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To accelerate complex genetic discovery and translation, we believe it is critical to harness existing data quickly and efficiently and to engage research participants via digital mechanisms. Our project provides a prototype digital precision medicine research paradigm to increase public interest in “citizen science” and participation in AoU. By integrating digital recruitment mechanisms and EHR-based phenotyping, we can rapidly engage, recruit, and phenotype new AoU participants in a cost-effective and timely manner. Our approach is generalizable, adaptable, and ultimately allows for the linkage of genomic data with EHR- derived phenotypes to accelerate biomedical research. We will test this approach in the WU-BJC system, Missouri's largest patient care provider (> 2 million individuals annually). We will recruit active patients for AoU, support and enable their consent, and extract and submit their EHR-derived phenotyping data to AoU. WU-BJC uses a common, cloud-hosted EHR (Epic), with ensuing clinical data available for research purposes via extraction and harmonization processes that populate an OMOP CDM 5.2 data repository (Research Data Core). By recruiting patients via our shared EHR (specifically, via the integrated patient portal, MyChart), we will quickly and efficiently create a cohort with associated and well populated clinical data sets, all with minimal costs and participant burden. This forward-thinking “direct-to-participant” model can also be implemented to add new online assessments and rapid data updates compared to “traditional” in-person or pre-scheduled approaches. Based on our preliminary studies, we anticipate a majority of eligible individuals will agree to participate in our study, to future use of their data, and to future contact. This approach will enable researchers to effectively target emerging health trends and research needs quickly and efficiently. We will: (1) establish a digital, community-focused patient engagement, recruitment, and consent strategy, targeting a combination of under-represented minority, rural, and medically underserved populations in the areas served by WU-BJC; (2) implement a phenotyping pipeline to extract, harmonize, and submit clinical data to AoU; and (3) evaluate and optimize strategies to recruit a representative sample of participants. We will implement a digital, direct-to-participant engagement, recruitment, and consent strategy for AoU participation. We will demonstrate the feasibility of rapidly and inexpensively creating computable participant phenotypes, extracted from our EHR platforms. We will evaluate and demonstrate the value of this approach to identify opportunities for optimization and further implementation in analogous settings. Our protocols and tools will be made available, adhering to FAIR (Findability, Accessibility, Interoperability, & Reusability) principles.", "keywords": [ "Address", "All of Us Research Program", "Appointment", "Area", "Biomedical Research", "Caring", "Catchment Area", "Clinical Data", "Clinical Research", "Clinical Sciences", "Collection", "Communities", "Community of Practice", "Complex", "Consent", "Consumption", "Data", "Data Collection", "Data Set", "Electronic Health Record", "FAIR principles", "Future", "Genetic", "Growth", "Health Personnel", "Health trends", "Healthcare", "Healthcare Systems", "Human", "Individual", "Institutes", "Interview", "Mediating", "Missouri", "Modeling", "Participant", "Patient Care", "Patient Recruitments", "Patients", "Personal Health Records", "Persons", "Phenotype", "Physicians", "Pilot Projects", "Process", "Protocols documentation", "Provider", "Recruitment Activity", "Research", "Research Personnel", "Sampling", "Schedule", "System", "Testing", "Thinking", "Time", "Translational Research", "Translations", "Underrepresented Minority", "United States National Institutes of Health", "Universities", "Update", "Washington", "base", "care providers", "citizen science", "cohort", "computable phenotypes", "cost", "cost effective", "data warehouse", "digital", "follow-up", "genomic data", "interest", "medically underserved population", "novel", "patient engagement", "patient portal", "personalized health care", "phenotypic data", "precision medicine", "prototype", "recruit", "rural underserved", "tool", "web-based tool" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "11058", "attributes": { "award_id": "2244705", "title": "WTG: Beyond the black box: understanding the use of algorithmic risk assessments in the juvenile justice system", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE)", "Science of Science" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 792, "first_name": "Mary", "last_name": "Feeney", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2023-02-15", "end_date": "2025-01-31", "award_amount": 450000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 27030, "first_name": "Kelly", "last_name": "Murphy", "orcid": null, "emails": "[email protected]", "private_emails": null, "keywords": "[]", "approved": true, "websites": "[]", "desired_collaboration": "", "comments": "", "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 693, "ror": "", "name": "Child Trends Inc", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "MD", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Research has consistently shown that youth, who come into contact with the juvenile justice system, are less likely to re-offend when the intensity of the intervention that they receive (e.g., placement in a secure residential facility vs. participation in community-based services) is aligned with their relative risk for reoffending (Lipsey, 2009). Accordingly, juvenile justice systems throughout the nation have adopted research-based, juvenile risk and needs assessment tools that can be used to inform youths’ case plans. These tools, many of which are algorithmically based, are used by