Support for Student Participation in the Conference International Conference on Multimodal-Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI) 2010

该基金支持约10名研究生参加博士联盟（研讨会），该研讨会将于11月8日至12日在中国北京举行，与第十二届多模态接口国际会议和第七届多模态交互机器学习研讨会（ICMI-MLMI 2010）同时举行，该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。会议将汇集来自北美、欧洲和亚洲的研究人员，介绍和讨论关于多模态接口、系统和应用的最新多学科工作。今年是ICMI-MLMI联合举办的第二年，是最重要的国际活动，代表了人们对下一代感知、自适应和多模态用户界面日益增长的兴趣。这种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。它们的目标是促进计算机和人类用户之间有效和自然的交互和通信，并代表了对以前的计算的彻底背离，最终应该使用户能够使用日常技能与计算机进行交互。ICMI-MLMI 20010的主要目标是在多模态交互和系统的广泛领域内进一步开展科学研究，重点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；多模态输入输出接口；多通道应用程序;人机交互分析与建模；以及多模式数据、评估和标准。为期三天的特邀演讲、小组讨论、单轨口头和海报展示将促进研究人员之间的互动和讨论；这次会议有望成为一个集思广益的国际场所，为未来多模式界面的研究提出创造性的方向。博士联盟的参与者将可以口头或在特别的“博士聚光灯”海报会议上展示他们正在进行的论文工作，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项目主席。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。关于ICMI-MLMI的更多信息可在http://www.acm.org/icmi/2010.Broader上获得：博士联盟将通过展示自己的工作以及观察和与该领域的成熟专业人士互动，为学生参与者提供接触新的研究社区的机会。它将鼓励学生在职业生涯的这个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。为了扩大ICMIMLMI的参与范围，受资助者的选择将由PI在咨询委员会主席和会议总主席的监督下完成；组织者将作出特别努力，鼓励来自资金较少的机构的大量学生研究人员，以及少数族裔学生、女学生和地理代表性不足的州的学生参与。该奖学金资助的学生将全部被美国高等教育机构录取。

This is funding to support participation by about 10 graduate students in a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) to be held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces and 7th Workshop on Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction (ICMI-MLMI 2010), which will be held November 8-12, in Beijing, China, and which is organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) with co-sponsorship from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The conference will bring together researchers from North America, Europe, and Asia to present and discuss the latest multidisciplinary work on multimodal interfaces, systems, and applications. Now in its second year, the combined ICMI-MLMI is the foremost international 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 20010 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 three days of 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 Consortium will get to showcase their ongoing thesis work, either orally or in a special "doctoral spotlight" poster 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://www.acm.org/icmi/2010.Broader Impacts: The Doctoral Consortium 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. With the goal of increasing the breadth of participation at ICMIMLMI, selection of grantees will be done by the PI with oversight from the Advisory Committee Chair and the Conference General Chair; the organizers will make special efforts to encourage participation by a significant number of student researchers from less-well funded institutions, as well as by minority students, female students, and students from geographically under-represented states. Students funded under this award will all be enrolled at U.S. institutions of higher education.