WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at ASSETS 2015

研讨会：2015 年 ASSETS 博士联盟

• 批准号: 1551326
• 负责人: Eelke Folmer
• 金额: $ 2.29万
• 依托单位: Board of Regents, NSHE, obo University of Nevada, Reno
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2018-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1551326&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Doctoral; Consortium; ASSETS; 2015

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 25, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 17th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2015), to be held October 26-28, in Lisbon, Portugal. 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 at ASSETS 2015 to exchange ideas and present their latest work. More information about the conference may be found online at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets15. A key component of building any community is through its youth. 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 steps to promote participation from institutions with relatively large numbers of students from under-represented groups; to further increase diversity, they will aim for equal participation of females and males in the consortium. In accordance with CISE policy relating to conferences held abroad, NSF funds will be used only to support the up to 8 students from U.S. educational institutions).The ASSETS 2015 Doctoral Consortium will be a research-focused meeting of an international group of selected Ph.D. candidates and a panel of distinguished research faculty (the latter yet to be named). It 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 the panel of experts, 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 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, for the first time this year the international panel of faculty will give a presentation on job opportunities for researchers in both academia and industry; such a discussion has taken place in doctoral symposia at other conferences, and has been considered extremely valuable by the students when considering career options. An evaluation of the consortium will be conducted and the results made available to the organizers of future such events.

这笔资金用于支持由来自美国和国外的约 10 名有前途的研究生以及 5 名杰出研究人员组成的博士联盟（研讨会）。 该活动将于 10 月 25 日（星期日）举行，紧接着将于 10 月 26 日至 28 日在葡萄牙里斯本举行的第 17 届国际 ACM SIGACCESS 计算机和辅助功能会议 (ASSETS 2015) 之前并与其同时举行。 ASSETS 会议是展示主流和专业辅助技术的设计和使用创新研究的首要论坛。 这包括使用技术并支持以下人员： 有听力、视力和其他感官障碍的个人；有运动障碍的人；有记忆、学习和认知障碍的个人；患有多种障碍的个人；老年人；以及与这些人群一起工作的专业人员。 来自世界各地学术界和工业界的研究人员和开发人员将在 ASSETS 2015 上齐聚一堂，交流想法并展示他们的最新工作。 有关会议的更多信息，请访问 http://www.sigaccess.org/assets15。 建设任何社区的一个关键组成部分是通过其青年。 博士联盟将帮助扩大在该领域攻读研究生的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供在社区中获得更广泛的创新工作机会，并获得研究社区高级成员的反馈和指导的机会。 它将进一步帮助这些年轻研究人员建立社区意识，让他们在自己之间以及在专业发展的关键阶段与高级研究人员建立社交网络。 由于学生和教师构成了跨多个维度的多元化群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，因此学生的视野被拓宽，以利于该领域的未来发展。 主办方将采取措施，促进拥有较多弱势群体学生的院校参与；为了进一步增加多样性，他们将致力于实现女性和男性平等参与联盟。 根据 CISE 关于在国外举办会议的政策，NSF 资金将仅用于支持最多 8 名来自美国教育机构的学生。 ASSETS 2015 博士联盟将是由选定的博士生组成的国际小组举行的以研究为重点的会议。 D .候选人和一组杰出的研究人员（后者尚未命名）。 它将为来自不同背景（计算机、工程、心理学、建筑学等）的研究生提供一个机会，在 PI 和专家小组的指导下，在跨学科研讨会上聚集在一起探索他们的研究兴趣，以便他们可以欣赏更广泛的辅助技术和普遍可用性的研究和开发方法，并体验他们可以追求自己的努力的社区。 学生参与者将在联盟期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将收到教师小组的建设性反馈。反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于相关研究的定位，他们的主题是否充分关注论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。 因此，该联盟将帮助制定旨在辅助技术和普及的正在进行和未来的研究项目，将促进这一新兴跨学科领域新研究人员的学术和网络联系，并将这些有前途的年轻研究人员暴露给更大的社区。 为了将博士联盟参与者融入会议本身，技术计划中预留了海报会议，以允许所有博士联盟参与者向整个会议展示他们的研究成果。 此外，今年国际教师小组将首次就学术界和工业界研究人员的工作机会进行演讲；这样的讨论在其他会议的博士研讨会上也进行过，并且被学生认为在考虑职业选择时极其有价值。 将对联盟进行评估，并将结果提供给未来此类活动的组织者。