WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016)

这笔资金用于支持来自美国机构的约6名研究生，以及将担任导师的约5名ICMI社区高级成员，参加将于2016年11月12日至16日在日本东京举行的第18届多模式交互国际会议（ICMI 2016）之前举行的博士联盟（研讨会），该会议由计算机协会（ACM）组织。ICMI系列会议是多模态人机交互、界面和系统开发的多学科研究的首要国际论坛。会议的重点是理论和经验基础，组件技术，以及定义多模态交互分析，界面设计和系统开发领域的组合多模态处理技术。今年会议特别感兴趣的主题包括：多模态交互处理；交互式系统和应用程序；人类交流模式建模；多模态交互系统的数据、评价和标准；以及城市间的互动。ICMI 2016将以单轨主要会议为特色，包括：主题演讲，技术全文和短文（包括口头和海报展示），特别会议，演示，展览和博士重点论文。ICMI 2016会议记录将由ACM出版社出版，并纳入ACM数字图书馆。作为对高质量学生参与的进一步激励，ICMI 2016将颁发优秀论文奖，并为学生论文设立一个特殊类别。有关会议的更多信息可在http://icmi.acm.org/2016/网站上找到。ICMI博士联盟的目标是为博士生提供一个机会，向一群来自不同学术和工业机构的导师和同行展示他们的工作，接收他们的博士研究计划和进展的反馈，并建立一个对设计多模态界面感兴趣的年轻研究人员群体。学生参与者将在联盟上以简短的演讲形式展示他们正在进行的论文研究，并在会议博士焦点会议上作为海报。继去年ICMI会议和博士联盟的丰硕经验之后，为了为学生和该领域的资深成员提供更多的互动机会，该计划将再次在研讨会当天为学生和导师提供午餐，一个职业小组将为学生和导师提供提问和回答问题的机会，并讨论该领域的挑战和机遇。晚宴上，学生们将有机会与组织者和导师进行非正式的交谈。博士联盟将通过展示他们自己的工作以及观察和与该领域的知名专业人士互动，为学生参与者提供接触新的研究社区的机会。它将鼓励学生在职业生涯的这个关键时刻开始建立一个由同龄人和导师组成的社会支持网络。组织者将积极采取措施，在学生中实现研究主题、学科背景、方法方法和家庭机构的多样性。为了进一步增加多样性，组织者承诺，从任何一所美国高等院校邀请的学生不超过一名。

This is funding to support participation by about 6 graduate students from U.S. institutions, along with about 5 senior members of the ICMI community who will serve as mentors, in a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) to be held in conjunction with and immediately preceding the 18th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2016), which will take place November 12-16, 2016, in Tokyo, Japan, and which is organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ICMI conference series is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. Topics of special interest to the conference this year include: multimodal interaction processing; interactive systems and applications; modeling human communication patterns; data, evaluation and standards for multimodal interactive systems; and urban interactions. ICMI 2016 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), special sessions, demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The ICMI 2016 proceedings will be published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital Library. As a further incentive for high-quality student participation ICMI 2016 will be awarding outstanding paper awards, with a special category for student papers. More information about the conference may be found online at http://icmi.acm.org/2016/. The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing multimodal interfaces. Student participants will present their ongoing thesis research as a short talk at the Consortium and also as a poster at the conference Doctoral Spotlight Session. Following the fruitful experience of last year's ICMI conference and doctoral consortium, and with the goal of providing more opportunities for interaction between the students and senior members of the field, the program will once again include a lunch on the day of the workshop for students and mentors, a career panel that will provide the students and mentors the opportunity to ask and answer questions and discuss challenges and opportunities in the field, and a dinner that will provide the students with the opportunity to hold informal conversations among themselves as well as with the organizers and mentors. The Doctoral Consortium will give student participants exposure to their new research community, both by presenting their own work and by observing and interacting with established professionals in the field. It will encourage students at this critical time in their careers to begin building a social support network of peers and mentors. The organizers will take steps proactively to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions among the students. To further increase diversity, the organizers have committed that no more than one student will be invited from any given U.S. institution of higher learning.