Research Grants and Contracts

Remark: Unless otherwise noted, I served as PI or as
Co-PI with the other persons listed on these grants.

• 2011-2014: “Theoretical Frameworks and
  Socio-Technical Systems for Fostering Smart
  Communities in Smart Grid Environments,” $749,708,
  NSF-CISE-IIS-SoCS
• 2010-2013: “CDI-Type I: Transformative Models of
  Learning and Discovery in Cultures of
  Participation”, $ 660,000, NSF-CISE-IIS
• 2010-2011: “SoCS: Energy Sustainability and Smart
  Grids: Fostering and Supporting Cultures of
  Participation in the Energy Landscape of the
  Future”, $ 249,525, NSF-CISE-IIS
• 2009-2010: SoD-Team: A Meta-Design Framework for
  Participative Software Systems, REU Grant, $ 16,000,
  NSF-CISE-IIS
• 2008-2009: “SGER: Increasing Participation and
  Sustaining a Research Community in Creativity and
  IT” ,$100,000, NSF-CISE-IIS
• 2007-2008: “Giving All Stakeholders a Voice”,
  $150K, SAP Labs, Palo Alto
• 2007-2008: “Motivating and Empowering Users to
  Become Active Contributors”, $60K, Google Research
  Award
• 2007-2008: “SGER: A New Generation Wiki for
  Supporting a Research Community in Creativity and
  IT”, $199,974, NSF-CISE-IIS
• 2006-2009: “A Meta-Design Framework for
  Participative Software Systems”, $745,448; Sponsor:
  National Science Foundation, CISE, Science of Design
  Program http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/~SoD/
  
