REU Site: Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education - Emerging Interface Technologies (SPIRE-EIT)

爱荷华州州立大学的SPIRE-EIT（跨学科研究和教育-新兴接口技术暑期项目）是一个为期10周的本科生暑期项目，将新兴接口技术的研究和教育融为一体。学生获得动手使用网络基础设施的研究经验，并采取在计算机编程和图形，人机交互简短的重点课程。在剩余的时间里，学生分组进行跨学科研究项目。研究项目在夏季校园范围内的研究研讨会结束时以海报，演示和五页研究论文的形式呈现。智力优势：两大趋势正在推动新兴接口技术的研究：接口技术本身的急剧增加，以及技术对日常生活的无处不在的渗透。相应地，研究问题集中在EIT的四个广泛领域：信息可视化，移动的/无处不在的接口，智能代理，使基础设施。在ISU的HCI研究生课程的教师竞争参与SPIRE，并从参与后引用强大的好处。 更广泛的影响：HCI计划和SPIRE-EIT都强调代表性不足的群体，为学生在HCI跨学科领域的研究生教育做好准备，这是美国经济的重要领域。通过包括道德和基于研究的评估技术的教学，SPIRE为学生提供了终身有用的技能，独立于学科，并且学生可能不会在传统的工程或计算机科学课程中遇到。每年，SPIRE项目通常会与SPIRE学生作为共同作者进行一两次专业学术会议演讲，传播其研究成果。

SPIRE-EIT (Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education - Emerging InterfaceTechnologies) at Iowa State University is a 10-week summer program for undergraduates that integrates research and education in emerging interface technologies. Students gain hands-on research experience using cyberinfrastructure and take brief focused classes in computer programming and graphics, and human computer interaction. For the remaining time, students conduct interdisciplinary research projects in groups. The research projects are presented at an end-of-the summer campus-wide research symposium in the form of posters, demos, and a five-page research paper. Intellectual Merit: Two major trends are driving research in Emerging Interface Technologies: a dramatic increase in interface technologies themselves, and the ubiquitous permeation of technology into everyday lives. Correspondingly, research questions focus on four broad areas of EIT: information visualization, mobile/ubiquitous interfaces, intelligent agents, and enabling infrastructure. Faculty in ISU's HCI graduate program compete to participate in the SPIRE and cite strong benefits from participation afterwards. Broader Impact: Both the HCI program and SPIRE-EIT recruit with an emphasis on underrepresented groups, preparing students for graduate education in the interdisciplinary area of HCI, an area of importance to the US economy. By including instruction on ethics and on research-based evaluation techniques, the SPIRE gives students skills that are useful lifelong, independent of discipline, and which students might not otherwise encounter in a traditional engineering or computer science curriculum. Each year, the SPIRE projects typically result in one-two professional academic conference presentations with SPIRE students as co-authors, disseminating its research results.