Workshop for Student Introduction to Human Robot Interaction

这是一个由大约30名研究生和来自不同领域（包括计算机科学、工程、心理学、认知科学和通信）的硕士和博士课程的应届毕业生以及杰出的研究人员组成的研讨会。该活动将于2009年3月10日星期二举行，紧接于2009年3月11日至13日在圣地亚哥举行的第四届年度人机交互会议（HRI 2009），该会议由ACM主办，IEEE共同主办。2009年人力资源研究所的主题是？与机器人自然互动？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）中变得越来越普遍，并开始与人类合作完成复杂的任务，这突显了开发类人通信能力的迫切需要。本次研讨会旨在补充会议，为人力资源研究领域的学生和应届毕业生提供一个论坛，让他们在同行和资深研究人员小组面前展示他们目前的研究，其环境比主要会议不那么正式，但更具互动性。并为所有参与者提供机会，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。为此目的，讲习班将包括各种形式的会议。参与者将听取9名学生关于他们当前研究的15分钟报告，并在每次报告后分配时间进行提问和讨论。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，参与者必须在给定的领域/应用中共同解决HRI的某些方面。在该领域一位杰出研究人员的主题演讲之后，将有一个小组报告环节，每个小组将有机会向整个研讨会做总结。更广泛的影响：本次研讨会将为最优秀的下一代人机交互研究人员提供一个独特的机会，让他们接触和讨论当前和相关的主题，因为他们正在几个不同的研究领域（包括但不限于计算机科学与工程、心理学、机器人、人为因素和人体工程学以及人机交互）进行研究。这对该领域很重要，因为人们已经认识到，在这个新兴领域，研究的变革性进展只能通过跨学科知识和跨国视角的融合来实现。鼓励参与者在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的高级研究人员建立社会网络，形成合作关系，并在来年提出新的研究问题。研讨会组织者将积极采取行动，从少数民族和代表性不足的群体中招募年轻的研究人员，以确保参与者在各个方面的多样性，从而拓宽学生的视野，为该领域的未来利益服务。

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.