Project Grant FA23861410002

The U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory awarded a $2,373,651 Project Grant under the Air Force Defense Research Sciences Program (CFDA 12.800) to the Regents of the University of Michigan - Office of Research and Sponsored Projects Division (University of Michigan) to conduct research on "Understanding Social Network-Transcendent Online/Offline Behavioral Dynamics: From Data to Models to Prediction." The key objectives are to develop new network alignment models, semi-supervised...

This Project Grant award, valued at $200,000.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Federal Grant Program for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075). The project, conducted by New York University (NYU), is examining the causal impact of social media usage on individual well-being and out-group animosity across multiple countries through a global field experiment. The research team is incentivizing a large sample of people to temporarily reduce...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $400,000 to New York University (NYU) to research neighborhood mobility patterns and their relationship to community well-being. The key products and services to be delivered include: Identifying biases in large-scale mobility data and developing methods to correct them; modeling neighborhood connectedness networks using mobility data and analyzing how...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $200,000 to Duke University to conduct a cross-national study using generative artificial intelligence, social simulation models, and online experiments. The goal is to identify how social media algorithms can be redesigned to promote mutual understanding, increase trust, and reduce polarization. The research design involves training large language models...

This $300,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) focuses on developing a real-time crowd-sourced geospatial digital twin (GDT) for cyber-physical systems. The research aims to enhance the delivery of vital information, such as images, videos, and text, to smart mobile devices like smartphones and tablets in a timely and effective manner. The project will investigate approaches to ensure...

This $400,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program will support the University of California, Irvine in developing new techniques for analyzing complex social network data. The research aims to advance methodologies for exploratory, comparative, and semiparametric network analysis, combining innovations in machine learning and statistical theory. Key deliverables include the creation of didactic materials and...

The National Science Foundation awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to The University of Texas at Arlington under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences federal grant program (CFDA 47.075) to develop a framework for monitoring social media discussions around online security and privacy safeguards from January 15, 2023 through December 31, 2023. The university will capture emerging collective intelligence shared on social media platforms regarding safeguards to improve online security,...

This $399,574 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program supports research to assess and mitigate spatial biases in large-scale mobile location data used for human mobility analysis. The University of Florida, the prime awardee, will undertake four key research tasks: 1) quantify spatial bias in mobile location data; 2) identify causes of spatial biases from the data generation process; 3) develop new methods...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences (CFDA 47.075 - Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences) provides $319,908 to the University of Pittsburgh to construct a database containing information on how public leaders at the national, state, and local levels communicate through social media and other public online forums. The database will capture measures of public figures' online transparency, responsiveness, and...

This Project Grant award, valued at $399,988 and provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070), supports research at Arizona State University (ASU) aimed at understanding and addressing problematic online behaviors on social media that threaten users' mental health and well-being. The key research components include developing models for early detection of problematic behaviors, designing social media features...