Project Grant N629091912006

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program (CFDA 47.070) provides $503,930 to the University of Puerto Rico Research and Development Center Division to develop a wearable sensor network with distributed computing capabilities for advanced health monitoring and biomechanics analysis. The key products and services to be delivered under this 5-year award include: Creating a novel distributed machine...

This Project Grant award from the National Institutes of Health's John E. Fogarty International Center (CFDA 93.989 - International Research and Research Training) provides $211,347 to the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) to develop and scale up a consumer-grade wearable monitoring system to improve outcomes in low-resource settings in Ghana. The project aims to implement a hospital-based continuous patient monitoring system using consumer wearable devices to enhance the triage of...

This National Science Foundation award of $247,721 provides funding under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) to Arizona State University for a project titled "CAREER: Autonomous Wearable Computing for Personalized Healthcare." The project aims to develop foundations for computational autonomy in wearable-based health monitoring and interventions. Specifically, the university will investigate methods for automatically and autonomously labeling...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $180,499 project grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop a real-time, holistic health monitoring system for construction workers. This multidisciplinary research aims to improve worker health and safety by integrating wearable sensor technology, artificial intelligence, and data visualization. Key objectives include designing a flexible wearable sensor to continuously measure...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant awarded to Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech), totaling $600,000, supports the development of hardware and software for sustainable and efficient wearable edge intelligence. The project aims to address fundamental accessibility and sustainability challenges of wearable health monitoring devices and artificial intelligence services for underserved communities. Key research focuses include extending the...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships grant funds the development of a personalized consumer health guidance platform by Rift Valley Health Co. The platform will analyze an individual's sleep, exercise, nutrition, and mental health data from wearables and smart home devices to generate a baseline health profile and recommendations. Both objective biometric data and subjective user inputs will be integrated to draw meaningful correlations and develop a...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (CFDA 47.041 - Engineering) provides $400,000 in funding to the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) to develop a wearable sweat-sensing platform capable of non-invasive, continuous, and laboratory-independent assessment of biological age and resilience. The key objectives of this 4-year award are: 1) Identification and exploration of novel sweat-based molecular biomarkers associated with heat strain and aging, to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $550,000 Project Grant under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships (TIP) program (CFDA 47.084) to the University of Missouri System to develop six-lead, wearable heart monitors using innovative, multifunctional, porous, soft materials. The project aims to enhance wearable heart monitors for improved cardiac health management by addressing current limitations in ambulatory ECG monitoring, such as motion-induced artifacts and limited...

This three-year $563,797 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to design health data-tracking technologies tailored for children. Led by the University of California Irvine, the award supports examining challenges in tracking children's health data through smartwatches, fitness bands, and patient monitors. The project consists of three stages. First, interviews will study data literacy, tracking experiences, and...

The National Science Foundation awarded a two-year, $199,967 Project Grant to The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology under the Engineering (CFDA 47.041) federal grant program. The grant will support the development of a validation framework and open-source hardware/software sync platform for wearable motion analysis systems. Specifically, the grantee will establish novel data-driven methods and probabilistic/learning-based models to enable accurate time alignment between...