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名研究生参加与第九届多模式接口国际会议(ICMI07)一起举行的博士联盟(研讨会)，该会议将于2007年11月12-15日在日本名古屋举行，由计算机械协会(ACM)赞助。ICMI是最重要的会议，代表了人们对下一代感知、自适应和多模式用户界面、系统和应用程序日益增长的兴趣，这些界面、系统和应用程序特别适合于解释现实世界环境中的自然交流和活动模式。这些新的界面、系统和应用程序的出现代表了与以往计算的根本背离，并通过创造更自然、更具表现力、更灵活和更强大的与计算机交互的方式，迅速改变了人机交互的性质。今年大会的主题再次是通过不同平台和应用进行多式联运协作。会议将集中讨论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的发展。今年感兴趣的新主题包括车辆环境中的多模式应用、人机接口以及音乐和娱乐接口。为期4天的活动将汇聚来自世界各地的学术界和产业界的研究人员，介绍和讨论该领域的最新多学科工作。受邀的演讲、小组讨论、单轨口头和海报演示将促进研究人员之间的互动和讨论。博士联合体的参与者将有机会在一个特别的“聚光灯会议”上口头或通过海报展示他们正在进行的论文工作，在此期间，他们将收到一个由大约六名高级人员(包括会议总干事和项目主席)组成的应邀委员会的反馈。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注册的美国居民。有关ICMI 07会议的更多信息可在http://www.acm.org/icmi/2007.Broader Impact上获得：该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，让学生接触到他们新的研究社区。它将鼓励学生在职业生涯的关键时刻开始建立由同龄人和导师组成的社会支持网络。将选择参与者，目标是增加ICMI的参与范围，首先优先考虑少数民族学生、女性学生、来自人口比例较低州的学生，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.