Student Participant Support for International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces 2007; November 12-15, 2007 in Nagoya, Japan

这笔资金用于支持大约10名研究生参加一个博士联盟（研讨会），该研讨会将于2007年11月12日至15日在日本名古屋举行的第九届多模态接口国际会议（ICMI07）同时举行，该会议由计算机协会（ACM）赞助。ICMI是最重要的会议，代表了对下一代感知、自适应和多模态用户界面、系统和应用程序日益增长的兴趣，特别适合于解释现实世界环境中的自然通信和活动模式。这些新的界面、系统和应用程序的出现代表了对以前计算的彻底背离，并且通过创造更自然、更强大、更灵活和更健壮的与计算机交互的方式，正在迅速改变人机交互的本质。今年会议的主题仍然是通过不同平台和应用程序进行多模式协作。会议将重点讨论该领域的主要趋势和挑战，包括提炼未来研究和商业成功的路线图。今年感兴趣的新主题包括车辆环境中的多模式应用、人机界面以及音乐和娱乐界面。为期四天的活动将汇集来自世界各地的学术界和工业界的研究人员，介绍和讨论该领域最新的多学科工作。邀请演讲、小组讨论、单轨口头和海报展示将促进研究人员之间的互动和讨论。博士联盟的参与者将在一个特别的“聚光灯会议”中展示他们正在进行的论文工作，口头或通过海报，在此期间，他们将收到由大约六名高级人员组成的邀请委员会的反馈（包括会议总主席和项目主席）。与往年一样，获得该奖学金的学生将全部是在美国高等教育机构注册的美国居民。关于ICMI07会议的更多信息可在http://www.acm.org/icmi/2007.Broader上获得：博士联盟将通过展示他们自己的工作以及通过观察和与该领域的知名专业人士互动，让学生接触到他们的新研究社区。它将鼓励学生在职业生涯的这个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。参与者的选择将以增加ICMI参与的广度为目标，优先考虑少数民族学生、女学生、地理代表性不足的州的学生，最后是那些导师或部门没有足够资金支持他们参加ICMI的学生。

This is funding to support attendance by approximately 10 graduate students in a doctoral consortium (workshop) to be held in conjunction with the Ninth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI07), which will take place November 12-15, 2007, in Nagoya, Japan, and is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ICMI is the foremost conference representing the growing interest in next-generation perceptive, adaptive and multimodal user interfaces, systems, and applications, which are especially well-suited for interpreting natural communication and activity patterns in real-world environments. The emergence of these new interfaces, systems and applications 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 theme of this year's conference is once again multimodal collaboration through different platforms and applications. The conference will focus on major trends and challenges in this area, including distilling the development of a roadmap for future research and commercial success. New topics of interest this year include multimodal applications in the vehicular environment, human-robot interfaces, and interfaces for music and amusements. The 4-day event will bring together researchers from academia and industry from around the world to present and discuss the latest multi-disciplinary work in the field. The invited talks, panels, single-track oral and poster presentations will facilitate interaction and discussion among researchers. Participants in the doctoral consortium will get to showcase their ongoing thesis work, either orally or via posters, in a special "spotlight session" during which they will receive feedback from an invited committee composed of approximately half a dozen senior personnel (including the conference General and Program Chairs). As in previous years, students funded under this award will all be U.S. residents enrolled at U.S. institutions of higher education. Additional information about the ICMI07 conference is available at http://www.acm.org/icmi/2007.Broader Impacts: The doctoral consortium will give students exposure to their new research community, both by presenting their own work and by observing and interacting with established 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. Participants will be selected with the goal of increasing the breadth of participation at ICMI, with priority given first to minority students, female students, students from geographically under-represented states, and finally to students whose advisors or departments have insufficient funds to otherwise support their participation in ICMI.