decision makers, such as judges, to estimate youths’ risk for reoffending as well as identify factors that may make reoffense more (or less) likely. Although research has generally shown that risk assessment tools are more accurate and less biased than the unstructured judgements of decision makers, some research has shown that these tools have the potential to perpetuate and mask racial disparities and other historical inequities (Goal et al., 2021; St. John et al., 2020). Research on risk assessments has been limited, however, by the fact that it has almost exclusively focused on the tools themselves—rarely examining how decision makers use the tools in practice. This limited focus is problematic because in practice, these tools are intended to provide information to decision makers rather than replace them. Thus, biases can potentially be introduced not just in the risk assessments themselves but also in decisions on whether to accept or reject the assessment's recommendation. To address this issue, this study will examine how decision makers use risk assessments. Importantly, we will examine how different contextual factors affect the use of the tool as well as how the use of the tool affects youth outcomes. A key goal of this study will be to develop policy and practice guidance to promote more effective and equitable use of risk assessments. \n\nTo achieve the study aims, we will partner with a juvenile justice agency in a Southern state—which implements a statewide juvenile risk and needs assessment tool—to conduct a three-year mixed-methods study. We will conduct primary data collection, including a survey and focus groups, with judges and analyze secondary data from the state juvenile justice and education agencies, law enforcement, and the American Community Survey. Secondary data will include variables such as youths’ sociodemographic characteristics (e.g., race/ethnicity, age, and sex); risk assessment scores; case histories (e.g., offense severity); disposition received (e.g., probation, commitment); recidivism (12-month re-adjudication); and educational outcomes (e.g., high school completion) as well as community characteristics, such as the presence of racial disparities in policing, median household income, and the percent of residents that are people of color. These data allow us to directly identify cases in which the disposition a youth received differs from what the risk score recommended. We will use data from June 2017 to July 2023 (with sensitivity analyses performed to assess how inclusion of data from the pandemic affects study results), which we anticipate will include approximately 23,000 youth records. We will use regression analysis and multi-level modeling to answer our research questions—assessing both (1) the circumstances that increase the likelihood a decision maker will override the risk assessment; and (2) how use (or non-use) of risk assessments’ recommendations affect youths’ educational outcomes and likelihood of reoffending. We will supplement administrative data with the primary data collection to gather more in-depth data on how judges’ use and perceive the use of risk assessments. We will present the study findings in multiple ways, so they are accessible to both practitioners and researchers, including formats such as a webinar, conference presentation, and journal articles.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "5930", "attributes": { "award_id": "3R25GM129836-04S1", "title": "Worlds of Connections: Vaccine Hesitancy", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 20252, "first_name": "LAWRENCE A.", "last_name": "BECK", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2018-09-01", "end_date": "2023-07-31", "award_amount": 54000, "principal_investigator": { "id": 20253, "first_name": "JULIA", "last_name": "MCQUILLAN", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 978, "ror": "", "name": "UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NE", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "Worlds of Connections: Vaccine Hesitancy is motivated by the critical need to address public hesitancy toward vaccination for COVID-19. Our team, led by SEPA PI and sociologist Julia McQuillan, science educator Judy Diamond, and educator/medical sociologist Patricia Wonch Hill, build on their NIH- and NSF-funded virology outreach work to establish research-based practice for engaging the public with narrative comics designed to create positive attitudes toward vaccination while generating new knowledge about effective methods for public science outreach during a pandemic. Numerous factors—including family history, negative experience with medical institutions, distrust of vaccines—can contribute to reservations about vaccinations. No matter the reason, many people in the U.S. do not plan to take advantage of the opportunity to be vaccinated for COVID-19. With our team of professional researchers, artists, and educators, we leverage learning research approaches to develop short, engaging comics about the value of COVID-19 vaccines. The narratives will be grounded in current science and designed to be relevant to audiences with specific cultural and racial/ethnic identities. Mobilizing our partnerships with publishers, schools, libraries, museums, and media, we will provide a diverse public audience with direct access to the comic narratives in physical and digital forms.", "keywords": [ "Address", "Arts", "COVID-19", "COVID-19 vaccination", "COVID-19 vaccine", "Communicable Diseases", "Cultural Sensitivity", "Diamond", "Ethnic group", "Family", "Funding", "Happiness", "Human", "Human Biology", "Institution", "Knowledge", "Learning", "Libraries", "Medical", "Methods", "Misinformation", "Museums", "Play", "Practice based research", "Recording of previous events", "Research", "Research Personnel", "Reservations", "Role", "Schools", "Science", "Series", "Social Psychology", "United States National Institutes of