Workshop: Doctoral Consortium for ASSETS 2009

研讨会：资产博士联盟 2009

• 批准号: 0925357
• 负责人: Richard Ladner
• 金额: $ 3.42万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-03-15 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0925357&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Doctoral; Consortium; ASSETS; 2009

This is funding to support a consortium (workshop) of approximately 12 promising doctoral students from the United States and abroad, along with about 5 distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on Sunday, October 25, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the Eleventh ACM SIGACCESS Conference (ASSETS 2009), to be held Monday-Wednesday, October 26-28, 2009, in Pittsburgh, and sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Accessibility. The ASSETS conference is the premier forum for presenting research results and innovations in software and technology designed to address the special needs of people with disabilities of all kinds. Researchers and developers from both academia and industry around the world will meet to exchange ideas and present reports on the latest work relating to speech, motor, hearing, and vision impairments, cognitive limitations, emotional and learning disabilities, and aging. A key component of building this community is through its youth. The ASSETS 2009 doctoral consortium will provide an opportunity for graduate students from diverse backgrounds (computing, engineering, psychology, architecture, etc.) to come together and explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of the PI and a panel of other distinguished experts in the field, so that they can see the broader spectrum of research and development approaches to assistive technologies and universal usability, and also experience the community in which they can pursue their endeavors. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the consortium, and will receive constructive feedback from the faculty panel. The feedback is designed to help students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related 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. Thus, the consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at assistive technologies and universal access, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in this emerging interdisciplinary area, and will expose these promising young researchers to a larger community. A session has been set aside during the main conference to allow doctoral consortium participants to present to the entire conference, and one student from the doctoral consortium will be selected to deliver the closing plenary presentation. The organizers will take special steps to promote participation from institutions with relatively large numbers of students from underrepresented groups. More information is available online at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09. Evaluation of the consortium will be conducted, and the results made available to the organizers of future such events.Broader Impacts: The doctoral consortium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality/cultural and scientific discipline, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field.

这笔资金用于支持一个由来自美国和国外的约 12 名有前途的博士生以及约 5 名杰出研究人员组成的联盟（研讨会）。 该活动将于 10 月 25 日（星期日）举行，紧接第十一届 ACM SIGACCESS 会议（ASSETS 2009）之前并与其同时举行，该会议将于 2009 年 10 月 26 日至 28 日星期一至星期三在匹兹堡举行，由 ACM 计算机和辅助功能特别兴趣小组赞助。 ASSETS 会议是展示旨在满足各类残疾人特殊需求的软件和技术研究成果和创新的首要论坛。 来自世界各地学术界和工业界的研究人员和开发人员将齐聚一堂，交流想法，并就与言语、运动、听力和视力障碍、认知限制、情绪和学习障碍以及衰老相关的最新工作发表报告。 建设这个社区的一个关键组成部分是通过它的年轻人。 ASSETS 2009 博士联盟将为来自不同背景（计算机、工程、心理学、建筑学等）的研究生提供一个机会，在 PI 和该领域其他杰出专家的指导下，在跨学科研讨会上聚集在一起探索他们的研究兴趣，以便他们能够看到更广泛的辅助技术和通用可用性的研究和开发方法，并体验他们可以在其中进行研究的社区。 追求他们的努力。 学生参与者将在联盟期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将收到教师小组的建设性反馈。 反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于相关研究的定位，他们的主题是否充分关注论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。 因此，该联盟将帮助制定旨在辅助技术和普及的正在进行和未来的研究项目，将促进这一新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的学术和网络联系，并使这些有前途的年轻研究人员接触到更大的社区。 主会议期间预留了一场会议，允许博士联盟参与者向整个会议进行演讲，并且将从博士联盟中选出一名学生进行闭幕全体会议演讲。 组织者将采取特别措施，促进拥有较多来自弱势群体的学生的院校参与。 更多信息可在线获取：http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09。 将对联盟进行评估，并将结果提供给未来此类活动的组织者。 更广泛的影响：博士联盟将帮助扩大在该领域攻读研究生的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供在社区中更广泛地接触其创新工作的机会，并获得研究社区高级成员的反馈和指导。 它将进一步帮助这些年轻研究人员建立社区意识，让他们在自己之间以及在专业发展的关键阶段与高级研究人员建立社交网络。 由于学生和教师构成了一个跨多个维度的多元化群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽，以利于该领域的未来利益。