Project Grant 2523814
- This $300,000 project grant, awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), will develop novel technologies and mechanisms to enhance the usability and safety of human-virtual personal assistant (VPA) interaction in smart home environments. The key innovations include: An end-to-end system enabling users to interact with VPAs using sign language as input, bypassing voice-based barriers for deaf/hard-of-hearing...
- This $260,027 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the development of a new artificial intelligence tool designed to improve collaborative learning experiences for deaf students in university-level science courses. The project aims to address challenges around the lack of standardized American Sign Language (ASL) signs for many scientific concepts, which can hinder deaf students'...
- This $239,973 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the development of a new artificial intelligence-based tool to improve collaborative learning experiences and outcomes for deaf students in university-level science courses. The project aims to address challenges around the lack of standard American Sign Language (ASL) terminology for many scientific concepts, which can hinder deaf...
- This Project Grant award, titled "CAREER: TOWARDS DAILY IMMERSIVE SIGN LANGUAGE TRAINING USING INTELLIGENT WEARABLES AND LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL", was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070). The $401,324 award will fund the development of an innovative American Sign Language (ASL) learning platform to improve the understanding and usage of ASL by Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing individuals...
- 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...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $200,000 Project Grant through the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to the University of South Carolina. This two-year grant supports research to develop safety-constrained virtual health assistants (VHAs) that leverage knowledge graphs to integrate clinical protocols and practice guidelines. The goal is to enable VHAs to provide accurate, safe, and transparent healthcare support while fostering improved...
- 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 $237,141 Project Grant was awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) to New York University (NYU) on July 15, 2025. The grant supports the development of adaptive artificial intelligence systems that can identify and caption non-speech audio elements, such as environmental sounds and music, in online video content. This will make digital media more accessible for deaf and hard-of-hearing...
- This $543,539 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), will fund research at Indiana University from May 2022 to April 2027 to investigate conversational user interfaces that support older adults' social well-being. The grantee will employ participatory design methods involving senior organizations and older adults to generate an empirical understanding...
- This $409,839 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program empowers people who are blind to create their own personalized assistive technology solutions. The project aims to transform the creation of assistive technology by providing novel tools powered by artificial intelligence and end-user programming. This human-centered design, development, and evaluation process will contribute to a deeper...
This $300,000 federal Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program will support research at Clemson University to enhance the usability and safety of interactions between humans and virtual personal assistants (VPAs) in smart home environments. The key innovations to be developed under this grant include: 1) an end-to-end system enabling users to interact with VPAs using sign language, 2) an acoustic testing tool to identify VPA usability issues caused by speech patterns they are not trained on, and 3) a situational multi-user access control mechanism to allow primary users to specify access policies for non-primary users (e.g., children) to ensure safe human-to-VPA interactions in multi-user smart homes. This research aims to address challenges around VPA accessibility for deaf/hard-of-hearing users, understanding diverse speech patterns, and protecting against inappropriate content access. The project will also integrate educational and outreach efforts to engage STEM students and improve computer science curricula.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $300.0k | 8/19/25 |