WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at the IEEE VR 2015 Conference

这笔资金是为了支持大约9名来自美国的研究生（以及7名来自非美国机构的研究生和5名学术和工业研究界的高级成员作为导师，他们不需要NSF的资助）参加将于3月23日至27日在法国阿尔勒举行的IEEE虚拟现实2015会议期间举行的博士联盟（研讨会）。自2006年以来，它与IEEE 3D用户界面研讨会同时举行。虚拟现实（VR）是一个多学科领域，涉及以人为中心的计算机模拟，旨在模仿或增强现实世界的感官（通常是视觉、声音和触觉）和体验。VR研究包括开发和评估方法和系统，促进和理解用户的感知、信念和行为。IEEE虚拟现实大会于1993年首次由IEEE计算机协会组织，自1995年以来每年举办一次，是该领域首屈一指的国际会议和展览，包括技术论文介绍、研讨会、教程、研究演示和工业展览。有关会议的更多信息可在http://www.ieeevr.org/2015网站上找到。博士联盟的目标是为虚拟现实的中级研究生提供一个互动和支持性的指导机会，为这些学生提供一个宝贵的机会，让他们从具有广泛集体知识广度和深度的资深人士那里获得对他们研究的独立观点，并在虚拟现实社区内建立一个年轻研究人员的群体。组织者做出了特别的努力，以实现各机构学生的多样性，并从传统上在计算机科学领域代表性不足的群体中招募参与者，包括女性、有色人种和残疾人。今年的IEEE VR博士联盟的灵感来自于前两届此类活动的成功形式，这两届活动也得到了美国国家科学基金会的支持。DC的主要活动将于3月24日星期二举行，紧接IEEE VR会议开始之前，与IEEE 3D用户界面研讨会的第二天同时举行。前一天晚上将举行晚宴，欢迎学生，并为会议上的网络提供初步指导和建议，在本周剩下的时间里，将在不同的时间举行额外的小型活动。研讨会将包括上午和下午的会议，每个学生向其他学生参与者和高级VR研究小组展示他/她的工作，每次演讲后留出足够的时间进行讨论和建设性的反馈，以解决工作的优势，可能出现的挑战和问题，以及结果的含义。由所有学生和导师参加的小组工作午餐对于统一小组内提出的个人目标和项目作为展望未来10-20年该领域未来的“大图景”的一部分尤其有价值。每个学生还将被要求准备一张关于他/她的研究的海报，作为海报会议的一部分在会议期间展出，并提交一份简短的（2页）摘要，存档于IEEE数字图书馆。为了使学生参与者能够自由地讨论他们的工作和计划，选择导师的一个明确要求是，他们中没有人是任何参与学生的现任顾问（正式或非正式）。

This is funding to support participation by approximately 9 graduate students from the United States (along with 7 graduate students from non-US institutions and 5 senior members of the academic and industrial research communities as mentors, for whom funding is not requested from NSF), in a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Virtual Reality 2015 conference that will take place March 23-27 in Arles, France, and which is collocated since 2006 with the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interface. Virtual reality (VR) is a multidisciplinary field involving human-centered computer simulations that seek to imitate or augment real world senses (usually sight, sound, and touch) and experiences. VR research includes developing and assessing methods and systems, and facilitating and understanding user perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors. First organized by the IEEE Computer Society in 1993 and held annually since 1995, IEEE Virtual Reality is the premier international conference and exhibition in this field and includes technical paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, research demonstrations, and exhibits from industry. More information about the conference may be found online at http://www.ieeevr.org/2015. The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide an interactive and supportive mentoring opportunity for mid-level graduate students in virtual reality, to afford these students a valuable opportunity to get independent perspectives on their research from senior individuals with a wide collective breadth and depth of knowledge, and to build a cohort of young researchers within the VR community. Special efforts have been made by the organizers to achieve diversity among the students across institutions, and to recruit participants from groups traditionally underrepresented in the field of computer science, including women, persons of color, and people with disabilities.This year's IEEE VR Doctoral Consortium is inspired by builds on the successful format of the first two such events, which were also supported by NSF. The main activities of the DC will take place on Tuesday, March 24, immediately prior to the start of the IEEE VR conference proper and in parallel with the second day of the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces. A dinner will be held the previous evening to welcome the students and provide initial mentorship and tips for networking at the conference, and additional smaller activities will take place at scattered times over the rest of the week. The workshop will include morning and afternoon sessions in which each student presents his/her work to the other student participants and a panel of senior VR researchers, with sufficient time set aside after each talk for discussion and constructive feedback that addresses the strengths of the work, challenges and issues that may arise, and implications of the results. A group working lunch attended by all the students and mentors will be particularly valuable for unifying the individual goals and projects presented within the group as part of a "big picture" envisioning of the future of the field over the next 10-20 years. Each student will also be asked to prepare a poster on his/her research that will be on display during the conference as part of the poster sessions, and to submit a short (2-page) abstract to be archived in the IEEE Digital Library. In an effort to enable student participants to discuss their work and plans freely, an explicit requirement in selecting the mentors has been that none of them is a current advisor (formal or informal) of any of the participating students.