This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program provides $456,853 to Michigan Technological University to develop new technology to enhance communication and interaction for individuals with severe disabilities. The project aims to create a novel user interface that combines multiple information sources, such as eye gaze, language models, behavioral patterns, and input sequences, to improve the speed...
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 $457,873 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to develop new technology that enhances communication and interaction for individuals with severe disabilities. The key objectives are to build and test a novel user interface that leverages multiple information sources, such as eye gaze, language models, behavior...
This $300,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) supports research to develop brain-machine interfaces for speech decoding. The project aims to restore the ability to communicate through speech for individuals who have lost it due to conditions like ALS, stroke, or traumatic brain injury. The key objectives are to collect large amounts of intracranial electroencephalography...
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 National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $585,000 to the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska to redesign brain-computer interfaces to include real-life images. The goal is to make these communication devices easier for children with physical disabilities like cerebral palsy to use, enhancing their quality of life. The research will study how brain activity differs between...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) totaling $409,839 is focused on empowering people who are blind to create their own personalized assistive technology solutions. The research program aims to transform the creation of assistive technology by providing people who are blind with novel tools powered by artificial intelligence and end-user programming, enabling them to...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $244,179 Project Grant under the CFDA 47.070 Computer and Information Science and Engineering program to the University of Illinois. The grant supports research on personalized speech enhancement technology that can be implemented efficiently on small personal devices, without requiring users to provide their own speech data due to privacy concerns. The project aims to develop machine learning methods that can personalize speech enhancement...
This $749,685 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of an Automated, Integrated, Multimodal Software (AIMS) system to improve inclusive access to information for persons with disabilities. Saint Louis University leads a consortium that includes software companies Vital, Unar Labs, and Viewplus Technologies to build a unified framework for authoring, converting, and delivering accessible content...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $698,161 project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships federal grant program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of Southern California on December 15, 2022. The grant will support the development of multimodal accessibility tools to facilitate programming education and workforce readiness for individuals with physical disabilities. Specifically, the University of Southern California will develop prototypes of speech, eye tracking, and...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award for $299,849 to Gallaudet University in Washington, DC will explore the use of multiple cameras to record three-dimensional (3D) videos of social interactions and dialogues in American Sign Language (ASL). The goal is to create larger, more systematic 3D video datasets of social interactions that can be shared by researchers and the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing (DDBHH) community to improve communication...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program provides $285,274 to Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) to develop and test new technology that will enhance communication and interaction for individuals with severe speech and motor impairments. The project aims to create a novel interface that leverages multiple information sources, such as eye gaze, language models, behavioral patterns, and sequences of user input, to improve the speed and accuracy of text entry and computer interaction for users with disabilities who rely on single-switch interaction methods. The research will involve extensive participatory design activities and experiments with the target user population to guide the development of this innovative assistive technology solution. The award period runs from January 1, 2025 to December 31, 2028.