WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at the 2017 International Conference of Mobile Brain ­Body Imaging (MoBI) and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity

这笔资金将为2017年移动脑体成像国际会议(MOBI)和艺术、创新和创意神经科学提供部分支持。会议的目标是确定利用创意艺术促进解决科学、工程、教育和医学复杂问题的新颖和创新方法的挑战和机会。这次会议将于2017年9月10日至13日在西班牙巴伦西亚的Arenas酒店举行，由PI(休斯顿大学)和Jose Azorin教授(西班牙Miguel Hernandez de Elche大学)联合举办。该议程旨在促进观众驱动的关于最新技术的批判性讨论，并促进艺术与科学的合作。为此，会议将坚持单一轨道的形式，由一名科学家/工程师和一名艺术家共同主持主题会议，每届会议的发言者不超过4人。互动演示、脑机接口黑客马拉松以及应对重大挑战的艺术科学表演将增加会议的广泛影响。《脑-计算机接口》杂志的一期特刊将促进会议演示和黑客马拉松设计成果的广泛传播。博士联盟将由几个相互交织的活动组成，这些活动将为受训人员提供一个机会，在一个由国际研究人员、艺术家和创新者组成的杰出团体的指导下，在跨学科会议的背景下探索和发展他们的研究兴趣。为了确保多样性，组织者将积极从代表性不足的群体中招募学生参与者，包括妇女和少数族裔，每个机构最多两名学生(如果两名，则一名必须是女性)。博士团学员将被分成多学科小组担任书记(一个小组/会议会议)，并在会议结束时向与会者汇报，从而提高书面和口头技能。每个团队将与两名教师导师合作，起草一份手稿，发表在一本关于艺术BCI系统的编辑书籍中，他们还将参加由IEEE Brain Initiative赞助的BCI Hackathon，目标是促进该领域的创新。此外，受训者每人将准备一张关于他们的研究生/博士后研究的海报，以获得教职员工和同行的反馈。

This is funding to provide partial support for the 2017 International Conference of Mobile Brain-Body Imaging (MoBI) and the Neuroscience of Art, Innovation and Creativity. The conference's goal is to identify the challenges and opportunities for engaging the creative arts to promote novel and innovative approaches for solving complex problems in science, engineering, education and medicine. The meeting, to be held at Hotel Arenas, Valencia, Spain on September 10-13, 2017, is being jointly co-organized by the PI (University of Houston) and Prof. Jose Azorin (University Miguel Hernandez de Elche, Spain). The agenda is designed to promote audience-driven critical discussions on the state of the art, and to facilitate art-science collaborations. To these ends, the conference will adhere to a single track format with thematic sessions that are jointly chaired by a scientist/engineer and an artist, with no more than 4 speakers per session. Interactive demonstrations, a brain-computer interface hackathon, and Art-Sci performances that address grand challenges will add to the conference's broad impact. A special issue of the journal Brain-Computer Interfaces will promote wide dissemination of findings from the conference presentations and hackathon designs. The Doctoral Consortium will consist of several intertwined activities that will provide an opportunity for the trainees to network while exploring and developing their research interests within the context of an interdisciplinary conference, under the guidance of a distinguished group of international researchers, artists and innovators. To assure diversity, the organizers will actively recruit student participants from under-represented groups, including women and minorities, with a maximum of two students per institution (and if two then one must be a female).Doctoral consortium trainees will be divided into multidisciplinary teams to serve as scribes (one team/conference session) that will report back to the participants at the end of the conference, thus promoting both written and oral skills. Each team, in collaboration with two faculty mentors, will draft a manuscript to be published in an edited book on Artistic BCI Systems, and they will also compete in the BCI Hackathon which is sponsored by the IEEE Brain Initiative with the goal of fostering innovation in the field. Additionally, trainees will each prepare a poster about their graduate/postdoctoral research, to obtain feedback from faculty and peers.