Health", "Vaccinated", "Vaccination", "Vaccines", "Virus", "Work", "artist", "design", "digital", "distrust", "ethnic identity", "experience", "outreach", "pandemic disease", "racial and ethnic", "science teacher", "sociologist", "success", "vaccine hesitancy", "virology" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "7586", "attributes": { "award_id": "3R24AI120942-05S1", "title": "World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses (WRCEVA)", "funder": { "id": 4, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cwqze88", "name": "National Institutes of Health", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 7012, "first_name": "LESLEY CONRAD", "last_name": "Dupuy", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2020-04-02", "end_date": "2021-01-31", "award_amount": 355500, "principal_investigator": { "id": 23382, "first_name": "Scott C", "last_name": "Weaver", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 851, "ror": "", "name": "UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 851, "ror": "", "name": "UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MED BR GALVESTON", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TX", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "New and emerging viruses and arboviruses represent increasing threats to human health, yet their mechanisms of emergence remain poorly understood, and effective interventions are not available for most. Research on their ecology, evolution, epidemiology, emergence mechanisms, diagnostics, and development of vaccines and therapeutics remain critical public health needs. The World Reference Center for Emerging Viruses and Arboviruses (WRCEVA) comprises a comprehensive, diverse collection of over 6,700 virus strains in 21 families, as well as antisera, antigens and other reagents to enable research worldwide. Approximately 400 new virus strains are added each year, and 1000 viruses and reagents are shipped annually. The WRCEVA also maintains broad expertise in both novel and traditional approaches to virus identification and characterization, and assists with outbreak diagnosis. This proposal seeks to continue these WRCEVA activities in support of NIH-funded and other research on emerging viruses worldwide through 5 Specific Aims: 1. Maintain a comprehensive set of emerging viruses, arboviruses and associated reagents to support research and surveillance. The virus collection as well as antigens, antibodies and other reagents will be continually enhanced to capitalize on new technology, and cDNA clones of selected strains will be added. NextGen sequencing-based quality control practices will be implemented to ensure strain accuracy/purity. 2. Discover, isolate and characterize newly acquired viruses by using electron microscopy, next generation sequencing, and serologic methods to determine relationships and taxonomic assignments, and to assess in vitro and in vivo host range. Clinical and field samples as well as viral isolates will be received for identification and characterization, and added to the repository. Critical phenotypes of newly discovered viruses and strains will be assessed by using in vitro and in vivo infections. 3. Perform sequencing and phylogenetic analyses of selected virus groups to determine evolutionary histories and emergence mechanisms, patterns of spread and infection, and to rapidly determine the sources of new outbreaks. Key virus strains will undergo genomic sequencing to generate databases that can be exploited for the rapid determination of new outbreak sources, including potential bioterrorism. 4. Characterize recently discovered mosquito-specific viruses (MSVs) and determine their evolutionary history, impact on the transmission of arboviruses, and genetic determinants of host range. Selected arbovirus taxa that include mosquito-specific viruses will be studied to understand the genetic basis of their host range restriction and assess their potential as tools to interfere with arbovirus transmission. 5. Train scientists in the identification and characterization of emerging viruses and arboviruses. To further enhance research efforts in the U.S. and worldwide as well as to leverage collaborations that feed our collections, basic training in virus identification and characterization will be provided to qualified scientists.", "keywords": [ "Adopted", "Antibodies", "Antigenic Diversity", "Antigens", "Arboviruses", "Bioterrorism", "Chikungunya virus", "Clinical", "Collaborations", "Collection", "Communities", "Complementary DNA", "Cryoelectron Microscopy", "Culicidae", "Databases", "Dengue", "Diagnosis", "Diagnostic", "Disease Outbreaks", "Ebola", "Ecology", "Electron Microscopy", "Ensure", "Epidemiology", "Evolution", "Family", "Foundations", "Funding", "Genetic", "Genetic Determinism", "Genetic Variation", "Genomics", "Genus Phlebovirus", "Goals", "Growth", "Hantavirus", "Health", "Hemorrhage", "Human", "Immune Sera", "In Vitro", "Infection", "Institution", "International", "Intervention", "Laboratories", "Location", "Medical", "Methods", "Middle East Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus", "National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease", "New York", "Pathogenesis", "Pattern", "Phenotype", "Phylogenetic Analysis", "Play", "Principal Investigator", "Public Health", "Quality Control", "Reagent", "Recording of previous events", "Research", "Research Support", "Role", "SARS coronavirus", "Sampling", "Scientist", "Serological", "Ships", "Source", "Taxonomy", "Texas", "Therapeutic", "Training", "United States National Institutes of Health", "Universities", "Vaccine Design", "Vaccines", "Viral", "Viral Genome", "Virus", "Virus Diseases", "Yellow Fever", "Zoonoses", "anthropogenesis", "arthropod-borne", "base", "biodefense", "bioweapon", "deep sequencing", "effective intervention", "human disease", "improved", "in vivo", "new technology", "next generation sequencing", "novel", "programs", "repository", "tool", "transmission