This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems will fund $196,892 for research into understanding online-to-offline sexual violence through data donation from online dating app users. The award, made under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will support the development of a data donation app and longitudinal study of consent practices between online and offline sexual encounters among online...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Computer and Network Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070), provides $300,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2023. The grant funds research to develop design principles for network-scale applications by analyzing how application design impacts user behavior and societal outcomes. Specifically,...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems Project Grant award of $1,132,002 to the Regents of the University of Michigan, Office of Research and Sponsored Projects (doing business as the University of Michigan), will examine the design of sociotechnical systems that offer user controls for combating non-consensual intimate media (NCIM) and deter perpetrators from sharing it. The research objectives include: 1) understanding victim needs through design...
This National Science Foundation Project Grant of $200,000 awarded on February 1, 2022 will fund research to gather and analyze survey data on citizen perspectives regarding peace, security, and human rights in a post-conflict environment. Under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), the University of Massachusetts will field three public opinion surveys in a post-conflict country using random domain intercept technology to collect anonymous samples. The...
This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program totaling $246,455 will fund research examining socio-technical practices governing the design, manufacture, and distribution of emerging digital technologies. Specifically, the two-year award to the University of Massachusetts will support multi-sited ethnographic research and analyses exploring how entrepreneurs, manufacturers, and investors are actively building and circulating...
This $174,995 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports research to understand and optimize the role of human intelligence in data integration and discovery pipelines, especially in the context of emerging large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. The project will investigate fundamental questions about human involvement in these data processes, uncover relevant human biases, and...
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 Project Grant award in the amount of $599,997.00 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to understand how organizations that support vulnerable populations, such as migrants and veterans, use technology to build resilience and adapt to changing needs and conditions. The research team at the University of Colorado, Boulder will conduct interviews and focus groups with organizations serving refugee...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is providing a $299,181 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to the University of Colorado to study the mechanisms that lead to a lack of diversity in computer science (CS) research subfields. The three-part study includes in-depth interviews, textual analysis of subfield discourse, and a large-scale survey to quantify participation of domestic racial minorities in CS subfields. The goal is to develop a...
This $272,750 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports fundamental research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on how people make decisions and interact based on information. The key research focuses include: 1) understanding the long-term implications of people's limited or imperfect memory, which can lead to overconfidence and neglect of rare events; 2) examining how people decide...