Student Support for the Seventh International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting

第七届国际脑机接口会议学生支持

• 批准号: 1829154
• 负责人: Charles Anderson
• 金额: $ 1.94万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-03-01 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829154&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Support; Seventh; International; Brain

Brain-computer interface (BCI) research explores avenues of controlling devices directly from brain signals. Thus, BCI technology is a powerful control option for neuro-prosthetic limbs, as well as a potential communication option for people with severe motor disabilities or disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brainstem stroke, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injury, who may have little or even no muscle control and therefore no means of communication with the external world. The International Brain-Computer Interface (IBCI) meeting is the flagship conference for the field, the seventh of which will be held May 21-25, 2018, on the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove,, California. Effective BCI research requires interdisciplinary interactions involving neuroscience, psychology, engineering, mathematics, computer science, and clinical rehabilitation, and the IBCI meeting serves as a critical catalyst for technology dissemination, new collaborations, and educational opportunities for students. The primary source of funding for the meeting is the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This NSF funding will enable another 22 students, including undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, to attend and participate in the conference. The organizers are planning innovations to make the 2018 event the most valuable yet. For the first time the conference will include a series of 12 one-hour masterclasses, six of which will meet in parallel on Wednesday evening, and the other six will meet in parallel on Thursday afternoon. Each masterclass will have a senior researcher as the "master" along with two students each of whom will present his/her research for 10-15 minutes, after which the master will provide wise and constructive comments, with audience participation encouraged in an informal session intended to give students access to senior expertise and to get good tips for their research. Another new event at this year's meeting with be the "BCI Hackathon" organized and sponsored by G.Tec Medical Engineering GmbH, during which participants will work in teams on a number of BCI applications and will then present their work to the hackathon community. NSF funding will be used to support student travel, registration, and student-only event costs. Student participation in previous IBCI meetings has been very fruitful; a large number of those students have now graduated and are prominent researchers in the BCI field. The organizers are actively recruiting student attendees from traditionally underrepresented groups. More information about the conference may be found online at http://bcisociety.org/meetings/bci-2018-welcome/. Because of the growth in the field of BCI research, 300 or more participants are expected to attend this meeting, including investigators from at least 100 BCI research groups. All attendees commit to the entire meeting, from the opening reception and dinner on the evening of Monday, May 21 through the final summary discussion at breakfast the morning of Friday, May 25. A main objective of the conference is to give students a significant educational and professional experience in the BCI field, and to provide opportunities for them to gain depth in their specific interest areas. The conference will begin with a specialized student colloquium on the afternoon before the full conference starts, which will provide lectures from prominent experts in the BCI field. This will give the students a solid foundation for understanding the rest of the conference. There will also be a student poster session and prizes for the best student research projects, as well as giving students access to research leaders for informal question-and-answer sessions at the end of each day. The students will participate fully in the main conference as well. Exposure to prominent researchers in the BCI field will allow students to receive invaluable feedback on their work, and to make connections that may result in new research directions; it will also provide students with access to potential mentors, committee members, and experts to review their future work. A full and detailed schedule of planned conference sessions and events, along with any updates, can be found on the conference website. With all participants housed on site and all meals for all attendees taken together on site, there will be ample opportunity for informal discussions. This creates a unique opportunity for students and trainees to mingle with and learn from established researchers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

脑部计算机界面（BCI）研究直接从大脑信号中探索了控制设备的途径。 因此，BCI技术是神经肢体四肢的强大控制选择，也是严重运动障碍或疾病的人的潜在沟通选择，例如肌营养性侧面硬化症（ALS），脑干中风，脑瘫和脊髓损伤，以及可能没有肌肉控制的肌肉控制，也没有与外部的沟通的沟通。 国际大脑计算机界面（IBCI）会议是该领域的旗舰会议，其中第七次会议将于2018年5月21日至25日在加利福尼亚太平洋格罗夫的Asilomar会议场上举行。 有效的BCI研究需要涉及神经科学，心理学，工程，数学，计算机科学和临床康复的跨学科互动，而IBCI会议则是技术传播，新合作和学生教育机会的关键催化剂。 会议的主要资金来源是美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）。 这项NSF资金将使包括本科生和研究生以及博士后研究员在内的另外22名学生参加并参加会议。 组织者正在计划创新，以使2018年活动成为迄今为止最有价值的活动。 会议首次将包括一系列12个为期一小时的大师班，其中六个将在周三晚上平行开会，其他六个将在周四下午平行开会。 每个大师班都将有一个高级研究员作为“大师”，每个学生都将在10-15分钟内展示他/她的研究，然后主人将提供明智和建设性的评论，并鼓励听众参与，以便在一次非正式的会议上，旨在使学生获得高级专业知识，并为他们的研究提供良好的研究。 今年与G.TEC医学工程GmbH组织和赞助的“ BCI Hackathon”在今年举行的会议上的另一场新活动，在此期间，参与者将在许多BCI申请中在团队中工作，然后将其工作介绍给Hackathon社区。 NSF资金将用于支持学生旅行，注册和仅学生活动费用。 学生参加以前的IBCI会议非常富有成果；这些学生中有许多学生现在已经毕业，并且是BCI领域的著名研究人员。 组织者正在积极招募传统代表性不足的团体的学生与会者。 有关会议的更多信息，请参见http://bcisociety.org/meetings/bci-2018-welcome/。 由于BCI研究领域的增长，预计300名或更多参与者将参加这次会议，其中包括至少100个BCI研究小组的研究人员。所有与会者都致力于整个会议，从5月21日星期一晚上的开幕式和晚餐到5月25日（星期五）早餐的最终摘要讨论。会议的主要目标是为学生提供在BCI领域的重要教育和专业经验，并为他们提供机会在其特定利益领域中获得深度。会议将从专业的学生座谈会开始，然后在整个会议开始之前，这将为BCI领域的著名专家提供讲座。这将为学生一个理解会议其余部分的稳固基础。 每天结束时，还将举办一场学生海报会议和奖品，并为学生提供与研究负责人的非正式问答环节会议的访问。学生们也将完全参加主要会议。 BCI领域的著名研究人员的接触将使学生能够在工作中获得宝贵的反馈，并建立可能导致新研究方向的联系；它还将为学生提供潜在的导师，委员会成员和专家的访问权，以审查其未来工作。 可以在会议网站上找到完整而详细的计划会议和活动以及任何更新的时间表。 随着所有参与者在现场安置的所有参与者和所有与会者一起在现场摄制的所有餐点，将有足够的机会进行非正式的讨论。这为学生和受训者提供了一个独特的机会，可以与既定的研究人员联系并学习。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。