William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D. wbainbri@nsf

1. William Sims Bainbridge, Ph.D. wbainbri@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.

2. 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

3. 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?

4. 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? Criterion 2: Broader Impacts

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6. 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/

7. 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.”

8. 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…”

9. 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.”

10. 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.”

11. 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.”

12. 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. ”