WORKSHOP: ThinkTank (Doctoral Consortium) at ICAD 2012

这笔资金用于支持一个博士联合会（讲习班），该联合会由大约8名来自美国的有前途的研究生加上大约4名来自国外的研究生组成，共有12名，沿着还有杰出的研究人员。 为期2天的活动将在2012年国际听觉显示会议（ICAD 2012）之前举行，并与之同时举行，该会议将于6月18日至22日在亚特兰大的PI机构举行。 ICAD是介绍使用声音来显示数据，监控系统，并为计算机和虚拟现实系统提供增强的用户界面的主要国际论坛。 它的独特之处在于它专注于听觉显示和感知，技术和应用领域的阵列，这包括，例如，数据声化，听觉寻路，听觉图形，语音界面，虚拟环境，以及相关的感知，认知，技术和技术研究和开发。 许多跨学科的研究和开发工作与有知觉残疾的人，特别是有视觉障碍的人直接相关;例如，为盲人开发寻路系统需要研究听觉显示中使用的有效距离提示和物体识别器。 对听觉图形功效的研究可用于帮助视障学生和科学家更充分地参与科学。 甚至家用设备也可以具有更有效的听觉显示，其提供比它们目前倾向于具有的基本“哔哔声”更丰富的信息。 通用设计是这一领域的一种常见方法，其中显示策略被开发一次，以供所有类型的用户使用，包括那些有和没有特定访问问题的用户。 关于会议的更多细节可在http://icad2012.icad.org上查阅。博士联盟将汇集来自不同背景的研究生（例如，工程，计算机，音乐和心理学），使他们能够体验听觉显示，辅助技术和通用设计的广泛方法，同时通过与同行的互动和在该领域的杰出专家小组的指导下探索他们的研究兴趣。 为此，智库将发展一个支持性的学者社区和合作研究的精神，为参与者提供一个友好，开放，但严格的科学论坛，以展示他们的研究想法，听取同行学生正在进行的工作，并获得建设性的反馈。 学生参与者将在ThinkTank期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将收到教师小组的反馈。 反馈的目的是帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作是如何定位相对于相关的研究，他们的主题是否充分集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。 智库还将为学生提供有关博士候选人重要问题的相关信息，无论他们是考虑学术还是工业职业道路。 该活动将进一步提供特邀演讲者和讨论小组，并将涉及许多学生作为观众和讨论小组的一部分，除了那些介绍他们的工作。 每个学生参与者还将在会议期间提交一份关于他/她工作的海报。 将对智囊团进行评估，评估结果将提供给今后会议的组织者和联合会。 更广泛的影响：这项活动将促进一个重要的新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的学术和网络联系，并将有助于塑造正在进行和未来的研究项目，这些项目对辅助技术的发展和普及具有明确和重要的影响。 博士联盟将使参与者接触到更大的社区，使他们能够在自己的专业发展的关键阶段与高级研究人员建立联系。 由于学生和教师构成了一个多元化的群体，包括国籍和文化，科学学科和机构（每人不超过一个），学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium (workshop) of approximately 8 promising graduate students from the United States plus about 4 from abroad, for a total of 12, along with distinguished research faculty. The 2-day event will take place immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 2012 International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2012), which will be held June 18-22 at the PI's institution in Atlanta. ICAD is the premier international forum for presenting research on the use of sound to display data, monitor systems, and provide enhanced user interfaces for computers and virtual reality systems. It is unique in its singular focus on auditory displays and the array of perception, technology, and application areas that this encompasses; this includes, for example, data sonification, auditory wayfinding, auditory graphs, speech interfaces, virtual environments, and associated perceptual, cognitive, technical, and technological research and development. Many of the interdisciplinary research and development efforts are of direct relevance to persons with perceptual disabilities, especially visual impairments; for example, developing wayfinding systems for the blind requires research into effective distance cues and object identifiers used in auditory displays. Research into the efficacy of auditory graphs may be used to help visually impaired students and scientists participate more fully in science. Even household devices can have more effective auditory displays that provide richer information than the basic "beeps" they presently tend to have. A common approach in this field is Universal Design, wherein a display strategy is developed once, to be used by all kinds of users, including those with and without specific access issues. More details about the conference are available at http://icad2012.icad.org. The doctoral consortium will bring together graduate students from diverse backgrounds (e.g., engineering, computing, music, and psychology), so that they can experience the broad spectrum of approaches to auditory displays, assistive technologies and universal design, while exploring their research interests through interaction with peers and under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field. To these ends, the ThinkTank will develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, by providing participants with a friendly and open, yet rigorous, scientific forum to present their research ideas, to listen to ongoing work from peer students, and to receive constructive feedback. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the ThinkTank and will receive 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. The ThinkTank will also provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates, whether they are considering academic or industrial career paths. The event will further offer invited speakers and discussion groups, and will involve many students as part of the audience and discussion groups, in addition to those presenting their work. Each student participant will furthermore present a poster about his/her work during the conference proper. An evaluation of the ThinkTank will be conducted and the findings will be made available to the organizers of future conferences and consortia. Broader Impacts: This event will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in an important emerging interdisciplinary area, and will help shape ongoing and future research projects that have clear and important implications for development of assistive technologies and universal access. The doctoral consortium will afford participants exposure to a larger community, allowing them to bond 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 and culture, scientific discipline, and institution (no more than one apiece), the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field.