WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at PETRA 2022, The 15th International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments

研讨会：第 15 届辅助环境相关普及技术国际会议 PETRA 2022 博士联盟

• 批准号: 2219802
• 负责人: Fillia Makedon
• 金额: $ 2.9万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Arlington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2024-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2219802&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Doctoral; Consortium; PETRA; 2022

This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) of approximately 10 graduate student authors from U.S. institutions of higher learning, along with distinguished research faculty as mentors (who will not be funded by this proposal), to be held in conjunction with the Fifteenth International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2022), which will take place June 29-July 1 on the island of Corfu, Greece. The PETRA mission is to promote interdisciplinary research on ways to use pervasive ambient intelligent environments to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance with greater capabilities. It is the only annual conference that brings together theoreticians and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines to focus on the application of pervasive technologies to assistive environments. Conference outcomes have a broad impact in diverse application areas such as manufacturing, transportation, energy systems, security and safety, robotics, healthcare, biomedicine, environment and conservation. PETRA brings together very different types of technologies to also address important social and healthcare issues for sensitive populations, such as the elderly, or persons suffering from chronic conditions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Cerebral Palsy and other disabilities or traumas. The PETRA proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library, and the authors of the best papers are invited to submit to special journal issues after the end of the conference. More information about the conference may be found online at http://www.petrae.org. The PETRA 2022 Doctoral Consortium will afford student authors of papers accepted for presentation at the conference a unique opportunity to gain additional exposure for their innovative ideas while also receiving reinforcement for the importance and value of conducting research with societal impact. The workshop will allow the junior participants to create a social network both among themselves and with senior colleagues. The organizing committee will make a concerted effort to attract participants who are women, members of under-represented minorities, and persons with disabilities; to further assure diversity, NSF funds will be used to support no more than 2 student participants from any one institution. Over the past 14 years, more than 300 graduate and undergraduate students from U.S. educational institutions have been able to benefit from NSF support of the PETRA Doctoral Consortia.The goals of the Doctoral Consortium, which will consist of special sessions at the beginning, during, and at the end of the conference, are to increase the exposure and visibility of the participants' work within the community, to help establish a sense of community among this next generation of researchers, and to help foster their research efforts by providing substantive feedback and guidance in a supportive and interactive environment from a group of senior researchers. The special program organized for the students includes sessions between the doctoral students and the faculty mentors, in which the students will discuss their work and ask questions; the faculty mentors will provide constructive comments on the students' work and address their questions. Each student will be asked to submit a report that provides feedback about the conference, regarding the benefits they received, which presentations they liked and why, and how certain papers and topics relate to their work. After they finish these reports, students will participate in small group breakout sessions to discuss them, and the faculty mentors will provide guidance on how to proceed for further journal publication. Students will also have the option to submit a poster paper and to attend conference workshops on special topics. Short papers on the participants' work will be published in the conference proceedings, and a summary report on the event will be posted on the conference website.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.

这笔资金用于支持由来自美国高等教育机构的约 10 名研究生作者组成的博士联盟（研讨会），以及作为导师的杰出研究人员（他们不会受到本提案的资助），该联盟将与第十五届会议同时举行与辅助环境相关的普及技术国际会议 (PETRA 2022) 将于 6 月 29 日至 7 月 1 日在希腊科孚岛举行。 PETRA 的使命是促进跨学科研究，探索如何利用普遍的周围智能环境来改善生活质量并以更大的能力提高人类表现。 这是唯一一个汇聚来自不同学科的理论家和实践者的年度会议，重点关注普及技术在辅助环境中的应用。 会议成果对制造、运输、能源系统、安保和安全、机器人、医疗保健、生物医学、环境和保护等不同应用领域产生广泛影响。 PETRA 汇集了不同类型的技术，还可以解决敏感人群的重要社会和医疗保健问题，例如老年人或患有阿尔茨海默氏症、帕金森氏症、脑瘫和其他残疾或创伤等慢性病的人。 PETRA 会议论文集在 ACM 数字图书馆出版，并邀请最佳论文的作者在会议结束后提交至特刊。 有关会议的更多信息，请访问 http://www.petrae.org。 PETRA 2022 博士联盟将为在会议上接受演讲的论文的学生作者提供独特的机会，让他们获得更多的创新想法，同时也让他们认识到进行具有社会影响的研究的重要性和价值。 该研讨会将使初级参与者能够在他们自己之间以及与高级同事之间创建一个社交网络。组委会将共同努力吸引女性、代表性不足的少数群体和残疾人的参与者；为了进一步确保多样性，NSF 资金将用于支持来自任何一所机构的不超过 2 名学生参与者。 在过去的 14 年里，来自美国教育机构的 300 多名研究生和本科生能够受益于 NSF 对 PETRA 博士联盟的支持。博士联盟的目标包括在开始、期间的特别会议，在会议结束时，将增加参与者工作在社区内的曝光度和可见度，帮助下一代研究人员建立社区意识，并通过提供实质性反馈来帮助促进他们的研究工作并在一组高级研究人员的支持和互动环境中提供指导。 为学生组织的特别活动包括博士生和导师之间的会议，学生将在其中讨论他们的工作并提出问题；教师导师将对学生的工作提出建设性意见并解答他们的问题。 每个学生都需要提交一份报告，提供有关会议的反馈，包括他们收到的好处、他们喜欢哪些演讲及其原因，以及某些论文和主题与他们的工作有何关系。完成这些报告后，学生将参加小组分组会议进行讨论，教师导师将就如何进行进一步的期刊出版提供指导。 学生还可以选择提交海报论文并参加专题会议研讨会。 关于参与者工作的短论文将在会议记录中发表，有关活动的总结报告将在会议网站上发布。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值进行评估，认为值得支持以及更广泛的影响审查标准。