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

这笔资金将用于支持6月24日(星期五)举行的为期一天的“智库”(虚拟研讨会)，其中包括大约10名有前途的研究生学者和5名杰出的研究人员导师，同时还将支持今年将于2022年6月25日至27日举行的国际听觉显示会议(ICAD 2022)。在历史上，听觉显示一直被忽视，而倾向于视觉信息显示，但最近几十年的技术进步为在人机系统中传递音频信息开辟了新的可能性。设计良好的听觉显示器可以在改善人类使用系统的性能、使信息可访问和包容(例如，对于视觉障碍者)以及在为人机交互提供新的、令人兴奋的、充分的filling机会方面发挥至关重要的作用。因此，听觉显示器和SONIfi阳离子已被部署在各种应用中，如辅助技术、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。作为一个相对年轻的fi老年人，听觉显示研究仍具有为科学和社会做出宝贵贡献的潜力。要实现这一潜力，需要由一群具有特殊fic专业知识和对声音作为信息显示媒介的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，国际听觉显示研究所一直是讨论和传播听觉显示研究的智力产品的主要场所。通常情况下，2020年的会议是面对面的会议，由于疫情的爆发，2020年的会议被取消，2021年的活动被迫采取虚拟形式，这是非常成功的，因此，今年的会议主题将再次采用类似的形式，届时会议的主题是“可用于保持意识的发音”。欲了解有关ICAD2022的更多详情，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学术和网络联系。智库有三个目标：支持研究听觉显示和fffi阳离子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特殊的反馈和潜在的解决方案；发展和维持一个听觉显示早期职业研究人员的社区。为此，智库将提供一个友好、开放但严格的科学论坛，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了解和清楚他们的工作相对于相关研究的定位，他们的主题是否足够集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否得到正确的选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和展示。智库还将提供受邀的演讲者和讨论小组(例如，为博士生提供关于重要问题的相关信息，无论他们正在考虑学术或行业职业道路)。因此，智库将帮助形成正在进行的和未来的研究项目，这些项目对辅助技术和普遍获取的发展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，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，使他们能够相互联系，并在其专业发展的关键阶段与高级研究人员建立联系。由于学生和教职员工在不同的维度上构成了一个多样化的群体，包括民族和文化、科学学科和制度，学生的视野被开阔到该领域未来的利益。组织者将积极促进智库参与者的多样性；每个ff都将招募和选择代表ICAD的多样性的参与者，包括研究主题和地理位置的多样性、人口多样性和学科背景的多样性。该奖项反映了国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.