Workshop: Doctoral Consortium for ASSETS 2012

研讨会：资产博士联盟 2012

• 批准号: 1240198
• 负责人: Jeffrey Bigham
• 金额: $ 2.51万
• 依托单位: University of Rochester
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-07-01 至 2013-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1240198&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Workshop; Doctoral; Consortium; ASSETS; 2012

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium (workshop) of approximately 10 promising graduate students from the United States and abroad, along with 5 distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on Sunday, October 21, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 14th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2012), to be held Monday-Wednesday, October 22-24, in Boulder, CO. The ASSETS conferences are the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies. This includes the use of technology by and in support of: individuals with hearing, sight and other sensory impairments; individuals with motor impairments; individuals with memory, learning and cognitive impairments; individuals with multiple impairments; older adults; and professionals who work with these populations. Researchers and developers from around the world in both academia and industry will meet to exchange ideas and present their latest work. More information about the conference may be found at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets12. A key component of building this community is through its youth. The ASSETS 2012 doctoral consortium will provide an opportunity for graduate students from diverse backgrounds (computing, engineering, psychology, architecture, etc.) to come together and explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of the PI and a panel of other distinguished experts in the field, so that they can appreciate the broader spectrum of research and development approaches to assistive technologies and universal usability, and also experience the community in which they can pursue their endeavors. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the consortium, and will receive constructive 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. Thus, the consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at assistive technologies and universal access, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in this emerging interdisciplinary area, and will also expose these promising young researchers to a larger community. In an effort to further integrate doctoral consortium participants into the conference itself, a poster session has been set aside in the technical program to allow all doctoral consortium participants to present their research to the full conference. In addition, one student from the doctoral consortium will be selected to deliver the closing plenary presentation. An evaluation of the consortium will be conducted and the results made available to the organizers of future such events. Broader Impacts: The doctoral consortium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both 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/cultural and scientific discipline, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. The organizers will take special steps to promote participation from institutions with relatively large numbers of students from under-represented groups; to further increase diversity, participation will be limited to at most one male and one female student from the same institution.

这笔资金用于支持一个由来自美国和国外的大约10名有前途的研究生组成的博士联合会（讲习班），沿着有5名杰出的研究人员。 该活动将于10月21日（星期日）举行，紧接在第14届国际ACM SIGACCESS计算机和无障碍会议（ASSETS 2012）之前，将于10月22日至24日（星期一至星期三）在科罗拉多州博尔德举行。 这包括以下人员使用技术并为他们提供支持：有听力、视力和其他感官障碍的人;有运动障碍的人;有记忆、学习和认知障碍的人;有多重障碍的人;老年人;以及为这些人群工作的专业人员。 来自世界各地的学术界和工业界的研究人员和开发人员将会面交流想法并展示他们的最新工作。 有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://www.sigaccess.org/assets12。建设这个社区的一个关键组成部分是通过它的青年。 该资产2012年博士财团将提供一个机会，从不同背景的研究生（计算，工程，心理学，建筑等）。在PI和该领域其他杰出专家小组的指导下，在跨学科研讨会中聚集在一起探索他们的研究兴趣，以便他们能够欣赏到辅助技术和通用可用性的更广泛的研究和开发方法，并体验他们可以继续努力的社区。 学生参与者将在联盟期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将收到来自教师小组的建设性反馈。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。 因此，该联盟将帮助塑造正在进行的和未来的研究项目，旨在辅助技术和普及，将促进奖学金和新的研究人员在这一新兴的跨学科领域之间的网络，并将这些有前途的年轻研究人员接触到更大的社区。 为了进一步将博士联盟参与者融入会议本身，在技术计划中留出了一个海报会议，以允许所有博士联盟参与者向整个会议展示他们的研究。 此外，一名来自博士生联盟的学生将被选中提供闭幕式全体演讲。 将对该联合体进行评估，并将评估结果提供给今后此类活动的组织者。更广泛的影响：博士联盟将帮助扩大在该领域攻读研究生的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供机会，让他们在社区中更广泛地接触他们的创新工作，并获得研究界高级成员的反馈和指导。 它将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员的社区意识，让他们在自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的高级研究人员建立社交网络。 由于学生和教师构成了一个跨各种维度的多元化群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。 组织者将采取特别措施，促进来自代表性不足群体的学生人数较多的院校的参与;为进一步增加多样性，同一院校最多只能有一名男生和一名女生参加。