Doctoral Consortium and Student-Author Travel For Petra-08 Conference

这笔资金用于支持一个由来自美国高等院校的大约12名有前途的博士生和8名杰出的研究人员组成的博士联盟，该联盟将与7月15-19日在希腊雅典举行的第一届与辅助环境相关的普及技术国际会议(PETRA08)一起举行。PETRA08会议的目标是将来自不同领域的专家聚集在一起，解决一个重要的社会和医疗保健问题，即随着世界人口老龄化，迫切需要为老年人以及阿尔茨海默氏症、帕金森氏症和其他残疾或创伤患者开发家庭护理解决方案。PETRA08将提供一个独特的场所，专注于将无线计算、传感器和其他普及计算技术结合到辅助环境中；与传统的计算机科学会议不同，它将创建一个渠道，将基本的CS原则应用到数百万有需要的人类的服务中。关于PETRA08的更多信息可以在www.petrae.org上找到；组织者希望这次会议能成为一年一度的活动。博士联盟的目标是增加参与者的工作在社区中的曝光率和知名度，帮助在下一代研究人员中建立社区意识，并通过在支持和互动的环境中提供一组资深研究人员的实质性反馈和指导来帮助促进他们的研究努力。博士联盟的学生参与者将对他们的工作进行正式陈述，并将收到教员小组的反馈；反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于其他研究的定位，他们的主题是否足够集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否被正确地选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和展示。博士生联盟的与会者将在会议议程中获得关于他们工作的简短论文，并将在会议网站上发布活动的总结报告。广泛影响：PETRA08博士生联盟将汇聚相关领域的一些最优秀的学生、研究人员和实践者，从而为年轻参与者提供一个独特的机会，让他们更广泛地接触到他们的创新想法，同时也得到加强，进行具有社会影响的研究的重要性和价值。讲习班还将允许初级参与者在他们之间以及与资深同事之间建立一个社交网络。由于会议预计将在几个方面(如国籍、科学学科和研究专业)接待不同的群体，与会者？视野将被拓宽，新的合作将出现，这将有利于该领域的未来。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium of approximately 12 promising doctoral students from U.S. institutions of higher learning along with 8 distinguished research faculty, to be held in conjunction with the 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA08), which will take place July 15-19 in Athens, Greece. The goal of the PETRA08 conference is to bring together experts from diverse domains to address an important social and healthcare issue, namely that as the world's population ages there is an urgent need to develop solutions for in-home care of the elderly, as well as of people with Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and other disabilities or traumas. PETRA08 will provide a unique venue that focuses on combining wireless computing, sensors, and other pervasive computing technologies to assistive environments; unlike traditional computer science conferences, it will create a channel for applying basic CS principles to the service of millions of humans in need. More information about PETRA08 may be found at www.petrae.org; the organizers hope the conference will become an annual event. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to increase the exposure and visibility of the participants' work within the community, to help establish a sense of community among this next generation of researchers, and to help foster their research efforts by providing substantive feedback and guidance from a group of senior researchers in a supportive and interactive environment. Student participants in the Doctoral Consortium will make formal presentations of their work and will receive feedback from a faculty panel; the feedback is geared to helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other 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. Doctoral Consortium attendees will have short papers on their work included in the Conference Proceedings, and a summary report on the event will be posted on the conference website.Broader Impacts: The PETRA08 Doctoral Consortium will bring together some of the best students, researchers and practitioners in relevant fields, and will thereby afford the younger participants a unique opportunity to gain wider exposure for their innovative ideas while also receiving reinforcement for the importance and value of conducting research with societal impact. The workshop will also allow the junior participants to create a social network both among themselves and with senior colleagues. Since the conference is expected to host a diverse group along several dimensions (such as nationality, scientific discipline, and research specialization), participants? horizons will be broadened and new collaborations will emerge, to the future benefit of the field.