WORKSHOP: VL/HCC 2015 Graduate Consortium

这笔资金用于支持约11名研究生(其中最多2名可能来自美国以外的大学)的博士联盟(研讨会)，以及一个由4名杰出研究人员组成的小组作为导师。该活动将与2015年IEEE视觉语言和以人为中心的计算研讨会(VL/HCC)同时举行，并紧随其后，该研讨会将于10月18-22日在亚特兰大举行，由IEEE计算机协会赞助。今年VL/HCC博士联盟的主要目标是激发研究生思考如何使计算更容易表达、操作和理解，这是本系列中由NSF资助的第13届。特别是，人们可以使用哪些方法、模型和工具来可视化、分析、定制和指导社会技术系统？这个博士联盟的目标是刺激新的方法，远远超越网络浏览器和搜索引擎等简单的解决方案。尽管搜索引擎确实提供了在简单情况下有用的信息，但它们只代表了社会技术系统(信息检索)的一部分；例如，搜索引擎本身的强大程度不足以用来启动新的企业并以竞争性的方式运营它们，因为它们只给人们寻找其他人提供的资源的能力，而不是创造新资源的能力。有效的方法将以创造性和生产性的方式将用户和软件结合在一起，直接满足现代社会的需求。博士联盟将帮助形成正在进行的和未来的研究项目，旨在缓解一个与我们社会中的许多人相关的紧迫问题。这一活动将通过鼓励学生研究人员探索一个困难和具有挑战性的开放问题，通过一个任务是提供建设性反馈的知名研究人员小组的参与，以及通过吸收其他与会者，他们也将向学生和彼此学习并提供额外的反馈，来促进发现和学习。国际学生联合会和组委会成员将特别努力吸引多样化和跨学科的学生参与者群体，特别注意从代表性不足的机构和妇女中招收学生；为了进一步增加多样性，任何一所学院将接受不超过2名学生参与者(其中至少一人必须是女性)。今年是研讨会31周年。VL/CC成立于1984年，其使命是支持计算系统的设计、正规化、实施和评估，使更多的人更容易学习、使用和理解。这包括针对视觉技术和文本的研究，以及使用声音、味道、虚拟现实和网络的技术。它还包括关于为实现这一目标而使用的多种媒体的理论研究。VL/PLC在人机界面和编程语言会议中占有独特的地位，因为它专门关注如何帮助最终用户成功开发和使用软件。计算机领域的最新进展使计算机与人类社会不断加深融合。人们现在在社会技术系统的“海洋”中游泳，这些系统综合了大量贡献用户和大量源代码。例子包括社交媒体系统、开源仓库、在线市场和大型多人在线游戏。然而，随着这片海域中的社会技术系统变得越来越复杂，最终用户越来越难以理解它们并将其引向生产性目的。欲了解更多有关VL/肝细胞癌研讨会的信息，请访问网站：https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2015/.。研讨会将从计算机科学、社会科学和教育等不同领域的角度，在致力于这些问题的不同方面的年轻研究人员之间建立社区。它将指导这些新研究人员的工作，为研究领域的专家(以及他们的同行)提供给他们建议的机会，因为学生参与者将在研讨会期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将收到教员小组的反馈。这些反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于其他人机交互研究的定位，他们的主题是否足够集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否得到正确的选择和应用，以及结果是否得到适当的分析和展示。与前几年一样，VL/HCC2015博士联盟将是定期会议方案的一部分。会议记录中将公布每个参与者的两页长的工作摘要。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) for approximately 11 graduate students (up to 2 of whom may be from universities outside the United States), along with a panel of 4 distinguished research faculty as mentors. The event will take place in conjunction with and immediately preceding the 2015 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), to be held October 18-22 in Atlanta, and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. The primary goal of this year's VL/HCC Doctoral Consortium, the 13th to be funded by NSF in this series, is to stimulate graduate students' thinking about how to make computation easier to express, manipulate, and understand. In particular, what methods, models and tools can people use to visualize, analyze, tailor, and direct socio-technical systems? The doctoral consortium aims to stimulate novel approaches that go far beyond simplistic solutions like Web browsers and search engines. Although search engines do provide information that is useful in simple situations, they represent only one portion of a socio-technical system (information retrieval); search engines alone are not powerful enough to be used to start new businesses and run them competitively, for example, since they only give people the ability to find resources provided by other people rather than the ability to create new resources. Effective approaches will bring users and software together in creative and productive ways that bear directly on the needs of modern society. The Doctoral Consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at alleviating a pressing problem of relevance to a great many people within our society. This event will promote discovery and learning, by encouraging the student researchers to explore a difficult and challenging open problem, through involvement of a panel of well-known researchers whose task is to provide constructive feedback, and through inclusion of other conference participants who will also learn from and provide additional feedback to the students and to each other. The PI and the members of the organizing committee will make special efforts to attract a diverse and interdisciplinary group of student participants, with special attention paid to recruitment of students from underrepresented institutions and women; to further increase diversity, no more than 2 student participants (at least one of whom must be female) will be accepted from any one institution.This year marks the 31st anniversary of the Symposium. Established in 1984, VL/HCC's mission is to support the design, formalization, implementation and evaluation of computing systems that are easier for a broader group of people to learn, use, and understand. This includes research aimed at visual technology and text, and technology that uses sound, taste, virtual reality, and the Web. It also includes research on theories about the many media used toward this goal. VL/HCC occupies a unique niche among HCI and programming language conferences, in that it focuses specifically on how to help end users successfully develop and use software. Recent advances in computing have led to continually deeper integration between computers and human society. People now swim in a "sea" of socio-technical systems that synthesize large numbers of contributing users with vast amounts of source code. Examples include social media systems, open source repositories, online marketplaces and massively multiplayer online games. Yet as the socio-technical systems in this sea have grown in complexity, they have become increasingly difficult for end users to understand and direct toward productive ends. More information about the VL/HCC Symposium may be found online at https://sites.google.com/site/vlhcc2015/. The workshop will build community among young researchers working on different aspects of these problems from the perspectives of diverse fields including computer science, the social sciences, and education. It will guide the work of these new researchers by providing an opportunity for experts in the research field (as well as their peers) to give them advice, in that student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the workshop 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 human-computer interaction research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether the results are appropriately analyzed and presented. As in prior years the VL/HCC 2015 Doctoral Consortium will be part of the regular conference program. A 2-page extended abstract of each participant's work will be published in the conference proceedings.