Project Grant 2339431
- 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 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...
- Federal Project Grant Award Summary The National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded $461,313 to the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) on September 15, 2025, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) to develop evidence-based sociotechnical interventions protecting adolescents from online risks. The project, titled "CAREER: Safety by Design: Protecting Adolescents from Online Risks,"...
- GAMIFIED BEHAVIORAL EXPERIMENTS FOR RESEARCH SECURITY COMPLIANCE Clemson University received a $300,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Integrative Activities program (CFDA 47.083), awarded September 1, 2025, with completion targeted for August 31, 2027. This Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research (EAGER) award funds the development of a novel gamified behavioral experiment platform designed to establish empirical baselines for research security...
- This $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports the development of an empathy-based framework to enhance privacy education and design. The project team at the University of Notre Dame is using generative AI to create synthetic personas with AI-generated personal data. These personas are then used to design interactive sandboxes and developer tools that allow individuals to empathize with the...
- This $598,366 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from September 2022 through February 2025. The research aims to better understand citizen data practices regarding gender-based violence by empirically studying groups undertaking citizen data science on femicide. It will systematize...
- Grant Award Summary Georgetown University received a $542,462 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), effective August 1, 2025, with a completion date of July 31, 2028. This collaborative research initiative focuses on developing socio-technical interventions to combat artificial intelligence (AI)-generated abuse, particularly nonconsensual...
- 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program provides $150,000 in funding to Georgetown University to conduct research on improving transparency between social media platforms and users regarding the handling of reported harmful content. The key objectives are to: Understand what information users want to receive from social media platforms about reported harmful content through user interviews....
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $100,000 to Northeastern University provides funding for a 3-year collaborative research project titled "SATC: CORE: SMALL: Empathy-Based Privacy Education and Design Through Synthetic Persona Data Generation." The project aims to develop new frameworks and tools to enhance privacy education and design through the use of AI-generated synthetic...
CAREER: DESIGNING, DEVELOPING, AND EVALUATING CONSENT TECHNOLOGIES TO REDUCE UNWANTED INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR -THE GOAL OF THIS CAREER AWARD IS TO DEVELOP NUANCED WAYS TO EXPRESS AND ASSESS CONSENT IN ONLINE SPACES WITH THE GOAL OF REDUCING HARMFUL INTERACTIONS. CONSENT IS IMPORTANT WHEN PEOPLE INTERACT, ESPECIALLY IN CONTEXTS SUCH AS RELATIONSHIPS WHERE UNWELCOME BEHAVIORS MIGHT BECOME PHYSICAL OR SEXUAL HARMS. OFTEN THESE HARMS ARE NOT INTENTIONAL, BUT OCCUR BECAUSE OF MISPERCEPTIONS OF CONSENT: FOR INSTANCE, WHEN PEOPLE MAKE ASSUMPTIONS ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE'S COMFORT WITH CERTAIN BEHAVIORS. THESE HARMS OCCUR ONLINE AS WELL AS OFFLINE, AS RELATIONSHIPS CAN BE ENACTED IN A RANGE OF SYSTEMS FROM DISCUSSION FORUMS TO DATING SITES TO VIRTUAL WORLDS, WHILE EXISTING TOOLS FOR MANAGING BEHAVIOR SUCH AS LANGUAGE FILTERS OR CONTACT BLOCKERS DO NOT ADDRESS THE UNDERLYING ISSUE OF HELPING PEOPLE ESTABLISH AGREEMENT TO INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR. THIS PROJECT SEEKS TO FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORM APPROACHES TO PREVENTING HARMS THAT HAPPEN UNINTENTIONALLY THROUGH DESIGNING, DEVELOPING, AND EVALUATING USE OF CONSENT TECHNOLOGIES: DEVICES, APPLICATIONS, AND INTERFACES FOR GIVING AND RECEIVING PERMISSION AROUND INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR. THE KNOWLEDGE PRODUCED THROUGH THIS PROJECT WILL BENEFIT THE PUBLIC THROUGH CREATION OF ENTIRELY NEW APPROACHES TO REDUCING HARMS LIKE SEXUAL VIOLENCE, ULTIMATELY LEADING TO A SAFER SOCIETY. THE RESEARCH PLAN IS ORGANIZED AROUND THREE MAIN ACTIVITIES. THE FIRST INVOLVES NEW COMPUTER-MEDIATED CONSENT MODELS THAT EXPLICITLY ADDRESS THE ACTIONS OF HUMANS AND TECHNOLOGY IN DETERMINING CONSENT AROUND INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIORS. THESE CONSENT MODELS WOULD BE DEVELOPED THROUGH BRINGING TOGETHER CONSENT EXPERTS AND TECHNOLOGY USERS FROM DEMOGRAPHICS AT DISPROPORTIONATE RISK OF BEING EITHER VICTIMS OR SOURCES OF SEXUAL VIOLENCE. THE SECOND ACTIVITY INVOLVES DEVELOPMENT OF INTERPERSONAL CONSENT TECHNOLOGIES CREATED IN COLLABORATION WITH ANTICIPATED USERS TO DISCOVER FACTORS DRIVING USER ACCEPTANCE AND USABILITY, INCLUDING IN EMERGING MEDIUMS SUCH AS AUGMENTED REALITY AND VIRTUAL REALITY. THE THIRD ACTIVITY INCLUDES EMPIRICAL STUDIES OF THE CONSENT TECHNOLOGIES' IMPACTS ON INTERPERSONAL BEHAVIOR IN SETTINGS IN WHICH INDIVIDUALS LOOKING FOR ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL PARTNERS WILL USE THE TECHNOLOGIES ACROSS ONLINE AND IN-PERSON INTERACTIONS AND THEN REPORT ON THEIR EXPERIENCES. ALONG WITH THE RESEARCH, THE PROJECT TEAM WILL DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR BOTH UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC TO INCREASE AWARENESS OF THE PROBLEM AND THE WORK. THIS AWARD REFLECTS NSF'S STATUTORY MISSION AND HAS BEEN DEEMED WORTHY OF SUPPORT THROUGH EVALUATION USING THE FOUNDATION'S INTELLECTUAL MERIT AND BROADER IMPACTS REVIEW CRITERIA.- SUBAWARDS ARE NOT PLANNED FOR THIS AWARD.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
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| Not listed | $327.5k | 8/18/25 | ||
| Not listed | $105.5k | 5/18/25 | ||
| Not listed | $134.9k | 6/7/24 |