Student Support for the Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems

第十届智能辅导系统国际会议的学生支持

• 批准号: 1014092
• 负责人: David Mostow
• 金额: $ 2.5万
• 依托单位: Carnegie-Mellon University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-02-01 至 2011-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1014092&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Support; Tenth; International; Conference

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.

这笔资金将用于支持来自美国和国外的约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10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，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，汇集并展示了人工智能，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。 其目标是促进计算机科学先进系统的研究，应用于教育，认知科学和人类学习的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的思想交流提供了一个论坛，这是一个独特的环境，研究人员和从业人员在其中交流思想，理论，实验，技术，应用和评估支持未来相关新发展的举措。 从以前的每一次ITS会议的评论和反馈表明，精心组织的会议形式仍然是专业的奖励和刺激所有谁参加。 ITS会议是高度裁判的国际活动，并作为研究界的参考指南;每篇论文通常由4名裁判评审，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，资金完全来自注册费。 有关会议的更多信息可在http://www.cmu.edu/its2010.Students由NSF基金支持将有机会参加会议论文，海报，教程，研讨会和非正式的互动与有成就的研究人员，后者在一个年轻的研究人员轨道的框架内，包括特别会议的学生提出他们的研究思路，满足同行谁有相关的利益，并从ITS社区的高级成员接受反馈和指导。 将提供一个结构化的程序，其中每个学生都与导师谁将被鼓励提供反馈和支持，以学生为他们准备他们的演讲，在博士联盟会议期间，并在至少一个1对1的会议匹配。 博士联盟将位于主要会议计划内，以鼓励最大限度的社区参与。 其结构将有助于尽可能多的讨论和反馈。 考虑到这一目标，学生将在午餐时间海报会议上展示他们的工作，向所有与会者开放。 为了避免与其他活动竞争并最大限度地提高出席率，此时将不安排其他演讲，海报将与所有与会者的自助午餐放在同一个房间。 为了使与会者熟悉学生的工作，学生海报会议将立即由“消防水带”会议之前，学生总结他们的工作非常简短。 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，以便给学生一天展示海报，两天看到其他人。 在空间和后勤允许的情况下，演讲者将能够在会议的所有3天内留下他们的海报，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NSF的核心使命之一，培养科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）更先进的专业人员。 参加会议将为选定的学生提供一个独特的机会，接触国内外不同研究社区的当前研究方向。 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多国视角的融合。 将鼓励参与者在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的高级研究人员建立社会网络，以形成合作关系，并提出未来几年要解决的新研究问题。 PI将高度重视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学生参加ITS等国际会议。