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The researchers will develop a dashboaed to assess children as they play games on different social and emotional and thinking tasks.

the team will develop a prototype of a multi-player virtual reality (VR) game where middle school students collaborate in observing complex earth science phenomena, such as exploring the ozone. The prototype will include one VR module which presents interactive content and a website portal where students analyze data and keep a personalized digital science journal. At the end of Phase I, in a pilo ...

This project will develop a prototype of a new component for the platform for high school students to develop stronger communication skills to improve college and career readiness. The prototype will include a performance-based game environment where students practice a range of skills, such as active listening, empathy, non-verbal communication, cultural awareness, and public speaking. The game w ...

Researchers will conduct a pilot study with a socio-economically and diverse sample of at least 500 high school students who will test the prototype ROI tool. The researchers will examine the feasibility and usability of the prototype, whether ROI information increases search and discovery for educational opportunities; whether having ROI information increases the likelihood of click-through rates ...

Gun-launched applications currently expose inertial measurement units (IMUs) to harsh acceleration, shock, and vibration environments. Furthermore, as they become smarter, they present tighter constraints on size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-C), while still requiring high levels of performance. New accelerometer technology must reduce SWaP-C while operating through high-g acceleration environmen ...

In implementing an electro-optic (EO) seeker, the selection of a waveband or wavebands is the major decision for the system design. The visible and near-infrared wavebands work well in the daytime when the atmosphere is clear, but passive imaging systems in these bands are not useful at night, and they are susceptible to scattering in fog, smoke, and dusty environments. The mid-wave infrared (MWIR ...

Mission times for high velocity projectiles (HVP) are very short and detection and discrimination of targets must happen quickly and decisively. One way to achieve this is through the enhanced contrast resulting from polarized sensing, which tends to highlight manmade objects and suppress natural background clutter. Thermal polarimetric sensing in a small package has been demonstrated already but ...

The capability to reliably and remotely detect and track tactical surface targets in a high-velocity projectile after launch is a critical need. The discrimination of man-made objects can be assisted by the detector technology, with options including two-color detectors and polarimetric filtering in the thermal infrared bands. The level of complexity in the focal plane array affects its survivabil ...

Black River Systems is developing real-time fire control tracking and threat prediction capabilities for land and sea - based missile defense. Our nation faces a rapidly evolving set of missile threats that exhibit extreme velocities, high dynamic motion and difficult to predict maneuverability. There are many different trajectories and many types of threats: subsonic, supersonic; sea-skimming, la ...

Deep-learning Ephemeral-Pad Encryption Neural Networks (DEPENN) software applies one-time pad and quantized neural network technologies to provide efficient, moving-target encryption of all data associated with neural network operations. DEPENN overcomes the significant computational burden and technical challenges of fully homomorphically encrypted neural network operation while providing compara ...