WORKSHOP: HCC: VL/HCC 2011 Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金将用于支持一个博士联盟（研讨会），大约有10-14名研究生，以及一个由4-5名杰出的研究教师导师组成的小组，该小组将与2011年9月19-21日在匹兹堡举行的2011年IEEE视觉语言和以人为中心的计算研讨会（VL/HCC 2011）一起进行，并由IEEE计算机协会赞助。长期运行的VL/HCC系列在HCI和编程语言会议中占有独特的地位，因为它专门关注如何帮助最终用户成功开发和使用软件。计算机技术的最新进展使计算机与人类社会之间的融合不断加深。人们现在在社会技术系统的“海洋”中畅游，这些系统综合了大量贡献用户和大量源代码。例子包括社交媒体系统、开源存储库、在线市场和大型多人在线游戏。然而，随着这一领域的社会技术系统变得越来越复杂，最终用户越来越难以理解和引导它们走向生产目的。因此，当用户将数据输入系统时，他们可能无法预测和控制其他人或系统中的软件如何使用他们的数据；当用户在系统中执行操作时，他们通常无法预见和管理对其他用户、软件或整个系统的意外影响，特别是因为系统的软件通常包含缺陷。不同的用户可能同时为不同的目标采取行动，而代理等自主软件也可能同时为自己的目标采取行动，这一事实使这些问题进一步复杂化。这些和类似的问题反映了从根本上缺乏足够的方法、模型和工具来帮助最终用户可视化、分析、定制和管理大型社会技术系统。在更深的层面上，当大量不同的、不可预测的人类与不可靠的软件相结合时，就会出现复杂、不稳定、有时是突发的行为，而预测这些行为的理论是不足的。今年的VL/HCC博士联盟是由NSF在本系列中资助的第九个，将重点放在提高对这些问题解决方案的认识和理解上。研讨会将汇集并建立一个社区，让年轻的研究人员从计算机科学、社会科学和教育等不同领域的角度来研究这些问题的不同方面。它将通过为研究领域的专家（以及他们的同行）提供给他们建议的机会来指导这些新研究人员的工作，因为学生参与者将在研讨会期间正式展示他们的工作，并将收到教师小组的反馈。反馈是为了帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于其他人机交互研究是如何定位的，他们的主题是否充分集中在论文研究项目上，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。与往年一样，2011年VL/HCC博士联盟将成为常规会议计划的一部分。每位与会者的工作的一份2页的扩展摘要将在会议论文集中发表。关于VL/HCC会议的更多信息可在http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vlhcc2011上找到。更广泛的影响：研讨会将有助于形成正在进行和未来的研究项目，旨在缓解与我们社会中许多人相关的紧迫问题。本次活动将促进发现和学习，通过鼓励学生研究人员探索困难和具有挑战性的开放问题，通过知名研究人员小组的参与，他们的任务是提供建设性的反馈，以及通过其他与会者的参与，他们也将向学生和彼此学习并提供额外的反馈。PI和组织委员会成员将作出特别努力，吸引多样化和跨学科的学生参加，并特别注意征聘妇女和少数民族。PI预计，获得该奖项的大部分学生将来自美国大学，但与往年一样，由于研究界的高度国际化，少数非美国学生将获得奖学金。学生也可能被邀请参加。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) for about 10-14 graduate students, along with a panel of 4-5 distinguished research faculty mentors, which will take place in conjunction with the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2011), to be held September 19-21, 2011, in Pittsburgh, and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. The long-running VL/HCC series occupies a unique niche among HCI and Programming Language conferences, in that it focuses specifically on how to help end users successfully develop and use software. Recent advances in computing have led to continually deeper integration between computers and human society. People now swim in a "sea" of socio-technical systems that synthesize large numbers of contributing users with vast amounts of source code. Examples include social media systems, open source repositories, online marketplaces and massively multiplayer online games. Yet as the socio-technical systems in this sea have grown in complexity, they have become increasingly difficult for end users to understand and direct toward productive ends. Thus, when users put data into a system they may be unable to anticipate and control how their data will be used by other people or by software in the system; when users take actions in the system they often cannot foresee and manage unintended effects on other users, software, or the system as a whole, particularly because the system's software often contains defects. These problems are further complicated by the fact that different users simultaneously might take actions toward differing goals, while autonomous software such as agents might meanwhile also take actions toward goals of their own. These and similar problems reflect a fundamental lack of sufficient methods, models and tools to help end users visualize, analyze, tailor, and manage large socio-technical systems. At a deeper level, insufficient theory is available for predicting the complicated, unstable, sometimes-emergent behavior that results when large numbers of diverse, unpredictable humans are coupled to unreliable software.This year's VL/HCC Doctoral Consortium, the ninth to be funded by NSF in this series, will focus on advancing knowledge and understanding of solutions to these problems. The workshop will bring together and build community among young researchers working on different aspects of these problems from the perspectives of diverse fields including computer science, the social sciences, and education. It will guide the work of these new researchers by providing an opportunity for experts in the research field (as well as their peers) to give them advice, in that student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the workshop and will receive feedback from a faculty panel. The feedback is geared to helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other human-computer interaction research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether the results are appropriately analyzed and presented. As in prior years the VL/HCC 2011 Doctoral Consortium will be part of the regular conference program. A 2-page extended abstract of each participant's work will be published in the conference proceedings. More information about the VL/HCC conference may be found at http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~vlhcc2011. Broader Impacts: The workshop will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at alleviating a pressing problem of relevance to a great many people within our society. This event will promote discovery and learning, by encouraging the student researchers to explore a difficult and challenging open problem, through involvement of a panel of well-known researchers whose task is to provide constructive feedback, and through inclusion of other conference participants who will also learn from and provide additional feedback to the students and to each other. The PI and the members of the organizing committee will make special efforts to attract a diverse and interdisciplinary group of student participants, with special attention paid to recruitment of women and minorities. The PI expects that most of the students supported by this award will come from U.S. universities but as in past years, due to the highly international make-up of the research community, a few non-U.S. students may be invited to participate as well.