Project Grant 2324598
- Rutgers, The State University received a $299,938 two-year Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). The grant funds cognitive modeling research to redesign public spaces based on principles of human social wayfinding. Leveraging insights into cognitive processes underlying how people navigate unfamiliar public settings together, the project aims to develop design recommendations for more intuitive,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $500,000 to Northeastern University to develop advanced technologies that enhance urban mobility and accessibility for the aging population. The project, titled "Strengthening Elderly Mobility in Urban Landscapes: Towards Age-Inclusive and Equitable Communities," leverages artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $150,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) for the project "SMART TECHNOLOGIES FOR EVALUATING AND ENHANCING BUILDING ACCESSIBILITY FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES". The project aims to develop new approaches to assess and improve the physical accessibility of built environments for wheelchair users, through the following key activities:...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) Project Grant, awarded under CFDA 47.041 Engineering, will leverage virtual reality (VR) and wearable technologies to study how individuals with visual impairment navigate through crowded urban environments. The $300,000 grant, awarded to New York University, aims to elucidate the sensorimotor interactions and cognitive processes underpinning the navigation of persons with visual impairment through...
- This $335,050 National Science Foundation project grant supports research at Montclair State University to develop a more comprehensive cognitive model of wayfinding development in children. The grant, awarded under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075), will investigate how wayfinding skills unfold across development among children ages 6 to 10 with diverse social and demographic backgrounds. Specifically, the researchers will recruit children to complete...
- The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Engineering awarded a $985,000 project grant titled "RAPID USER-CENTERED DESIGN AND OPTIMIZATION OF LAB FACILITIES (RUDOLF) FOR STEM INCLUSION" under CFDA Number 47.041 (Engineering). The goal of this 5-year project is to develop an AI-based toolkit that rapidly generates accessible designs for laboratory facilities to improve participation of students with mobility disabilities in STEM activities and the STEM workforce. The...
- This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $274,144 provides funding for the "Disability Culture and Technology" project being conducted by Vanderbilt University from May 1, 2022 through April 30, 2023. The goal of the project is to document how disabled individuals use remote access technologies to form communities and shape society, both during and before the COVID-19 pandemic. The project will build an archive of oral histories, images, videos and other documentation...
- This $600,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program aims to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-powered approaches to improve accessibility to public facilities for underserved communities. The research will establish theoretical and algorithmic foundations for scalable AI frameworks to address the Facility Accessibility Improvement Problem (FAIP). Key objectives include: Providing collective...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $570,780 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Lehigh University to develop an inclusive community-wide location-based services system called CityGuide. The project aims to design, deploy, and evaluate seamless and scalable indoor/outdoor location-based services that provide auxiliary wayfinding, emergency evacuation, remote assistance, and transit support for people with disabilities and the...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $650,000 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program to Rutgers, The State University, located in New Brunswick, New Jersey. The grant supports a civic innovation project that pilots solutions to assist low-resource urban residents in adapting to increasing heat stress and local air pollution, both outdoors and indoors. The key products and services delivered through this funding include: 1) Deploying a...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) provides $624,955 to Rutgers, The State University to conduct the "Modeling Equitable and Accessible Public Spaces (MODELING EASE)" project from September 15, 2023 to August 31, 2026. The project uses virtual reality simulations of public transportation hubs to examine how people with varying mobility, sensory, or cognitive impairments navigate crowded spaces, and how non-disabled individuals navigate around those with disabilities or temporary encumbrances. The findings will be used to create more realistic computational models to test factors that make public spaces more efficient and usable for diverse populations. This research aims to increase the overall usability of public spaces and transportation hubs, thereby expanding educational, social, health, and occupational opportunities for all Americans regardless of ability. The project involves three interlocking components: 1) virtual reality experiments on human wayfinding and navigation choices, 2) computational simulations of diverse navigational behaviors, and 3) development of evaluation metrics for assessing the redesign of real public spaces. Rutgers has partnered with the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) as a sub-grantee on this effort.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $625.0k | 8/2/23 |
GrantNumber | Description | Subgrantee | Prime Award | Dollars Obligated | Updated At |
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3122836026FDPS | New Jersey Institute Of Technology | Project Grant 2324598 | $28.0k | 11/9/23 |