Support for Student Participation in the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces '03; November 5-7, 2003; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

这是资助约8名学生作者或研究论文的合著者出席第一届多模式接口国际会议（ICMI-PUI'03），该会议将于11月5日至7日在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省的温哥华举行，并由计算机协会（ACM）赞助。 为期3天的会议将汇集来自北美，欧洲和亚洲的研究人员，介绍和讨论多模式接口，系统和应用程序的最新多学科工作。 会议代表了对下一代感知，自适应和多模式用户界面的日益增长的兴趣。 这些新的界面特别适合于解释现实世界环境中的自然通信和活动模式;它们的出现代表着与以前的计算的彻底背离，并通过创建更自然，表达功能强大，灵活和强大的人机交互方式来迅速改变人机交互的性质。 会议组织者制定了一个强大的计划，包括46篇技术论文，3个由知名演讲者进行的主题演讲，以及各种演示和其他活动。 在这些技术论文中，有30多篇是由学生提交或共同撰写的，但不幸的是，在某些情况下，他们的学术顾问和大学院系缺乏足够的资金来支付他们的费用。 也有一些困难的情况下，合格的学生想参加会议，在这个新的研究领域的一般培训，但不能这样做。 所有获得NSF基金资助的学生都同意担任学生志愿者;作为贡献约10小时时间帮助举办会议的回报，他们将获得付费注册，共享酒店住宿和基于需求的旅行支持以参加会议。会议的学生志愿者计划的结构，使学生接触到他们的新的研究社区提出自己的工作，并通过观察和与该领域的其他专业人士互动。 它将鼓励学生在职业生涯的这一关键时刻开始建立一个由同龄人和导师组成的社会支持网络。 在招生过程中，鼓励妇女、少数民族学生、残疾人和退伍军人申请。

This is funding to support attendance by approximately 8 student authors or co-authors of research papers accepted for presentation at the First International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-PUI'03), to held November 5-7 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The 3-day conference will bring together researchers from North America, Europe and Asia to present and discuss the latest multi-disciplinary work on multimodal interfaces, systems, and applications. The conference represents the growing interest in next-generation perceptive, adaptive and multimodal user interfaces. These new interfaces are especially well suited for interpreting natural communication and activity patterns in real-world environments; their emergence represents a radical departure from previous computing, and is rapidly transforming the nature of human-computer interaction by creating more natural, expressively powerful, flexible and robust means of interacting with computers. The conference organizers have put together a strong program of 46 technical papers, 3 keynote talks by well-known speakers, and a variety of demos and other events. Of the technical papers, over 30 are to be presented by or were co-authored by students, but unfortunately in some cases their academic advisors and university departments lack sufficient funds to pay their way. There are also a number of hardship cases, where qualified students would like to attend the meeting for general training in this new research area, but cannot afford to do so. The students to be supported by NSF funds have all agreed to serve as student volunteers; in return for contributing about 10 hours of their time to help run the conference, they will each receive paid registration, shared hotel accommodations, and need-based travel support to attend the conference.Broader Impacts: The conference's student volunteer program is structured so as to give students exposure to their new research community by presenting their own work, and by observing and interacting with other professionals in the field. It will encourage students at this critical time in their careers to begin building a social support network of peers and mentors. During student recruitment, women, minority students, people with disabilities and veterans all were encouraged to apply.