Doctoral Consortium at the 2019 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction

情感计算和智能交互国际会议（ACII）是跨学科研究系统设计的首要国际论坛，可以识别，解释和模拟人类情感和相关情感现象。其广泛范围包括：人类情感的多模态识别或合成，心理、认知和神经情感建模，用于社会和行为科学的情感计算，以及用于社会机器人和虚拟代理的情感交互。会议介绍了这些和相关领域的最新研究，并在塑造相关的科学，学术和教育计划中发挥着重要作用。ACII 2019的主题是“面向所有人的情感计算”（AC 4ALL），将重点关注包容性技术、包容性设计原则和包容性用户界面，这些原则考虑了人类在能力、语言、文化、性别、年龄和其他形式的差异方面的全面多样性。除了主要的会议计划外，会议还将举办研讨会，教程，展览和博士联盟。该项目将支持大约8名美国博士的旅行。2019年10月3日至6日在英国剑桥举行的第八届ACII会议。除了参加主要的会议计划，博士。学生还将参加博士联盟，在那里他们将与社区分享他们的研究成果，并收到该领域高级研究人员的反馈。这将帮助学生不仅学习情感计算研究的最新技术，而且有机会向一个由教师和行业研究人员组成的受邀委员会展示自己的工作，并与其他在相关领域工作的学生一起沿着。活动组织者将特别努力吸引代表性不足的学生（特别是妇女和少数民族），以最大限度地发挥NSF支持的好处。博士联盟的具体目标是提供一个机会，面对面的互动和建设性的反馈，为博士研究的学生参与者;促进博士之间的网络。学生在相关领域的工作;促进博士之间的网络。学生和研究人员从学术界和工业界在相关领域的工作;发展一个支持社区的学者在情感计算领域;支持下一代的研究人员，并提供学术，研究，工业和非传统的职业道路在该领域的建议;并支持美国学生和他们的同行来自其他国家的技术和文化之间的互动。博士联盟征求扩展摘要（4页，加上1页的参考资料）从任何美国博士生。研究福尔斯属于情感计算领域的授予机构。学生应是他们提交的唯一作者。对于学生的选择，DC委员会致力于学生和研究的多样性。活动组织者将特别努力在ACII 2019博士联盟队列中实现研究主题，学科背景，方法方法和家庭机构的多样性。每个学生参与者将根据研究兴趣和经验的相似性分配一个导师，并有一个一对一的会议来讨论工作。将有一个博士联盟海报会议，所有参与者将介绍他们的博士工作或最近的论文，这是他们的博士工作的一部分。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) is the premier international forum for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. Its broad scope includes: multi-modal recognition or synthesis of human affect, psychological, cognitive, and neurological affect modeling, affective computing for social and behavioral sciences, and affective interactions for social robotics and virtual agents. The conference presents latest research in these and related areas and it plays an important role in shaping related scientific, academic, and educational programs. ACII 2019 is based around the theme of Affective Computing for ALL (AC4ALL) and will focus on inclusive technology, inclusive design principles and inclusive user interfaces which consider the full range of human diversity with respect to ability, language, culture, gender, age and other forms of human difference. Besides the main conference program, the conference will also feature workshops, tutorials, exhibitions, and a doctoral consortium. This project is to support the travel of approximately 8 U.S. Ph.D. students to attend the 8th ACII conference to be held from October 3rd to 6th, 2019 in Cambridge, UK. Besides attending the main conference program, the Ph.D. students will also attend the Doctoral Consortium, where they will share their research results with the community and receive feedback from senior researchers in the field. This will help the students not only learn the state of the art in affective computing research but also have an opportunity to present their own work to, and receive feedback from, an invited committee of faculty and industry researchers along with other students working in related areas. The event organizers will make a particular effort to engage underrepresented students (in particular, women and minorities) to maximize the benefits of the NSF support. The specific goals of the doctoral consortium are to provide an opportunity for face-to-face interaction and constructive feedback for doctoral research of student participants; to promote networks among Ph.D. students working in the related area; to promote networks between Ph.D. students and researchers from academia and industry working in the related area; to develop a supportive community of scholars in the affective computing field; to support the next generation of researchers and provide advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths in the field; and to support technical and culture interactions between American students and their counterparts from other countries. The Doctoral Consortium solicits extended abstract (4 pages, plus 1 page for references) from students from any U.S. Ph.D. granting institution whose research falls within the Affective Computing field. Students are expected to be the sole authors on their submission. For student selection, the DC committee is committed to student and research diversity. The event organizers will make a particular effort to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in ACII 2019 Doctoral Consortium cohort. Each student participant will be assigned a mentor based upon similarity of research interests and experience, and have a one-one-one meeting to discuss the work. There will be a Doctoral Consortium poster session, in which all participants will present their doctoral work or a recent paper that is part of their doctoral work.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.