Probably half the award is taken up by indirect costs at the university, leaving the remainder for a few PhD students to be funded, money for the devices, and any studies where they are probably paying participants to use the device.
$1.2M doesn't go that far in terms of grants. As far as whether this is a good investment for the government's money, I'm a lot less clear. Given all of the recent car thefts due to TikTok, I assume that influenced NSF and the reviewers.
Probably half the award is taken up by indirect costs at the university, leaving the remainder for a few PhD students to be funded, money for the devices, and any studies where they are probably paying participants to use the device.
$1.2M doesn't go that far in terms of grants. As far as whether this is a good investment for the government's money, I'm a lot less clear. Given all of the recent car thefts due to TikTok, I assume that influenced NSF and the reviewers.