process", "vaccine development", "vector", "vector transmission", "virus identification" ], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "3291", "attributes": { "award_id": "1838991", "title": "Workshops on Mathematical Challenges in Many-Body Physics and Quantum Information", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS)", "ANALYSIS PROGRAM" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 10406, "first_name": "Marian", "last_name": "Bocea", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2018-09-01", "end_date": "2019-08-31", "award_amount": 22960, "principal_investigator": { "id": 10409, "first_name": "Bruno", "last_name": "Nachtergaele", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 276, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Davis", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 276, "ror": "", "name": "University of California-Davis", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "CA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This award provides funding for US participation for three workshops and a school that are part of the thematic program \"Mathematical Challenges in Many-Body Physics and Quantum Information\" to be held at Centre de Recherches Mathematiques (CRM) located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The first workshop, \"Quantum information and quantum statistical mechanics\", will be held October 15-19, 2018. The school \"Mathematics of Non-equilibrium Statistical Mechanics\" will be held October 24-26, 2018. The scond workshop, \"Entropic fluctuation relations in mathematics and physics\" will be held October 29-November 2, 2018. The third workshop, \"Spectral theory of quasi-periodic and random operators\" will be held November 13-16, 2018.\n\nThe individual workshops and school focus on recent developments in Analysis, especially in the field of mathematical physics and quantum information science. A number of distinguished mathematicians have agreed to attend and speak at this conference series. This award gives early career researchers, members of underrepresented groups, researchers not funded by NSF and the like an opportunity to attend and participate in this conference. The organizing committee will strive to make this funding opportunity known to target groups through a number of different activities. More information will be made available at the thematic conference webpage: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Quantum2018/index.php/\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "2626", "attributes": { "award_id": "2041418", "title": "WORKSHOP: VL/HCC 2020 Graduate Consortium", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "HCC-Human-Centered Computing" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 7658, "first_name": "Ephraim", "last_name": "Glinert", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2020-10-01", "end_date": "2021-09-30", "award_amount": 1355, "principal_investigator": { "id": 7659, "first_name": "Michael", "last_name": "Lee", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 228, "ror": "https://ror.org/05e74xb87", "name": "New Jersey Institute of Technology", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 228, "ror": "https://ror.org/05e74xb87", "name": "New Jersey Institute of Technology", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "NJ", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This is funding to support a Graduate Consortium (workshop) for about 10 graduate students, approximately 5 from universities in the United States and 5 from foreign institutions, in order to broaden the horizons of the U.S. attendees), along with the PI and 2 other distinguished research faculty as mentors. The full-day event will take place on August 10 in conjunction with but preceding the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), to be held virtually due to the current situation on August 12-14, and which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. This year marks the 36th anniversary of the Symposium. Established in 1984, the mission of VL/HCC is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. This includes research aimed at visual technology and text, and technology that uses sound, taste, virtual reality, and the Web. It also includes research on theories about the many media used toward this goal. VL/HCC occupies a unique niche among HCI and programming language conferences, in that it focuses specifically on how to help end users successfully develop and use software. More information about the Symposium may be found online at https://human-se.github.io/vlhcc2019/. The PI and the members of the organizing committee will make special efforts to attract a diverse and interdisciplinary group of student participants to the Graduate Consortium, with special attention paid to recruitment of students from underrepresented institutions and women. To further increase diversity, no more than two student participants will be accepted from any given institution (and if two are accepted, then at least one of them must be from an under-represented group in STEM fields).