Project Grant R41DC016578

The University of Louisville received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation to develop a virtual reality software for improving the hearing aid fitting process. Under the NSF Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships program (CFDA 47.084), the university will create an algorithm and VR simulation software allowing patients to directly compare their natural hearing to aided hearing while wearing hearing aids in realistic sound fields. The software seeks to provide...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Early-Concept Grant for Exploratory Research (EAGER) Project Grant, awarded under CFDA 47.041 Engineering, will leverage virtual reality (VR) and wearable technologies to study how individuals with visual impairment navigate through crowded urban environments. The $300,000 grant, awarded to New York University, aims to elucidate the sensorimotor interactions and cognitive processes underpinning the navigation of persons with visual impairment through...

Project NEUROVERSE VR Federal Grant Award Summary Florida International University (FIU) received a $309,195 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under the Innovative Rehabilitation Training program (CFDA 84.263), effective October 1, 2025 through September 30, 2026. The award supports the development and demonstration of innovative training programs and methodologies designed to enhance vocational rehabilitation...

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...

IMPACT VR ITG Project Grant Summary The University of Massachusetts Boston received a $711,104 Project Grant award from the Department of Education's Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services under the Innovative Rehabilitation Training (IRT) program (CFDA 84.263) for the period October 1, 2025, through September 30, 2026. The IMPACT VR ITG project is designed to develop and demonstrate innovative training programs, curricula, and methodologies for rehabilitation personnel...

This $276,000 National Science Foundation Technology, Innovation, and Partnerships Project Grant will fund the development of a virtual reality platform to deliver applied behavior analysis therapy to individuals with autism spectrum disorder. Vriends Corp will create software to simulate social skills therapy environments and enable certified therapists to provide remote treatment sessions aligned with applied behavior analysis principles. The envisioned virtual reality clinic aims to improve...

This National Science Foundation Project Grant award of $468,072 supports research at The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology to develop personalized virtual reality interfaces for motor rehabilitation. The goal is to optimize outcomes for individuals with spinal cord or brain injuries undergoing physical therapy. The researchers will examine how impairment levels affect performance, physiological responses, and perceptions during VR training that adapts task difficulty and augmented...

Federal Grant Award Summary The University of Rochester received a $192,672 Project Grant award from the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD) under the Research Related to Deafness and Communication Disorders program (CFDA 93.173), effective April 1, 2026 through March 31, 2030. This translational research initiative combines electrophysiology, virtual reality (VR), and neuropsychological assessment to investigate audiovisual spatial attention mechanisms in...

This federal Project Grant award of $426,234, provided by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) under the Child Health and Human Development Extramural Research program (CFDA 93.865), aims to refine and test a novel virtual reality (VR) parent training tool for caregivers of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) who exhibit severe destructive behavior. The key products and services to be delivered include: 1) Developing a customizable, in-home VR training...

This three-year, $1.7 million project grant from the National Science Foundation's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program aims to advance virtual learning environments through olfactory integration. Arizona State University will develop portable hardware and software to reliably synthesize virtual odors for delivery in real-time 3D environments. Researchers will design tools for virtual odor space development and model complex odor propagation. The project seeks to understand...