WORKSHOP: VL/HCC 2012 Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金用于支持大约11名研究生的博士联盟（研讨会），以及大约3名杰出的研究教师导师组成的小组。该活动将与2012年IEEE视觉语言和以人为中心的计算研讨会（VL/HCC 2012）一起举行，该研讨会将于2012年9月30日至10月4日在奥地利因斯布鲁克举行，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。今年VL/HCC博士联盟的主要目标是激发研究生和其他研究人员对如何使计算更容易表达、操作和理解的思考，这是本系列中由NSF资助的第十次。特别是，人们可以使用哪些方法、模型和工具来可视化、分析、定制和指导社会技术系统？博士联盟的目标是激发新的方法，远远超越简单的解决方案，如网络浏览器和搜索引擎。尽管搜索引擎确实提供了在简单情况下有用的信息，但它们只代表了社会技术系统（信息检索）的一部分。例如，搜索引擎本身并不足以强大到用来开展新业务并使其具有竞争力，因为它只给人们找到其他人提供的资源的能力，而不是创造新资源的能力。有效的方法将以创造性和富有成效的方式将用户和软件结合在一起，直接满足现代社会的需求。该研讨会将在年轻研究人员之间建立一个社区，这些研究人员从不同领域的角度研究这些问题的不同方面，包括计算机科学、社会科学和教育。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。与前几年一样，VL/HCC 2012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。关于今年VL/HCC会议的更多信息可在http://vlhcc2012.di.unisa.it.Broader上找到：影响：研讨会将有助于制定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和组织委员会的成员将作出特别努力，吸引多样化和多学科的学生参加，并特别注意从代表性不足的机构和妇女招收学生。PI预计，获得该奖项的大多数学生将来自美国大学（任何一所大学最多接受2名学生），但与过去几年一样，由于研究界的高度国际化，一些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 approximately 11 graduate students, along with a panel of about 3 distinguished research faculty mentors. The event will take place in conjunction with the 2012 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2012), to be held September 30-October 4, 2012, in Innsbruck, Austria, 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. The primary goal of this year's VL/HCC Doctoral Consortium, the tenth to be funded by NSF in this series, is to stimulate graduate students' and other researchers' thinking about how to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand. In particular, what methods, models and tools can people use to visualize, analyze, tailor, and direct socio-technical systems? The doctoral consortium aims to stimulate novel approaches that go far beyond simplistic solutions like web browsers and search engines. Although search engines do provide information that is useful in simple situations, they represent only one portion of a socio-technical system (information retrieval). For example, search engines alone are not powerful enough to be used to start new businesses and run them competitively, since they only give people the ability to find resources provided by other people, rather than the ability to create new resources. Effective approaches will bring users and software together in creative and productive ways that bear directly on the needs of modern society. The workshop will 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 2012 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 this year's VL/HCC conference may be found at http://vlhcc2012.di.unisa.it.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 students from underrepresented institutions and women. The PI expects that most of the students supported by this award will come from U.S. universities (no more than 2 will be accepted from any one institution), but as in past years due to the highly international make-up of the research community a couple of non-U.S. students may be invited to participate as well.