WORKSHOP: Think Tank (Doctoral Consortium) at the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD) 2015

这是资助支持“智囊团”（研讨会）约12名有前途的研究生学者来自美国和国外，沿着杰出的研究教师导师，与2015年国际会议上听觉显示（ICAD 2015），这将是7月6日至10日在奥地利格拉兹。 ICAD是介绍使用声音来显示数据，监控系统，并为计算机和虚拟现实系统提供增强的用户界面的主要国际论坛。 它的独特之处在于它专注于听觉显示和感知，技术和应用领域的阵列，这包括，例如，数据声化，听觉寻路，听觉图形，语音界面，虚拟环境，以及相关的感知，认知，技术和技术研究和开发。 许多跨学科的研究和开发工作与有知觉残疾的人，特别是有视觉障碍的人直接相关;例如，为盲人开发寻路系统需要研究听觉显示中使用的有效距离提示和物体识别器。 对听觉图形功效的研究可用于帮助视障学生和科学家更充分地参与科学。 甚至家用设备也可以具有更有效的听觉显示，其提供比它们目前倾向于具有的基本“哔哔声”更丰富的信息。 这一领域的一种常见方法是通用设计，即一次性开发一种显示策略，供所有类型的用户使用，包括有和没有特定访问问题的用户。 今年会议的主题是大数据;有关会议的更多详细信息可在http://iem.kug.ac.at/icad15/上获得。ICAD智囊团是一个博士生联合会，旨在促进一个重要的新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的学术研究和网络联系，并将帮助制定正在进行和未来的研究项目，这些项目对辅助技术的发展和普及具有明确和重要的影响。 博士联盟将使参与者接触到更大的社区，使他们能够在自己的专业发展的关键阶段与高级研究人员建立联系。 由于学生和教师构成了一个多元化的群体，包括国籍和文化，科学学科和机构，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。 今年，组织者预计将有12名学生参加。 从任何一所大学中选出的参加者不得超过两名，而且该大学的两名参加者中至少有一名是妇女。 因为这是一个国际会议，其组织者希望在国际和美国之间取得平衡参与，将有多达6名来自美国的学生，其余来自世界各地。 根据CISE的政策，NSF的资金将仅用于偿还来自美国的学生参与者，他们将获得旅行资金以及参加整个ICAD会议的支持。 美国国家科学基金会的部分资金还将用于资助专家组成员（包括美国和外国的）的旅行，因为他们为美国学生提供了巨大的价值。ICAD智库是一个全天活动，将于7月7日星期二在会议之前举行，对教育计划的各个阶段的研究生开放，包括硕士和博士生。 也可以考虑那些表现出有兴趣在研究生生涯中追求这一领域的特殊本科生。 智囊团将汇集来自不同背景的学生（例如，工程、计算机、音乐和心理学），以便他们能够体验听觉显示、辅助技术和通用设计的广泛方法。 智囊团将发展一个支持性的学者社区和合作研究的精神，为参与者提供一个友好，开放，但严格的科学论坛，在其中提出他们的研究想法，听取同行学生正在进行的工作，并从一个杰出的专家小组获得建设性的反馈。 小组反馈旨在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。 智囊团还将邀请演讲者和讨论小组（例如，为学生提供有关博士候选人重要问题的相关信息，无论他们是考虑学术还是工业职业道路）。 每个学生参与者还将在会议期间的特别海报会议上展示他/她的作品。 会议的最后一天将包括一个会议，其中智库主席的总结/审查/汇报将为与会者提供活动成功的概述，并介绍与会者（学生和小组成员）。

This is funding to support a "Think Tank" (workshop) of about 12 promising graduate student scholars from the United States and abroad, along with distinguished research faculty mentors, in conjunction with the 2015 International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2015), which will be held July 6-10 in Graz, Austria. ICAD is the premier international forum for presenting research on the use of sound to display data, monitor systems, and provide enhanced user interfaces for computers and virtual reality systems. It is unique in its singular focus on auditory displays and the array of perception, technology, and application areas that this encompasses; this includes, for example, data sonification, auditory wayfinding, auditory graphs, speech interfaces, virtual environments, and associated perceptual, cognitive, technical, and technological research and development. Many of the interdisciplinary research and development efforts are of direct relevance to persons with perceptual disabilities, especially visual impairments; for example, developing wayfinding systems for the blind requires research into effective distance cues and object identifiers used in auditory displays. Research into the efficacy of auditory graphs may be used to help visually impaired students and scientists participate more fully in science. Even household devices can have more effective auditory displays that provide richer information than the basic "beeps" they presently tend to have. A common approach in this field is universal design, wherein a display strategy is developed once, to be used by all kinds of users, including those with and without specific access issues. This year's conference theme is Big Data; more details about the conference are available online at http://iem.kug.ac.at/icad15/. The ICAD Think Tank is a doctoral consortium that promotes scholarship and networking among new researchers in an important emerging interdisciplinary area, and will help shape ongoing and future research projects that have clear and important implications for development of assistive technologies and universal access. The doctoral consortium will afford participants exposure to a larger community, allowing them to bond 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 and culture, scientific discipline, and institution the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. This year, the organizers expect there will be 12 student participants. No more than two attendees will be chosen from any given university, and only if at least one of the two attendees from that university is a woman. Because this is an international conference whose organizers desire a balance between international and U.S. participation, there will be up to 6 students from the U.S. with the remainder from around the world. In accordance with CISE policy, NSF funds will be used only to reimburse student participants from the United States, who will receive travel funds as well as support to attend the entire ICAD conference. Some NSF funds will also be used to subsidize travel by panel members (both U.S. and foreign-based), since they provide great value to the U.S. students.The ICAD Think Tank, a full-day event which will take place on Tuesday, July 7 immediately preceding the conference, is open to graduate students at all stages of their educational program, including both Masters and PhD students. Exceptional undergraduates who have demonstrated interest in pursuing this field in their graduate careers may also be considered. The Think Tank will bring together students from diverse backgrounds (e.g., engineering, computing, music, and psychology), so that they can experience the broad spectrum of approaches to auditory displays, assistive technologies and universal design. The Think Tank will develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, by providing participants with a friendly and open, yet rigorous, scientific forum in which to present their research ideas, to listen to ongoing work from peer students, and to receive constructive feedback from a panel of distinguished experts. Panel 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. The Think Tank will also offer invited speakers and discussion groups (e.g., to provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates, whether they are considering academic or industrial career paths). Each student participant will furthermore present his/her work in a special poster session during the conference proper. The last day of the conference will include a session in which a summary/review/debrief by the Think Tank Chair will provide conference attendees with an overview of the event's success and introduce the participants (students and panelists).