Tabletop 2007 Student Volunteers

第二届IEEE水平交互式人机系统国际研讨会Tablettop 2007将于10月10日至12日在罗德岛州纽波特举行。该研讨会由电气和电子工程师学会赞助，已成为介绍和讨论与桌面系统设计有关的研究和实践的领先和独特的重点论坛，桌面系统是人机交互的一个新兴子领域。其目的是分享研究方法和结果，以推动桌面作为进一步发展的平台。研究论文通常涵盖与桌面计算机相关的各种主题：输入和交互方法、硬件设计、可用性测试、增强现实和3D交互；多表面系统设计、基于手势的系统设计、多模式方法、有形用户界面、听觉用户界面、并置和分布式协作系统、开发工具、界面和体验设计，以及无处不在的计算和智能环境。这些主题在各种环境和用户群体中进行研究，包括儿童和教育、指挥和控制(如军事和国土安全)、设计和娱乐、医疗保健、家庭和家庭、工作场所和特殊需求人群。组织者预计，Tablettop 2007将汇集来自世界各地的大约100-150名专业人员和研究人员、产品供应商、用户和其他感兴趣的各方，分享桌面计算方面的信息和进展。研讨会会议记录中发表的研究报告受到广泛引用和广泛引用。让大量研究生参加会议是会议在未来几年取得成功的关键。学生志愿者计划虽然对Tablettop来说是新的，但它是以类似的计划为蓝本的，这些计划在其他地方已经被证明是成功的，为有前途的研究生提供了一种手段，以显著降低成本，以换取为会议提供最低限度的服务，如帮助设备安装和注册。目标是建立一批新的研究人员，然后他们将在世界各地拥有一个同事网络，通过使这些新研究人员能够接触研究领域的资深专家来指导他们的工作，这些专家可以指导他们并提供建议，为选择交互式系统设计研究主题提供鼓励和支持，使有前途的新进入者更容易参加他们的研究会议，说明桌面研究的相互关系和多样性，并使新进入者在桌面研讨会上的经历成为一种愉快和有益的经历，以鼓励他们在未来几年返回。与会者将有权完全访问所有会议活动。他们将根据申请者响应参与呼吁提交的材料进行挑选，但国际学生联合会将特别努力从历史上代表性不足的群体中招收研究生。广泛影响：桌面学生志愿者计划将汇集桌面系统设计方面最优秀的下一代研究人员。它将为学生提供一个机会，通过智力交流来形成和改进他们的研究，以及为学生提供一个机会，让他们讨论和交流他们的工作特点，并与他们的同行专业人员的关键群体进行交流。它还将允许他们在自己之间以及与几名资深研究人员建立一个社交网络，这在他们融入该职业的过程中发挥了重要作用。这对桌面研究的博士生来说尤其重要，因为桌面研究是高度跨学科的。由于学生和教职员工在几个方面(科学学科、学术背景和研究专业)是一个多元化的群体，学生的视野在他们专业发展的关键阶段得到了开阔。

Tabletop 2007, the 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems, will be held in Newport, Rhode Island on October 10 -12. The workshop, sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, has become a leading and uniquely focused forum for the presentation and discussion of research and practice relating to the design of tabletop systems, which is an emerging subfield of human computer interaction. The aim is to share research methods and results in order to advance tabletops as a platform for further development. Research papers typically cover all manner of topics related to tabletop computers: input and interaction methods, hardware design, usability testing, augmented reality and 3D interaction; multi-surface system design, gesture-based system design, multi-modal methods, tangible user interfaces, auditory user interfaces, collocated and distributed collaborative systems, development tools, interfaces and experience design, and ubiquitous computing and smart environments. These topics are examined in a variety of settings and user populations, including children and education, command and control (such as military and homeland security), design and entertainment, health care, home and family, the workplace, and special needs populations. The organizers expect that Tabletop 2007 will bring together approximately 100-150 professionals and researchers, product vendors, users, and other interested parties from around the world, to share information and advances in tabletop computing. Research reports published in the workshop proceedings are heavily refereed and widely cited.Inclusion of a large number of graduate students in the conference is a key to making it a success for years to come. The Student Volunteer Program, though new to Tabletop, is modeled after similar programs that have proven successful elsewhere in providing a means for promising graduate students to attend the conference at a significantly reduced cost in exchange for providing minimal services to the conference such as help with equipment setup and registration. The goals are to build a cohort group of new researchers who will then have a network of colleagues across the world, to guide the work of these new researchers by giving them access to senior experts in the research field who can coach them and give advice, to provide encouragement and support for the selection of interactive system design research topics, to make it easier for promising new entrants into the field to attend their research conference, to illustrate the interrelationship and diversity of Tabletop research, and to make the new entrants' experience at the Tabletop workshop an enjoyable and rewarding experience so as to encourage them to return in future years. Participants will have full access to all conference events. They will be selected on the basis of materials submitted by applicants in response to a call for participation, but the PI will make special efforts to recruit graduate students from historically under-represented groups.Broader Impacts: The Tabletop Student Volunteer Program will bring together the best of the next generation of researchers in the design of tabletop systems. It will provide an opportunity both for the students' research to be shaped and improved through intellectual exchange, as well as for the students to discuss and communicate the character of their work to a key group of their peer professionals. It will also allow them to create a social network both among themselves and with several senior researchers, which plays a major role in their enculturation into the profession. This is especially critical for PhD students in Tabletop research, which is highly interdisciplinary. Because the students and faculty are a diverse group across several dimensions (scientific discipline, academic background, and research specialization), the students' horizons are broadened at a critical stage in their professional development.