Project Grant 1704425

This $240,900 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports the development of educational resources for the ethical use of pervasive data in computing research. The project aims to address the unique ethical challenges around the collection and use of pervasive data - rich information generated from people's digital interactions - which often falls outside traditional human subjects...

This $400,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of an ethical framework to guide research on online communities. Awarded to the Regents of the University of Minnesota under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), the three-year project will engage representatives from five online communities to create actionable guidelines. A team of researchers will follow a participatory process with community members and organizers to...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $173,044 awarded to Hamilton College on July 1, 2022 will support research exploring transparency and access control challenges in life science data sharing. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the two-year project will clarify issues associated with access control when scientists share data through semi-structured interviews and observation. It will also develop and release an open-source software system to...

This three-year project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totals $198,744 to fund research on student data in the post-pandemic university setting. The grantee, Columbia University, will conduct a qualitative study exploring how students understand and react to institutional data collection practices and how social differences may impact student experiences with educational technology and data surveillance. Through surveys and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program for $105,000 aims to develop a novel ecosystem to support ethical cybersecurity research. Key products and services include: The project team will conduct empirical studies to assess ethical challenges faced by cybersecurity researchers, develop an evidence-based taxonomy of ethical protocols for recurring cybersecurity research scenarios, and translate this into an...

This $700,000 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The goal of this 5-year project is to enable computer science researchers to better identify and mitigate potential undesirable consequences of their innovations. The research team will develop a web-based system to allow researchers to: (a) document case studies of negative...

This $1.32 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund the Data Alliance on Persistence and Perception in Computing (DAPPIC). Led by Northeastern University from October 2022 to September 2024, DAPPIC will improve the availability and use of quantitative and qualitative data to support broadening participation in undergraduate computing education. Specifically, DAPPIC will integrate enrollment, retention, and...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Social and Economic Science under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $393,256 to George Mason University to conduct research investigating the broader privacy ecosystems that vulnerable populations experience, beyond just individual mobile applications. The key products and services being delivered under this three-year award include: Qualitative research, including...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems provides $249,527 to Pomona College to conduct collaborative research evaluating the effectiveness of data fiduciary privacy laws. The research aims to predict how online services would change under alternative privacy law frameworks, in order to inform the development of privacy laws that can better uphold societal values. The project will employ qualitative and user-focused...

This $420,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports collaborative research by Northeastern University to develop methods for protecting privacy and promoting fairness in advanced genomic research using federated learning approaches. The research aims to enable secure integration of multi-cohort genomic and genetic datasets from different institutions, which is critical for...