REU Site: Exploring Human Centered and Socially Relevant Interactive Technologies in Computer Vision, Visualization, Pervasive Computing, Serious Games, and Social Networks

北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校的REU网站的目标是实施有效的实践，让不同的本科生群体参与计算研究。本科生将积极从事应用人机交互(HCI)概念的研究，以提高特定领域的最新水平，包括普适计算、计算机视觉、数据可视化、社交网络和严肃游戏。每个研究项目都有一个与社会相关的主题，为学生提供应用和扩展他们的计算机知识的机会，以解决具有现实意义的问题。该网站强调，来自计算机行业代表性不足群体的有前途的学生以及研究项目有限的机构都有参与。为了帮助学生迅速沉浸在研究文化中，并让他们为有意义的研究经历做好准备，该网站培养了一个真正的实践社区，重视REU学生作为研究人员的贡献，并在每周的工作坊为REU参与者提供明确、及时的研究技能培训。这个项目的智力价值在于REU学生？为发现和评估创新的交互式计算解决方案做出贡献，以解决社会感兴趣的问题；具体项目可能解决计算机视觉、普及计算、数据数字化、社交网络和严肃游戏领域的公开问题。该项目的更广泛的影响在于，它有机会将来自代表性不足人群的有才华的学生介绍到计算机研究领域，并有可能增加国内学生在博士计算项目中的招生人数。

The objective of the REU Site at UNC Charlotte is to implement effective practices to engage a diversegroup of undergraduate students in computing research. Undergraduate students will actively pursueresearch that applies human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts to advance the state of the art in aparticular field, including pervasive computing, computer vision, data visualization, social networks, andserious games. Each research project has a socially relevant theme, providing students with theopportunity to apply and extend their computing knowledge to address problems that have a real-worldimpact. The site emphasizes participation of promising students from underrepresented groups incomputing and from institutions that have limited research programs. To help students become rapidlyimmersed in the culture of research and to prepare them for meaningful research experiences, the sitecultivates an authentic community of practice that values the contributions of REU students asresearchers, and provides REU participants with explicit, just-in-time training in research skills at aweekly workshop.The intellectual merit of this project lies in the REU students? contributions to the discovery andevaluation of innovative, interactive computing solutions to address problems of interest in society;specific projects may address open problems in the fields of computer vision, pervasive computing, datavisualization, social networks, and serious games. The broader impact of this project lies in theopportunity to introduce talented students from underrepresented populations to computing research andin the potential to increase the enrollment of domestic students in doctoral computing programs.