Workshop: Doctoral Symposium at the 2012 Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference (ITS 2012)

这笔资金用于支持大约12名来自美国和国外的有前途的博士生（最多2名国际学生）以及4名知名教师和行业研究人员的博士研究研讨会（研讨会）。该活动将与第七届交互式桌面和表面会议(ITS ？2012年11月11日至14日在马萨诸塞州剑桥市举行。，由计算机协会赞助。过去十年的技术进步催生了越来越多的创造性研究领域，试图克服物理世界和数字世界之间长期存在的分离。ITS会议是展示新型桌面和交互式表面技术的设计和使用研究的首要场所，汇集了约200名对ITS技术的技术和人类方面感兴趣的顶级研究人员、工程师和实践者；因此，感兴趣的主题不仅包括智能交通系统硬件和软件的创新，还包括扩大我们对智能交通系统技术及其应用的设计考虑的理解。有关会议的更多信息可在http://its2012conf.org上找到。ITS博士研讨会的主要目标是为这个不断发展的领域的未来领导者提供指导。为此，本次活动旨在鼓励ITS所涵盖的不同背景的年轻学者参加会议，与更多的资深研究人员会面，并在这一领域发展事业。为期一天的项目将有助于在下一代研究人员中建立一种社区意识，同时增加参与者工作的曝光率和可见度，同时通过在支持和互动的环境中提供资深研究人员的建设性反馈和指导，促进他们的研究工作。每个学生参与者都将向小组正式展示他们的工作，并有充足的时间分配给教师小组和其他学生参与者的问题和反馈。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。在博士研讨会的午餐和晚餐活动期间，将有更多的非正式讨论和交流机会。学生的短文将在ITS论文集中发表，并在ACM数字图书馆中被索引。学生也将被邀请在主会议期间的海报环节展示他们的作品；除了博士研讨会本身的重点指导外，这也将为学生提供与同行和其他更资深的研究人员进行一对一交谈的机会。更广泛的影响：学生参与者将根据提交给博士研讨会主席的六页ACM格式的书面提交文件进行选择。这些将由教师小组和外部审稿人审查。参与者将被要求攻读博士学位，并将主要从人机交互领域选择，该领域可以跨越各种学科，包括计算机科学，工程或设计背景。审查和接受决定将权衡包括提案质量在内的许多因素。活动组织者致力于实现背景、性别、主题和机构的多样性，并包括来自未被充分代表的少数民族的学生。为了确保主题和背景的广泛覆盖，任何指定机构不接受超过两名学生，任何指定导师不接受超过一名学生。美国国家科学基金会的资金将主要用于支持来自美国院校的学生参与者，不超过两个来自国外的教育机构。

This is funding to support a doctoral research symposium (workshop) of approximately 12 promising doctoral students from the United States and abroad (up to 2 international students), along with 4 high profile faculty and industrial researchers. The event will take place in conjunction with and immediately preceding the 7th Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces Conference (ITS ?12), to be held November 11-14, 2012, in Cambridge Mass., and which is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery. The technological advances of the past decade have given rise to an increasing number of creative research areas that seek to overcome the long-standing separation between the physical and digital worlds. The ITS Conferences are a premiere venue for presenting research in the design and use of new and emerging tabletop and interactive surface technologies, bringing together about 200 top researchers, engineers and practitioners who are interested in both the technical and human aspects of ITS technology; so topics of interest include not only innovations in ITS hardware and software but also expanding our understanding of design considerations for ITS technologies and their applications. More information about the conference may be found at http://its2012conf.org. The primary goal of the ITS Doctoral Symposium is to provide mentorship for future leaders in this growing field. To these ends the event is designed so as to encourage young scholars from diverse backgrounds encompassed by ITS to attend the conference, meet with more senior researchers, and pursue a career in this field. The day-long program will help establish a sense of community among the next generation of researchers, while increasing the exposure and visibility of the participants' work and at the same time fostering their research efforts by providing constructive feedback and guidance from senior researchers in a supportive and interactive environment. Student participants will each make a formal presentation of their work to the group, with ample time allotted for questions and feedback from the faculty panel as well as from the other student participants. 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. Additional opportunities for more informal discussion and networking will be during the doctoral symposium's lunch and dinner events. Students' short papers will appear in the ITS Proceedings and they will be indexed in the ACM Digital Library. Students will also be invited to present their work at the main conference during the Poster Session; this will also afford the opportunity for students to talk one-on-one with peers and other more senior researchers, in addition to the focused mentoring of the Doctoral Symposium itself.Broader Impacts: Student participants will be selected on the basis of written submissions in the form of a six page ACM format paper submitted to the Doctoral Symposium chairs. These will be reviewed by the faculty panel and external reviewers. Participants will be expected to be pursuing a doctoral degree and will be selected primarily from the field of human-computer interaction, which could span a variety of disciplines including computer science, engineering, or a design background. The review and decision of acceptance will balance many factors including the quality of the proposals. The event organizers are committed to diversity across backgrounds, gender, topics, and institutions, as well as to the inclusion of students from underrepresented minorities. To assure broad coverage of topics and backgrounds, no more than two students will be accepted from any given institution and no more than one with any given advisor. NSF funds will be used primarily to support student participants from U.S. institutions, with no more than two educational institutions from abroad.