Student Support for the Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems

这笔资金用于支持来自美国和国外的大约25名高级博士生参加将于2010年6月14日至18日在匹兹堡举行的第十届智能辅导系统国际会议（ITS 2010）。第一届ITS会议于1988年在蒙特利尔举行，在过去的12年里，它每两年在巴西、台湾、法国、加拿大和美国等地举行一次。ITS会议为来自世界各地的跨学科研究人员提供了难得的专业机会，汇集并展示来自人工智能，计算机科学，认知和学习科学，心理学和教育技术领域的前沿成果。目标是促进计算机科学先进系统应用于教育、认知科学和人类学习的研究，面向所有年龄段的学习者。为此，该系列为计算机科学和人类学习的所有领域提供了一个交流思想的论坛，这是一个独特的环境，研究人员和实践者可以在此交流思想、理论、实验、技术、应用和评估支持未来相关新发展的举措。历届ITS会议的评论和反馈表明，精心组织的会议形式对所有与会者来说仍然是专业的奖励和激励。ITS会议是受到高度评价的国际活动，是研究界的参考指南；每篇论文通常由4位审稿人审阅，因此在ITS发表的论文是任何研究人员评估的质量参考。这些会议在一个独立的非营利组织的主持下运作，全部由注册费资助。关于会议的更多信息可在http://www.cmu.edu/its2010.Students上获得，由NSF基金支持。将有机会参加论文，海报，教程，研讨会，并与有成就的研究人员进行非正式互动，后者在青年研究人员跟踪的框架内，包括学生展示他们的研究想法的特别会议，与有相关兴趣的同龄人会面，并接受ITS社区资深成员的反馈和指导。将提供一个结构化的项目，在这个项目中，每个学生都有一个导师，导师将被鼓励在学生准备演讲时，在博士联盟会议期间，以及至少一次一对一的会议中，为学生提供反馈和支持。为了鼓励最大限度的社区参与，博士联盟将位于主要会议计划内。它的结构将促进尽可能多的讨论和反馈。考虑到这一目标，学生们将在午餐时间向所有与会者开放的海报会议上展示他们的作品。为了避免与其他活动竞争，并最大限度地提高出席率，本次会议将不安排其他演讲，海报将与所有与会者的自助午餐放在同一个房间。为了让与会者熟悉学生的工作，学生海报会议将在“消防水带”会议之前立即进行，学生将非常简短地总结他们的工作。为了使海报展示者能够看到和讨论彼此的海报，海报展示将跨越主会议的所有3天，让学生有一天展示自己的海报，两天看别人的海报。在空间和后勤条件允许的情况下，演讲者可以将他们的海报放在会议的所有三天里，提供额外的机会与其他研究人员讨论，例如在咖啡休息时间。更广泛的影响：这项活动支持了NSF的核心任务之一，即培养更多的科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的高级专业人员。参加会议将为入选学生提供一个独特的机会，了解国内外不同研究领域的最新研究方向。这对该领域很重要，因为人们已经认识到，研究的变革性进展往往来自跨学科知识和跨国视角的融合。参加者将被鼓励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，形成合作关系，并在未来几年提出新的研究问题。PI将高度优先支持来自学位授予机构的年轻研究人员（中级和高级博士生），这些机构缺乏必要的资金来支持其学生参加国际会议（如ITS）。

This is funding to support attendance by approximately 25 advanced doctoral students from the United States and abroad at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2010), which will take place June 14-18, 2010, in Pittsburgh. The first ITS conference was held in 1988 in Montreal, and they have continued every two years for the past 12 years in locations that include Brazil, Taiwan, France, and Canada as well as the United States. The ITS conferences offer a rare professional opportunity for interdisciplinary researchers from around the world to converge and present cutting-edge results from the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive and learning sciences, psychology, and educational technology. The goal is to promote studies in advanced systems in computer science applied to education, cognitive science and human learning for learners of all ages. To that end, the series provides a forum for the interchange of ideas in all areas of computer science and human learning, a unique environment in which researchers and practitioners exchange ideas, theories, experiments, techniques, applications and evaluations of initiatives supporting new developments relevant for the future. Comments and feedback from each previous ITS conference indicate that the carefully structured conference format continues to be professionally rewarding and stimulating to all who attend. ITS conferences are highly refereed international events and serve as reference guidelines for the research community; each paper is generally reviewed by 4 referees so that having a paper published at ITS is a reference of quality for any researcher evaluation. The conferences operate under the auspices of an independent nonprofit organization and are funded entirely by registration fees. More information about the conference is available at http://www.cmu.edu/its2010.Students supported by NSF funds will have the opportunity to attend sessions with papers, posters, tutorials, workshops, and informal interactions with accomplished researchers, the latter within the framework of a Young Researchers Track that includes special sessions for the students to present their research ideas, meet peers who have related interests, and receive feedback and mentoring from senior members of the ITS community. A structured program will be provided in which each student is matched with a mentor who will be encouraged to offer feedback and support to students as they prepare their presentations, during the doctoral consortium sessions, and in at least one 1-on-1 meeting. The doctoral consortium will be situated within the main conference program in order to encourage maximal community involvement. Its structure will facilitate as much discussion and feedback as possible. With this goal in mind, students will present their work at lunchtime poster sessions open to all attendees. To avoid competition with other events and to maximize attendance, no other talks will be scheduled at this time and posters will be in the same rooms as the buffet lunch for all conference attendees. To acquaint attendees with student work, student poster sessions will be immediately preceded by "fire-hose" sessions where students summarize their work very briefly. To enable poster presenters to see and discuss each other's posters, poster presentations will span all 3 days of the main conference so as to give students one day to present their posters and two days to see others. Space and logistics permitting, presenters will be able to leave their posters up all 3 days of the conference, affording additional opportunities to discuss them with other researchers, for example during coffee breaks. Broader Impacts: This activity supports one of NSF's core missions, to train more advanced professionals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Participating in the conference will provide the selected students with a unique opportunity to be exposed to current research directions in different research communities both domestic and foreign. This is important for the field, because it has been recognized that transformative advances in research tend to derive from the melding of cross-disciplinary knowledge and multinational perspectives. Participants will be encouraged to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development, to form collaborative relationships, and to generate new research questions to be addressed during the coming years. The PI will place high priority on supporting young researchers (intermediate and advanced doctoral students) from degree-granting institutions that lack the funding necessary to support attendance by their students at international conferences such as ITS.