Project Grant SIS70023GR0014

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (CFDA 47.075) program provides $160,551 to Gallaudet University to strengthen the pipeline for deaf scientists in signed language research. The project aims to increase the participation of deaf and hard-of-hearing students in the field of signed language research through a mentorship and access model. Key activities include: Providing a cohort of deaf college and university...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, CFDA 47.070, will develop adaptive artificial intelligence systems to provide accessible audio captioning of non-speech sounds in digital media content. The $237,141 award to New York University aims to ensure that all citizens can fully participate in digital education, entertainment, and civic life by creating tools to make non-speech audio cues, such as...

This National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.070) award for $299,849 to Gallaudet University in Washington, DC will explore the use of multiple cameras to record three-dimensional (3D) videos of social interactions and dialogues in American Sign Language (ASL). The goal is to create larger, more systematic 3D video datasets of social interactions that can be shared by researchers and the Deaf, DeafBlind, and Hard of Hearing (DDBHH) community to improve communication...

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 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program, with a total funding amount of $389,385, is aimed at helping communities better support the facilitation of audience engagement and information sharing in real-time social media. The primary goals of the project are to: Develop tools that support hosts of real-time social media in facilitating audience participation, including modeling audience behaviors and...

This $562,856 federal Project Grant award, made by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) grant program (CFDA 47.070), will fund the development of adaptive artificial intelligence (AI) systems to improve the accessibility of non-speech audio elements in online video content. The project aims to create tools that can identify and caption important non-speech sounds, such as environmental cues and music, to make digital media more...

This $1,300,059 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Advancing Informal STEM Learning (AISL) program, under CFDA 47.076 STEM Education, will support the creation of a bilingual American Sign Language (ASL) and English documentary film titled "Deaf in Motion: A Documentary About Pioneers in Early Space Studies." The film will highlight the contributions of deaf individuals who participated in groundbreaking research that enabled achievements of the U.S. space...

This one-year, $199,995 project grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its STEM Education (CFDA 47.076) program will support a conference series focused on integrating localization approaches with high-quality instructional materials to enhance equity in K-12 science education. The project will bring together a diverse group of 50 participants, including teachers, district leaders, state education agency leaders, researchers, and instructional materials designers, to...

The National Science Foundation (NSF) Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $100,000 Project Grant to the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) to host a conference on "Inclusive Collaboration Resources: Enhancing Research Support Infrastructure at Minority Serving Institutions." The goal is to develop best practices and resources to improve equitable research collaboration and retention of diverse STEM researchers. The conference will convene research enterprise...

This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (CFDA 47.041) will fund research to advance accessible collaboration tools for visually impaired information workers. The $943,192 award to Northwestern University will: Develop a taxonomy of accessibility barriers and design guidelines for AI-powered collaboration tools to support ability-diverse team communication, coordination, and knowledge sharing. Create an accessible infrastructure of new...