This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $106,000 to the Research Foundation of the City University of New York (RFCUNY) to conduct research on designing smart environments to enhance collective learning and creativity. The key products and services to be delivered under this 3-year award include: Developing large-scale online experiments and computational models to investigate how technological...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $225,974 to Cornell University to investigate how technological augmentations can enhance the learning and effectiveness of work teams, community groups, classrooms, and other collectives. The research examines the parameters that drive group-directed learning in areas such as cooperative behavior, collective intelligence, and collective creativity. The...
This Project Grant award of $494,313 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program aims to create a multidisciplinary network of researchers to explore the potential and challenges of new technologies in fostering collective learning. The project will develop a theoretical framework to guide the design of technology-enhanced learning environments, create tools to study collective learning in various contexts, and design...
This Project Grant award of $329,937 from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports a computational framework for understanding how people learn about social relationships and group dynamics. The project, led by Yale University, aims to develop a theory and computational model of "structure learning" - the process by which people infer relationships between individuals based on observing patterns of social interaction....
This $599,999 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research at the University of Texas at Austin to explore the cognitive processes and educational experiences that shape human capacity for tool innovation. The research project aims to deepen the understanding of how innovation develops and how it can be nurtured, particularly in the context of advancing technology. The investigators will use...
This $265,102 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program, supports collaborative research to build empirically informed models of scientific search and progress. The research aims to investigate the causes behind the observed decline in innovative activity in science, which is vital for advancing technology, fostering social development, and tackling global issues. Using a novel mixed-method...
Northwestern University will use $325,391 in funding from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program to conduct a three-year collaborative research project titled "Using AI-Enabled Smart Objects to Understand and Support Spatial Reasoning and Learning." The objectives of the SBE Sciences program include contributing to scientific strength and welfare through promotion of basic research and education in social, behavioral and economic sciences....
This $365,439 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) supports fundamental research to advance the understanding of creativity and its relationship to STEM success. The primary objectives are to: Investigate how core dimensions of creative cognition, including visual, verbal, generative, and evaluative creativity, relate to STEM success during and after college through a 3-year longitudinal study of engineering students....
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $599,410 Project Grant to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to develop a collaborative learning framework for dynamic and diverse computing environments, particularly focused on edge devices. The grant, under NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), aims to innovate model-parallel collaborative learning by designing unique model architectures and efficient algorithms, facilitate practical on-device training and...
This $364,766 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports fundamental research on the psychology of mass behavior and how large groups of people reason, form beliefs, and interact. The research project, conducted by the University of California, Santa Barbara, aims to extend behavioral economics methods to understand how individuals respond to and reason about the behavior of large groups. Key areas...