Grants Prior to Cooper Union
- 2009-2010 IBM Open Collaborative Faculty Award. “Automatic Usability Testing”
- 2008-2010 Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) and NEC Corp. “Systematizing Usability”
- 2007-2008 ABB Inc. “Usability Supporting Architectural Patterns for the Common Gauge Architecture”
- 2007-2010 NASA. “Automation Interaction Design and Evaluation Methods”
- 2004-2009 Boeing. “Research on Cognitive Performance Modeling.”
- 2004 General Motors. “Interpretability of In-Vehicle Information Devices.”
- 2003 General Motors. “Task Structure and Interpretability: Criteria.”
- 2002-2009 ONR. “Scalable Cognitive Modeling through Compositional Reuse” (With A. Vera, HCII; R. Remington, M. Matessa,, NASA; R. Lewis, U Michigan)
- 2001-2005 NASA “High Dependability Computing Program.” (One of many named PIs, including multiple universities, headed by Bill Scherlis Institute of Software Research, International, SCS, CMU.)
- 2001-2003 NASA “Effective Team Support” (with Katia Sycara, RI, CMU).
- 2000 Rank-Xerox EuroPARC. Collaborative work agreement (3-month salary support for sabbatical in at Xerox, Cambridge UK).
- 1999-2002 Software Engineering Institute, CMU. “Usability and Software Architecture.” SEI supported a 1-year Leave of Absence (’99-’00 calendar year sabbatical and part-time salary for two additional years). Work with Len Bass, continuing under HDCP.
- 1998-1999 Xerox Foundation. “WWW Use.”
- 1998-2001 NSF. The Strategic use of Complex Computer Systems. NSF CISE-EI Program. (with Dan Olsen, HCII).
- 1994-1999 NSF Young Investigator Award.
- 1994 AT&T Foundation Special Purpose Grants in Science and Engineering.
- 1994-1997 NSF National Challenges - ENG-CISE "High Performance Computing for Simulation, Planning and Execution of Robot-Assisted Surgery" (with Takeo Kanade, Robotics Institute, CMU; Omar Ghattas, Civil Engineering, CMU; Anthony DiGioia & Branislav Jaramaz, Shadyside Hospital).
- 1993-1996 ARPA "Usability of Knowledge-based Planning Systems."
- 1992-1993 DARPA (subcontracted from ISI/USC) "Improving the Soar Programming Environment."
- 1992 Software Engineering Institute, CMU. Development of a Curriculum Module entitled "Goals, Operators, Methods, and Selection rules."
- 1991 NSF "CISE Research Instrumentation" (to re-equip the User Studies Lab, see academic experience, below).
- 1990-1993 NASA "Modeling the NASA Test Director."
- 1989-1999 ONR "The Immediate Interaction Cycle: Generality of Mechanisms and Learning to Perform"
- 1989-1990 U. S. West "Applying Cognitive Theory to the Evaluation and Design of Human-Computer Interfaces."
- 1988-1990 Xerox "Research on an Engineering Theory of the User of Browsers."
- 1987-1989 ONR "Contributions to the Model Human Processor."