WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at the PETRA 2011 Conference

研讨会：PETRA 2011 会议上的博士联盟

• 批准号: 1130207
• 负责人: Fillia Makedon
• 金额: $ 2.07万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Arlington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-03-01 至 2012-02-29
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1130207&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Doctoral; Consortium; PETRA; 2011

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium (workshop) of approximately 10 promising graduate students from U.S. institutions of higher learning along with 9 distinguished research faculty, to be held in conjunction with the Fourth International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2011), which will take place May 25-27, 2011, on the island of Crete, Greece (http://www.petrae.org). PETRA is the only annual conference that brings together theoreticians and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines to focus on the application of pervasive technologies to assistive environments. What connects different disciplines in this highly interdisciplinary but topical conference is the ability to discover new alliances, share data and design new methods that have real-world social impact while also advancing each field scientifically. PETRA 2011 will address timely computational challenges including integration mechanisms of diverse sensor technologies, modeling heterogeneous data, synthesis and analysis of data streams, privacy and security of information, ranking, cleaning, storing and retrieving sensor data streams for pattern analysis and discovery, robust remote rehabilitation mechanisms, correlating brain imaging with behavioral imaging, handling intensive real time data in complex environments, and ways to interpret seemingly meaningless data in order to derive meaningful human behavioral patterns and/or to identify important "events" or changes. PETRA 2011 will also study vital issues in privacy and security in monitoring ambient intelligent environments with the goal of identifying and predicting risks, intrusions, unauthorized access to information, or information leaking. PETRA projects assume a human is at the center of "cyberphysical systems" where the digital world merges with the physical.The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to increase the exposure and visibility of the participants' work within the community, to help establish a sense of community among this next generation of researchers, and to help foster their research efforts by providing substantive feedback and guidance in a supportive and interactive environment from a group of senior researchers. Student participants in the Doctoral Consortium will be drawn from diverse communities including computer science, engineering, psychology, social science, neuroscience, human-computer interaction, cognitive science and communication. They will make formal presentations of their work 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 research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. The workshop faculty members will bring a wide spectrum of expertise, and provide student mentoring and coordination. Doctoral Consortium attendees will be asked to create and maintain "conference workbook" (webpage) where along with their work they include feedback on papers they attended and observations that they gathered (e.g., through meetings and discussions with conference speakers and other participants) that will apply to and impact their work. Short papers on the participants' work will be published in the Conference Proceedings (which are included in the ACM Digital Library), and a summary report on the event will be posted on the conference website. Broader Impacts: The PETRA 2011 Doctoral Consortium will bring together some of the best students, researchers and practitioners in relevant fields, and will thereby afford the younger participants a unique opportunity to gain wider exposure for their innovative ideas while also receiving reinforcement for the importance and value of conducting research with societal impact. The workshop will allow the junior participants to create a social network both among themselves and with senior colleagues. The organizing committee will make a concerted effort to attract participants who are women, members of under-represented minorities, and persons with disabilities.

这笔资金用于支持由来自美国高等教育机构的约 10 名有前途的研究生以及 9 名杰出研究人员组成的博士联盟（研讨会），该联盟将与第四届辅助环境相关普及技术国际会议 (PETRA 2011) 同期举行，该会议将于 2011 年 5 月 25 日至 27 日在希腊克里特岛举行 （http://www.petrae.org）。 PETRA 是唯一一个汇集了来自不同学科的理论家和实践者的年度会议，重点关注普及技术在辅助环境中的应用。 在这个高度跨学科但具有话题性的会议中，将不同学科联系起来的是发现新联盟、共享数据和设计具有现实世界社会影响的新方法的能力，同时科学地推进每个领域。 PETRA 2011将解决及时的计算挑战，包括不同传感器技术的集成机制、异构数据建模、数据流的合成和分析、信息的隐私和安全、排序、清理、存储和检索传感器数据流以进行模式分析和发现、强大的远程康复机制、将大脑成像与行为成像相关联、在复杂环境中处理密集的实时数据以及解释看似的方法 无意义的数据，以便得出有意义的人类行为模式和/或识别重要的“事件”或变化。 PETRA 2011 还将研究监控周围智能环境的隐私和安全方面的重要问题，目的是识别和预测风险、入侵、未经授权的信息访问或信息泄露。 PETRA 项目假设人类处于数字世界与物理世界融合的“网络物理系统”的中心。博士联盟的目标是增加参与者工作在社区内的曝光度和可见度，帮助下一代研究人员建立社区意识，并通过在一组高级研究人员的支持和互动环境中提供实质性反馈和指导来帮助促进他们的研究工作。 博士联盟的学生参与者将来自不同的社区，包括计算机科学、工程学、心理学、社会科学、神经科学、人机交互、认知科学和传播学。 他们将正式介绍自己的工作，并收到教员小组的反馈；反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于其他研究的定位，他们的主题是否充分集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。 研讨会的教员将带来广泛的专业知识，并为学生提供指导和协调。 博士联盟与会者将被要求创建和维护“会议工作簿”（网页），其中除了他们的工作外，还包括对他们参加的论文的反馈以及他们收集的观察结果（例如，通过与会议发言人和其他参与者的会议和讨论），这些意见将适用于并影响他们的工作。关于参与者工作的短论文将发表在会议论文集（包含在 ACM 数字图书馆）中，有关活动的总结报告将发布在会议网站上。 更广泛的影响：PETRA 2011 博士联盟将汇集相关领域的一些最优秀的学生、研究人员和从业者，从而为年轻的参与者提供独特的机会，让他们的创新思想得到更广泛的接触，同时也强化了进行具有社会影响的研究的重要性和价值。 该研讨会将使初级参与者能够在他们自己之间以及与高级同事之间创建一个社交网络。 组委会将共同努力吸引女性、代表性不足的少数群体和残疾人的参与者。