WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at the PETRA 2017 Conference; June 21-23, 2017; Rhodes, Greece

这是一笔支持博士联盟的资金（研讨会）约12名来自美国高等院校的有前途的研究生，沿着至少3名杰出的研究人员作为导师，将与第十届辅助环境相关普及技术国际会议一起举行（PETRA 2017），将于6月21日至23日在希腊罗兹岛举行。 PETRA的使命是促进跨学科的研究，研究如何利用无处不在的周围智能环境来提高生活质量，并以更大的能力提高人类的表现。 它是唯一一个汇集了来自各种学科的理论家和实践者的年度会议，专注于普及技术在辅助环境中的应用。 本次会议的成果在不同的应用领域产生了广泛的影响，如制造业，交通运输，能源系统，安全和安全，机器人，医疗保健，生物医学，环境和保护。 PETRA汇集了非常不同类型的技术，也解决了敏感人群的重要社会和医疗保健问题，如老年人，或患有慢性疾病的人，如阿尔茨海默氏症，帕金森氏症，脑瘫和其他残疾或创伤。 PETRA会议论文发表在ACM数字图书馆，最佳论文的作者被邀请在会议结束后提交特别期刊。 有关会议的更多信息可以在http://www.petrae.org上找到。PETRA 2017博士联盟将为在会议上接受演讲的论文的学生作者提供一个独特的机会，以获得他们的创新想法的额外曝光，同时也加强了进行具有社会影响的研究的重要性和价值。 该讲习班将使初级参与者能够在他们自己之间以及与高级同事建立一个社交网络。组委会将共同努力吸引妇女、代表性不足的少数民族成员和残疾人参加;为了进一步确保多样性，NSF的资金将用于支持来自任何一个机构的不超过2名学生参加者，如果支持2名学生，其中一名必须是少数民族或残疾人。 到目前为止，超过150名美国教育机构的学生已经能够从PETRA博士联盟的NSF支持中受益。博士联盟的目标将包括在会议开始时，期间和结束时的特别会议，旨在增加参与者工作在社区中的曝光度和知名度，帮助在下一代研究人员中建立社区意识，并通过一组高级研究人员在支持和互动的环境中提供实质性的反馈和指导，帮助促进他们的研究工作。 为学生组织的特别计划包括博士生和教师导师之间的会议，学生将讨论他们的工作并提出问题;教师导师将对学生的工作提出建设性意见并解决他们的问题。 每个学生将被要求提交一份报告，提供有关会议的反馈，关于他们收到的好处，他们喜欢的演示文稿和原因，以及某些论文和主题与他们的工作的关系。在他们完成这些报告后，学生将参加小组分组讨论会，讨论他们，教师导师将提供指导如何进行进一步的期刊出版。 学生还可以选择提交海报文件，并参加专题会议研讨会。 关于与会者工作的简短论文将在会议记录中发表，关于这次活动的简要报告将在会议网站上公布。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) of approximately 12 promising graduate students from U.S. institutions of higher learning, along with at least 3 distinguished research faculty as mentors, to be held in conjunction with the Tenth International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2017), which will take place June 21-23 on the island of Rhodes, Greece. The PETRA mission is to promote interdisciplinary research on ways to use pervasive ambient intelligent environments to improve the quality of life and enhance human performance with greater capabilities. It is the only annual conference that brings together theoreticians and practitioners from a wide variety of disciplines to focus on the application of pervasive technologies to assistive environments. Outcomes of this conference have a broad impact in diverse application areas such as manufacturing, transportation, energy systems, security and safety, robotics, healthcare, biomedicine, environment and conservation. PETRA brings together very different types of technologies to also address important social and healthcare issues for sensitive populations, such as the elderly, or persons suffering from chronic conditions such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, Cerebral Palsy and other disabilities or traumas. The PETRA proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library, and the authors of the best papers are invited to submit to special journal issues after the end of the conference. More information about the conference may be found online at http://www.petrae.org. The PETRA 2017 Doctoral Consortium will afford student authors of papers accepted for presentation at the conference a unique opportunity to gain additional exposure for their innovative ideas while also receiving reinforcement for the importance and value of conducting research with societal impact. The workshop will allow the junior participants to create a social network both among themselves and with senior colleagues. The organizing committee will make a concerted effort to attract participants who are women, members of under-represented minorities, and persons with disabilities; to further assure diversity, NSF funds will be used to support no more than 2 student participants from any one institution, and if 2 students are supported, one of them must be a minority or person with disability. To date, over 150 students based in U.S. educational institutions have been able to benefit from NSF support of the PETRA Doctoral Consortia.The goals of the Doctoral Consortium, which will consist of special sessions at the beginning, during, and at the end of the conference, are to increase the exposure and visibility of the participants' work within the community, to help establish a sense of community among this next generation of researchers, and to help foster their research efforts by providing substantive feedback and guidance in a supportive and interactive environment from a group of senior researchers. The special program organized for the students includes sessions between the doctoral students and the faculty mentors, in which the students will discuss their work and ask questions; the faculty mentors will provide constructive comments on the students' work and address their questions. Each student will be asked to submit a report that provides feedback about the conference, regarding the benefits they received, which presentations they liked and why, and how certain papers and topics relate to their work. After they finish these reports, students will participate in small group breakout sessions to discuss them, and the faculty mentors will provide guidance on how to proceed for further journal publication. Students will also have the option to submit a poster paper and to attend conference workshops on special topics. Short papers on the participants' work will be published in the conference proceedings, and a summary report on the event will be posted on the conference website.