Project Grant 90BISA0075

This $175,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) program supports the development of an AI-driven collaborative goal setting system with socially assistive robots to help individuals with mild cognitive impairments. The key goals of the 2-year project are to: 1) design a goal-setting framework using multimodal data to model each user's unique goal progress and motivation; 2) develop human-centric...

This five-year, $548,928 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 support research into developing robots that can learn about their environments through natural spoken language interactions with diverse groups of people. The principal investigator at the University of Maryland Baltimore County will study how robots can acquire an understanding of...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.070 - Computer and Information Science and Engineering) provides $899,763 to Clemson University to co-design, co-develop, and test a mobile object recognition app that provides on-the-job task prompting to support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) in the workplace. The primary objectives are to: 1) identify work tasks where object recognition could help people with IDD, 2) understand how people...

Directed Analytics Inc. received a $276,000 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program to develop an automated employability skills framework. The one-year project will create a scalable software platform integrating data from school districts and higher education programs on transition methods and employment outcomes for individuals with autism spectrum disorder or other developmental disabilities. Using machine learning, the...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, provides $174,269 to The Colorado College to develop a customizable daily activity prompting system for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). The goal of the project is to create new techniques to collaboratively customize prompts that can support people with IDD in their daily activities. The researchers will first...

This EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) project, awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), aims to create a personalized training framework that adapts to each worker's cognitive functions and sensorimotor skills in collaborative robotic manufacturing environments. The $299,953 grant, awarded on September 1, 2024, with a completion date of August 31, 2026, focuses on advancing personalized training strategies for complex...

This seven hundred forty-nine thousand nine hundred sixty dollar National Science Foundation project grant will fund the development of next-generation augmentative and alternative communication technology powered by artificial intelligence. Under the NSF's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program, the University of Arkansas will lead a collaborative effort with Temple University to spearhead a new generation of AI-powered AAC devices through December 2023. The project aims to enhance...

This $749,685 National Science Foundation project grant under the Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) will fund the development of an Automated, Integrated, Multimodal Software (AIMS) system to improve inclusive access to information for persons with disabilities. Saint Louis University leads a consortium that includes software companies Vital, Unar Labs, and Viewplus Technologies to build a unified framework for authoring, converting, and delivering accessible content...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (CFDA 47.084) Project Grant award provides $303,226 to develop an innovative AI-driven platform for personalized language learning activities for young children with communication delays. The key products and services to be delivered under this award include: Creating a robust framework for speech pattern analysis using machine learning techniques to achieve high accuracy in speech recognition across diverse...

This Cooperative Agreement award from the National Science Foundation's Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084) provides $1 million to Itherapy, LLC of Martinez, California to develop an evaluative artificial speech intelligence and autism screener system called EASI-AS. The system aims to improve treatment for children with communication impairments by providing specialists and parents with accurate, efficient reports on speech and language evaluations along with...