Project Grant 2049046

The National Science Foundation awarded $300,000 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to the University of California, Davis for a project titled "EAGER: Building a Foundation for Hands-on STEM Learning at a Distance: Pedagogical Agents for Embodied Education in Virtual Reality." The two-year project beginning August 1, 2022 will develop embodied pedagogical agents in a virtual environment to facilitate maker education tasks focusing on electronic...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program provides $1,300,000 to the University of Virginia to develop low-cost, adaptable physical computing tools such as robots to provide equitable opportunities for elementary and middle school students to learn computer science (CS) skills and concepts. The project aims to investigate how these educational robots can help students develop CS understanding and executive functioning skills, while...

This three-year, $671,724 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at the University of Missouri to develop augmented reality learning platforms for undergraduate engineering laboratories. The grant aims to integrate real-time 3D motion tracking, eye tracking, and location sensing technologies to create an innovative augmented reality environment. This next-generation augmented reality platform seeks to address challenges students face in navigating augmented reality devices...

This $850,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will support the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in developing mixed reality participatory simulations to support complex systems learning. Over three years, MIT will design two mixed reality simulations using augmented and virtual reality headsets that allow classroom groups of students to collaboratively engage with system of systems models. Each student group will take on roles like...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $597,395 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to The Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford University) to investigate a model for AI-supported mobile augmented reality (AR) for precollege science learning. The project aims to create interactive AR "laboratories" that allow students to manipulate virtual science simulations using voice commands. The AR experiences will...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program supports collaborative research to advance observational 3D sketching and cross-reality user interfaces. The Regents of the University of Minnesota will lead this 3-year project, which aims to develop new augmented and mixed reality tools to enable users to make real-world observations and translate them into 3D drawings. The key objectives are to...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education (formerly Education and Human Resources) program (CFDA 47.076) provides $156,000 to Northwestern University to rapidly develop and research a set of "unplugged" hands-on learning activities for teaching middle-school students about artificial intelligence (AI). The project aims to create an open-source repository of up to 15 hands-on, low-cost AI literacy activities that can be led by educators...

This three-year, $1.7 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance virtual learning environments through olfactory integration. Arizona State University will develop portable hardware and software to reliably synthesize virtual odors for delivery in real-time 3D environments. Researchers will design tools for virtual odor space development and model complex odor propagation. The project seeks to understand...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $380,000 Project Grant to The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State), under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), for a 3-year collaborative research project focused on developing an extended reality (XR) factory simulation to investigate the impact of technological advances on adaptive problem-solving skills and personalized learning in manufacturing education. The project will design and develop a virtual...

This $667,156 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings will fund the development of a Data Sensing Learning Environment (DASLET) to advance middle school students' computational thinking skills and engagement with STEM careers in the construction industry. Under the NSF's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), which supports the development of the Nation's STEM education enterprise, Texas A&M University will...