WORKSHOP: The Pioneers Workshop at the 2016 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

这笔资金是为了支持一个由大约31名研究生(其中16名来自美国，因此有资格获得资助)以及杰出的研究人员组成的先锋研讨会(博士联盟)，这些研究生来自不同的研究社区(例如，计算机科学和工程、心理学、认知科学、机器人学、人为因素、人机交互设计和通信)。该活动将于2016年3月7日举行，紧接着将于3月8日至10日在新西兰克赖斯特彻奇举行的第11届国际人类机器人互动会议(HRI 2016)之前，该会议由ACM和IEEE联合主办。HRI是一个单轨、高选择性的年度国际会议，旨在展示人-机器人交互方面最好的跨学科和多学科研究，根源于不同领域，包括社会心理学、认知科学、人机交互、人类因素、人工智能、机器人学、组织行为学、人类学等，为此，会议邀请广泛参与。HRI 2016的主题是“自然互动”，寻求从技术、设计、方法论、行为和理论等广泛的角度作出贡献，促进人-机器人互动的基本和应用知识和方法，目标是通过新的技术进步、新颖的机器人设计、新的设计指南以及理解和评估互动的先进方法来实现人与机器人的互动。欲了解更多有关这次会议的信息，请访问http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/.。这次研讨会将提供一个独特的机会，让人-机器人交互领域的最优秀的下一代研究人员接触和讨论当前和相关的主题，因为这些主题正在几个不同的研究社区(包括但不限于计算机科学和工程、心理学、机器人学、人类因素和人体工学以及人机交互)进行研究。这对该领域很重要，因为人们已经认识到，这一新兴领域的研究只有通过融合跨学科知识和多国观点才能取得变革性的进展。将鼓励参与者在他们之间以及与处于其专业发展关键阶段的高级研究人员建立一个社交网络，以形成协作关系，并产生新的研究问题，以便在未来几年得到解决。学员还将获得领导力和服务经验，因为研讨会主要是由学生组织和学生主导的。国际和平协会表示，她坚定地致力于从代表性不足的群体中招募妇女和成员。为了进一步确保多样性，活动组织者将考虑申请者提供有关HRI的新视角和观点的潜力，将招收刚刚开始他们的研究生学位课程的学生以及在他们的学位方面取得更大进展的学生，并将努力将特定机构接受的参与者人数限制在最多两人。先锋研讨会旨在补充会议，为HRI领域的学生和新近毕业的学生提供一个论坛，让他们在不像主要会议那样正式和更具互动性的环境中与他们的同行和资深研究人员小组分享他们目前的研究成果。在研讨会期间，与会者将讨论该领域即将到来的重要研究主题，鼓励形成跨学科和地理边界的合作关系。为此，研讨会的形式将包括各种活动，包括三个主旨演讲、一次杰出的小组会议和分组会议。在这一天的开始，所有与会者将简要介绍自己和他们的兴趣。在开幕主旨演讲之后，大约一半的与会者将发表3分钟的工作概述，开始一个互动的海报会议。这将使所有参与者能够在非正式的环境中分享他们的研究成果，并从学生和高级研究人员那里获得反馈。研讨会组织者将促进演讲后的讨论，并将鼓励参与者在互动休息和海报会议期间向同龄人提问。午餐后，剩下的工作坊参与者将发表3分钟的概述，然后在第二次互动海报会议上展示他们的海报。高级研究人员(除小组成员外)将被邀请参加学生陈述和海报会议，以便向与会者提供反馈，讲习班参与者也将被邀请在HRI会议的主海报会议上展示他们的海报。小组与与会者的对话将在午餐和晚餐期间继续进行。

This is funding to support a Pioneers Workshop (doctoral consortium) of approximately 31 graduate students (16 of whom are from the United States and therefore eligible for funding) from diverse research communities (e.g., computer science and engineering, psychology, cognitive science, robotics, human factors, human-computer interaction design, and communications), along with distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on March 7, 2016, immediately preceding the 11th International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2016), to be held March 8-10 in Christchurch, New Zealand, and which is jointly sponsored by ACM and IEEE. HRI is a single-track, highly selective annual international conference that seeks to showcase the very best inter- and multi-disciplinary research in human-robot interaction with roots in diverse fields including social psychology, cognitive science, HCI, human factors, artificial intelligence, robotics, organizational behavior, anthropology and many more, and to this end the conference invites broad participation. The theme of HRI 2016 is "Natural Interaction" which seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and theoretical, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction, with the goal of enabling human-robot interaction through new technical advances, novel robot designs, new guidelines for design, and advanced methods for understanding and evaluating interaction. More information about the conference is available online at http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/. This workshop will afford a unique opportunity for the best of the next generation of researchers in human-robot interaction to be exposed to and discuss current and relevant topics as they are being studied in several different research communities (including but not limited to computer science and engineering, psychology, robotics, human factors and ergonomics, and HCI). This is important for the field, because it has been recognized that transformative advances in research in this fledgling area can only come through the melding of cross-disciplinary knowledge and multinational perspectives. Participants will be encouraged to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development, to form collaborative relationships, and to generate new research questions to be addressed during the coming years. Participants will also gain leadership and service experience, as the workshop is largely student organized and student led. The PI has expressed her strong commitment to recruiting women and members from under-represented groups. To further ensure diversity the event organizers will consider an applicant's potential to offer a fresh perspective and point of view with respect to HRI, will recruit students who are just beginning their graduate degree programs in addition to students who are further along in their degrees, and will strive to limit the number of participants accepted from a particular institution to at most two.The Pioneers Workshop is designed to complement the conference, by providing a forum for students and recent graduates in the field of HRI to share their current research with their peers and a panel of senior researchers in a setting that is less formal and more interactive than the main conference. During the workshop, participants will talk about the important upcoming research themes in the field, encouraging the formation of collaborative relationships across disciplines and geographic boundaries. To these ends, the workshop format will encompass a variety of activities including three keynotes, a distinguished panel session, and breakout sessions. To start the day, all workshop attendees will briefly introduce themselves and their interests. Following the opening keynote, approximately half of the participants will present 3-minute overviews of their work, leading into an interactive poster session. This will enable all participants to share their research and receive feedback from students and senior researchers in an informal setting. The workshop organizers will facilitate the post-presentation discussion and will encourage participants to ask questions of their peers during the interactive break and poster session. After lunch, the remaining workshop participants will give their 3-minute overviews, followed by presentation of their posters during a second interactive poster session. Senior researchers (in addition to those on the panel) will be invited to attend the student presentations and poster sessions in order to provide feedback to participants, and workshop participants will be invited to present their posters during the main poster session of the HRI conference as well. The conversations between the panel and participants will continue over lunch and during dinner.