Project Grant N000142612142

This $117,500 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program establishes an Emerging Technologies Research Laboratory (ETRL) at the University of Puerto Rico - Rio Piedras Campus. The ETRL will serve as a collaborative hub to study the psychological, neurological, and physiological impacts of emerging digital technologies such as video games, social media, AI, and virtual reality on human behavior, mental health,...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER), under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041), provides $320,000 in funding to the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to develop a novel extended reality (XR) system that leverages embodied cognition principles to assess attention deficit and other cognitive functions. The project aims to create immersive, interactive virtual environments where users engage in cognitively demanding tasks. The system...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Information and Intelligent Systems awarded a $299,962 Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070) to the Regents of the University of Colorado, doing business as the University of Colorado-Denver. The project aims to develop a gamified education platform centered around story-driven educational hacking games to attract Generation Z to the cybersecurity workforce. The platform will utilize...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) aims to design the blueprint and initial prototype for a gamified, personalized virtual experience to provide essential scientific research skills training to undergraduate students at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. The $500,000 project, with a performance period from September 2024 to August 2027, seeks to increase access to guided research opportunities for underrepresented Hispanic...

This $849,964 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 the development of an innovative artificial intelligence-based approach to ethics training. The University of California Santa Cruz will create an educational game that uses AI techniques to generate realistic interactive ethical scenarios tailored to individual player choices. This...

This $199,992 National Science Foundation award under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program will fund Arizona State University to develop a Minecraft-based testbed for evaluating human-AI teaming research. The university will undertake requirements gathering and community engagement to design customizable tools within the popular gaming platform. This will accelerate the development of AI agents designed to work effectively with human teams in dynamic, uncertain...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.076 - STEM Education) provides $200,000 to Carnegie Mellon University to develop adaptable, game-based interactive learning environments for STEM education. The primary goals of the project are to: Automate the customization and adaptation of 3D simulated game-based learning environments to improve learner engagement. Provide a deeper understanding of the design, development, and deployment of these learning environments,...

The University of Utah received a $149,247 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Civil, Mechanical, and Manufacturing Innovation on October 1, 2021 for the development of online role-playing games to improve multi-stakeholder collaboration in concurrent disaster response planning. Funded under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), the award will support the creation of games and simulations to advance the use of research...

The Department of the Army Materiel Command Research Development and Engineering Command awarded Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Incorporated $208,418.65 under a Cooperative Agreement to study human-autonomy teaming through mobile games and wearable sensors from September 7, 2021 through October 31, 2023. This award will support research related to the Basic Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.431), which aims to fund basic research that could improve Army programs or operations....

The National Science Foundation awarded a $809,155 project grant to the University of California, Berkeley under the STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) to develop a game-based learning environment and conduct research and evaluation from July 15, 2022 to June 30, 2025. The project aims to improve probability education for high school students by designing artificial intelligence problem-solving activities within a game. Students will learn probability concepts while exploring AI algorithms...