Support for Student Participation in the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces / Machine Learning for Multimodal Interfaces '09

支持学生参加多模态接口/多模态接口机器学习国际会议09

• 批准号: 0948946
• 负责人: Rana el Kaliouby
• 金额: $ 1.74万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 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: 2009-09-15 至 2010-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0948946&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; Student; Participation; International; Conference

This is funding to support attendance by approximately 12 graduate students in a Doctoral Spotlight (workshop) to be held in conjunction with the 2009 International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces/Machine Learning for Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-MLMI 2009), which will take place November 2-6 in Cambridge, Mass., and is organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with co-sponsorship from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). This year the Eleventh International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI 2009) will merge with the Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interfaces; the combined ICMI-MLMI will be the premier event representing the growing interest in next-generation perceptive, adaptive and multimodal user interfaces. Such interfaces represent an emerging interdisciplinary research direction, involving spoken and natural language understanding, image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, experimental psychology, etc. They aim to promote efficient and natural interaction and communication between computers and human users, and represent a radical departure from previous computing that should ultimately enable users to interact with computers using everyday skills. The main goals of ICMI-MLMI 2009 are to further scientific research within the broad field of multimodal interaction and systems, to focus on major trends and challenges, and to help identify a roadmap for future research and commercial success. Topics of interest this year include: multimodal and multimedia processing; multimodal input and output interfaces; multimodal applications; human interaction analysis and modeling; and multimodal data, evaluation, and standards. The 3-day main event on the MIT campus, to be followed by 5 affiliated workshops, will bring together researchers from academia and industry from around the world to present and discuss the latest multi-disciplinary work in the field. The invited talks, panels, and single-track oral and poster presentations will facilitate interaction and discussion among researchers; the conference promises to be an international venue for brainstorming and coming up with creative directions for future research in multimodal interfaces. Participants in the Doctoral Spotlight will get to showcase their ongoing thesis work, either orally or via posters, in a special "spotlight session" during which they will receive feedback from an invited committee composed of senior personnel, and including the Advisory Committee chair and the General and Program chairs. As a further incentive for high-quality student participation, ICMI-MLMI will be awarding outstanding paper awards, with a special category just for student papers. More information about ICMI-MLMI is available online at http://icmi2009.acm.org.Broader Impacts: The Doctoral Spotlight will give student participants exposure to their new research community, both by presenting their own work and by observing and interacting with established professionals in the field. It will encourage students at this critical time in their careers to begin building a social support network of peers and mentors. Student participants will be selected by the PI with oversight from the Advisory Committee chair and the Conference General chair, with the goal of increasing breadth of participation; to this end, priority will be given to students whose advisors or departments have insufficient funds to otherwise support their participation. Students funded under this award will predominantly be U.S. residents enrolled at U.S. institutions of higher education.

这笔资金将用于支持大约12名研究生参加将于11月2日至6日在马萨诸塞州剑桥举行的2009年多模式接口/多模式接口机器学习国际会议（ICMI-MLMI 2009）期间举行的博士生聚焦（研讨会）。由计算机协会（ACM）组织，电气和电子工程师协会（IEEE）共同赞助。 今年，第十一届多模态界面国际会议（ICMI 2009）将与多模态界面机器学习研讨会合并;合并后的ICMI-MLMI将成为代表对下一代感知，自适应和多模态用户界面日益增长的兴趣的首要事件。 这些接口代表了一个新兴的跨学科研究方向，涉及口语和自然语言理解，图像处理，计算机视觉，模式识别，实验心理学等，它们旨在促进计算机和人类用户之间的有效和自然的交互和通信，并代表了从以前的计算，最终应使用户能够使用日常技能与计算机进行交互的根本出发。 ICMI-MLMI 2009的主要目标是在多模式交互和系统的广泛领域内进一步开展科学研究，关注主要趋势和挑战，并帮助确定未来研究和商业成功的路线图。 今年感兴趣的主题包括：多模式和多媒体处理;多模式输入和输出接口;多模式应用;人机交互分析和建模;以及多模式数据，评估和标准。 在麻省理工学院校园举行的为期3天的主要活动，随后是5个附属研讨会，将汇集来自世界各地的学术界和工业界的研究人员，介绍和讨论该领域最新的多学科工作。 邀请的演讲，小组讨论和单轨口头和海报演示将促进研究人员之间的互动和讨论;会议有望成为集思广益的国际场所，并为未来的多模式界面研究提出创造性的方向。 在博士聚光灯的参与者将得到展示他们正在进行的论文工作，无论是口头或通过海报，在一个特殊的“聚光灯会议”，在此期间，他们将收到由高级人员组成的邀请委员会的反馈，包括咨询委员会主席和一般和程序椅子。 作为对高质量学生参与的进一步激励，ICMI-MLMI将颁发优秀论文奖，并为学生论文设立一个特殊类别。 有关ICMI-MLMI的更多信息，请访问http://icmi2009.acm.org.Broader博士聚光灯将让学生参与者接触到他们的新的研究社区，无论是通过展示自己的工作，并通过观察和与该领域的专业人士互动。 它将鼓励学生在职业生涯的这一关键时刻开始建立一个由同龄人和导师组成的社会支持网络。 学生参与者将由PI在咨询委员会主席和大会主席的监督下选择，目的是增加参与的广度;为此，将优先考虑那些顾问或部门没有足够资金支持他们参与的学生。 该奖项资助的学生将主要是在美国高等教育机构就读的美国居民。