The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $899,763 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program to Clemson University's Division of Research. The grant will fund a 4-year project to co-design, develop, and test a mobile object recognition application that provides on-the-job task prompting to support individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the workplace. The key objectives are to: 1) identify work tasks where object recognition can assist individuals with IDD, 2) understand perceptions of object recognition systems from the IDD community, 3) co-design the mobile application, 4) train an object recognition model for workplace support, and 5) assess the technology's impacts on self-sufficiency, self-efficacy, and task performance. This project aims to advance accessible technology development and create more inclusive artificial intelligence systems to improve employment outcomes for individuals with cognitive differences.
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