• 2005-2006: “CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to
  help people help themselves”, $ 160,000; Sponsor:
  Coleman Institute http://l3d.cs.colorado.edu/clever/index.html
• 2005: “Creativity Support Tools” (with Ben
  Shneiderman; grant awarded to the University of
  Maryland), $45,000, Sponsor: NSF CISE — Support for
  a Workshop, Washington, DC
• 2004-2005: “SGER: Designing and developing mobile
  computing infrastructures and architectures to
  support people with cognitive disabilities and
  caregivers in authentic everyday tasks”, $ 107,000;
  Sponsor: NSF CISE
• 2004-2005: “Smart Care — Socio-Technical
  Environments for People with Cognitive
  Disabilities”, $ 30,000K, Sponsor: Imagine!,
  Boulder, CO 2000 – 2005: “CLever: Building Cognitive
  Levers to help people help themselves”, $ 2,400,000;
  Sponsor: Coleman Family Foundation
• 2002: “Enhancing Collaborative Learning Among
  Researchers, Practitioners, and Students at CSCL
  2002″ (with Hal Eden, and Gerry Stahl), $49,860,
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Directorate of
  Education and Human Resources (support for the CSCL
  conference in January, Boulder)
• 2001-2004: “Social Creativity and Meta-Design in
  Lifelong Learning Communities” (with Ernesto Arias,
  Hal Eden, and Michael Eisenberg), $ 1,450,000;
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation, Directorate of
  Education and Human Resources
• 2000 – 2003: “CLever: Building Cognitive Levers to
  help people help themselves”, $ 1,600,000 Mio;
  Sponsor: Coleman Family Foundation
• 2000: “Informed Participation — A Foundation for
  Creating Shared Understanding in Collaborative
  Design and Decision Making”, $ 60,000; Sponsor: ONR
• 1997-2001: “Allowing Learners to be Articulate:
  Incorporating Automated Text Evaluation into
  Collaborative Software Environments” (with W.
  Kintsch and T.K. Landauer), $678,239; Sponsor: James
  S. McDonnell Foundation
• 1997-2000: “Explorations in the Design of Future
  Computational Systems for Every-Day Life”, $450,00,
  Sponsor: PFU, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
• 1997-2000: “Conceptual Frameworks and Computational
  Support for Organizational Memories and
  Organizational Learning” (with J. Ostwald and G.
  Stahl), $725,000; Sponsor: National Science
  Foundation
• 1996-1999: “Lifelong Learning – Bringing Learning
  Activities to Life” (with M. Eisenberg, H. Eden, and
  A. Repenning), $1,935,996; Sponsor: National Science
  Foundation
• 1996-1997: “Shared Interaction in Support of
  Design, Learning and Planning” (with E. Arias and H.
  Eden), $61,300; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• 1996-1997: “Making Learning a Part of Life:
  Theories, Technologies, Practices, and Assessment in
  Support of Lifelong Learning”, Collaborative
  Research on Learning Technology (CRLT) Center
  Planning Grant (with 12 Co-PIs), $50,000; Sponsor:
  National Science Foundation
• 1995-1996: “Learning by Design: Environments to
  Support Reinventing and Reengineering Education as a
  Lifelong Process” (with H. Eden, M. Eisenberg and A.
  Repenning), $398,482; Sponsor: National Science
  Foundation
• 1994-1996: “Next Generation Authoring Tools &
  Instructional Applications”, $414,235; Sponsor:
  Technology Reinvestment Program (TRP)
• 1994-1997: “Designing Useful and Usable
  Computational Environments” (with M. Eisenberg);
  $900,000; Sponsor: Advanced Research Projects Agency
  (ARPA)
• 1994-1997: “Human-Centered, Intelligent Agents
  Supporting Communication and Collaboration in
  Domain-Oriented Design Environments”; $210,000;
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• 1994-1995: “Learning on Demand – Using Networks for
  the Integration of School and Workplace Learning”
  (with H. Eden and M. Eisenberg), $436,141; Sponsor:
  National Science Foundation
• 1992-1995: “Mastering High-Functionality Systems by
  Supporting Learning on Demand” (with M. Eisenberg);
  $1,068,097; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
• 1992-1994: “Beyond Object Oriented Programming: A
  Knowledge-Based Architecture for Contextualized
  Software Design”; $64,700; Sponsor: Colorado
  Advanced Software Institute, Denver, CO
• 1992-1993: “Effective Use of Parallel and
  Distributed Computing”; $49,193; Sponsor: National
  Science Foundation
• 1990-1993: “Supporting Collaborative Design with
  Integrated Knowledge-Based Design Environments”
  (with A. Lemke and R. McCall); $700,000; Sponsor:
  National Science Foundation
• 1990-1993: CU-USWest Partnership Program (with C.
  Lewis, R. King, A. Lemke, G. Nutt, N. Pennington and
  P. Polson), $746,969; Sponsor: USWest Advanced
  Technologies, Boulder, CO
• 1990-1995: “Effective Use of Parallel and
  Distributed Computing” (contributing investigator),
  $1,999,687; Sponsor: National Science Foundation,
  CISE Institutional Infrastructure Grant
• 1988-1991: “Design Principles for Comprehensible
  Systems” (with W. Kintsch, C. Lewis, and P. Polson);
  $1,171,246; Sponsor: National Science Foundation
  (group grant)
• 1986-1991: “Theories, Methods and Tools for the
  Design of User-Centered Computer Systems” (with W.
  Kintsch); $986,867; Sponsor: Army Research Institute
  (ARI)
• 1987-1989: “Software Development Environment
  Research” (with R. King, G. Nutt, and L. Osterweil);
  $440,700; Sponsor: USWest Advanced Technologies,
  Englewood, CO
• 1986-1988: “The Application of Knowledge
  Engineering Techniques to Automatic Compiler
  Construction” (with V. Heuring and W. Waite);
  $337,204; Sponsor: Army Research Office
• 1985-1989: “A Facility for Research in Distributed
  Numerical Computation, Software Environments and
  Artificial Intelligence” (contributing
  investigator); $4,900,000; Sponsor: National Science
  Foundation and CU-Boulder
• 1987-1992: “Optoelectronic Computing Systems”
  (COCS) (contributing investigator); $14,500,000;
  Sponsor: National Science Foundation and CU-Boulder
• 1986: “Artificial Intelligence Research to support
  Human-Computer Communication, Intelligent Tutoring
  Systems and Software Engineering”; $2,500,000;
  Equipment Grant from Hewlett Packard, (with C.
  Lewis)
• 1985-1986: “Enhancing Incremental Learning
  Processes with Knowledge-based Systems”; $243,000;
  Sponsor: Office of Naval Research
• 1985: NSF Equipment Grant (with V. Heuring, W.
  Waite, M. Lightner, C. Lewis, and L. Osterweil);
  $150,000; Sponsor: NSF Engineering Program
• 1984-1988: “WISDOM: Knowledge-Based Systems for
  Office Communication, Document Processing and
  Human-Computer Communication” (with Triumph-Adler
  and GMD); $11,500,000; Sponsor: German Federal
  Ministry of Research and Technology
• 1983-1984: “Knowledge acquisition”; $100,000;
  Sponsor: Triumph-Adler, Nuernberg, Germany
• 1983-1985: “Knowledge-based systems and
  human-computer communication” (with R.
  Gunzenhaeuser); $1,300,000; Sponsor: German Federal
  Ministry of Research and Technology
• 1981-1982: “Integrated, interactive, personal
  information manipulation systems” (with R.
  Gunzenhaeuser); $600,000; Sponsor: German Federal
  Ministry of Research and Technology
• 1980-1981: “Evaluation study of natural language
  question/answering systems” (with J. Laubsch);
  $150,000; Sponsor: German Federal Ministry of
  Research and Technology
• 1975-1977: “Problem Solving with Interactive
  Computer System: Project LOGO” (contributing
  investigator); $675,000; Sponsor: German Federal
  Ministry of Science and Education

Financial Support from Companies

• 1993-present: PFU, Ltd., Tokyo, Japan for the
  Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D)
• 1993-1998: NYNEX Science and Technology for the
  Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D)
• 1997-1998: DaimlerBenz Forschung und Technik, Ulm,
  Germany for the Center for LifeLong Learning &
  Design (L3D)
• 1993-1994: Siemens Corporation, Munich, Germany for
  the Human-Computer Communications Group
• 1993-1994: USWest Foundation for the Research
  Program “Learning on Demand”
• 1992-1994: Equipment grants from Apple Computer,
  Inc., Cupertino, CA for the Human-Computer
  Communication Group and the Center for LifeLong
  Learning & Design (L3D)
• 1989-1998: NYNEX Science and Technology for the
  NYNEX/CU Graduate Fellowship
• 1989-present: Software Research Associates (SRA),
  Tokyo, Japan and Boulder, CO for the Human-Computer
  Communication Group and the Center for LifeLong
  Learning & Design (L3D)