Support for Student Participation in the 2017 ACM Intelligent User Interfaces Conference

这笔资金将为大约20名研究生（全部来自美国大学，攻读硕士或博士学位）提供经济支持，参加将于3月13日至16日在塞浦路斯利马索尔举行的2017年智能用户界面国际会议（IUI 2017），其中约10名学生将作为特别学生联盟（研讨会）的参与者。其余的作为主要会议的演讲者和/或作为一般培训目的的会议与会者。由ACM主办的IUI年度会议代表了对下一代智能交互用户界面日益增长的兴趣。吸引了200-300名与会者，他们是来自世界各地的学术界和工业界的研究人员在人机交互（HCI）和人工智能（AI）交叉领域工作的主要论坛，他们聚集在一起交流见解，并展示杰出的研究和应用，其目标是使计算机化的世界成为一个更容易适应的地方。与传统的人工智能不同，它的重点不是让计算机本身变得智能，而是让计算机与人之间的互动变得更智能；与传统的HCI不同，HCI关注的是涉及大量知识和新兴技术的解决方案，如自然语言理解、脑机接口和手势识别。为此，IUI不仅鼓励来自计算机科学的贡献，也鼓励来自相关领域的贡献，如心理学、行为科学、认知科学、计算机图形学、设计、艺术等。IUI 2017将是该系列的第22届会议；有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://iui.acm.org/2017。这笔资金将使那些因经济原因无法参加IUI会议的学生能够参加会议。它将提高受资助参与者的教育经验，使他们接触该领域的主要研究人员，并使他们在会议期间接触到经常导致职业发展机会的热烈讨论。会议本身的质量也将得到提高，因为参会机构的基础扩大了，与会者的多样性增加了。IUI丰富的思想交流已被证明是未来研究的宝贵思想来源，并导致合作努力；这笔资金将扩大合作的机会，并为以前很少或根本没有派代表参加本次会议的项目提供智力激励。组委会已承诺积极招募来自传统上在IUI社区中没有很好代表的学校的学生参与者。将特别鼓励属于代表性不足群体的妇女和学生参加。为了进一步保证多样性，每一所院校只招收两名以上的学生。IUI 2017学生联盟将在以往此类活动的成功基础上再接再厉。该联盟的核心将是在3月13日举行的全天研讨会，与会议研讨会同时举行，并在技术计划开始的前一天举行。实习学生将通过对他们的工作进行20-30次演示，并接受同行和资深研究人员小组的反馈，从而接触到他们新的研究社区。集体午餐和晚餐将鼓励学生群体之间的社会互动以及与导师的非正式个人互动。学生们的作品也将在主会议期间以海报形式展示，在那里他们将获得额外的经验，向该领域的其他人解释他们的工作。

This is funding to provide financial support for approximately 20 graduate students (all from U. S. universities and working towards either their Master's degree or a Doctorate) to attend the 2017 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2017), to be held March 13-16 in Limassol, Cypress, about 10 of them as participants in a special Student Consortium (workshop), and the rest as presenters in the main conference and/or as attendees at the conference for general training purposes. Sponsored by ACM, the annual IUI conferences represent the growing interest in next-generation intelligent interactive user interfaces. Attracting 200-300 attendees, they are the premier forum where researchers from academia and industry worldwide who work at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) come together to exchange insights and to present outstanding research and applications whose goal is to make the computerized world a more amenable place. Unlike traditional AI the focus is not so much on making the computer smart all by itself, but rather on making the interaction between computers and people smarter; unlike traditional HCI, there is a focus on solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding, brain computer interfaces, and gesture recognition. To this end, IUI encourages contributions not only from computer science but also from related fields such as psychology, behavioral science, cognitive science, computer graphics, design, the arts, etc. IUI 2017 will be the 22nd conference in the series; more information about the conference is available online at http://iui.acm.org/2017. This funding will enable attendance at the IUI conference by students who might otherwise be unable to do so for financial reasons. It will enhance the educational experience of funded participants, by bringing them into contact with leading researchers in the field and by exposing them to the lively discussion during the course of the conference that often leads to opportunities for career advancement. The quality of the conference itself will be enhanced as well, thanks to a broadening of the base of institutions represented and increased diversity of participants. The rich exchange of ideas at IUI has previously proven to be a valuable source of ideas for future research, as well as leading to collaborative efforts; this funding will extend the opportunities for collaboration and provide intellectual stimulus to programs that have previously sent few or no representatives to this conference. The organizing committee has undertaken to proactively recruit student participants from schools that have not traditionally been well represented in the IUI community. Women and students who are members of underrepresented groups will be particularly encouraged to participate. To further assure diversity, no more than two students will be accepted from any given institution.The IUI 2017 Student Consortium will build on the success of previous such events. The heart of the Consortium will be a full-day workshop on March 13 in parallel with the conference workshops and the day before the start of the technical program. Student trainees will be afforded exposure to their new research community by giving a 20-30 presentation on their work and receiving feedback from peers and a panel of senior researchers. A group lunch and dinner will encourage social interaction among the student cohort and informal personal interaction with the mentors. The students' work will also be featured during the main conference in a poster session, where they will gain additional experience explaining their work to others in the field.