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Through previous grant awards from IES, researchers developed Graspable Math, a tablet-based intervention where middle and high school students create and manipulate complex expressions for basic operations as well as equations and equations systems and inequalities. In this project, the team will develop a prototype of Graspable Math Activities, an app with novel kinds of algebra practice and ass ...

In previous research and development, the developers created VidCode, a platform for students in grades 4 to 12 to learn computer science skills by using digital media assets (e.g., photos, audio, graphics) to create special effects in videos while learning about the code responsible for the action. In this project, the developers will create a prototype dashboard to provide teachers tools to mana ...

In previous research and development, researchers developed the Reading Roots, a non-technology delivered intervention for grade school that alternates teacher- delivered instruction with activities where children practice content and skills while working with a peer partner. In this project, the team will create a prototype of a technology-delivered version of Reading Roots, by integrating multim ...

In this project, the developers will create a prototype of a More Perfect Union, a role-playing game for high school civics and history. The technology-facilitated intervention will provide a library of simulations on a range of topics and historical moments inspired by the AP U.S. History Curriculum and the Common Core History Standards. In the game students will be cast in the roles of leading p ...

The use of video surveillance on roadways, railroads, buildings and other structures is becoming pervasive in the U.S. With the preponderance of video security networks, it is logical to suspect that the capability of existing video security solutions can be enhanced by integrating information from other sensor modalities that detect and provide actionable information about invisible threats, such ...

With the ever-increasing availability of commercial jamming equipment, the risk to public safety communications has never been higher.While public safety has operational backup plans for communications, jamming has proven problematic to detect in the field.The purpose of this project is to solve this critical problem of detection and characterization simply and seamlessly, for the first responder, ...

To address the supply chain threats that stem from vulnerable or malicious software distributed through firmware on mobile and IoT devices via binary firmware images, we propose a scalable, comprehensive, and automated framework to detect firmware-borne threats, both malicious and (un)intentionally insecure, present in Android and iOS devices. We use a workflow encompassing three analysis techniqu ...

IDSS in partnership with Tufts University Human Factors Engineering Program, a leader in Engineering Phycology, proposes to study CT screening system operator burden and reduce image review time by reviewing the GUI and the current man-machine interaction, perform a cognitive and behavioral analysis of the interaction, perform a time an motion study and recommend and perform limited prototyping of ...

Interoperability has been a communications objective for for first responders in the United Stats for many years. The need for digital interoperability brought about the establishment of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) Association of Public Safety Communications Officials (APCO) Project 25 standard in 1989.Today, P25 standards are very mature, and include an Inter-RF Subsystem In ...

In this Phase I project, we will determine the feasibility of building an interworking solution to provide interoperability between LTE and LMR systems for mission critical operations, while improving interoperability between current LMR systems.InPhase I we will build upon the requirements work already done by NPSTC to determine the feasibility of meeting requirements for interworking when standa ...