Workshop: Doctoral Consortium and Student-Author Travel for the PETRA 2012 Conference

这笔资金将用于支持一个由大约12名来自美国高等院校的有前途的研究生以及9名杰出的研究人员组成的博士联盟（研讨会），该联盟将与将于6月6日至8日在希腊克里特岛（http://www.petrae.org）举行的第五届与辅助环境相关的普及技术国际会议（PETRA 2012）一起举行。PETRA是唯一的年度会议，汇集了来自各种学科的理论家和实践者，专注于普及技术在辅助环境中的应用。在这个高度跨学科但具有主题性的会议上，连接不同学科的是发现新联盟、共享数据和设计新方法的能力，这些方法具有现实世界的社会影响，同时也能科学地推进每个领域。PETRA项目假设人类处于“网络物理系统”的中心，数字世界与物理世界融合在一起。PETRA 2012将及时解决计算方面的挑战，包括多种传感器技术的集成机制、异构数据建模、数据流的合成和分析、信息的隐私和安全、对模式分析和发现的传感器数据流进行排序、清理、存储和检索、强大的远程康复机制、将脑成像与行为成像相关联、在复杂环境中处理密集的实时数据。以及解释看似无意义的数据的方法，以便得出有意义的人类行为模式和/或识别重要的“事件”或变化。PETRA 2012还将纳入改善人类生活和健康质量的新方面，例如临床和生物医学指标如何与观察到的行为模式相联系，以改进特定治疗。博士联盟的目标是在社区内增加参与者工作的曝光率和可见度，帮助下一代研究人员建立社区意识，并通过在一组高级研究人员的支持和互动环境中提供实质性反馈和指导，帮助促进他们的研究工作。博士联盟的学生参与者将来自不同的社区，包括计算机科学、工程学、心理学、社会科学、神经科学、人机交互、认知科学和传播学。他们将正式展示自己的作品，并接受教师小组的反馈；反馈是为了帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于其他研究是如何定位的，他们的主题是否足够专注于论文研究项目，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。研讨会的教师将带来广泛的专业知识，并为学生提供指导和协调。博士联盟的与会者将被要求创建和维护“会议工作簿”（网页），其中包括对他们参加的论文的反馈和他们收集的观察结果（例如，通过与会议发言人和其他参与者的会议和讨论），这些将适用并影响他们的工作。关于与会者工作的简短论文将发表在会议论文集中（包括在ACM数字图书馆中），会议总结报告将发布在会议网站上。更广泛的影响：2012年PETRA博士联盟将汇集相关领域的一些最优秀的学生、研究人员和实践者，从而为年轻的参与者提供一个独特的机会，以获得更广泛的创新思想，同时也加强了进行具有社会影响的研究的重要性和价值。该研讨会将允许初级参与者在他们之间以及与高级同事之间建立一个社会网络。组委会将齐心协力，吸引女性、弱势群体、残疾人等参加。为进一步保证参加者的多样性，主办单位将尽量不接受来自任何一所院校超过2名的学生。

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium (workshop) of approximately 12 promising graduate students from U.S. institutions of higher learning along with 9 distinguished research faculty, to be held in conjunction with the Fifth International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2012), which will take place June 6-8 on the island of Crete, Greece (http://www.petrae.org). PETRA is the only annual conference that brings together theoreticians and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines to focus on the application of pervasive technologies to assistive environments. What connects different disciplines in this highly interdisciplinary but topical conference is the ability to discover new alliances, share data and design new methods that have real-world social impact while also advancing each field scientifically. PETRA projects assume a human is at the center of "cyberphysical systems" where the digital world merges with the physical. PETRA 2012 will address timely computational challenges including integration mechanisms of diverse sensor technologies, modeling heterogeneous data, synthesis and analysis of data streams, privacy and security of information, ranking, cleaning, storing and retrieving sensor data streams for pattern analysis and discovery, robust remote rehabilitation mechanisms, correlating brain imaging with behavioral imaging, handling intensive real time data in complex environments, and ways to interpret seemingly meaningless data in order to derive meaningful human behavioral patterns and/or to identify important "events" or changes. PETRA 2012 will also incorporate new exciting aspects in improving the quality of human life and health, such as how clinical and biomedical indicators are connected with observed behavioral patterns over time to refine a particular treatment. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to increase the exposure and visibility of the participants' work within the community, to help establish a sense of community among this next generation of researchers, and to help foster their research efforts by providing substantive feedback and guidance in a supportive and interactive environment from a group of senior researchers. Student participants in the Doctoral Consortium will be drawn from diverse communities including computer science, engineering, psychology, social science, neuroscience, human-computer interaction, cognitive science and communication. They will make formal presentations of their work 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 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 workshop faculty members will bring a wide spectrum of expertise, and provide student mentoring and coordination. Doctoral Consortium attendees will be asked to create and maintain "conference workbook" (webpage) where along with their work they include feedback on papers they attended and observations that they gathered (e.g., through meetings and discussions with conference speakers and other participants) that will apply to and impact their work. Short papers on the participants' work will be published in the Conference Proceedings (which are included in the ACM Digital Library), and a summary report on the event will be posted on the conference website. Broader Impacts: The PETRA 2012 Doctoral Consortium will bring together some of the best students, researchers and practitioners in relevant fields, and will thereby afford the younger participants a unique opportunity to gain wider exposure for their innovative ideas while also receiving reinforcement for the importance and value of conducting research with societal impact. The workshop will allow the junior participants to create a social network both among themselves and with senior colleagues. The organizing committee will make a concerted effort to attract participants who are women, members of under-represented minorities, and persons with disabilities. To further assure participant diversity, the organizers will endeavor not to accept more than 2 students from any one institution.