Workshop: Doctoral Consortium for ASSETS 2009

这笔资金用于支持一个由来自美国和海外的大约12名有前途的博士生以及大约5名杰出的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，紧接着将于2009年10月26日至28日星期一至星期三在匹兹堡举行的第十一届ACM SIGACCESS大会(ASSERS 2009)之前和同时举行，由ACM计算机和可访问性特别兴趣小组赞助。ASSITS会议是展示研究成果和软件和技术创新的主要论坛，旨在满足各类残疾人的特殊需求。来自世界各地学术界和产业界的研究人员和开发人员将会面，就与言语、运动、听力和视觉障碍、认知限制、情感和学习障碍以及衰老有关的最新工作交流意见并提交报告。建设这个社区的一个关键组成部分是通过年轻人。Assets 2009博士联盟将为来自不同背景(计算机、工程、心理学、建筑等)的研究生提供机会。在国际和平研究所和该领域其他知名专家小组的指导下，聚集在一起，在一个跨学科研讨会上探索他们的研究兴趣，这样他们就可以看到辅助技术和普遍可用性的更广泛的研究和开发方法，还可以体验到他们可以继续努力的社区。学生参与者将在联盟期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将从教员小组获得建设性的反馈。这些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，他们的主题是否足够集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否得到正确的选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和展示。因此，该联盟将帮助形成目前和未来旨在辅助技术和普及利用的研究项目，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，并将使这些有前途的年轻研究人员接触到更大的社区。在主会议期间留出了一个会议，允许博士联合体的参与者在整个会议上发言，博士联合体的一名学生将被选为闭幕全体报告的演讲者。主办方将采取特别措施，促进来自代表不足群体的学生人数相对较多的机构参与。欲了解更多信息，请访问http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09.。将对该联盟进行评估，并将结果提供给未来此类活动的组织者。广泛影响：博士联盟将帮助扩大在该领域攻读研究生课程的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供机会，让他们更广泛地接触到他们的创新工作，并从研究界高级成员那里获得反馈和指导。它将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员的社区意识，使他们能够在自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社交网络。因为学生和教职员工在不同的维度上构成了一个不同的群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域未来的利益。

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.