\n\nRecent advances in computing have led to continually deeper integration between computers and human society. People now swim in an \"ocean\" of socio-technical systems that synthesize large numbers of contributing users with vast amounts of source code. Examples include social media systems, open source repositories, online marketplaces and massively multiplayer online games. Yet as the socio-technical systems in this sea have grown in complexity, they have become increasingly difficult for end users to understand and direct toward productive ends. The primary goal of this year's VL/HCC Graduate Consortium, the 18th to be funded by NSF in this series, is to stimulate graduate students' thinking about how to use tools and techniques in the early stages of problem solving such as problem definition and solution searching. In particular, what methods, models, diagrams, and tools can people leverage to create mental models of complex socio-technical systems that can be used to make design decisions and for collaboration? Effective approaches will bring users and software together in creative and productive ways that bear directly on the needs of modern society. The Graduate Consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at alleviating a pressing problem of relevance to a great many people within our society. The student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the workshop and will receive constructive feedback from the faculty participants as well as from the other students. The feedback is geared to helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other human-computer interaction research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether the results are appropriately analyzed and presented. This event will therefore promote discovery and learning, while also building community among young researchers working from the perspectives of diverse fields including computer science, the social sciences, and education. A 2-page extended abstract of each student participant's work will be published in the conference proceedings.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4712", "attributes": { "award_id": "1318174", "title": "WORKSHOP: VL/HCC 2013 Graduate Consortium", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "HCC-Human-Centered Computing" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 16339, "first_name": "Ephraim", "last_name": "Glinert", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2013-01-15", "end_date": "2013-12-31", "award_amount": 24243, "principal_investigator": { "id": 16340, "first_name": "Scott", "last_name": "Fleming", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 694, "ror": "https://ror.org/01cq23130", "name": "University of Memphis", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "TN", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) for approximately 11 graduate students, along with a panel of about 4 distinguished research faculty mentors. The event will take place in conjunction with the 2013 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), to be held September 15-19, 2013, in San Jose, California, and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. The long-running VL/HCC series occupies a unique niche among HCI and Programming Language conferences, in that it focuses specifically on how to help end users successfully develop and use software. Recent advances in computing have led to continually deeper integration between computers and human society. People now swim in a \"sea\" of socio-technical systems that synthesize large numbers of contributing users with vast amounts of source code. Examples include social media systems, open source repositories, online marketplaces and massively multiplayer online games. Yet as the socio-technical systems in this sea have grown in complexity, they have become increasingly difficult for end users to understand and direct toward productive ends. \n\nThe primary goal of this year's VL/HCC Doctoral Consortium, the eleventh to be funded by NSF in this series, is to stimulate graduate students' and other researchers' thinking about how to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand. In particular, what methods, models and tools can people use to visualize, analyze, tailor, and direct socio-technical systems? The doctoral consortium aims to stimulate novel approaches that go far beyond simplistic solutions like web browsers and search engines. Although search engines do provide information that is useful in simple situations, they represent only one portion of a socio-technical system (information retrieval). For example, search engines alone are not powerful enough to be used to start new businesses and run them competitively, since they only give people the ability to find resources provided by other people, rather than the ability to create new resources. Effective approaches will bring users and software together in creative and productive ways that bear directly on the needs of modern society. \n\nThe workshop will build community among young researchers working on different aspects of these problems from the perspectives of diverse fields including computer science, the social sciences, and education. It will guide the work of these new researchers by providing an opportunity for experts in the research field (as well as their peers) to give them advice, in that student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the workshop and will receive feedback from a faculty panel. The feedback is geared to helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other human-computer interaction research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether the results are appropriately analyzed and presented. As in prior years the VL/HCC 2013 Doctoral Consortium will be part of the regular conference program. A 2-page extended abstract of each participant's work will be published in the conference proceedings. More information about this year's VL/HCC conference may be found online at https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2013. \n\nBroader Impacts: The workshop will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at alleviating a pressing problem of relevance to a great many people within our society. This event will promote discovery and learning, by encouraging the student researchers to explore a difficult and challenging open problem, through involvement of a panel of well-known researchers whose task is to provide constructive feedback, and through inclusion of other conference participants who will also learn from and provide additional feedback to the students and to each other. The PI and the members of the organizing committee will make special efforts to attract a diverse and interdisciplinary group of student participants, with special attention paid to recruitment of students from underrepresented institutions and women. While most of the students supported by this award will come from U.S. universities, as in past years due to the highly international make-up of the research community a couple of non-U.S. students may be invited to participate as well. To further increase diversity, no more than 2 student participants will be accepted from any one institution.