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

这是资助支持为期一天的“智囊团”（虚拟研讨会）约10名有前途的研究生学者沿着与五名杰出的研究教师导师上周五，6月24日，结合今年的会议上听觉显示（ICAD 2022），这将是几乎在6月25日至27日举行，2022年。 从历史上看，听觉显示器一直被忽视，而视觉信息显示器，但在过去几十年的技术进步已经打开了新的可能性，在人机系统中的音频信息的交付。 精心设计的听觉显示可以在改善人类系统性能，使信息可访问和包容性方面发挥至关重要的作用（例如，为有视觉障碍的人），并为人机交互提供新的，令人兴奋的，充实的机会。 因此，听觉显示和声音处理已被部署在各种应用中，如辅助技术、桌面和移动的设备、汽车用户界面、医疗设备、计算机音乐和艺术装置。 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，需要由一群对声音作为信息显示媒介具有特殊专业知识和兴趣的人持续发展科学，工程和艺术知识的基础。 几十年的研究和实践表明，有效地使用听觉显示需要对人类如何创造，感知和使用声音的深刻理解，在过去的30年里，ICAD一直是讨论和传播听觉显示研究知识产品的首要场所。 2020年的会议通常是面对面的会议，但由于疫情爆发，2021年的会议被迫采取虚拟形式，并取得了很大成功，因此今年的会议主题将再次采用类似的形式，即“可用于保持意识的声音”。“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发声的学生的研究工作和专业发展;为这些学生在研究项目中面临的障碍提供具体的反馈和潜在的解决方案;发展和维持一个听觉显示的早期职业研究者社区。为此，智囊团将提供一个友好，开放，但严格，科学论坛，参与者可以在其中介绍他们的研究想法，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是如何定位相对于相关研究，他们的主题是否充分集中于论文研究项目，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。 智囊团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，智囊团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及具有明确和重要的影响。 它将汇集来自不同学科（如工程，计算机，音乐和心理学）的学生，使他们能够体验到听觉显示，辅助技术和通用设计的广泛方法。它将使参与者接触到更大的社区，使他们能够在专业发展的关键阶段相互联系并与高级研究人员联系。 由于学生和教师构成了一个多元化的群体，包括民族和文化，科学学科和机构，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。 组织者将积极促进智囊团与会者的多样性;将尽一切努力招募和选择代表广泛定义的ICAD多样性的参与者，包括研究主题和地理位置的多样性，人口多样性，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进行评估，被认为值得支持和更广泛的影响审查标准。

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.