WORKSHOP: Student Travel Support for the CHI Mentoring 2012 Workshop

人机交互(HCI)的话题现在比计算史上的任何时候都更重要。随着计算机变得更小、更快、更无处不在，我们有效使用它们的能力变得至关重要。我们不仅必须设计可用的系统，而且必须在包括台式机、移动电话和嵌入式系统在内的快速变化的计算硬件环境中这样做。人机界面的一个独特之处在于，它不仅需要研究计算，还需要研究计算和人的结合。由于人的参与，人机界面是一个领域，在我们建立的系统中，文化、社会经济背景、性别等方面都被考虑在内。这是一个明确的论据，表明应该发展一个多样化的研究人员领域，让他们在解决问题的技能中运用广泛的经验。这笔资金将为2012年计算机-人类交互指导(CHME)研讨会http://chime.hci.cs.vt.edu，提供部分支持，该研讨会将聚集大约67名学生和来自学术界和工业界的10位杰出演讲者，作为特定学科指导研讨会的一部分，该研讨会部分由http://www.cra-w.org联盟和CDC(多样化计算http://cdc-computing.org).联盟)赞助这是CHAME讲习班的第二个项目，其目标是为来自以下一个或多个社区的人机界面领域的学生提供联网和指导的机会：妇女、代表性不足的少数群体和残疾人。讲习班将以一系列专题介绍和小组讨论的形式进行；演讲者将包括这一领域的主要研究人员，他们将尽可能从这些社区吸收，他们将讨论从技术关切(如适当的评价方法)到当今的一些热点问题等广泛的问题。演讲者在政府实验室、学术界和工业界的不同职业将为与会者提供该领域的不同视角。该研讨会将与将于5月5日至10日在得克萨斯州奥斯汀举行的ACM 2012计算系统中的人为因素会议(CHI 2012)并列在网站上，并被列为一项服务，该会议由计算机械协会的人机交互特别兴趣小组(SIGCHI)赞助；这是介绍和讨论与人机交互相关的研究和实践的领先国际论坛，来自世界各地的约2,500名人机交互专业人士参加了会议。国家科学基金会的资金将支付大约25名学生参与者的费用；CDC/CRA-W和微软公司正在提供额外的资金。广泛的影响：私人投资机构做出了认真而成功的努力，吸引了来自HBCU(历史上的黑人学院和大学)、HSI(西班牙裔服务机构)、ACU(阿巴拉契亚学院和大学)和TCU(部落学院和大学)机构的参与者。CHINE 2012将利用该领域成功的STEM专业人员的累积经验，提供一个独特的论坛，在其中展示不同研究人员在计算领域的技术成就，并鼓励来自代表性不足群体的新一代研究人员。由于它的重点是人机界面的研究生，研讨会的定位将对这一领域的未来教师和研究人员产生直接影响。它将为人机界面领域中代表性不足的少数族裔博士生提供一个高度技术性和支持性的环境，讨论他们的研究，并从专家那里获得建设性的反馈，以及建立网络和同行指导的大量机会。

The topic of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is more important now than at any other time in the history of computing. As computers become smaller, faster, and more ubiquitous, our ability to use them effectively becomes critical. Not only must we design usable systems, but we must do so in a rapidly changing landscape of computing hardware that includes desktops, mobile phones, and embedded systems. A unique aspect of HCI is that it requires the study of not just computing, but of the combination of computing and people. Because people are involved, HCI is a field where aspects such as culture, socio-economic background, gender, etc., are considered in the systems that we build. This is a clear argument for the development of a diverse field of researchers who bring to bear a wide range of experiences in their problem solving skills.This is funding to provide partial support for the Computer-Human Interaction Mentoring (CHIMe) 2012 workshop http://chime.hci.cs.vt.edu, which will bring together approximately 67 students and 10 distinguished speakers from academia and industry as part of the Discipline-specific Mentoring Workshops sponsored in part by the BPC Alliance of CRA-W http://www.cra-w.org and CDC (the Coalition to Diversify Computing http://cdc-computing.org). This is the second offering of the CHIMe Workshop, whose goal is to provide an opportunity for networking and mentoring among students in the field of HCI who belong to one or more of the following communities: women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities. The workshop will be run as a series of presentations and panels; speakers will include leading researchers in the field drawn, to the extent they were available, from these same communities, who will address a broad range of issues ranging from technical concerns (such as appropriate evaluation methods) to some of today's hot topics. The speakers' diverse occupations in government labs, academia and industry will provide attendees with different perspectives of the field. The workshop will be collocated with and listed as an offering on the website of the ACM 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012), which will be held May 5-10 in Austin, Texas, and is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGCHI); this is the leading international forum for the presentation and discussion of research and practice relating to human-computer interaction, and is attended by approximately 2,500 HCI professionals from around the world. NSF funds will cover the costs of approximately 25 student participants; additional funds are being provided by CDC/CRA-W and Microsoft Corporation.Broader Impacts: The PIs have made a serious and successful effort to attract participants from HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), HSI (Hispanic-Serving Institutions), ACU (Appalachian Colleges and Universities), and TCU (Tribal Colleges and Universities) institutions. CHIMe 2012 will harness the cumulative experience of successful STEM professionals in the field to provide a unique forum in which to showcase the technical achievements of diverse researchers in computing and to encourage a new generation of researchers from underrepresented groups. With its focus on graduate students in HCI, the workshop will be positioned to have a direct impact on future faculty and researchers in this area of endeavor. It will provide a highly technical and supportive environment for underrepresented minority doctoral students in the field of HCI to discuss their research and to receive constructive feedback from experts, along with ample opportunities for networking and peer mentoring.