The purpose of the School of Information Faculty Innovation Fund is to advance research at the School of Information, specifically by supporting faculty research through prioritizing projects that look to make connections to external funding opportunities, as well as providing funding for pre-tenure faculty research. This program is designed to support school goal #9, “To pursue internal and external funding for innovation in research, teaching, and/or learning.” The application for funding is available here. Projects and recipients include:
2023-2024
Request for $25,040 across four projects and $25,040 was granted.
Dr. Kathy Carbone
“Moving The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration,Contemporary Art, and Action (TAP) Forward”
Dr. Sai Shruthi Chivukula
“Technology-Regulation Curriculum Mapping”
Dr. Irene Lopatovska
“Understanding Adolescents’ Online Safety During Wars”
Dr. Cristina Pattuelli
“Art International Intersections: Postwar Artistic Exchange between U.S. and Italy as a Semantic Knowledge Base”
2022-2023
Request for $16,700 across three projects and $16,650 was granted.
Dr. Irene Lopatovska
“Developing grant applications to support programs for Youth and Parent Resilience”
Dr. Cristina Pattuelli
“Experiments in Arts and Technologies: Charting Collaboration between E.A.T. Artists and Scientists”
Dr. Nancy Smith
“The Environmental Storytelling Studio (TESS)”
2021-2022
Request for $14,270 across three projects and $14,270 was granted.
Dr. Irene Lopatovska
“Designing Conversational Agents’ to Improve Wellbeing of Adolescents”
Dr. Cristina Pattuelli
“Robert Rauschenberg and Italy: Applying Semantic Technologies to Artist’s Archives”
Dr. Nancy Smith
“Environment & Technology Book Project”
2020-2021
Request for $35,220 across five projects and $30,970 granted for five projects.
Dr. Irene Lopatovska
“Designing Conversational Agents’ to Improve Wellbeing of Adolescents”
Dr. Craig MacDonald and Elena Villaespesa
“Developing the UX Capacity-Building Playbook for Museums”
Dr. Cristina Pattuelli
“New Biographies for Prosopographies: Representing Women in Jazz through Semantic Technologies”
Dr. Nancy Smith
“Exploring Animal-Robot Interactions”
Dr. Elena Villaespesa
“Museums and Artificial Intelligence (AI): book chapter on New Business Models and Visitor Data.”
2019-2020
Request for $10,179 across 2 projects and $10,179 granted for 2 projects.
Dr. Irene Lopatovska
“Examining User Preferences for Personalities of Conversational Agents”
Dr. Nancy Smith
“Curious Encounters: Notes on Animals, Technology, and the Future of Coexistence (Book)”
2018-2019
Request for $36,800 in funding across 5 projects and $31,000 granted for 5 projects.
Dr. Cristina Pattuelli with Prof. Matt Miller
“Art Data Combines: Applying linked data technologies to Robert Rauschenberg archives and special collections”
Dr. Irene Lopatovska
“Understanding Humor in Interactions with Intelligent Personal Assistants”
Dr. Elena Villaespesa
“The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Museum Operations”
Dr. Craig MacDonald
“Assessing Organizational User Experience (UX) Capacity: A Pilot Study”
Dr. Leanne Bowler
“Investigating Data Infrastructure Literacy at the Public Library: Preparatory Work to Support the Development of a Research Grant”
2017-2018
Request for $11,000 across 2 projects and $11,000 granted for 2 projects.
Dr. Cristina Pattuelli and Prof. Matt Miller (with SI student Sarah Adams)
“Networked Life Narratives: Mining and Linking the Mary Berenson Archive” (Pattuelli, with from Prof. Matt Miller and SI student Sarah Adams).
Dr. Elena Villaespesa
“Photography and social network behaviors at the museum: The case of Snapchat and Instagram Stories”