Workshop: Doctoral Consortium for ASSETS 2009

这笔资金用于支持一个由大约12名来自美国和国外的有前途的博士生组成的财团（研讨会），以及大约5名杰出的研究人员。该活动将于10月25日（周日）举行，紧随第十一届ACM SIGACCESS会议（ASSETS 2009），会议将于2009年10月26日至28日（周一至周三）在匹兹堡举行，由ACM计算机和可访问性特别兴趣小组赞助。ASSETS会议是展示软件和技术方面的研究成果和创新的主要论坛，旨在解决各种残疾人的特殊需求。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，就语言、运动、听力和视觉障碍、认知限制、情感和学习障碍以及衰老等方面的最新工作进行交流和报告。建立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、建筑等）的研究生提供一个机会，在PI和该领域其他杰出专家小组的指导下，在跨学科研讨会上共同探索他们的研究兴趣，以便他们能够看到更广泛的研究和开发方法，以辅助技术和普遍可用性。还可以体验他们可以追求自己努力的社区。学生参与者将在联盟期间正式展示他们的工作，并将从教师小组获得建设性的反馈。反馈的目的是帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作是如何定位相对于相关研究，他们的主题是否充分集中在论文研究项目，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，该联盟将帮助塑造正在进行的和未来的研究项目，旨在辅助技术和普遍获取，将促进这个新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的奖学金和网络，并将这些有前途的年轻研究人员暴露在更大的社区中。在主会议期间，将留出一段时间，让博士联盟的参与者向整个会议进行报告，并从博士联盟中选出一名学生进行闭幕全体报告。主办单位将采取特别措施，促进来自代表性不足群体的学生人数较多的院校的参与。更多信息请访问http://www.sigaccess.org/assets09。将对该联盟进行评估，并将评估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，为他们提供一个在社区中获得更广泛的创新工作的机会，并从研究社区的资深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之间的社区意识，允许他们在他们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会网络。由于学生和教师构成了一个跨越不同维度的多元化群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。

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.