Project Grant 60NANB19D155

Federal Grant Award Summary DePaul University received a $174,176 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation's Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (CISE program, CFDA 47.070) beginning September 1, 2025, and concluding August 31, 2027. This CRII (Computer Research Initiation for Early-Career Investigators) award supports research into making videos accessible by design through the development of responsive video frameworks. The project will produce three primary deliverables:...

This National Science Foundation project grant of $318,850 will fund research at the University of California, Los Angeles from May 2022 to April 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The research aims to improve speech technology and develop automated oral literacy assessments to better support learning outcomes for young African American English-speaking children. Specifically, the university researchers will develop data augmentation and...

This Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems provides $190,070 to the University of Notre Dame du Lac from September 2021 through August 2024. The grant supports research to advance online STEM learning through augmenting accessibility with explanatory captions and artificial intelligence. Specifically, the University of Notre Dame du Lac will conduct collaborative research under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering...

The University of Illinois was awarded a $526,006 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant supports the collaborative research project "Advancing STEM Online Learning by Augmenting Accessibility with Explanatory Captions and AI" under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The three-year project aims to develop and evaluate the use of explanatory captions and artificial...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $170,130 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to create a large sign language corpus and develop annotation methods to study visual prosody and its linguistic and emotional functions. The key objectives are to: (1) build a diverse sign language corpus inclusive of dialogues, (2) establish tested methods for annotating and representing...

Federal Project Grant Award Summary New York University received a $237,141 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), effective July 15, 2025, with completion targeted for June 30, 2028. This collaborative research project will develop adaptive artificial intelligence systems designed to automatically identify and present non-speech audio...

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 $400,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to investigate methods and systems that allow blind and low-vision (BLV) users to build customized, interactive multisensory data representations spanning text, audio, and tactile modalities. The goal is to empower BLV individuals to engage in data analysis as richly...

This Project Grant award of $300,000 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) program supports a study at Georgetown University to develop an evaluation methodology for measuring the impacts of implementing large language model (LLM)-based tools to assist human experts working in federal, state, and local government programs. The project will compare the performance of LLM-only, human-only, and human-LLM hybrid responses across key metrics...

Gallaudet University received a $133,918 project grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems on September 15, 2021 to complete the project by August 31, 2024. The grant is funded through the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education across computing, communications, and information science and engineering. Specifically, the grant will support...