Project Grant 2504241
- The National Science Foundation awarded a $320,987 Project Grant to Northwestern University for the 3-year period from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026. The grant, funded through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research to develop novel haptic technologies that can create a more realistic sense of touch in virtual environments. The research objectives are to: 1) formulate models of how human skin interacts with...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $321,388 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program to the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (Tees) to conduct research aimed at developing novel haptic technologies to create a more realistic sense of touch in virtual reality interfaces. The research project has three core objectives: (1) develop models of how human skin interacts with textured surfaces during touch; (2) fabricate...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $651,000 in funding to Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to conduct research on transforming haptic graphical user interfaces through the use of dynamic soft materials. The goal is to enable rich, detailed, and responsive haptic experiences that can complement visual information, enhancing human-computer interaction across applications like education,...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program has awarded the Regents of the University of Minnesota $249,000.00 for the project "Collaborative Research: HCC: MEDIUM: Transforming Haptic Graphical User Interfaces by Leveraging Dynamic Behaviors of Soft Materials". This Project Grant, with an award period from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028, will focus on developing novel haptic display technologies that...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) aims to develop artificial touch capabilities for people with bionic arms. The $183,309 award, effective from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2028, supports research to create natural and intuitive electrocutaneous stimuli that can restore a sense of touch for users of prosthetic limbs. The project involves a collaboration between the University of Utah, a primarily undergraduate institution, and...
- This $300,000 National Science Foundation project grant supports the development of haptic technology innovations to guide student gesturing with dynamic STEM visualizations. Specifically, the University of Illinois will design and develop a custom haptic glove that interacts with a computer visualization of a biological cell. The goal is to determine how sensory feedback delivered to students' hands helps them understand representations displayed in computer simulations. Additionally, the...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $763,142 to the University of Wisconsin-Madison to conduct research on the semantic content of tactile and visual textures for enhancing communication through vision and touch. The key objectives are to: (1) understand the semantics of visual texture for visual communication, and (2) understand the semantics of tactile texture for haptic communication....
- This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings will fund the development of haptic technology innovations to guide student gesturing with dynamic STEM visualizations from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025 for a total of $549,997. The award will support a collaborative research project between The University of Iowa to design and develop a custom haptic glove that interacts with a computer visualization of a biological...
- This $479,999 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) aims to develop algorithms and interfaces that enable easier and more effective 3D modeling, even without visual cues. The key objectives are to create: 1) accurate "in-air" 3D drawing tools, 2) sonification techniques for non-visual shape perception and editing, and 3) verbal 3D shape editing tools and interactions. This...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems awarded a $337,020 project grant to Stanford University under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to support research on visual tactile neural fields for active digital twin generation. Over a three-year period from October 2022 through September 2025, Stanford researchers will develop new algorithms and computational tools to allow robots to combine visual and tactile sensory data...
This $850,000 Project Grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) federal grant program, supports research by the University of Southern California to develop language-guided, iterative methods for generating haptic models and vibrotactile signals. The goal is to enable human-AI co-creation of expressive touch sensations, such as textures and vibrations, to enhance virtual experiences like VR, gaming, and medical training. The project will create open datasets pairing physical texture models and vibration signals with natural language descriptions, and design a language-conditioned framework to integrate language processing with haptic texture generation. This research aims to lower the barriers for designers to add realistic haptic feedback to digital experiences, helping expand the use of virtual touch across various applications.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $850.0k | 7/19/25 |