REU Site: Interactive Systems

交互式系统研究经验的本科生（REU）网站的重点是，随着智能系统变得越来越普遍的可穿戴设备（例如，智能手表和电话，医疗设备）或在环境中（例如，智能家居，在线教育系统），它们将与人们更密切地互动。为人在环设计网络物理和数据辅助教育系统的过程通常是事后的想法，但未来智能系统的现实是，如果它们不容易使用，它们的价值就会降低。由于人类行为很难建模，因此大部分焦点都集中在如何轻松地引导人们以富有成效的方式与系统进行交互。REU解决了这些重要的研究问题，并根据我们的专业知识与本科生在一个新的研究，教学和指导周期，以及检查本科生在科学和工程方面的经验的文献机构一起工作。我们的方法促进了从事前沿研究的本科研究人员的紧密联系，使他们能够随着能力的提高而变得更加独立。我们建立的指导社区是至关重要的，以提高学生的能力，发展合议关系，并改善协作互动。与会者还参加了南加州“会议的思想”。它为学生提供了一个场所，让他们接触到比单一课程更广泛的研究。这个REU网站将影响科学和教育研究社区。这项建议的智力重点是在诸如网络物理系统和数据辅助教育等领域开发交互系统。随着系统集成了更多的传感和信号处理，与人的互动更加紧密。在夏季REU网站上制作的工具和程序将在定期课程中进一步扩展，包括高级设计，通过接触更多的人群来强化设计。通过这种方式，一个更大的本科生群体将参与研究，并在每个学年更新工具。这项研究将有多方面的好处：提高学生的技能，知识基础，为未来的学习做准备;并为具有科学和社会相关性的研究突破做出贡献。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。

The Interactive Systems Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site focuses on the fact that as intelligent systems become increasingly pervasive as wearables (e.g., smart watches and phones, medical devices) or in the environment (e.g., smart homes, on-line educational systems), they will interact more intimately with people. The process of designing cyber-physical and data-assisted educational systems for humans-in-the-loop is often an afterthought, but the reality of future intelligent systems in that their value will be reduced if they are not easy to use. As human behavior can be difficult to model, much of the focus is on how to easily guide people to interact in productive ways with the system. The REU addressed these important research issues and is designed based on our expertise working with undergraduates in a novel cycle of research, teaching, and mentoring together with a body of literature that examines undergraduates’ experiences in science and engineering. Our approach facilitates development of a tight-knit cohort of undergraduate researchers engaging in forefront research, allowing them to become more independent as their competence increases. Our established mentoring community is vital to increasing student competence, developing collegial relationships, and improving collaborative interactions. Participants also participate in the southern California “meeting of minds” conference. It provides a venue for students to be exposed to a much broader range of research than can be seen in a single program. This REU Site will impact both the scientific and educational research communities. The intellectual focus of this proposal is on the development of interactive systems in domains such as cyber-physical systems and data-assisted education. As systems integrate more sensing and signal processing, tighter interactions with people are enabled. Tools and procedures produced in the summer REU site will be further extended in regular courses, including senior design, to harden the designs through exposure to larger populations. In this way a much larger of group of undergraduate students will participate in research, with tools that are refreshed in each academic year. This research will have multiple benefits: increasing students’ skills, knowledge base, and preparation for future study; and contributing to research breakthroughs with scientific and social relevance.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.