This $300,000 project grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program. The goal of the project is to develop a framework for designing smart home technologies that can adapt to changing cognitive abilities over time for people experiencing dementia or mild cognitive impairment. The research team will conduct diary studies, hold co-design workshops with people living with cognitive impairments and their...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) federal project grant award (CFDA 47.070) of $250,000.00 to Northeastern University aims to study how aging affects the ability of people to use emerging technologies like virtual reality (VR) for human-computer interaction. The project has three main thrusts: 1) designing a novel dual visuospatial-motor VR-based interface to characterize the complex nonlinear dynamics underlying visuospatial and motor...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $300,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program to Northeastern University. The grant, with a period of performance from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2026, will fund the development of an AI-powered toolkit to make digital activities, such as puzzles and competitive games, more accessible for adults aged 50 and older. The project will leverage user-centered and participatory research methods...
The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $609,362 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation to advance research titled "CAREER: ADVANCING REMOTE COLLABORATION: INCLUSIVE DESIGN FOR PEOPLE WITH DEMENTIA." The grant period runs from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The funding supports the University's research under the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070). Specifically, the grant aims to develop new methods for...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Award (CFDA 47.070) in the amount of $500,000.00 supports research to address the challenge of urban mobility for the aging population. Led by Northeastern University, the project employs artificial intelligence (AI) and virtual reality (VR) technologies to transform infrastructure planning, design, and operation to create more accessible and inclusive urban environments for older adults....
This National Science Foundation (NSF) award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) provides $349,972 to the University of Rhode Island to conduct a collaborative research project titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: HCC: SMALL: GRAPH-CENTRIC EXPLORATION OF NONLINEAR NEURAL DYNAMICS IN VISUOSPATIAL-MOTOR FUNCTIONS DURING IMMERSIVE HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTIONS". The project aims to understand how aging affects people's ability...
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...
This $814,199 Project Grant award, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program, supports research to develop safe learning from demonstration (LfD) algorithms for assistive robots to enable aging-in-place. The project aims to design two key safety attributes - "cognizance" to filter out unsafe demonstrations, and "informedness" to learn stable closed-loop policies - for LfD algorithms used in...
The University of South Florida received a $287,406 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The award will support research from April 2021 through March 2024 toward developing age-aware continuous authentication on personal computing devices. The Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance computing and communications research...
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...