Project Grant 2340997
- 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 $356,997 to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech) to mitigate privacy and security risks associated with the use of eye-tracking technology in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) systems. The key objectives are to investigate security vulnerabilities and new threats in the form of...
- 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...
- This $200,000 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant, awarded on July 1, 2024, supports research to address security and privacy challenges in emerging metaverse ecosystems. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: 1) developing innovative defense mechanisms to protect digital mapping and synchronization against adversarial manipulation; 2) creating novel privacy-preserving distributed...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $349,972 to the University of Rhode Island to conduct collaborative research on how aging affects people's ability to use emerging technologies like virtual reality (VR) for human-computer interaction. The 3-year project aims to link neuroscientific measures of brain activity with the use of VR-based 3D environments, building models that relate...
- Federal Grant Award Summary Miami University received a $199,626 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), awarded October 1, 2025, with completion targeted for September 30, 2027. The award supports research and development of a neural network-assisted biometric identification system designed for extended reality (XR) applications, including virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), and mixed reality (MR) environments. The core deliverable...
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER), under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $320,000 in funding to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to develop a novel extended reality (XR) system that leverages embodied cognition principles to assess attention deficit and other cognitive functions. The project aims to create immersive, interactive virtual environments where users engage in cognitively demanding tasks. The system...
- 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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) of $250,000 provided to Northeastern University will fund a three-year research project to explore the impact of aging on users' ability to effectively interact with emerging immersive 3D technologies like virtual reality (VR). The project aims to develop models that relate age-related changes in visuospatial and motor functions to successful adaptation to VR-based...
- This $275,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports the development and evaluation of a novel biometric authentication system by Morphosis Inc., a small disadvantaged business in Berkeley, CA. The project aims to enhance digital security by integrating continuous biometric verification into human-computer interactions, using wearable neural interface technology to capture unique...
- 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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $300,353 to the University of Wyoming to develop novel user authentication algorithms using electroencephalography (EEG) signals for augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) systems. The goal is to create secure, lightweight, and user-friendly authentication methods that seamlessly integrate into immersive environments and address the vulnerabilities of traditional authentication approaches in AR/VR. The project will investigate how users' brain responses to various stimuli can be leveraged for robust authentication, while also conducting analyses to ensure performance reliability against attacks. This 5-year effort, commencing on June 1, 2024, aims to shape the trajectory of emerging AR/VR technologies towards a more secure and equitable digital landscape through research, education, and outreach activities.
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