Student Support for the Fourth International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting

第四届国际脑机接口会议学生支持

• 批准号: 1041320
• 负责人: Melody Jackson
• 金额: $ 4.34万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 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: 2010-06-01 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1041320&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Support; Fourth; International; Brain

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.

这笔资金用于支持学生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日在加利福尼亚州阿西洛马市举行。脑机接口研究探索了直接根据大脑信号控制设备的方法，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。由于没有标准的场所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。NSF的资助将使大约40名学生，包括本科生和研究生以及博士后研究员，参加这次会议。NSF的所有资金将用于学生旅行、注册和仅限学生参加的活动费用。组织者的主要目标将是让学生在BCI领域获得重要的教育和专业经验，并为他们提供在特定兴趣领域获得深入的机会。会议将在全体会议开始前的一个下午举行专门的学生座谈会，届时将有来自脑-机接口领域知名专家的演讲。这将为学生理解会议的其余部分奠定坚实的基础。还将有学生海报环节和最佳学生研究项目的奖品，学生们将有机会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，全面参与主会议。今年的会议将更加关注学生的参与，确保学生获得良好的体验，并鼓励年轻研究人员探索BCI领域的研究。接触到BCI领域的著名研究人员将使学生获得关于他们工作的宝贵反馈，并建立联系，可能导致新的研究方向。广泛的影响：学生参与之前的三次IBCI会议非常有成效；参加会议的许多人现在已经毕业，是BCI领域的知名研究人员。《神经工程杂志》已同意将这次会议的会议记录作为同行评议的系列论文发表在一期特刊上，这将进一步传播会议的成果。组织者正在积极努力，从传统上代表人数较少的群体中招募学生参加会议。支持学生参加IBCI会议将教育、激励和激励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。