WORKSHOP: Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'06) Doctoral Consortium; September 4-8, 2006; Brighton, United Kingdom

这笔资金将用于支持一个由10-14名有前途的美国研究生组成的博士联盟，以及杰出的研究人员和最多5名非美国学生组成的博士联盟。本次研讨会将于9月4日至8日在英国布莱顿举行的IEEE视觉语言和以人为中心的计算研讨会（VL/HCC'06）同时举行，由IEEE计算机协会赞助。我们的社会已经演变成两个截然不同的阶级：信息拥有者和信息拥有者。人机交互和相关学科的研究已经证明了多种访问模式在增强人机和人机交互方面的有用性，以及它们对各种社区的适用性。但是，移动计算和手持设备技术的快速发展在各种设备、人员和功能的有效和高效访问方法和技术方面提出了许多具有挑战性的问题，这些问题继续超过寻找解决方案的努力。因此，今年的VL/HCC博士联盟（本系列中由NSF资助的第四个）的重点再次集中在数字设备和环境的设计者如何通过多种交互模式更好地解决普遍访问问题。参加者将探讨人与电脑、人与人之间、人与网络之间的多模式及多媒体互动。其目标是激发对以下问题的思考：工具或设备的形态/媒介如何影响用户访问、操作和编程的意愿和能力；处境不利人口的特殊需要是什么？以及如何设计设备/环境来更好地满足这些需求。研讨会将汇集并建立一个社区，让年轻的研究人员从计算机科学、社会科学和教育等不同领域的角度来研究这些问题的不同方面。它将通过为研究领域的专家（以及他们的同行）提供给他们建议的机会来指导这些新研究人员的工作，因为学生参与者将在研讨会期间正式展示他们的工作，并将收到教师小组的反馈。反馈是为了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是如何定位的，他们的主题是否充分关注论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。学生工作的扩展摘要将在会议论文集中发表，该论文集有广泛的印刷和电子分发。会议指导委员会将评估讲习班的成果，并将结果提供给未来可能举办类似活动的组织者。更广泛的影响：研讨会将有助于形成正在进行和未来的研究项目，旨在缓解与我们社会中许多人相关的紧迫问题。本次活动将促进发现和学习，通过鼓励学生研究人员探索困难和具有挑战性的开放问题，通过知名研究人员小组的参与，他们的任务是提供建设性的反馈，以及通过其他与会者的参与，他们也将向学生和彼此学习并提供额外的反馈。

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium for 10-14 promising graduate students from the United States, along with distinguished research faculty, and up to 5 non-U.S. students (who will be invited to participate without financial support), which will take place in conjunction with the 2006 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'06), to be held September 4-8 in Brighton, UK, and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. Our society has evolved into two distinct classes: the information haves and have-nots. Research in human-computer interaction and related disciplines has demonstrated the usefulness of multiple modes of access in augmenting human-to-computer and human-to-human interaction and their applicability to a diversified range of communities. But the rapid development of mobile computing and hand-held device technologies raises a number of challenging issues in effective and efficient access methods and techniques across a variety of devices, people, and capabilities, which continue to outpace efforts to find solutions. Thus, the focus of this year's VL/HCC doctoral consortium, the fourth to be funded by NSF in this series, is once again on how designers of digital devices and environments can better address universal access issues through multiple modes of interaction. Participants will explore multimodal and multimedia interaction between human and computer, between human and human with the help and mediation of the computer, and between people and the Web. The goal is to stimulate thinking on issues such as: how the modality/media of a tool or device may affect users' willingness and ability to access, manipulate, and program; what are the special needs of disadvantaged populations; and how devices/environments might be designed to better meet these needs. The workshop will bring together and build community among young researchers working on different aspects of these problems from the perspectives of diverse fields including computer science, the social sciences, and education. It will guide the work of these new researchers by providing an opportunity for experts in the research field (as well as their peers) to give them advice, in that 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.