Student Support for the Fourth International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting

这笔资金用于支持学生前往并参加第四届国际脑机接口（IBCI）会议，该会议将于2010年5月31日至6月4日在加州阿西洛马举行。脑机接口研究探索了直接从大脑信号控制设备的途径，IBCI会议构成了该领域的旗舰会议。有效的脑机接口研究需要高度跨学科的互动，涉及神经科学、心理学、工程学、数学、计算机科学和临床康复。由于没有标准的场地将这些团体聚集在一起，IBCI会议为技术传播、新的合作和学生的教育机会提供了关键的催化剂。美国国家科学基金会的资助将使大约40名学生，包括本科生、研究生和博士后，参加并参加会议。所有的NSF资金将用于学生的旅行、注册和学生专用的活动费用。组织者的主要目标是为学生提供在BCI领域的重要教育和专业经验，并为他们提供在他们特定兴趣领域深入学习的机会。在正式会议开始之前，会议将在下午以专门的学生座谈会开始，届时将有BCI领域的知名专家进行讲座。这将为学生们理解会议的其他内容打下坚实的基础。还将有学生海报会议和最佳学生研究项目的奖励，学生将在每天结束时与研究负责人进行非正式的问答环节。学生们也将在他们的导师和其他高级会议参与者的指导下充分参与主会议。今年的会议将更加注重学生的参与，以确保学生有良好的体验，并鼓励年轻的研究人员探索脑机接口领域进行研究。接触脑机接口领域的杰出研究人员将使学生获得宝贵的工作反馈，并建立可能导致新的研究方向的联系。更广泛的影响：学生参加了前三次IBCI会议，成果丰硕；许多学员现已毕业，成为脑机接口领域的杰出研究人员。《神经工程杂志》已同意将本次会议的论文集作为一系列同行评议论文发表在特刊上，这将进一步传播会议的结果。组织者正在积极努力从传统上代表性不足的群体中招募学生参加会议。支持学生参与IBCI会议将教育、激励和启发未来脑机接口研究的领导者，同时促进多样性，这将加强BCI研究社区。

This is funding to support student travel to and participation in the 4th International Brain-Computer Interface (IBCI) Meeting, which will be held May 31-June 4, 2010, in Asilomar, California. Brain-computer interface research explores avenues of controlling devices directly from brain signals, and the IBCI Meetings constitute the flagship conference for the field. Effective BCI research requires highly interdisciplinary interactions involving neuroscience, psychology, engineering, mathematics, computer science, and clinical rehabilitation. Because no standard venue brings these groups together, the IBCI meeting serves a critical catalyst for technology dissemination, new collaborations, and educational opportunities for students. NSF funding will enable approximately 40 students, including undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, to attend and participate in the conference. All of the NSF funding will be used for student travel, registration, and student-only event costs. The organizers' main objective will be to give students a significant educational and professional experience in the BCI field, and to provide opportunities for them to gain depth in their specific interest areas. The conference will begin with a specialized student colloquium on the afternoon before the full conference starts, which will provide lectures from prominent experts in the BCI field. This will give the students a solid foundation for understanding the rest of the conference. There will also be a student poster session and prizes for the best student research projects, and students will have access to research leaders for informal question-and-answer sessions at the end of each day. The students will participate fully in the main conference as well, mentored by their advisors and other senior conference participants. This year's conference will have an increased focus on student participation, ensuring a good experience for the students as well as encouraging young researchers to explore the BCI field for their research. Exposure to prominent researchers in the BCI field will allow students to receive invaluable feedback on their work, and to make connections that may result in new research directions.Broader Impacts: Student participation in the three previous IBCI meetings has been very fruitful; a large number of those who attended have now graduated and are prominent researchers in the BCI field. The Journal of Neural Engineering has agreed to publish the Proceedings of this meeting as a series of peer reviewed papers in a special issue, which will further disseminate the results of the meeting. The organizers are actively working to recruit students from traditionally underrepresented groups to attend the conference. Supporting student participation in the IBCI conference will educate, motivate, and inspire the future leaders in brain-computer interface research while promoting diversity which will strengthen the BCI research community.