WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at the PETRA 2014 Conference

这笔资金将用于支持一个由大约13名来自美国高等院校的有前途的研究生以及杰出的研究人员组成的博士联盟（研讨会），该联盟将与将于5月27日至30日在希腊罗德岛举行的第七届与辅助环境相关的普及技术国际会议（PETRA 2014）一起举行。PETRA的使命是促进跨学科研究，利用无处不在的环境智能环境来改善生活质量，提高人类的能力；这是唯一的年度会议，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PETRA 2014上展示的创新包括用于人类感知的智能工具、赋予残疾人权力的设备、数据融合算法、新的计算机辅助康复方法、可个性化的治疗游戏环境、手势识别工具、药物管理、远程安全通信和数据共享以及远程健康监测等。PETRA论文集由ACM数字图书馆出版，并邀请最佳论文的作者在会议结束后提交到专刊。有关会议的更多信息可在http://www.petrae.org网站上找到。为期一天的博士联盟的目标是在社区内增加参与者工作的曝光和可见度，帮助在下一代研究人员中建立社区意识，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。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、认知科学和通信。他们将对自己的作品进行20分钟的正式展示，并听取教师小组的反馈；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。博士联盟的参与者将被要求创建并维护一个“数字工作簿”，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在会议论文集中发表，关于会议的总结报告将在会议网站上发布。更广泛的影响：2014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。为了进一步确保多样性，NSF基金将用于支持来自任何一个机构的不超过2名学生参与者。今年，国家科学基金还将首次用于支持2名被选中的本科生参加会议，希望能激发他们对科学领域可能的职业选择的兴趣。

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium (workshop) of approximately 13 promising graduate students from U.S. institutions of higher learning along with distinguished research faculty, to be held in conjunction with the Seventh International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2014), which will take place May 27-30 on the island of Rhodes, Greece. The PETRA mission is to promote interdisciplinary research on ways to use pervasive ambient intelligent environments to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance with greater capabilities; it 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. Innovations to be presented at PETRA 2014 include smart tools for human sensing, devices to empower persons with disabilities, algorithms for data fusion, new computer aided rehabilitation methods, therapy game environments that can be personalized, gesture recognition tools, medication management, remote secure communications and data sharing, and remote health monitoring, among others. The PETRA proceedings are published by the ACM digital library, and the authors of the best papers are invited to submit to special journal issues after the end of the conference. More information about the conference may be found online at http://www.petrae.org. The goals of the day-long 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 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 20-minute 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 a "digital workbook" 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, and a summary report on the event will be posted on the conference website. Broader Impacts: The PETRA 2014 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 diversity, NSF funds will be used to support no more than 2 student participants from any one institution. And this year, for the first time, NSF funds will also be used to support attendance at the conference of 2 select undergraduate students, in the hope of exciting them about possible career choices in science.