VL/HCC'04 Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金用于支持一项研究活动(研讨会)，该活动将与2004年IEEE视觉语言和以人为中心的计算研讨会(VL/HCC‘04)一起举行，该活动将与2004年IEEE视觉语言和以人为中心的计算研讨会(VL/CC’04)一起举行，该研讨会将由IEEE计算机学会赞助，由美国和国外的10-14名有前途的博士生参加。我们的社会已经演变成两个截然不同的阶层：信息富人和穷人。因为信息就是力量，这种阶级差别对穷人个人和集体在事业和影响力方面的提升能力来说是一个非常有效的障碍。允许终端用户对任务信息进行操作(例如，通过复杂的查询和操作)的编程工具的开发可能会进一步增加这一差距。寻找和使用他人创造的信息将不再足够；员工和公民将越来越多地被期望以创造性的方式生成和操纵信息，以解决复杂的问题。在富人和穷人之间的鸿沟变得太大而无法跨越之前，迫切需要考虑这些更强大的信息工具的可获得性。我们需要按照我们为最终用户设想和构建的编程工具进行包容性设计，以便每个人都有机会从他们提供的强大功能中受益。这是今年博士生联盟的主题，这是NSF资助的第二个博士生联盟。这次活动将在致力于研究问题不同方面的年轻研究人员中汇聚并建立社区，无论他们的研究社区是计算机科学、社会学还是教育学。讲习班将向与会者(包括直接参与的研究生和大会与会者)强调与这一紧迫的研究问题有关的研究的交叉性质，这一问题几乎没有得到任何先前的研究。研讨会的目标包括建立一个新研究人员队列小组，然后他们将拥有一个遍布世界各地的同事网络，通过让研究领域的专家为新研究人员提供建议来指导他们的工作，并使该领域有前途的新进入者能够参加他们的研究会议。学生参与者将在研讨会期间对他们的工作进行正式陈述，并将收到教员小组的反馈。这些反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于其他人机交互研究的定位，他们的主题是否足够集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否得到正确的选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和展示。学生工作的扩展摘要将在会议记录中发表，并有广泛的印刷版和电子发行版。会议指导委员会将评估研讨会的结果，结果将提供给未来可能发生的类似事件的组织者。广泛的影响：研讨会将有助于形成正在进行的和未来的研究项目，旨在缓解与我们社会中的许多人相关的紧迫问题。这一活动将通过鼓励学生研究人员探索一个困难和具有挑战性的开放问题，通过一个任务是提供建设性反馈的知名研究人员小组的参与，以及通过吸收其他与会者，他们也将向学生和彼此学习并提供额外的反馈，来促进发现和学习。

This is funding to support a research event (workshop) for 10-14 promising doctoral students from the United States and abroad, along with distinguished research faculty, which will take place in conjunction with the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'04), to be held September 26-28 in Rome, Italy, and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. Our society has evolved into two distinct classes: the information haves and have-nots. Because information is power, this class distinction is a highly effective barrier to the ability of the have-nots to advance in terms of career and influence, both individually and in groups. The development of programming tools that allow end users to operate on task information (e.g., via complex queries and manipulations) may increase this gap even more. It will no longer be enough to find and use information others create; increasingly, employees and citizens will be expected to generate and manipulate information in creative ways to solve complex problems. There is an urgent need to consider the accessibility of these more powerful information tools, before the gap between the haves and have-nots becomes too great to cross. We need to design for inclusiveness as we envision and build programming tools for end users, so that everyone will have the opportunity to benefit from the power that they offer. That is the theme of this year's doctoral consortium, the second funded by NSF in this series. The event will bring together and build community among young researchers working on different aspects of the research problem, whether their "home" research community is in Computer Science, Sociology, or Education. The workshop will emphasize to attendees (both the graduate students immediately involved and general conference participants) the crosscutting nature of research relevant to this pressing research problem, which has received almost no prior study. Goals of the workshop include building a cohort group of new researchers who will then have a network of colleagues spread out across the world, guiding the work of new researchers by having experts in the research field give them advice, and making it possible for promising new entrants to the field to attend their research conference. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the workshop, and will receive feedback from the faculty panel. The feedback is geared to helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other human-computer interaction 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. Extended abstracts of the students' work will be published in the conference proceedings, which has wide print and electronic distribution. The conference steering committee will evaluate the workshop outcome, and the results will be made available to the organizers of possible similar future events.Broader Impacts: The workshop will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at alleviating a pressing problem of relevance to a great many people within our society. This event will promote discovery and learning, by encouraging the student researchers to explore a difficult and challenging open problem, through involvement of a panel of well-known researchers whose task is to provide constructive feedback, and through inclusion of other conference participants who will also learn from and provide additional feedback to the students and to each other.