WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium for ASSETS 2013

这是一个由大约10名来自美国和国外的有前途的研究生（预计不超过2名来自国外）组成的博士联盟（研讨会），以及5名杰出的研究人员。该活动将于10月20日（周日）举行，紧接10月21日至23日（周一至周三）在华盛顿州贝尔维尤举行的第15届国际ACM SIGACCESS计算机与可访问性会议（ASSETS 2013）。ASSETS会议是展示主流和专业辅助技术的设计和使用方面的创新研究的主要论坛。这包括：听力、视力和其他感觉障碍者使用技术并为其提供支持；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士。来自世界各地学术界和工业界的研究人员和开发人员将会面交流思想并展示他们的最新工作。有关会议的更多信息可在http://www.sigaccess.org/assets13上找到。建立这个社区的一个关键组成部分是通过它的年轻人。ASSETS 2013博士联盟将为来自不同背景（计算机、工程、心理学、建筑等）的研究生提供一个机会，在PI和该领域其他杰出专家小组的指导下，在跨学科研讨会上共同探索他们的研究兴趣，使他们能够欣赏辅助技术和通用可用性的更广泛的研究和开发方法。还可以体验他们可以追求自己努力的社区。学生参与者将在联盟期间正式展示他们的工作，并将从教师小组获得建设性的反馈。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。因此，该联盟将帮助塑造正在进行的和未来的研究项目，旨在辅助技术和普遍获取，将促进这个新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的奖学金和网络，并将这些有前途的年轻研究人员暴露在更大的社区中。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，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，将从博士生联盟中选出一名学生进行闭幕全体演讲。将对该联盟进行评估，评估结果将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，为他们提供一个在社区中获得更广泛的创新工作的机会，并从研究社区的资深成员那里获得反馈和指导。它将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员之间的社区意识，允许他们在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社会网络。由于学生和教师构成了一个跨越不同维度的多元化群体，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。主办单位将采取特别措施，促进来自代表性不足群体的学生人数较多的院校参与；为了进一步增加多样性，参与将被限制在最多一名男性和一名女性学生来自同一机构。

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium (workshop) of approximately 10 promising graduate students from the United States and abroad (no more than 2 expected to be from outside the country), along with 5 distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on Sunday, October 20, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2013), to be held Monday-Wednesday, October 21-23, in Bellevue, WA. 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/assets13. A key component of building this community is through its youth. The ASSETS 2013 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.