Support for Student Participation in the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces '08

这是资金支持出席约10名研究生在博士聚光灯（讲习班）将结合第十届多式联运接口问题国际会议举行（ICMI 2008），将于2008年10月20日至22日在希腊哈尼亚举行，由计算机协会（ACM）组织，电气和电子工程师协会（IEEE）共同赞助。 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日益增长的兴趣。 这类接口代表了一个新兴的跨学科研究方向，涉及口语理解、自然语言理解、图像处理、计算机视觉、模式识别、实验心理学等，旨在实现计算机与人类用户之间高效、便捷、自然的交互与沟通，并且代表了与以前的计算的根本背离，其最终应该使用户能够使用日常技能与计算机交互。 ICMI 2008的主要目标是在多模态交互和系统的广泛领域内进一步开展科学研究，关注主要趋势和挑战，并帮助确定未来研究和商业成功的路线图。 今年感兴趣的主题包括多模式和多媒体处理，多模式输入和输出接口，多模式应用，用户建模和适应，多模式架构，工具和标准，以及多模式接口的评估。 为期3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。 在博士聚光灯的参与者将得到展示他们正在进行的论文工作，无论是口头或通过海报，在一个特殊的“聚光灯会议”，在此期间，他们将收到来自一个邀请委员会组成的约半打高级人员（包括会议一般和程序主席）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就读的美国居民。 有关ICMI 2008会议的更多信息，请访问http://www.icmi2008.org/.Broader。博士聚光灯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 Spotlight (workshop) to be held in conjunction with the Tenth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2008), which will take place October 20-22, 2008, in Chania, Greece, and is organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with co-sponsorship from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). ICMI is the foremost conference representing the growing interest in next-generation perceptive, adaptive and multimodal user interfaces. Such interfaces represent an emerging interdisciplinary research direction, involving spoken language understanding, natural language understanding, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, experimental psychology, etc. They aim at efficient, convenient and natural interaction and communication between computers and human users, and represent a radical departure from previous computing that should ultimately enable users to interact with computers using everyday skills. The main goals of ICMI 2008 are to further scientific research within the broad field of multimodal interaction and systems, to focus on major trends and challenges, and to help identify a roadmap for future research and commercial success. Topics of interest this year include multimodal and multimedia processing, multimodal input and output interfaces, multimodal applications, user modeling and adaptation, multimodal architectures, tools and standards, and evaluation of multimodal interfaces. The 3-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 Spotlight 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. More information about the ICMI 2008 conference is available at http://www.icmi2008.org/.Broader Impacts: The Doctoral Spotlight 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.