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

博士联盟出席2019情感计算与智能交互国际会议

• 批准号: 1932823
• 负责人: Theodora Chaspari
• 金额: $ 0.8万
• 依托单位: Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station
• 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: 2019-06-15 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1932823&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Consortium; 2019; International; Conference

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.

国际情感计算和智能交互会议（ACII）是跨学科研究系统设计的主要国际论坛，可以识别，解释和模拟人类情感和相关情感现象。其广泛的范围包括：人类情感的多模态识别或合成，心理，认知和神经学的情感建模，社会和行为科学的情感计算，以及社交机器人和虚拟代理的情感交互。会议展示了这些领域和相关领域的最新研究成果，它在形成相关的科学、学术和教育计划方面发挥着重要作用。ACII 2019以“面向所有人的情感计算”（AC4ALL）为主题，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，全面考虑人类在能力、语言、文化、性别、年龄和其他形式的人类差异方面的多样性。除了主要的会议项目，会议还将包括研讨会、辅导课、展览和博士联盟。该项目支持约8名美国博士生参加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程序，博士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，并接受该领域资深研究人员的反馈。这将帮助学生不仅学习情感计算研究的最新技术，而且有机会向邀请的教师和行业研究人员委员会以及在相关领域工作的其他学生展示他们自己的工作，并获得反馈。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），以最大限度地利用国家科学基金会的支持。博士生联盟的具体目标是为参与博士生的博士研究提供面对面互动和建设性反馈的机会；促进在相关领域工作的博士生之间的网络；促进博士生与相关领域的学术界和产业界研究人员之间的联系；在情感计算领域建立一个支持性的学者社区；支持下一代研究人员，为该领域的学术、研究、工业和非传统职业道路提供建议；并支持美国学生与其他国家学生之间的技术和文化交流。博士联盟向所有在情感计算领域研究的美国博士授予机构的学生征集扩展摘要（4页，外加1页参考文献）。学生应该是他们提交的唯一作者。在学生选拔方面，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名导师，并进行一对一的会议讨论工作。将有一个博士联盟海报会议，所有参与者将展示他们的博士工作或最近的一篇论文，这是他们博士工作的一部分。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。