WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at ASSETS 2017

研讨会：2017 年 ASSETS 博士联盟

• 批准号: 1742706
• 负责人: Jennifer Mankoff
• 金额: $ 1.98万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1742706&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Doctoral; Consortium; ASSETS; 2017

This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) of approximately 12 promising graduate students (10 from the United States to be funded by this award), along with 5 distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on Sunday, October 29, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2017), to be held October 30-November 1 in Baltimore,, MD. 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, vision 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 2017 to exchange ideas and present their latest work. More information about the conference may be found online at http://assets17.sigaccess.org/. 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, the organizers will aim for equal participation of females and males in the consortium, and will not invite more than 1 or 2 students from the same educational institution; if two students from the same educational institution are selected, the organizers will ensure that at least one of them is from an underrepresented minority in STEM. In an effort to further integrate the Doctoral Consortium participants into the conference itself, a session has been set aside in the technical program to allow all Doctoral Consortium participants to present their research to the full conference.The ASSETS 2017 Doctoral Consortium will be a research-focused meeting of an international group of selected Ph.D. candidates and an international 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 these interdisciplinary fields, and will also expose the young researchers to a larger community. In addition, the faculty will give a presentation on job opportunities for researchers in both academia and industry, to better inform 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.

这是为了支持大约12名有前途的研究生（来自美国的10名由该奖项资助）的博士财团（车间）以及5位杰出的研究学院。 该活动将于10月29日（星期日）举行，并在10月30日11月1日在马里兰州巴尔的摩市举行，并与第19届国际计算机和可访问性大会（Assets 2017）一起举行。 资产会议是介绍有关主流和专业辅助技术设计和使用的创新研究的主要论坛。 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。 来自世界各地的研究人员和开发人员，包括学术界和行业，都将在Assets 2017开会，以交换想法并介绍其最新工作。 有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://assets17.sigaccess.org/。 建立任何社区的关键组成部分是通过其青年时期。 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，从而有助于扩大从事该领域的研究生研究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。 组织者将采取措施促进来自代表性不足小组的机构的参与。 为了进一步增加多样性，组织者将旨在使女性和男性在财团中平等参与，并且不会邀请来自同一教育机构的1或2名学生超过1或2名学生；如果选择了来自同一教育机构的两个学生，组织者将确保其中至少一个来自STEM中代表性不足的少数群体。 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一项会议，以允许所有博士联盟参与者向完整的会议展示他们的研究。2017 Assets 2017博士联盟将是一项研究 - 专注于国际选定博士的国际集团会议候选人和杰出研究学院的国际小组（后者尚未命名）。 它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和专家小组的指导下，在跨学科研讨会上探索他们在跨学科研讨会上的研究兴趣，以便他们可以欣赏更广泛的研究和发展方法，以辅助技术和普遍的可用性，并体验他们可以追求努力的社区。 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访问的正在进行的和未来的研究项目，将在这些跨学科领域的新研究人员之间促进奖学金和网络，并将使年轻的研究人员接触到一个更大的社区。 此外，教师将为学术界和行业的研究人员提供有关工作机会的演讲，以便在考虑职业选择时更好地告知学生。 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。