WORKSHOP: Think Tank (Doctoral Consortium) at International Conference on Auditory Display 2019

研讨会：智库（博士联盟）出席 2019 年国际听觉显示会议

• 批准号: 1924796
• 负责人: Bruce Walker
• 金额: $ 3万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-05-01 至 2020-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1924796&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: WORKSHOP; Think; Tank; Doctoral; Consortium

This is funding to support a "Think Tank" (workshop) of about 15 promising graduate student scholars along with 5 distinguished research faculty mentors, in conjunction with the 25th Annual International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2019), which will be held June 23-27, 2019, on the campus of Northumbria University in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK. ICAD is the premier international forum for presenting research on the use of sound to display data, monitor systems, and provide enhanced user interfaces for computers and virtual reality systems. It is unique in its singular focus on auditory displays and the array of perception, technology, and application areas that this encompasses, which include for example data sonification, auditory wayfinding, auditory graphs, speech interfaces, virtual environments, and associated perceptual, cognitive, technical, and technological research and development. Many of the interdisciplinary research and development efforts are of direct relevance to persons with perceptual disabilities, especially visual impairments; for example, developing wayfinding systems for the blind requires research into effective distance cues and object identifiers used in auditory displays. Research into the efficacy of auditory graphs may be used to help visually impaired students and scientists participate more fully in science. Even household devices can have more effective auditory displays that provide richer information than the basic "beeps" they presently tend to generate. A common approach in this field is universal design, wherein a display strategy is developed once, to be used by all kinds of users, including those with and without specific access issues. This year's conference theme is "Sonification for Everyday Life"; more details about ICAD 2019 are available online at https://icad2019.icad.org/. The ICAD Think Tank is a doctoral consortium that promotes scholarship and networking among new researchers in this important emerging interdisciplinary area. This full-day workshop will take place on June 23 immediately preceding the conference, The event will develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, by providing participants with a friendly and open, yet rigorous, scientific forum in which to present their research ideas, to listen to ongoing work from peer students, and to receive constructive feedback from a panel of distinguished experts. Panel feedback is designed to help students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. The Think Tank will also offer invited speakers and discussion groups (e.g., to provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates, whether they are considering academic or industrial career paths). Student participants will present their work via posters during the ICAD 2019 technical program, and via extended abstracts published on the ICAD 2019 website. Thus, the Think Tank will help shape ongoing and future research projects that have clear and important implications for development of assistive technologies and universal access. It will bring together students from diverse disciplines (such as engineering, computing, music, and psychology), so that they can experience the broad spectrum of approaches to auditory displays, assistive technologies and universal design. It will afford participants exposure to a larger community, allowing them to bond among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality and culture, scientific discipline, and institution, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. This year, the organizers expect that up to 6 U.S.-based Think Tank Scholars will have their travel and attendance heavily subsidized. Some NSF funds will also be used to support travel by the faculty mentors (both U.S. and foreign-based), since they provide great value to the US students, but NSF funds will not be used to support travel and participation of non-U.S. students. The organizers will be proactive in promoting diversity among the attendees; stage in their academic program, research topic, gender and disability status are examples of dimensions on which participant diversity will be pursued, while geographic and institutional diversity will also be strongly considered. To further promote diversity among the Student Scholars, although up to two Scholars may be selected from a given university, only one may be funded by this grant.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.

这是资助支持约15名有前途的研究生学者沿着与5名杰出的研究教师导师的“智囊团”（研讨会），与第25届年度国际会议听觉显示（ICAD 2019），这将于2019年6月23日至27日在英国泰恩河畔纽卡斯尔的诺森比亚大学校园举行。 ICAD是介绍使用声音来显示数据，监控系统，并为计算机和虚拟现实系统提供增强的用户界面的主要国际论坛。 它的独特之处在于它专注于听觉显示和一系列感知，技术和应用领域，包括例如数据声化，听觉寻路，听觉图形，语音界面，虚拟环境以及相关的感知，认知，技术和技术研究和开发。 许多跨学科的研究和开发工作与有知觉残疾的人，特别是有视觉障碍的人直接相关;例如，为盲人开发寻路系统需要研究听觉显示中使用的有效距离提示和物体识别器。 对听觉图形功效的研究可用于帮助视障学生和科学家更充分地参与科学。 甚至家用设备也可以具有更有效的听觉显示器，其提供比它们目前倾向于产生的基本“哔哔声”更丰富的信息。 这一领域的一种常见方法是通用设计，即一次性开发一种显示策略，供所有类型的用户使用，包括有和没有特定访问问题的用户。 今年的会议主题是“日常生活的声音化”;有关ICAD 2019的更多详细信息可在线访问https://icad2019.icad.org/。 ICAD智库是一个博士联盟，旨在促进这一重要的新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的奖学金和网络。 本次为期一天的研讨会将于6月23日在会议之前举行，该活动将发展一个支持性的学者社区和合作研究的精神，为参与者提供一个友好，开放，但严格的科学论坛，以展示他们的研究想法，听取同行学生正在进行的工作，并从杰出专家小组获得建设性的反馈。 小组反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作是如何定位相对于相关研究，他们的主题是否充分集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。 智囊团还将邀请演讲者和讨论小组（例如，为学生提供有关博士候选人重要问题的相关信息，无论他们是考虑学术还是工业职业道路）。 学生参与者将在ICAD 2019技术计划期间通过海报展示他们的工作，并通过在ICAD 2019网站上发布的扩展摘要。 因此，智囊团将帮助制定正在进行和未来的研究项目，这些项目对辅助技术的发展和普及具有明确和重要的影响。 它将汇集来自不同学科（如工程，计算机，音乐和心理学）的学生，使他们能够体验到听觉显示，辅助技术和通用设计的广泛方法。它将使参与者接触到更大的社区，使他们能够在专业发展的关键阶段相互联系并与高级研究人员联系。 由于学生和教师构成了一个多元化的群体，包括民族和文化，科学学科和机构，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。 今年，组织者预计，多达6个美国-智库学者的差旅费和出勤费将得到大量补贴。 一些NSF资金也将用于支持教师导师（美国和外国）的旅行，因为他们为美国学生提供了巨大的价值，但NSF资金不会用于支持非美国学生的旅行和参与。 组织者将积极促进与会者之间的多样性;他们的学术计划，研究课题，性别和残疾状况的阶段是参与者多样性将被追求的维度的例子，而地理和机构的多样性也将被强烈考虑。 为了进一步促进学生学者的多样性，虽然最多可以从一所大学中选出两名学者，但只有一名学者可以获得该奖学金的资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。