Workshop for Student Introduction to Human Robot Interaction

学生人机交互介绍研讨会

• 批准号: 0900362
• 负责人: Henrik Christensen
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-12-15 至 2009-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0900362&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Student; Introduction; Human; Robot

This is funding to support a workshop of approximately 30 graduate students and recent graduates from master's and doctoral programs in diverse communities (including computer science, engineering, psychology, cognitive science, and communications), along with distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on Tuesday, March 10, 2009, immediately preceding the Fourth Annual Human Robot Interaction Conference (HRI 2009) to be held March 11-13, 2009, in San Diego, which is sponsored by ACM and cosponsored by IEEE. The theme of HRI 2009 is ?Interacting Naturally with Robots,? which highlights the critical need to develop human-like communications capabilities as robots become more common in everyday settings (including the home, office, museums, and shopping environments), and begin to collaborate with humans to accomplish complex tasks. This workshop is designed to complement the conference, by providing a forum for students and recent graduates in the field of HRI to present their current research before peers and a panel of senior researchers in a setting that is less formal and more interactive than the main conference, and by providing all participants with opportunities to talk about the important trends and issues in the field with a view to encouraging the formation of collaborative relationships across disciplines and geographic boundaries. To these ends, the workshop will include sessions in a variety of formats. Participants will hear 15-minute presentations on their current research from 9 of the students, with time allotted for questions and discussion after each talk. A morning breakout session will divide the participants into 2-4 groups to discuss a focused question on common research themes posed by the organizers, while an afternoon breakout session will involve a small group project in which participants must work together to address some facet of HRI in a given domain/application. Following a keynote address from a distinguished researcher in the field, a group presentation session will provide each breakout group with the opportunity to present a summary to the entire workshop. Broader Impacts: This workshop will afford a unique opportunity for the best of the next generation of researchers in human-robot interaction to be exposed to and discuss current and relevant topics as they are being studied in several different research communities (including but nor limited to computer science and engineering, psychology, robotics, human factors and ergonomics, and human-computer interaction). This is important for the field, because it has been recognized that transformative advances in research in this fledgling area can only come through the melding of cross-disciplinary knowledge and multinational perspectives. Participants will be encouraged to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development, to form collaborative relationships, and to generate new research questions to be addressed during the coming year. Workshop organizers will act aggressively to recruit young researchers from minority and underrepresented groups in order to assure diversity of the participants across a variety of dimensions, so that the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field.

这笔资金用于支持一个研讨会，该研讨会有大约30名研究生和最近从不同社区(包括计算机科学、工程、心理学、认知科学和通信)的硕士和博士项目毕业的毕业生，以及杰出的研究人员。该活动将于2009年3月10日星期二举行，紧接着将于2009年3月11日至13日在圣地亚哥举行第四届年度人类-机器人互动会议(HRI 2009)，该会议由ACM赞助，IEEE共同赞助。2009年HRI的主题是？与机器人自然互动？这突显了随着机器人在日常环境(包括家庭、办公室、博物馆和购物环境)中变得越来越常见，并开始与人类合作完成复杂任务，开发类似人类的通信能力的迫切需要。这次讲习班的目的是为了补充这次会议，为HRI领域的学生和新近毕业的学生提供一个论坛，在与主要会议相比不那么正式和更具互动性的环境中，向同行和高级研究人员小组介绍他们目前的研究成果，并为所有与会者提供机会，讨论该领域的重要趋势和问题，以鼓励形成跨学科和地理边界的合作关系。为此，讲习班将包括各种形式的会议。参与者将听取其中9名学生关于他们当前研究的15分钟陈述，每次演讲后分配时间用于提问和讨论。上午的分组会议将把参与者分成2-4个小组，讨论组织者提出的关于共同研究主题的重点问题，而下午的分组会议将涉及一个小组项目，参与者必须共同努力，解决特定领域/应用中人力资源倡议的某些方面。在该领域一位杰出的研究人员发表主旨演讲后，小组报告会议将为每个分组提供机会向整个研讨会介绍总结。更广泛的影响：这次研讨会将提供一个独特的机会，让人-机器人交互领域的最优秀的下一代研究人员接触和讨论当前和相关的主题，因为这些主题正在几个不同的研究界研究(包括但不限于计算机科学和工程、心理学、机器人学、人的因素和人体工效学，以及人机交互)。这对该领域很重要，因为人们已经认识到，这一新兴领域的研究只有通过融合跨学科知识和多国观点才能取得变革性的进展。将鼓励参与者在他们之间以及与处于其专业发展关键阶段的高级研究人员建立一个社交网络，以形成协作关系，并产生新的研究问题，以便在来年加以解决。讲习班组织者将采取积极行动，从少数群体和代表性不足的群体中招募年轻的研究人员，以确保参与者在不同方面的多样性，从而拓宽学生的视野，使他们能够从该领域未来的利益中受益。