WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at 2019 Conference on Computers and Accessibility

这笔资金用于支持大约15名有前途的研究生（最多10名来自美国，将由该奖项资助）以及大约5名杰出的研究人员组成的博士联盟（研讨会）。该活动将于10月26日至27日举行，紧接着将于2019年10月28日至30日在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡举行的第21届国际计算机协会无障碍计算特别兴趣小组计算机和无障碍会议（ASSETS 2019）。ASSETS会议是展示主流和专业辅助技术的设计和使用方面的创新研究的主要论坛，这些技术支持与语言、运动、听力和视觉障碍、认知限制、情感和学习障碍以及老龄化相关的需求，以及与这些人群一起工作的专业人员。来自世界各地的学术界和工业界的研究人员和开发人员将在ASSETS 2019上会面，交换意见并展示他们的最新工作。今年，ASSETS将首次扩大其范围，纳入与计算机可及性教育相关主题的原创高质量研究。建立任何社区的一个关键组成部分是通过青年。博士联盟将帮助年轻研究人员扩大在该领域进行研究生学习的参与，为他们提供机会，使他们有机会在社区中获得更广泛的创新工作，并获得资深研究人员和同行的反馈和指导。它将通过允许这些年轻研究人员在其专业发展的关键阶段创建社会网络，在他们之间培养一种社区意识。由于学生和教师构成了一个跨越不同维度的多元化群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。组织者将采取措施，促进那些拥有相对大量来自弱势群体学生的机构的参与。为了进一步增加多样性，组织者将致力于机构多样性、性别多样性以及在科学和工程领域代表性不足的少数群体成员的参与。ASSETS 2019博士联盟将是一个由选定的博士候选人和杰出研究人员组成的国际小组组成的以研究为重点的会议。活动将分为两个部分：(1)非正式介绍和对话（26日）；(2)更正式的全天研讨会，将包括学生报告、反馈和小组讨论（10月27日）。博士联盟的参与者还将在会议期间的海报环节展示他们的工作。研讨会将为来自不同背景（计算机，工程，心理学，建筑等）的研究生提供机会，在首席研究员和专家小组的指导下，在跨学科研讨会上共同探索他们的研究兴趣，使他们能够了解辅助技术和普遍可用性的更广泛的研究和开发方法。还可以体验他们可以追求自己努力的社区。学生参与者将在研讨会期间正式展示他们的工作，并将从教师小组获得建设性的反馈。反馈的目的是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在论文研究项目，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。因此，该联盟将帮助形成正在进行的和未来的研究项目，旨在辅助技术和普遍获取，将促进这些跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的奖学金和网络，并将使年轻的研究人员接触到更大的社区。此外，教师还将为学术界和工业界的研究人员介绍工作机会，以便在考虑职业选择时更好地告知学生。将对该联盟进行评估，并将评估结果提供给今后此类活动的组织者。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。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) of approximately 15 promising graduate students (up to 10 from the United States, who will be funded by this award), along with about 5 distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on October 26-27, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 21st International Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Accessible Computing Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019), to be held October 28-30, 2019, in Pittsburgh, PA. The ASSETS conferences are the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies in support of the needs associated with speech, motor, hearing, and vision impairments, cognitive limitations, emotional and learning disabilities, and aging, as well as the professionals who work with these populations. Researchers and developers from around the world, in both academia and industry, will meet at ASSETS 2019 to exchange ideas and present their latest work. For the first time this year, ASSETS is expanding its scope to include original high-quality research on topics related to education in computing accessibility. A key component of building any community is through its youth. The Doctoral Consortium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior researchers and peers. It will foster a sense of community among these young researchers by allowing them to create a social network at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality/cultural and scientific discipline, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. The organizers will take steps to promote participation from institutions with relatively large numbers of students from under-represented groups. To further increase diversity, the organizers will aim for institutional diversity, gender diversity, and participation from members of minority groups underrepresented in science and engineering.The ASSETS 2019 Doctoral Consortium will be a research-focused meeting of an international group of selected Ph.D. candidates and an international panel of distinguished research faculty. The event will be composed of two parts: (1) informal introductions and conversation (October 26); and (2) a more formal all-day workshop, which will include a mixture of student presentations, feedback, and small group discussions (October 27). Doctoral Consortium participants will also present their work in a poster session during the conference itself. The workshop will provide an opportunity for graduate students from diverse backgrounds (computing, engineering, psychology, architecture, etc.) to come together and explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of the principal investigator and a panel of experts, so that they can appreciate the broader spectrum of research and development approaches to assistive technologies and universal usability, and also experience the community in which they can pursue their endeavors. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the workshop and will receive constructive feedback from the faculty panel. The 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. Thus, the consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at assistive technologies and universal access, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in these interdisciplinary fields, and will also expose the young researchers to a larger community. In addition, the faculty will give a presentation on job opportunities for researchers both in academia and in industry, to better inform the students when considering career options. An evaluation of the consortium will be carried out and the results made available to the organizers of future such events.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.