Supporting Students Attending IUI 2009 Conference

支持学生参加 IUI 2009 会议

• 批准号: 0914591
• 负责人: Daniel Weld
• 金额: $ 1.44万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-02-01 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0914591&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Supporting; Students; Attending; IUI; 2009

This is funding to support participation by approximately 15 graduate students currently enrolled in Ph.D. programs in the United States and abroad in the 2009 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009), to be held in Sanibel Island, Florida, on February 8-11, 2009. Sponsored by ACM, the annual IUI conferences are the premier forum where researchers from academia and industry, who work at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), come together to exchange complementary insights and to present and discuss outstanding research and applications whose goal is to make the computerized world a more amenable place. Unlike traditional AI the focus is not so much on making the computer smart all by itself, but rather on making the interaction between computers and people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, there is a focus on solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding, brain computer interfaces, and gesture recognition. To this end, IUI encourages contributions not only from computer science but also from related fields such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. IUI 2009 will be the 12th conference in the series; topics of interest this year include user input, generation of system output, ubiquitous computing, help, categories of intelligence, IUI design, and user studies. NSF funds will be used to support two groups of participants: students who are the primary author of a submission that has been accepted as a full paper or poster but whose institution is either unable to provide any funding for conference attendance or able to provide only partial funding that is insufficient to cover the student?s expenses; and other students who would benefit from the conference but who would be unable to attend due to restrictions by their department on funding conference travel for non-authors. The IUI 2009 organizing committee has undertaken to proactively recruit student participants from schools that have not traditionally been well represented in the IUI community, and also that the bulk of students supported (70-80%) will be from U.S. institutions.Broader Impacts: This funding will enable attendance at this conference by students who might otherwise be unable to do so for financial reasons. It will enhance the educational experience of funded participants, by bringing them into contact with leading researchers in the field and by exposing them to the lively discussion during the course of the conference that often leads to opportunities for career advancement. The quality of the conference itself will be enhanced as well, thanks to a broadening of the base of institutions represented and increased diversity of participants. The rich exchange of ideas at IUI has previously proven to be a valuable source of ideas for future research, as well as leading to collaborative efforts; this funding will extend the opportunities for collaboration and provide intellectual stimulus to programs that have previously sent few or no representatives to this conference.

这笔资金用于支持目前攻读博士学位的约 15 名研究生的参与。 2009 年国际智能用户界面会议 (IUI 2009) 将于 2009 年 2 月 8 日至 11 日在佛罗里达州萨尼贝尔岛举行。年度 IUI 会议由 ACM 赞助，是最重要的论坛来自学术界和工业界从事人机交互 (HCI) 和人工智能 (AI) 交叉领域工作的研究人员齐聚一堂，交流互补的见解，并展示和展示讨论杰出的研究和应用，其目标是让计算机化的世界变得更加友好。 与传统人工智能不同的是，它的重点并不是让计算机本身变得智能，而是让计算机和人之间的交互变得更加智能。 与传统的人机交互不同，它关注的是涉及大量知识和新兴技术的解决方案，例如自然语言理解、脑机接口和手势识别。 为此，IUI不仅鼓励计算机科学领域的贡献，还鼓励心理学、认知科学、计算机图形学、艺术等相关领域的贡献。IUI 2009将是该系列会议的第12届；今年感兴趣的主题包括用户输入、系统输出的生成、普适计算、帮助、智能类别、IUI 设计和用户研究。 NSF 资金将用于支持两组参与者：作为论文的主要作者的学生，该论文已被接受为全文或海报，但其所在机构无法提供任何参加会议的资金或只能提供部分资金资金不足以支付学生的费用；以及其他将从会议中受益但由于所在部门对资助非作者会议旅行的限制而无法参加的学生。 IUI 2009 组委会已承诺从传统上在 IUI 社区中代表性不足的学校积极招募学生参与者，并且大部分支持的学生 (70-80%) 将来自美国院校。 更广泛的影响：资金将使那些因经济原因而无法参加本次会议的学生能够参加。 它将通过让受资助的参与者与该领域的领先研究人员接触并让他们在会议过程中进行热烈的讨论来增强他们的教育经验，这通常会带来职业发展的机会。 由于代表机构基础的扩大和参与者多样性的增加，会议本身的质量也将得到提高。 IUI 丰富的思想交流此前已被证明是未来研究的宝贵思想来源，并导致了协作努力；这笔资金将扩大合作机会，并为以前派很少或根本不派代表参加本次会议的方案提供智力刺激。