Workshop: Doctoral Consortium for ASSETS 2012

研讨会：资产博士联盟 2012

• 批准号: 1240198
• 负责人: Jeffrey Bigham
• 金额: $ 2.51万
• 依托单位: University of Rochester
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240198&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Doctoral; Consortium; ASSETS; 2012

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium (workshop) of approximately 10 promising graduate students from the United States and abroad, along with 5 distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on Sunday, October 21, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012), to be held Monday-Wednesday, October 22-24, in Boulder, CO. The ASSETS conferences are the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies. This includes the use of technology by and in support of: individuals with hearing, sight and other sensory impairments; individuals with motor impairments; individuals with memory, learning and cognitive impairments; individuals with multiple impairments; older adults; and professionals who work with these populations. Researchers and developers from around the world in both academia and industry will meet to exchange ideas and present their latest work. More information about the conference may be found at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets12. A key component of building this community is through its youth. The ASSETS 2012 doctoral consortium will provide an opportunity for graduate students from diverse backgrounds (computing, engineering, psychology, architecture, etc.) to come together and explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of the PI and a panel of other distinguished experts in the field, so that they can appreciate the broader spectrum of research and development approaches to assistive technologies and universal usability, and also experience the community in which they can pursue their endeavors. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the consortium, and will receive constructive feedback from the faculty panel. The feedback is designed to help students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. Thus, the consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at assistive technologies and universal access, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in this emerging interdisciplinary area, and will also expose these promising young researchers to a larger community. In an effort to further integrate doctoral consortium participants into the conference itself, a poster session has been set aside in the technical program to allow all doctoral consortium participants to present their research to the full conference. In addition, one student from the doctoral consortium will be selected to deliver the closing plenary presentation. An evaluation of the consortium will be conducted and the results made available to the organizers of future such events. Broader Impacts: The doctoral consortium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality/cultural and scientific discipline, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. The organizers will take special steps to promote participation from institutions with relatively large numbers of students from under-represented groups; to further increase diversity, participation will be limited to at most one male and one female student from the same institution.

这是为了支持来自美国和国外的大约10名有前途的研究生的博士财团（车间）以及5位杰出的研究学院。 The event will take place on Sunday, October 21, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012), to be held Monday-Wednesday, October 22-24, in Boulder, CO. The ASSETS conferences are the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies. 这包括通过以下方面的技术使用和支持：有听力，视力和其他感觉障碍的个人；运动障碍的人；有记忆力，学习和认知障碍的人；有多种损害的人；老年人；以及与这些人群合作的专业人员。 来自学术界和行业的世界各地的研究人员和开发人员都将开会以交换思想并介绍他们的最新作品。 有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://www.sigaccess.org/assets12。建立这个社区的一个关键组成部分是通过其青春。 2012年资产的博士联盟将为来自不同背景的研究生（计算，工程，心理学，建筑等）提供一个机会，在PI的指导下，在跨学科研讨会上探索他们的研究兴趣，并在该领域的其他杰出专家的指导下，以便他们可以欣赏既定的研究和开发方法，并能够欣赏到更广泛的技术和开发技术，并能够欣赏效率的技术，并能够欣赏效率的效果，并可以欣赏效率的努力，并可以欣赏效率的范围。追求他们的努力。 学生参与者将在财团期间对其作品进行正式演讲，并将获得教师小组的建设性反馈。该反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明其工作相对于相关研究的定位，他们的主题是否充分专注于论文研究项目，是否正确选择和应用了他们的方法，以及他们的结果是否适当分析和介绍。 因此，该财团将有助于塑造旨在辅助技术和普遍获取的持续和未来的研究项目，将在这个新兴的跨学科领域中促进奖学金和网络，并将使这些有前途的年轻研究人员接触到更大的社区。 为了将博士联盟参与者进一步整合到会议本身中，在技术计划中搁置了海报会议，以允许所有博士联盟参与者向完整的会议介绍他们的研究。 此外，将选择来自博士联盟的一名学生来提供闭幕式演讲。 将对财团进行评估，并将结果提供给未来此类事件的组织者。更广泛的影响：博士联盟将通过为他们提供机会在社区中获得更广泛的创新工作的机会，并获得研究社区的高级成员的反馈和指导，从而帮助扩大该领域的年轻研究人员的参与。 这将进一步帮助这些年轻研究人员之间的社区感，使他们能够在自己的专业发展中建立一个社交网络，并与高级研究人员建立一个社交网络。 由于学生和教职员工在包括国籍/文化和科学学科在内的各个方面构成了一个多样化的群体，因此学生的视野扩大到了该领域的未来利益。 组织者将采取特殊步骤来促进来自代表性不足小组的相对较大学生的机构的参与；为了进一步提高多样性，参与最多将仅限于同一机构的一名男性和一名女学生。