Workshop: Doctoral Consortium for ASSETS 2009

这是资助一个由来自美国和国外的大约12名有前途的博士生组成的财团（讲习班），沿着还有大约5名杰出的研究人员。 该活动将于10月25日星期日举行，紧接着第十一届ACM SIGACCESS会议（ASSETS 2009），将于2009年10月26日至28日星期一至星期三在匹兹堡举行，并由ACM计算机和无障碍特别兴趣小组赞助。 ASSETS会议是展示软件和技术研究成果和创新的主要论坛，旨在满足各种残疾人的特殊需求。 来自世界各地的学术界和工业界的研究人员和开发人员将会面，交流想法，并就与言语，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提出报告。 建设这个社区的一个关键组成部分是通过它的青年。 在资产2009年博士财团将提供一个机会，从不同背景的研究生（计算，工程，心理学，建筑等）。在PI和该领域其他杰出专家小组的指导下，在跨学科研讨会上聚集在一起探索他们的研究兴趣，以便他们可以看到更广泛的研究和开发方法，以辅助技术和通用可用性，并体验他们可以追求他们的努力的社区。 学生参与者将在联盟期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将收到来自教师小组的建设性反馈。 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的研究，他们的主题是否充分集中于论文研究项目，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，旨在辅助技术和普及，将促进奖学金和新的研究人员在这一新兴的跨学科领域的网络，并将这些有前途的年轻研究人员接触到更大的社区。 在主要会议期间留出了一个会议，让博士生财团的参与者向整个会议介绍，并将从博士生财团中选出一名学生发表闭幕全体演讲。 组织者将采取特别措施，促进来自代表性不足群体的学生人数相对较多的机构的参与。 更多信息请访问www.example.com。 将对该联合会进行评估，并将评估结果提供给今后此类活动的组织者。更广泛的影响：博士联合会将有助于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，使他们有机会在社区中更广泛地了解自己的创新工作，并获得研究界资深成员的反馈和指导。 这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在其专业发展的关键阶段与高级研究人员建立社会网络。 由于学生和教师构成了一个跨各种维度的多元化群体，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.