March 30, 2026
LRDC Research Scientist Ben Rottman, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, has received $60,000 from the Pitt Momentum Funds Teaming Grant with his team, The Wise Home Team.
Ben Rottman leads this project. His team members are from the School of Computing and Information Sciences, and the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. The Wise Home Team is working towards creating The Wise Homes platform, a smartphone application that leverages sensors to create detailed 3D models of interior spaces. This app will help people learn about how to make their homes more sustainable and reduce energy usage, and how people can make their homes more accessible and safer for the elderly.
The Pitt Momentum Funds (PMF) are a large-scale research development fund that supports high-quality, creative endeavors for internal research projects for faculty at Pitt. The Teaming Grants support the formation of multi-disciplinary collaborations at Pitt.
Ben Rottman is an LRDC Research Scientist, and is the Lab Director of the Casual Learning & Decision Making Lab. He is interested in examining casual learning, reasoning, judgement, decision making, and causality and research methods. This project builds on his previous work
Written by Amber Eschrich