The National Science Foundation awarded a $457,105 project grant to The University of Texas at San Antonio under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support research into reducing cognitive demands and safety risks for users of mobile augmented and virtual reality technologies. Specifically, the research team will study how mobile augmented and virtual reality headsets impact user attention and symptoms of sickness while...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to counteract cybersickness in virtual reality (VR). The $599,848 project, awarded to Clemson University, explores using cognitive engagement tasks to reduce discomfort experienced by VR users. The key objectives are to study how different types of tasks impact cybersickness, develop an AI system to automatically provide...
This two-year, $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to develop techniques to enhance the security and privacy of augmented reality mobile applications. The University of Texas at San Antonio will analyze the software behaviors of augmented reality elements like trackables and anchors to detect potential privilege abuses. Researchers will create a framework to formally model these behaviors over an...
The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) received a $600,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the agency's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The grant supports UTSA's research to create and evaluate methods for real-time detection of potential collisions and provide optimized feedback to reduce injury when using virtual reality head-mounted displays. Key objectives include...
This $600,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund research at Penn State University to develop new virtual reality computing techniques and GPU hardware designs for mobile devices. Specifically, the three-year award aims to minimize the amount of VR computation through identifying redundancy among rendered frames for different users and reusing frames when possible. It will also investigate VR frame tiling...
This National Science Foundation award of $150,000 provides funding for a two-year project grant to Arizona State University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The project aims to develop a software analysis framework to detect and mitigate security and privacy risks in augmented reality mobile applications. Specifically, the university researchers will conduct static and dynamic program analysis focused on unique augmented reality elements like...
This $300,000 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) supports research at New York University to develop efficient computer systems for augmented and virtual reality through a perception-guided approach. Specifically, the researchers will design software-hardware mechanisms to quantitatively model human visual perception and leverage those models across system stacks to achieve an order of magnitude gain in...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $600,000 project grant to the University of Pittsburgh under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year award will support research into software-hardware architecture co-design for enabling true virtual reality experiences on mobile devices. The University of Pittsburgh will develop new virtual reality computing techniques and GPU hardware designs to minimize the amount of VR computation needed....
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), provides $171,879 to Montclair State University to develop secure and privacy-preserving augmented reality systems. Over a two-year period from October 2022 through September 2024, the University will work to identify potential sensor injection attacks on augmented reality devices and propose defense algorithms using...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) will provide $324,000 to The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to develop innovative techniques for automating the testing of augmented reality (AR) applications. The project aims to create an infrastructure that allows existing automatic graphical user interface (GUI) testing techniques to be applied to AR apps, including automating test scene...
This $738,652 three-year Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will support research into improving the safety and usability of mobile augmented and virtual reality technologies. The grantee, the University of California, Santa Barbara, will investigate how these immersive head-mounted displays affect users' attention, symptoms of motion sickness, and situational awareness when worn while walking. Researchers will collect physiological data from users and develop automated tools to reduce cognitive load and make the technologies safer for motion usage. Outcomes will be incorporated into relevant courses at UCSB and the University of Texas at San Antonio to advance student training. Given the technologies' prevalence and potential risks when overloading users' cognitive capacities, this research aims to fill gaps in understanding their effects during mobile usage scenarios.