WORKSHOP: VL/HCC 2020 Graduate Consortium

这笔资金用于支持约 10 名研究生参加的研究生联盟（研讨会），其中约 5 名来自美国大学，5 名来自外国机构，以拓宽美国与会者的视野），并由 PI 和其他 2 名杰出研究人员担任导师。 该全天活动将于 8 月 10 日与 2020 年 IEEE 视觉语言和以人为中心计算 (VL/HCC) 研讨会同时举行，但先于该研讨会，由于目前的情况，该研讨会将于 8 月 12 日至 14 日以虚拟方式举行，由 IEEE 计算机协会主办。 今年是该研讨会举办36周年。 VL/HCC 成立于 1984 年，其使命是支持用于编程、建模和通信的计算技术和语言的设计、理论、应用和评估，使人们更容易学习、使用和理解。 这包括针对视觉技术和文本的研究，以及使用声音、味道、虚拟现实和网络的技术。 它还包括对用于实现这一目标的许多媒体的理论研究。 VL/HCC 在 HCI 和编程语言会议中占有独特的地位，因为它专门关注如何帮助最终用户成功开发和使用软件。 有关研讨会的更多信息，请访问 https:// human-se.github.io/vlhcc2019/ 。 PI和组委会成员将做出特别努力，吸引多元化和跨学科的学生参与者加入研究生联盟，并特别关注招收来自代表性不足的机构和女性的学生。 为了进一步增加多样性，任何特定机构都不会接受超过两名学生参与者（如果接受两名学生，那么其中至少一名必须来自 STEM 领域代表性不足的群体）。计算领域的最新进展导致计算机与人类社会之间不断加深的融合。 人们现在在社会技术系统的“海洋”中游泳，这些系统综合了大量贡献用户和大量源代码。 示例包括社交媒体系统、开源存储库、在线市场和大型多人在线游戏。 然而，随着这片海洋中的社会技术系统变得越来越复杂，最终用户越来越难以理解它们并直接实现生产目标。 今年的 VL/HCC 研究生联盟是该系列中第 18 个由 NSF 资助的联盟，其主要目标是激发研究生思考如何在问题解决的早期阶段（例如问题定义和解决方案搜索）使用工具和技术。 特别是，人们可以利用哪些方法、模型、图表和工具来创建复杂社会技术系统的心智模型，以用于制定设计决策和协作？ 有效的方法将以创造性和富有成效的方式将用户和软件结合在一起，直接满足现代社会的需求。 研究生联盟将帮助制定正在进行的和未来的研究项目，旨在缓解与我们社会中许多人相关的紧迫问题。 学生参与者将在研讨会期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将收到教师参与者以及其他学生的建设性反馈。 反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于其他人机交互研究的定位，他们的主题是否充分适合论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。 因此，本次活动将促进发现和学习，同时也在从计算机科学、社会科学和教育等不同领域的角度工作的年轻研究人员之间建立社区。 每个学生参与者作品的 2 页扩展摘要将在会议记录中发布。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。

This is funding to support a Graduate Consortium (workshop) for about 10 graduate students, approximately 5 from universities in the United States and 5 from foreign institutions, in order to broaden the horizons of the U.S. attendees), along with the PI and 2 other distinguished research faculty as mentors. The full-day event will take place on August 10 in conjunction with but preceding the 2020 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), to be held virtually due to the current situation on August 12-14, and which is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. This year marks the 36th anniversary of the Symposium. Established in 1984, the mission of VL/HCC is to support the design, theory, application, and evaluation of computing technologies and languages for programming, modeling, and communicating, which are easier to learn, use, and understand by people. This includes research aimed at visual technology and text, and technology that uses sound, taste, virtual reality, and the Web. It also includes research on theories about the many media used toward this goal. VL/HCC occupies a unique niche among HCI and programming language conferences, in that it focuses specifically on how to help end users successfully develop and use software. More information about the Symposium may be found online at https://human-se.github.io/vlhcc2019/. The PI and the members of the organizing committee will make special efforts to attract a diverse and interdisciplinary group of student participants to the Graduate Consortium, with special attention paid to recruitment of students from underrepresented institutions and women. To further increase diversity, no more than two student participants will be accepted from any given institution (and if two are accepted, then at least one of them must be from an under-represented group in STEM fields).Recent advances in computing have led to continually deeper integration between computers and human society. People now swim in an "ocean" of socio-technical systems that synthesize large numbers of contributing users with vast amounts of source code. Examples include social media systems, open source repositories, online marketplaces and massively multiplayer online games. Yet as the socio-technical systems in this sea have grown in complexity, they have become increasingly difficult for end users to understand and direct toward productive ends. The primary goal of this year's VL/HCC Graduate Consortium, the 18th to be funded by NSF in this series, is to stimulate graduate students' thinking about how to use tools and techniques in the early stages of problem solving such as problem definition and solution searching. In particular, what methods, models, diagrams, and tools can people leverage to create mental models of complex socio-technical systems that can be used to make design decisions and for collaboration? Effective approaches will bring users and software together in creative and productive ways that bear directly on the needs of modern society. The Graduate Consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at alleviating a pressing problem of relevance to a great many people within our society. The student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the workshop and will receive constructive feedback from the faculty participants as well as from the other students. The feedback is geared to helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other human-computer interaction research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether the results are appropriately analyzed and presented. This event will therefore promote discovery and learning, while also building community among young researchers working from the perspectives of diverse fields including computer science, the social sciences, and education. A 2-page extended abstract of each student participant's work will be published in the conference proceedings.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.