Supporting Students Attending IUI 2009 Conference

这笔资金用于支持目前在美国和海外注册博士项目的大约15名研究生参加将于2009年2月8日至11日在佛罗里达州萨尼贝尔岛举行的2009年国际智能用户界面会议(IUI 2009)。一年一度的iUI会议由ACM赞助，是来自学术界和工业界的研究人员聚集在一起的主要论坛，他们工作在人机交互(HCI)和人工智能(AI)的交叉点上，交流互补的见解，展示和讨论杰出的研究和应用，其目标是让计算机化的世界变得更加顺从。与传统的人工智能不同，它的重点不是让计算机本身变得智能，而是让计算机和人之间的交互变得更智能。与传统的人机界面不同，它的重点是涉及大量知识和新兴技术的解决方案，如自然语言理解、脑机接口和手势识别。为此，iUI不仅鼓励来自计算机科学的贡献，还鼓励来自心理学、认知科学、计算机图形学、艺术等相关领域的贡献。iUI 2009将是该系列的第12次会议；今年感兴趣的主题包括用户输入、系统输出的生成、普适计算、帮助、智能类别、iUI设计和用户研究。美国国家科学基金会的资金将用于支持两类参与者：一类是已被接受为全文论文或海报的投稿的主要作者，但所在机构要么无法为出席会议提供任何资金，要么只能提供部分资金，不足以支付学生的费用？S费用；以及其他一些学生，他们本可以从会议中受益，但由于所在部门对非作者会议旅费的资助限制，他们无法参加会议。2009年国际学生联合会组委会已承诺积极从传统上在国际学生联合会社区中没有很好代表的学校招募学生参与者，并承诺大部分受资助的学生(70%-80%)将来自美国院校。广泛影响：这笔资金将使那些可能因经济原因无法参加这次会议的学生参加。它将加强受资助参与者的教育经验，使他们接触该领域的主要研究人员，并使他们在会议过程中接触到往往带来职业晋升机会的活跃讨论。会议本身的质量也将得到提高，这要归功于代表机构基础的扩大和与会者的多样性。IUI的丰富思想交流此前已被证明是未来研究的宝贵思想来源，并导致了合作努力；这笔资金将扩大合作机会，并为以前很少或没有派代表参加这次会议的项目提供智力刺激。

This is funding to support participation by approximately 15 graduate students currently enrolled in Ph.D. programs in the United States and abroad in the 2009 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2009), to be held in Sanibel Island, Florida, on February 8-11, 2009. Sponsored by ACM, the annual IUI conferences are the premier forum where researchers from academia and industry, who work at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), come together to exchange complementary insights and to present and discuss outstanding research and applications whose goal is to make the computerized world a more amenable place. Unlike traditional AI the focus is not so much on making the computer smart all by itself, but rather on making the interaction between computers and people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, there is a focus on solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding, brain computer interfaces, and gesture recognition. To this end, IUI encourages contributions not only from computer science but also from related fields such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. IUI 2009 will be the 12th conference in the series; topics of interest this year include user input, generation of system output, ubiquitous computing, help, categories of intelligence, IUI design, and user studies. NSF funds will be used to support two groups of participants: students who are the primary author of a submission that has been accepted as a full paper or poster but whose institution is either unable to provide any funding for conference attendance or able to provide only partial funding that is insufficient to cover the student?s expenses; and other students who would benefit from the conference but who would be unable to attend due to restrictions by their department on funding conference travel for non-authors. The IUI 2009 organizing committee has undertaken to proactively recruit student participants from schools that have not traditionally been well represented in the IUI community, and also that the bulk of students supported (70-80%) will be from U.S. institutions.Broader Impacts: This funding will enable attendance at this conference by students who might otherwise be unable to do so for financial reasons. It will enhance the educational experience of funded participants, by bringing them into contact with leading researchers in the field and by exposing them to the lively discussion during the course of the conference that often leads to opportunities for career advancement. The quality of the conference itself will be enhanced as well, thanks to a broadening of the base of institutions represented and increased diversity of participants. The rich exchange of ideas at IUI has previously proven to be a valuable source of ideas for future research, as well as leading to collaborative efforts; this funding will extend the opportunities for collaboration and provide intellectual stimulus to programs that have previously sent few or no representatives to this conference.