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

这笔资金将用于支持大约10名研究生参加一个博士联合会（研讨会），该研讨会将与2007年11月12日至15日在日本名古屋举行的第九届多模式接口国际会议（ICMI 07）同时举行，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，自适应和多模式用户界面，系统和应用程序的日益增长的兴趣，这些用户界面，系统和应用程序特别适合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与以前的计算的根本背离，并且通过创建更自然、表现力更强、更灵活和更强大的与计算机交互的手段来迅速改变人机交互的性质。 今年会议的主题再次是通过不同平台和应用实现多模式协作。 会议将重点关注这一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4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。 特邀演讲、小组讨论、单线口头和海报介绍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殊的“聚光灯会议”上展示他们正在进行的论文工作，无论是口头还是通过海报，在此期间，他们将收到由大约六名高级人员组成的受邀委员会的反馈（包括会议总干事和项目主席）。 与往年一样，该奖项资助的学生将全部是在美国高等教育机构就读的美国居民。 有关ICMI 07会议的更多信息，请访问http://www.acm.org/icmi/2007.Broader。博士生联盟将让学生接触到他们的新的研究社区，无论是通过展示自己的工作，并通过观察和与该领域的专业人士互动。 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。 参与者将被选择，以增加在ICMI参与的广度的目标，优先考虑少数民族学生，女学生，学生从地理代表性不足的国家，最后到学生的顾问或部门没有足够的资金，否则支持他们在ICMI的参与。

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.