Student Support for the Seventh International Brain-Computer Interface Meeting

第七届国际脑机接口会议学生支持

• 批准号: 1829154
• 负责人: Charles Anderson
• 金额: $ 1.94万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-03-01 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1829154&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Student; Support; Seventh; International; Brain

Brain-computer interface (BCI) research explores avenues of controlling devices directly from brain signals. Thus, BCI technology is a powerful control option for neuro-prosthetic limbs, as well as a potential communication option for people with severe motor disabilities or disorders such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), brainstem stroke, cerebral palsy, and spinal cord injury, who may have little or even no muscle control and therefore no means of communication with the external world. The International Brain-Computer Interface (IBCI) meeting is the flagship conference for the field, the seventh of which will be held May 21-25, 2018, on the Asilomar Conference Grounds in Pacific Grove,, California. Effective BCI research requires interdisciplinary interactions involving neuroscience, psychology, engineering, mathematics, computer science, and clinical rehabilitation, and the IBCI meeting serves as a critical catalyst for technology dissemination, new collaborations, and educational opportunities for students. The primary source of funding for the meeting is the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This NSF funding will enable another 22 students, including undergraduate and graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, to attend and participate in the conference. The organizers are planning innovations to make the 2018 event the most valuable yet. For the first time the conference will include a series of 12 one-hour masterclasses, six of which will meet in parallel on Wednesday evening, and the other six will meet in parallel on Thursday afternoon. Each masterclass will have a senior researcher as the "master" along with two students each of whom will present his/her research for 10-15 minutes, after which the master will provide wise and constructive comments, with audience participation encouraged in an informal session intended to give students access to senior expertise and to get good tips for their research. Another new event at this year's meeting with be the "BCI Hackathon" organized and sponsored by G.Tec Medical Engineering GmbH, during which participants will work in teams on a number of BCI applications and will then present their work to the hackathon community. NSF funding will be used to support student travel, registration, and student-only event costs. Student participation in previous IBCI meetings has been very fruitful; a large number of those students have now graduated and are prominent researchers in the BCI field. The organizers are actively recruiting student attendees from traditionally underrepresented groups. More information about the conference may be found online at http://bcisociety.org/meetings/bci-2018-welcome/. Because of the growth in the field of BCI research, 300 or more participants are expected to attend this meeting, including investigators from at least 100 BCI research groups. All attendees commit to the entire meeting, from the opening reception and dinner on the evening of Monday, May 21 through the final summary discussion at breakfast the morning of Friday, May 25. A main objective of the conference is to give students a significant educational and professional experience in the BCI field, and to provide opportunities for them to gain depth in their specific interest areas. The conference will begin with a specialized student colloquium on the afternoon before the full conference starts, which will provide lectures from prominent experts in the BCI field. This will give the students a solid foundation for understanding the rest of the conference. There will also be a student poster session and prizes for the best student research projects, as well as giving students access to research leaders for informal question-and-answer sessions at the end of each day. The students will participate fully in the main conference as well. Exposure to prominent researchers in the BCI field will allow students to receive invaluable feedback on their work, and to make connections that may result in new research directions; it will also provide students with access to potential mentors, committee members, and experts to review their future work. A full and detailed schedule of planned conference sessions and events, along with any updates, can be found on the conference website. With all participants housed on site and all meals for all attendees taken together on site, there will be ample opportunity for informal discussions. This creates a unique opportunity for students and trainees to mingle with and learn from established researchers.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

脑机接口（BCI）研究探索了直接根据大脑信号控制设备的途径。 因此，脑机接口技术是神经假肢的强大控制选择，也是患有严重运动障碍或肌萎缩侧索硬化症（ALS）、脑干中风、脑瘫和脊髓损伤等疾病的人的潜在沟通选择，这些人可能很少甚至没有肌肉控制，因此无法与外界沟通。 国际脑机接口 (IBCI) 会议是该领域的旗舰会议，第七届会议将于 2018 年 5 月 21 日至 25 日在加利福尼亚州太平洋格罗夫的阿西洛玛会议场地举行。 有效的 BCI 研究需要涉及神经科学、心理学、工程学、数学、计算机科学和临床康复的跨学科互动，而 IBCI 会议是技术传播、新合作和学生教育机会的关键催化剂。 此次会议的主要资金来源是美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）。 NSF 的这笔资金将使另外 22 名学生，包括本科生、研究生和博士后研究员，能够参加这次会议。 组织者正在计划创新，以使 2018 年的活动成为迄今为止最有价值的活动。 会议将首次包括一系列 12 个一小时的大师班，其中 6 个将在周三晚上并行，另外 6 个将在周四下午并行。 每个大师班将有一名高级研究员作为“大师”，以及两名学生，每人将介绍他/她的研究10-15分钟，之后大师将提供明智和建设性的评论，鼓励观众参与非正式会议，旨在让学生获得高级专业知识并获得研究的好建议。 今年会议的另一项新活动是由 G.Tec Medical Engineering GmbH 组织和赞助的“BCI 黑客马拉松”，在此期间，参与者将在多个 BCI 应用程序上进行团队合作，然后向黑客马拉松社区展示他们的工作成果。 NSF 资金将用于支持学生旅行、注册和仅限学生的活动费用。 学生参加往届IBCI会议卓有成效；其中许多学生现已毕业，并成为 BCI 领域的杰出研究人员。 组织者正在积极招募传统上代表性不足的群体的学生参加者。 有关会议的更多信息，请访问 http://bcisociety.org/meetings/bci-2018-welcome/。 由于 BCI 研究领域的发展，预计将有 300 名或更多参与者参加本次会议，其中包括来自至少 100 个 BCI 研究小组的研究人员。所有与会者都承诺参加整个会议，从 5 月 21 日星期一晚上的开幕招待会和晚宴到 5 月 25 日星期五早上早餐时的最终总结讨论。会议的主要目标是为学生提供 BCI 领域的重要教育和专业经验，并为他们提供深入了解其特定兴趣领域的机会。会议将在整个会议开始前的下午以专门的学生座谈会开始，届时将有 BCI 领域著名专家的讲座。这将为学生理解会议的其余部分奠定坚实的基础。 还将举办学生海报会议和最佳学生研究项目奖，并让学生有机会在每天结束时与研究领导者进行非正式的问答会议。学生们也将充分参与主会议。 接触 BCI 领域的杰出研究人员将使学生获得关于其工作的宝贵反馈，并建立可能导致新研究方向的联系；它还将为学生提供接触潜在导师、委员会成员和专家的机会，以审查他们未来的工作。 您可以在会议网站上找到计划的会议和活动的完整详细时间表以及任何更新。 由于所有与会者都在现场住宿，并且所有与会者的所有膳食都在现场一起进行，因此将有充足的机会进行非正式讨论。这为学生和学员创造了与知名研究人员交流并向其学习的独特机会。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。