Perhaps this award? James Landay (Principal Investigator) Claus Portner (Co-Principal Investigator) Interaction Economics: Instruments that Measure Social-Co

Perhaps this award? James Landay (Principal Investigator) Claus Portner (Co-Principal Investigator) Interaction Economics: Instruments that Measure Social-Computational Systems https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110965 https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1110965 There's a single publication listed as resulting from this award (NB: I'd guess there's probably additional papers stemming from this grant; NSF award search only lists what has been published at the time of the annual report for the FY referenced). That publication includes 4 co-authors: Michael Toomim, Travis Kriplean, Claus Portner, and James A. Landay "Utility of Human-Computer Interactions: Toward a Science of Preference Measurement" ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) , v.May , 2011 This doesn't sound like a "research without depending on other people" type situation, unless you're suggesting your co-authors didn't contribute meaningfully to the research. We can't pull up the detailed budget, but let's do some quick math for what such a grant would typically fund for a CS type project. Assuming a 3-year grant ($140K/year) the directs would have looked like this: * 2 graduate students - 12 months of stipend, fringe, and tuition/fees. This will be the largest portion of the grant; Total: ~$95K/year (Note: 2010 grad student support costs; would be lot more now): * 2 PIs -- probably 0.5 or 1 month summer salary ([1] see below) for each PI each plus fringe; Total: $40K/year * A small travel budget to pay for partipants to attend a conference or meeting (like the ACM conference this paper was presented at); Total: $5K/year [1]: Faculty in most schools of arts and sciences schools at major universities are only guaranteed a 9-month salary (paid out over 12 months). Note this can differ even within a University. For example, A&S faculty might have one standard; the School of Medicine another; etc.