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "9992", "attributes": { "award_id": "2230504", "title": "WORKSHOP: Virtual Student Doctoral Consortium (\"Think Tank\") at the ICAD 2022 Conference", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "HCC-Human-Centered Computing" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 612, "first_name": "Ephraim", "last_name": "Glinert", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2022-07-01", "end_date": "2022-12-31", "award_amount": 1650, "principal_investigator": { "id": 25798, "first_name": "Michael", "last_name": "Nees", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 1250, "ror": "https://ror.org/036n0x007", "name": "Lafayette College", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This is funding to support a one-day \"Think Tank\" (virtual workshop) of about 10 promising graduate student scholars along with five distinguished research faculty mentors on Friday, June 24, in conjunction with this year's meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2022), which will be held virtually on June 25–27, 2022. Historically, auditory displays have been overlooked in favor of visual information displays, but technological advances in the last several decades have opened new possibilities for the delivery of audio information in human-machine systems. Well-designed auditory displays can play a vital role in improving human performance with systems, in making information accessible and inclusive (e.g., for people with visual impairments), and in providing new, exciting, fulfilling opportunities for human-machine interactions. As such, auditory displays and sonification have been deployed in such diverse applications as assistive technologies, desktop and mobile devices, automotive user interfaces, medical devices, computer music, and artistic installations. As a relatively young field, auditory display research has a still-emerging potential to make valuable contributions to science and society. Achieving this potential requires the on-going development of a base of scientific, engineering, and artistic knowledge by a community of people with specific expertise and interest in sound as a medium for information display. Decades of research and practice have shown that the effective use of auditory displays requires a deep understanding of how humans create, perceive, and use sounds,, and for the last 3 decades ICAD has been the premiere venue for the discussion and dissemination of the intellectual products of auditory display research. Normally an in-person meeting, the 2020 conference was cancelled due to the onset of the pandemic, and the 2021 event was forced to assume a virtual format, which was highly successful, so a similar format will again be employed this year when the conference theme is \"sonification that can be used to maintain awareness.\" More details about ICAD 2022 are available online at https://icad2022.icad.org/. The ICAD Think Tank is a doctoral consortium that promotes scholarship and networking among new researchers in this important emerging interdisciplinary area. There are three objectives: To support the research efforts and professional development of students who are studying auditory displays and sonification; To provide specific feedback and potential solutions to barriers those students are facing in their research projects; To develop and sustain a community of early career researchers of auditory displays.\n\nTo these ends, the Think Tank will provide a friendly and open, yet rigorous, scientific forum in which participants can present their research ideas, listen to ongoing work from peers and receive constructive feedback from a panel of distinguished experts. Panel feedback is designed to help students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. The Think Tank will also offer invited speakers and discussion groups (e.g., to provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates, whether they are considering academic or industrial career paths). Thus, the Think Tank will help shape ongoing and future research projects that have clear and important implications for development of assistive technologies and universal access. It will bring together students from diverse disciplines (such as engineering, computing, music, and psychology), so that they can experience the broad spectrum of approaches to auditory displays, assistive technologies and universal design. It will afford participants exposure to a larger community, allowing them to bond among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality and culture, scientific discipline, and institution, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. The organizers will be proactive in promoting diversity among Think Tank attendees; every effort will be made to recruit and select participants who represent the diversity of ICAD, broadly defined, including diversity of research topics and geographic location, demographic diversity, and diversity of disciplinary backgrounds.