WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at the 2011 ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility

这笔资金用于支持一个由来自美国和海外的大约10名有前途的研究生以及5名杰出的研究人员组成的博士联盟(研讨会)。该活动将于10月23日星期日举行，紧接着将于10月24日至26日星期一至星期三在苏格兰邓迪举行第13届国际ACM SIGACCESS计算机和可访问性(资产2011)大会。资产会议是介绍关于主流辅助技术和专业辅助技术的设计和使用的创新研究的主要论坛。这包括利用技术支持下列个人：听力、视力和其他感官障碍的人；运动障碍的人；记忆、学习和认知障碍的人；多重障碍的人；老年人；以及与这些人打交道的专业人员。来自世界各地学术界和产业界的研究人员和开发人员将齐聚一堂，交流想法并展示他们的最新工作。欲了解更多有关这次会议的信息，请访问http://www.sigaccess.org/assets11.。建设这个社区的一个关键组成部分是通过年轻人。ASSERS 2011博士联盟将为来自不同背景(计算机、工程、心理学、建筑等)的研究生提供机会。在国际和平研究所和该领域其他知名专家小组的指导下，聚集在一起，在一个跨学科研讨会上探索他们的研究兴趣，这样他们就可以欣赏到辅助技术和普遍可用性方面更广泛的研究和开发方法，还可以体验到他们可以继续努力的社区。学生参与者将在联盟期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将从教员小组获得建设性的反馈。这些反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于相关研究的定位，他们的主题是否足够集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否得到正确的选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和展示。因此，该联盟将帮助形成目前和未来旨在辅助技术和普及利用的研究项目，将促进这一新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的学术和网络联系，并将使这些有前途的年轻研究人员接触到更大的社区。为了进一步将博士联合体参与者纳入会议本身，在技术方案中留出了一个海报会议，允许所有博士联合体参与者在整个会议上展示他们的研究成果。此外，来自博士团的一名学生将被选为闭幕全体报告的演讲人。将对该财团进行评估，并将结果提供给今后此类活动的组织者。更广泛的影响：博士联盟将帮助扩大在这一领域攻读研究生课程的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供机会，让他们更广泛地接触到社区的创新工作，并从研究界的高级成员那里获得反馈和指导。它将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员的社区意识，使他们能够在自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社交网络。因为学生和教职员工在不同的维度上构成了一个不同的群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域未来的利益。组织者还将采取特别措施，促进来自代表不足群体的学生人数相对较多的机构参加。

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium (workshop) of approximately 10 promising graduate students from the United States and abroad, along with 5 distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on Sunday, October 23, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 13th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2011), to be held Monday-Wednesday, October 24-26, in Dundee, Scotland. The ASSETS conferences are the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies. This includes the use of technology by and in support of: individuals with hearing, sight and other sensory impairments; individuals with motor impairments; individuals with memory, learning and cognitive impairments; individuals with multiple impairments; older adults; and professionals who work with these populations. Researchers and developers from around the world in both academia and industry will meet to exchange ideas and present their latest work . More information about the conference may be found at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets11. A key component of building this community is through its youth. The ASSETS 2011 doctoral consortium will provide an opportunity for graduate students from diverse backgrounds (computing, engineering, psychology, architecture, etc.) to come together and explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of the PI and a panel of other distinguished experts in the field, so that they can appreciate the broader spectrum of research and development approaches to assistive technologies and universal usability, and also experience the community in which they can pursue their endeavors. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the consortium, and will receive constructive feedback from the faculty panel. The feedback is designed to help students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related 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. Thus, the consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at assistive technologies and universal access, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in this emerging interdisciplinary area, and will also expose these promising young researchers to a larger community. In an effort to further integrate doctoral consortium participants into the conference itself, a poster session has been set aside in the technical program to allow all doctoral consortium participants to present their research to the full conference. In addition, one student from the doctoral consortium will be selected to deliver the closing plenary presentation. An evaluation of the consortium will be conducted and the results made available to the organizers of future such events. Broader Impacts: The doctoral consortium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality/cultural and scientific discipline, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. The organizers will also take special steps to promote participation from institutions with relatively large numbers of students from under-represented groups.