The National Science Foundation NSF is an independent federal agency created by Congress in 1950 "to

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William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D. wbainbri_at_nsf.gov
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is an
independent federal agency created by Congress in
1950 "to promote the progress of science to
advance the national health, prosperity, and
welfare to secure the national defense" With an
annual budget of about 5.5 billion, we are the
funding source for approximately 20 percent of
all federally supported basic research conducted
by America's colleges and universities. In many
fields such as mathematics, computer science and
the social sciences, NSF is the major source of
federal backing.
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NSF CISE IIS
The Division of Information and Intelligent
Systems (IIS) supports research and education
projects that (1) increase the capabilities of
individuals via interaction with information
systems or via machine-mediated interactions with
other people, and (2) advance the understanding
and development of the foundations of robust
intelligent systems. NEW PROGRAM ANNOUNCEMENT
COMING SOON
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Criterion 1 Intellectual Merit

• How important is the proposed activity to
  advancing knowledge and understanding within its
  own field or across different fields?
• How well qualified is the proposer (individual or
  team) to conduct the project?
• To what extent does the proposed activity suggest
  and explore creative and original concepts?
• How well conceived and organized is the proposed
  activity?
• Is there sufficient access to resources?

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Criterion 2 Broader Impacts

• How well does the activity advance discovery and
  understanding while promoting teaching, training,
  and learning?
• How well does the activity broaden the
  participation of underrepresented groups ?
• To what extent will it enhance the infrastructure
  for research and education?
• Will the results be disseminated broadly to
  enhance scientific and technological
  understanding?
• What may be the benefits of the proposed activity
  to society?

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www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/
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Henry Kautz - Assistive CogTech
Project ACCESS (Assisted Cognition in Community,
Employment and Support Settings) to create novel
technologies that will enhance the quality of
life of people with cognitive disabilities.
http//www.cs.washington.edu/homes/kautz/
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Kautz Rehg Social Networks
Creating Dynamic Social Network Models from
Sensor Data NSF Awards 0433637/0433012
594,955/160,521 Program Manager William
Bainbridge IIS Division of Information
Intelligent Systems Investigators Henry Kautz,
U. Washington and James Rehg, Georgia Institute
of Technology
It will use both wearable and fixed computer
devices to collect streaming data on research
participants physical location, speech, and
motion, and then will develop computational
models to infer structures of social interaction
from these data... allows researchers to observe
the co-evolution of social roles (as performed by
individuals in day-to-day interaction) and
structural positions in a social network...
detailed analysis of conversations, analyzing how
styles of communication change within social
relationships over time.
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Durfee/Pollack - Cognitive Orthotics
ai.eecs.umich.edu/faculty.html
Edmund H. Durfee
Martha E. Pollack
We integrate temporal constraint reasoning with
reinforcement learning (RL) to build an adaptive
reminder system and in a simulated environment
demonstrate that it can personalize to a user and
adapt to both short- and long-term changes.
systems that can help people with cognitive
impairment manage their daily activities by
providing them with flexible, adaptive reminders
of functional activities
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Socio-Cognitive Orthotics
Multi-Agent Plan Management for Socio-Cognitive
Orthotics NSF Award 0534280 - 539,626 Program
Manager William Bainbridge IIS Division of
Information Intelligent Systems Investigators
Edmund Durfee, Martha Pollack University of
Michigan, Ann Arbor
Information technology can help a person with
cognitive impairment in managing his or her
everyday life, by modeling the activities the
person wants or needs to do, monitoring the
person's activities as they unfold, and guiding
the person to ensure that the most important
activities occur... novel techniques for
continual collaborative multi-agent management of
loosely-coupled plans... socio-cognitive
orthotics, where information technology can be
cost-effectively used to simultaneously promote
independence while combating isolation for
cognitively-impaired people.
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Quentin Jones - Social Matching
Using GeoTemporal Social Matching to Support
Community NSF Award 0534520 - 749,608 Program
Manager William Bainbridge Investigator
Quentin Jones New Jersey Institute of Technology
a new class of location-aware information
systems that link People-to-People-to-geographical
-Places (P3-Systems), based on technologies that
can locate individuals as they go about their
daily activities... P3-Systems can strengthen
community by helping individuals leverage
location information to make new social ties and
to coordinate better the interactions with
colleagues, friends, and family to reinforce
existing social ties.
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Roz Picard - Affective Computing
MIT Media Lab
Our research is aimed at giving machines skills
of emotional intelligence, including the ability
to recognize, model, and understand human
emotion, to appropriately communicate emotion,
and to respond to it effectively. We are also
interested in developing technologies to assist
in the development of human emotional
intelligence.
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Social-Emotional Prosthetic
Social-Emotional Intelligence Prosthetic NSF
Award 0555411 for 199,724 Program Manager
William Bainbridge IIS Division of Information
Intelligent Systems Investigator Rosalind
Picard, MIT
This research will develop the first known
wearable device capable of perceiving and
reporting on social-emotional information in
real-time human interaction... the first
prototype of what is expected to become a
sequence of increasingly intelligent
prosthetics... the first prosthetic assistive
technology that is designed to augment a person's
impairment in socio-emotional intelligence
skills assist the growing number of individuals
diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder, in
perceiving communication in a natural rather than
a structured environment, bootstrapping their
ability to learn and develop in social settings.