This $239,973 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the development of a new artificial intelligence-based tool to improve collaborative learning experiences and outcomes for deaf students in university-level science courses. The project aims to address challenges around the lack of standard American Sign Language (ASL) terminology for many scientific concepts, which can hinder deaf...
This $260,027 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the development of a new artificial intelligence tool designed to improve collaborative learning experiences for deaf students in university-level science courses. The project aims to address challenges around the lack of standardized American Sign Language (ASL) signs for many scientific concepts, which can hinder deaf students'...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) supports the development of an innovative, AI-driven platform for personalized language learning and speech development for young children. The $303,226 award to Yeboah, AMY (dba ED Alliance Partners) aims to create an adaptive technology solution that combines phoneme recognition algorithms and adaptive learning models to track, assess, and...
This $749,685 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of an Automated, Integrated, Multimodal Software (AIMS) system to improve inclusive access to information for persons with disabilities. Saint Louis University leads a consortium that includes software companies Vital, Unar Labs, and Viewplus Technologies to build a unified framework for authoring, converting, and delivering accessible content...
This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,850 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles from May 2022 to April 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research aims to improve speech technology and develop automated oral literacy assessments to better support learning outcomes for young African American English-speaking children. Specifically, the university researchers will develop data augmentation and...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $457,873 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new technology that enhances communication and interaction for individuals with severe disabilities. The key objectives are to build and test a novel user interface that leverages multiple information sources, such as eye gaze, language models, behavior...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $285,274 to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to develop and test new technology that will enhance communication and interaction for individuals with severe speech and motor impairments. The project aims to create a novel interface that leverages multiple information sources, such as eye gaze, language models, behavioral patterns, and sequences of...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award of $299,963 aims to destigmatize disfluencies in speech artificial intelligence (AI) by partnering with the grassroots stuttering community organization "StammerTalk". The key objectives are to: (a) develop metrics, tools, and techniques to measure and address fluency biases in existing automatic speech recognition (ASR) models, and (b) study StammerTalk's...
This $178,992 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Georgia State University Research Foundation to improve speech technology for better learning outcomes among African American English-speaking children. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program, the three-year award aims to develop data augmentation and normalization techniques to increase the amount of training data available and improve automatic speech recognition performance for this...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) supports research to develop advanced, user-friendly assistive artificial intelligence (AI) systems that enable individuals with severe movement disabilities to control robotic devices. The $273,424 award to the University of Rhode Island aims to create a framework for multimodal, human-centered shared autonomy AI paradigms that empower those with paralysis to control high-degree-of-freedom...
This seven hundred forty-nine thousand nine hundred sixty dollar National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of next-generation augmentative and alternative communication technology powered by artificial intelligence. Under the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the University of Arkansas will lead a collaborative effort with Temple University to spearhead a new generation of AI-powered AAC devices through December 2023. The project aims to enhance language, communication, and participation outcomes for individuals with developmental disabilities and limited speech through an AI-enabled AAC mobile application. It will incorporate computer vision, natural language processing, and other artificial intelligence innovations to automate customization and personalization of AAC tools based on multi-modal contextual analysis. If successful, this work stands to transform the lives of millions of Americans with communication limitations by supporting more independent and efficient communication.