Montclair Researchers Receive NSF Grant to Advance Interdisciplinary Research on Human-Machine Interaction
Team will utilize 3D driving simulator to create new STEM research opportunities for students
Posted in: CSAM Research, School of Computing
An interdisciplinary group of researchers at Montclair State University has received a $533,798 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to enhance the understanding of interactions between humans, machines, and environments through simulated driving experiments.
Led by Montclair professor Rui Li with co-PIs Stefan Robila, Jennifer Yang, and Gustavo Heidner, the project brings together expertise in multimodal interaction and affective computing, computational sensing, psychology and spatial cognition, as well as human biomechanics and motor control to conduct cutting-edge research focused on humans and machines. This research will be tested and deployed on the Montclair extended reality-based driving simulator (XR-Drive), sponsored by the NSF, over the three-year project.
The success of this NSF project is a very important step for me and my team’s research at Montclair. It enables us to explore the interactions among humans, machines, and environments collaboratively. Most importantly, the interdisciplinary nature of this project will allow innovative collaborative studies that integrate expertise across multiple disciplines centering on intelligent machines, human factors, and environmental factors. It will serve as a new platform for STEM training. For example, students can develop and deploy software content on this new hardware.