WORKSHOP: Virtual Student Doctoral Consortium ("Think Tank") at the ICAD 2022 Conference

这笔资金是为了配合将于2022年6月25日至27日举行的国际听觉显示会议（ICAD 2022），于6月24日（星期五）举行为期一天的“智库”（虚拟研讨会），由10名有前途的研究生学者和5名杰出的研究教师导师参加。从历史上看，听觉显示被视觉信息显示所忽视，但过去几十年的技术进步为人机系统中音频信息的传递开辟了新的可能性。精心设计的听觉显示可以在提高人类与系统的表现，使信息易于获取和包容（例如，对于有视觉障碍的人）以及为人机交互提供新的，令人兴奋的，令人满意的机会方面发挥至关重要的作用。因此，听觉显示和声音化已经部署在辅助技术、桌面和移动设备、汽车用户界面、医疗设备、计算机音乐和艺术装置等各种应用中。作为一个相对年轻的领域，听觉显示研究仍有潜力为科学和社会做出有价值的贡献。要实现这一潜力，就需要一群对声音作为信息显示媒介具有特殊专长和兴趣的人不断发展科学、工程和艺术知识基础。几十年的研究和实践表明，听觉显示的有效使用需要对人类如何创造、感知和使用声音有深刻的理解，在过去的30年里，ICAD一直是讨论和传播听觉显示研究的智力产品的首要场所。2020年的会议通常是面对面的会议，但由于新冠疫情的爆发而取消，2021年的会议被迫采用虚拟形式，取得了很大的成功，因此今年的会议主题将是“可以用来保持意识的声音化”，将再次采用类似的形式。有关ICAD 2022的更多详细信息，请访问https://icad2022.icad.org/。ICAD智库是一个博士联盟，旨在促进这一重要的新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的奖学金和网络。有三个目标：支持正在研究听觉显示和声音的学生的研究努力和专业发展；为学生在研究项目中遇到的障碍提供具体的反馈和潜在的解决方案；发展和维持一个由听觉显示的早期研究人员组成的社区。为此，智库将提供一个友好、开放但严谨的科学论坛，参与者可以在其中展示他们的研究想法，听取同行正在进行的工作，并从杰出专家小组获得建设性的反馈。小组反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于相关研究的定位，他们的主题是否足够专注于论文研究项目，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。智库还将邀请演讲者和讨论小组（例如，为学生提供有关博士候选人重要问题的相关信息，无论他们是考虑学术还是工业职业道路）。因此，智库将帮助制定正在进行和未来的研究项目，这些项目对辅助技术的发展和普遍获取具有明确和重要的影响。它将把来自不同学科（如工程、计算机、音乐和心理学）的学生聚集在一起，这样他们就可以体验到听觉显示、辅助技术和通用设计的广泛方法。它将使参与者接触到一个更大的社区，使他们能够在自己的专业发展的关键阶段与自己的高级研究人员建立联系。由于学生和教师构成了一个多元化的群体，跨越了不同的维度，包括国籍和文化，科学学科和机构，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。主办方将积极促进智库参会者的多样性；将尽一切努力招募和选择代表ICAD广泛定义的多样性的参与者，包括研究主题和地理位置的多样性、人口结构的多样性和学科背景的多样性。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 one-day "Think Tank" (virtual workshop) of about 10 promising graduate student scholars along with five distinguished research faculty mentors on Friday, June 24, in conjunction with this year's meeting of the International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2022), which will be held virtually on June 25–27, 2022. Historically, auditory displays have been overlooked in favor of visual information displays, but technological advances in the last several decades have opened new possibilities for the delivery of audio information in human-machine systems. Well-designed auditory displays can play a vital role in improving human performance with systems, in making information accessible and inclusive (e.g., for people with visual impairments), and in providing new, exciting, fulfilling opportunities for human-machine interactions. As such, auditory displays and sonification have been deployed in such diverse applications as assistive technologies, desktop and mobile devices, automotive user interfaces, medical devices, computer music, and artistic installations. As a relatively young field, auditory display research has a still-emerging potential to make valuable contributions to science and society. Achieving this potential requires the on-going development of a base of scientific, engineering, and artistic knowledge by a community of people with specific expertise and interest in sound as a medium for information display. Decades of research and practice have shown that the effective use of auditory displays requires a deep understanding of how humans create, perceive, and use sounds,, and for the last 3 decades ICAD has been the premiere venue for the discussion and dissemination of the intellectual products of auditory display research. Normally an in-person meeting, the 2020 conference was cancelled due to the onset of the pandemic, and the 2021 event was forced to assume a virtual format, which was highly successful, so a similar format will again be employed this year when the conference theme is "sonification that can be used to maintain awareness." More details about ICAD 2022 are available online at https://icad2022.icad.org/. The ICAD Think Tank is a doctoral consortium that promotes scholarship and networking among new researchers in this important emerging interdisciplinary area. There are three objectives: To support the research efforts and professional development of students who are studying auditory displays and sonification; To provide specific feedback and potential solutions to barriers those students are facing in their research projects; To develop and sustain a community of early career researchers of auditory displays.To these ends, the Think Tank will provide a friendly and open, yet rigorous, scientific forum in which participants can present their research ideas, listen to ongoing work from peers and receive constructive feedback from a panel of distinguished experts. Panel 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. The Think Tank will also offer invited speakers and discussion groups (e.g., to provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates, whether they are considering academic or industrial career paths). Thus, the Think Tank will help shape ongoing and future research projects that have clear and important implications for development of assistive technologies and universal access. It will bring together students from diverse disciplines (such as engineering, computing, music, and psychology), so that they can experience the broad spectrum of approaches to auditory displays, assistive technologies and universal design. It will afford participants exposure to a larger community, allowing them to bond among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality and culture, scientific discipline, and institution, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. The organizers will be proactive in promoting diversity among Think Tank attendees; every effort will be made to recruit and select participants who represent the diversity of ICAD, broadly defined, including diversity of research topics and geographic location, demographic diversity, and diversity of disciplinary backgrounds.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.