This Project Grant award of $457,873 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) supports the development and testing of a novel computer interface technology to enhance communication and interaction for individuals with severe disabilities. The project aims to leverage multiple information sources, including eye gaze, language models, behavior patterns, and input sequences, to improve the speed and accuracy of text...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award of $285,274 to Oregon Health & Science University provides funding to develop new technology to enhance communication and interaction for individuals with severe disabilities. The project aims to build and test a novel user interface that leverages multiple information sources, such as eye gaze, language models, and behavior patterns, to improve the speed...
This award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $585,000 to the University of Nebraska to redesign brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that use real-world images instead of grids to help children with physical disabilities communicate more easily. The project aims to study how brain activity differs between grid and scene-based BCIs, and determine interface designs that children prefer. This research will...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $299,849 to Gallaudet University will fund the development of a multiview system for recording 3D videos of American Sign Language (ASL) communication and social interactions. The research aims to create a comprehensive, high-quality dataset of ASL usage across diverse settings, which can be shared with researchers and the deaf and deafblind...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program Project Grant, with Federal CFDA number 47.070, provides $299,392 to the University of Michigan to develop a mechanism for academia, industry, and the public sector to collaborate and co-design research and development (R&D) directions to simultaneously improve data systems and artificial intelligence (AI) systems. The project aims to enable data and AI to be more compatible by coordinating...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) project grant, awarded under CFDA 47.070, will develop "Creative Accessibility Design Tools (CADTs)" to assist under-resourced mobile app creators in incorporating accessibility into their early design process. The $247,035 award, effective from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, will enable the project team at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to conduct user-centered...
The University of Michigan was awarded a $1.1 million Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Mathematical Sciences under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from September 2021 through August 2025 to develop new statistical learning methods for brain-computer interfaces. As part of the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program's goals of supporting investigator-initiated research and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $174,999 to Gallaudet University to develop principled methods for studying and designing American Sign Language (ASL)-based intelligent personal assistants (IPAs) that enable deaf ASL users to interact with computers. The project aims to conduct experiments with deaf users to understand how well ASL-based IPA interfaces that recognize limited...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to advance brain-machine interface technology for speech decoding. The key objectives are to develop more accurate and versatile neural speech decoders that can restore speech capabilities to individuals who have lost the ability to communicate due to conditions like ALS, stroke, or traumatic brain injury. The project entails...
The University of California, Davis was awarded a $499,957 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant supports research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2024 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant funding will enable research to better understand impaired muscle activity in order to improve human-technology interfaces for pediatric prosthetics. The Computer and Information...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) provides $456,853 to Michigan Technological University to develop and test new technology to help individuals with severe speech and motor impairments more effectively control computers and communicate. The project aims to enhance single-switch interaction methods by leveraging additional contextual information sources, such as eye gaze, language models, user behavior patterns, and noisy input sequences, to improve the speed and accuracy of text entry and computer interaction tasks for this target user group. The research involves an extensive participatory design process with stakeholders to refine the novel interface. This grant award spans the period from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2028 and supports critical research efforts to advance accessibility and communication capabilities for individuals with severe disabilities.