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)