This National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Initiation (ERI) Project Grant, awarded under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), supports research on leveraging natural language processing, artificial intelligence, and augmented reality to enhance volunteer coordination and disaster response. The $199,642 award to Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation, Inc. (KSU R&SF) aims to transform unstructured social media data into actionable insights to guide volunteer efforts, while also developing a search-and-rescue knowledge graph to provide situational guidance through augmented reality. The project intends to cultivate a community ethos of preparedness and resilience, empowering individuals to contribute meaningfully to disaster response and recovery. No sub-awards are planned for this effort, which has an expected completion date of May 31, 2026.
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