\n\nThis award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } }, { "type": "Grant", "id": "4313", "attributes": { "award_id": "1720407", "title": "WORKSHOP: ThinkTank (Doctoral Consortium) at ICAD 2017", "funder": { "id": 3, "ror": "https://ror.org/021nxhr62", "name": "National Science Foundation", "approved": true }, "funder_divisions": [ "Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)", "HCC-Human-Centered Computing" ], "program_reference_codes": [], "program_officials": [ { "id": 14659, "first_name": "Ephraim", "last_name": "Glinert", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [] } ], "start_date": "2017-01-01", "end_date": "2017-07-31", "award_amount": 22600, "principal_investigator": { "id": 14660, "first_name": "Mark", "last_name": "Ballora", "orcid": null, "emails": "", "private_emails": "", "keywords": null, "approved": true, "websites": null, "desired_collaboration": null, "comments": null, "affiliations": [ { "id": 219, "ror": "", "name": "Pennsylvania State Univ University Park", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true } ] }, "other_investigators": [], "awardee_organization": { "id": 219, "ror": "", "name": "Pennsylvania State Univ University Park", "address": "", "city": "", "state": "PA", "zip": "", "country": "United States", "approved": true }, "abstract": "This is funding to support a \"Think Tank\" (workshop) of about 13 promising graduate student scholars along with distinguished research faculty mentors, in conjunction with the 23rd Annual International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2017), which will be held June 20-23 on the University Park campus of Pennsylvania State University. ICAD is the premier international forum for presenting research on the use of sound to display data, monitor systems, and provide enhanced user interfaces for computers and virtual reality systems. It is unique in its singular focus on auditory displays and the array of perception, technology, and application areas that this encompasses, which include for example data sonification, auditory wayfinding, auditory graphs, speech interfaces, virtual environments, and associated perceptual, cognitive, technical, and technological research and development. Many of the interdisciplinary research and development efforts are of direct relevance to persons with perceptual disabilities, especially visual impairments; for example, developing wayfinding systems for the blind requires research into effective distance cues and object identifiers used in auditory displays. Research into the efficacy of auditory graphs may be used to help visually impaired students and scientists participate more fully in science. Even household devices can have more effective auditory displays that provide richer information than the basic \"beeps\" they presently tend to generate. A common approach in this field is universal design, wherein a display strategy is developed once, to be used by all kinds of users, including those with and without specific access issues. This year's conference theme is Sound in Learning; more details about the conference are available online at http://icad.org/icad2017/. The ICAD Think Tank is a doctoral consortium that promotes scholarship and networking among new researchers in this important emerging interdisciplinary area. It will help shape ongoing and future research projects that have clear and important implications for development of assistive technologies and universal access. The doctoral consortium will afford participants exposure to a larger community, allowing them to bond among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality and culture, scientific discipline, and institution, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. This year, the organizers expect that up to 10 U.S.-based Think Tank Scholars will have their travel and attendance heavily subsidized. Additionally, up to 3 U.S.-based Think Tank Scholars local to the central Pennsylvania area will have their attendance at ICAD 2017 (but not travel and accommodation) subsidized, for a total of 13 Student Scholars. Some NSF funds will also be used to support travel by research faculty panelists (both U.S. and foreign-based), since they provide great value to the US students, but NSF funds will not be used to support travel and participation of non-U.S. students. The organizers will be proactive in promoting diversity among the attendees. Stage in their academic program, research topic, gender and disability status are examples of dimensions on which participant diversity will be pursued; geographic and institutional diversity will also be strongly considered.\n\nThe ICAD Think Tank, a full-day event which will take place on June 19 immediately preceding the conference, is open to graduate students at all stages of their educational program, including both Masters and PhD students. Exceptional undergraduates who have demonstrated interest in pursuing this field in their graduate careers may also be considered. The Think Tank will bring together students from diverse backgrounds (e.g., engineering, computing, music, and psychology), so that they can experience the broad spectrum of approaches to auditory displays, assistive technologies and universal design. The Think Tank will develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, by providing participants with a friendly and open, yet rigorous, scientific forum in which to present their research ideas, to listen to ongoing work from peer students, and to receive constructive feedback from a panel of distinguished experts. Panel feedback is designed to help students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. The Think Tank will also offer invited speakers and discussion groups (e.g., to provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates, whether they are considering academic or industrial career paths). Each student participant will furthermore present his/her work in a special poster session during the conference proper. And the Think Tank Chair will provide a summary/review/debrief at the conference banquet that includes an overview of the event's success and in which all Think Tank participants (students and panelists) are introduced to the community.", "keywords": [], "approved": true } } ], "meta": { "pagination": { "page": 3, "pages": 1392, "count": 13920 } } }