WORKSHOP: ThinkTank (Doctoral Consortium) at ICAD 2012

这笔资金用于支持一个由大约8名有前途的美国研究生和大约4名国外研究生组成的博士联盟（研讨会），共计12名，以及杰出的研究人员。为期两天的活动将紧接6月18日至22日在亚特兰大PI机构举行的2012年国际听觉显示会议（ICAD 2012）。ICAD是一个主要的国际论坛，介绍使用声音来显示数据、监测系统以及为计算机和虚拟现实系统提供增强的用户界面的研究。它的独特之处在于它对听觉显示的独特关注，以及它所涵盖的一系列感知、技术和应用领域；例如，这包括数据超声、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、技术和技术研究与开发。许多跨学科的研究和发展工作与知觉障碍者，特别是视觉障碍者直接相关；例如，开发盲人寻路系统需要研究听觉显示中使用的有效距离线索和物体标识符。对听觉图表功效的研究可以用来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有更有效的听觉显示，提供比他们目前倾向于使用的基本“哔哔声”更丰富的信息。该领域的一种常见方法是通用设计，其中一次开发显示策略，供所有类型的用户使用，包括那些有或没有特定访问问题的用户。有关会议的更多细节，请访问http://icad2012.icad.org。博士联盟将汇集来自不同背景（例如，工程，计算机，音乐和心理学）的研究生，以便他们可以体验听觉显示，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杰出专家小组的指导下探索他们的研究兴趣。为了实现这些目标，智库将建立一个支持性的学者社区和合作研究精神，为参与者提供一个友好、开放、严谨的科学论坛，让他们展示自己的研究想法，听取同行学生正在进行的工作，并获得建设性的反馈。学生参与者将在智库会议期间正式展示他们的工作，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研究，他们的主题是否充分集中在论文研究项目，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的重要问题的相关信息，无论他们是在考虑学术还是工业职业道路。该活动将进一步邀请演讲者和讨论小组，并将有许多学生作为观众和讨论小组的一部分，除了那些展示他们的工作。每位学生参与者还将在会议期间展示一张关于他/她工作的海报。将对智库进行评估，评估结果将提供给未来会议和联盟的组织者。更广泛的影响：本次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奖学金和网络，并将有助于形成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遍可及性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自己的高级研究人员建立联系。因为学生和教师构成了一个多元化的群体，跨越了不同的维度，包括国籍和文化，科学学科和机构（每个不超过一个），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.