actors of the armed conflict in Colombia, including social and environmental leaders, survivors, and others affected by violence. The grant funding enables Dreaming Colombia to promote reconciliation and personal transformation through an intensive psychological...

The Department of State Bureau of Counterterrorism awarded a $140,000 project grant to the Institute For Strategic Dialogue to support the CITY PAIR PROGRAM WORKSHOP in Finland. The grant was awarded on September 15, 2021 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) with a completion date of May 31, 2023. The Public Diplomacy Programs aim to support U.S. foreign policy goals through informing and influencing foreign publics. For this award, the Institute For Strategic Dialogue will...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences, under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075), provides $763,822 to Vanderbilt University to advance understanding of cognitive and linguistic processes in conversational interactions. Over three years, the university will conduct twelve behavioral experiments to determine how individuals form probabilistic representations of what their conversational...

This $270,520 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD), under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), aims to generate a sensitive, quantitative metric of vocal communication for minimally-speaking individuals. The key products and services to be delivered through this five-year project include: Enrolling 90 minimally-speaking individuals (ages 6-35) to track their phonological vocalization...

The federal Project Grant award, with ID SAL60024GR0057, was provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs under the AEECA/ESF Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.900). The $362,224 grant awarded to Instituti Per Demokraci DHE Ndermjetsim, a non-profit organization in Tirana, Albania, aims to enhance community resilience against violent extremism. The key products and services to be delivered include expanding the implementation of the School as Community...

The U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs, through the Africa Regional Democracy Fund (CFDA 19.225), awarded a $225,000 Project Grant to Isoko Partners For Peace And Gender Equality. The grant will support the organization's initiative to create a sustainable model of women and youth participation in local and provincial governance and peacebuilding processes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo through the Community Academy for Democracy and Development. The project will be...

This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), under the Federal Grant Program "Drug Use and Addiction Research Programs" (CFDA 93.279), is focused on developing tools to quantify and analyze temporal patterns of multimodal communication behavior during face-to-face and remote dyadic conversations. The $182,323 award supports key activities, including convening a multidisciplinary expert team, building testing rooms for high-resolution multimodal data...