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

这笔资金将用于支持一个由大约12名来自美国和国外的有前途的研究生学者组成的“智库”（研讨会），以及杰出的研究教师导师，并与将于7月6日至10日在奥地利格拉茨举行的2015年国际听觉显示会议（ICAD 2015）相结合。ICAD是一个主要的国际论坛，介绍使用声音来显示数据、监测系统以及为计算机和虚拟现实系统提供增强的用户界面的研究。它的独特之处在于它对听觉显示的独特关注，以及它所涵盖的一系列感知、技术和应用领域；例如，这包括数据超声、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、技术和技术研究与开发。许多跨学科的研究和发展工作与知觉障碍者，特别是视觉障碍者直接相关；例如，开发盲人寻路系统需要研究听觉显示中使用的有效距离线索和物体标识符。对听觉图表功效的研究可以用来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有更有效的听觉显示，提供比他们目前倾向于使用的基本“哔哔声”更丰富的信息。该领域的一种常见方法是通用设计，其中一次开发显示策略，供所有类型的用户使用，包括那些有或没有特定访问问题的用户。今年的大会主题是大数据；有关会议的更多细节，请访问http://iem.kug.ac.at/icad15/。ICAD智库是一个博士联盟，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奖学金和网络，并将帮助形成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遍获取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自己的高级研究人员建立联系。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，而且必须至少有一名是女性。由于这是一次国际会议，其组织者希望在国际和美国的参与之间取得平衡，因此将有多达6名美国学生参加，其余学生来自世界各地。根据CISE政策，NSF资金将仅用于报销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。一些NSF基金也将用于资助小组成员（包括美国和国外）的旅行，因为他们为美国学生提供了很大的价值。ICAD智库是一个全天的活动，将于7月7日（周二）在会议之前举行，面向所有教育阶段的研究生，包括硕士和博士研究生。在研究生生涯中对该领域表现出兴趣的优秀本科生也可以被考虑。该智库将汇集来自不同背景（如工程、计算机、音乐和心理学）的学生，使他们能够体验听觉显示、辅助技术和通用设计的广泛方法。智库将通过为参与者提供一个友好、开放但严谨的科学论坛，发展一个支持性的学者社区和合作研究精神，在这个论坛上，他们可以展示自己的研究想法，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相对于相关研究的定位，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。智库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）。每位学生参与者将在会议期间的特别海报环节进一步展示他/她的作品。会议的最后一天将包括一个环节，由智库主席进行总结/回顾/汇报，向与会者概述活动的成功，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).