REU Site: Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education-Emerging Interface Technologies

爱荷华州立大学的SPIRE-EIT（跨学科研究和教育暑期项目-新兴接口技术）是一个为期10周的本科生暑期项目，整合了新兴接口技术的研究和教育。学生将获得使用网络基础设施的实践研究经验，并学习计算机编程、3D图形和人机交互方面的简短课程。在剩下的时间里，学生们分组进行跨学科的研究项目。这些研究项目将以海报、演示和五页研究论文的形式在夏季结束时全校范围的研究研讨会上展示。SPIRE-EIT招聘的重点是代表性不足的群体，为学生准备人机交互跨学科领域的研究生教育，这是一个对美国经济很重要的领域。通过包括伦理和基于研究的评估技术的指导，SPIRE为学生提供了终身有用的、独立于学科的技能，这些技能是学生在传统的工程或计算机科学课程中可能不会遇到的。两个主要趋势正在推动新兴接口技术的研究：接口技术本身的急剧增长，以及技术在日常生活中的无处不在的渗透。相应地，研究问题集中在新兴技术的四个广泛领域：信息可视化；移动/无处不在的接口;扩展、虚拟和增强现实；还有智能软件代理。这些研究问题将通过以下项目进行探索：XR中沉浸式叙事的职业路径、XR中的多智能体轨迹表示、人类智能体团队行为理解的测试平台以及对晕机的适应。研究项目的设计使本科生（三人一组）可以做出有意义的贡献。爱荷华州立大学（Iowa State University）人机交互研究生项目的教师竞相参加SPIRE，并表示参与后会受益匪浅。每年，SPIRE项目通常会以SPIRE学生为共同作者的一两次专业学术会议报告，将SPIRE的研究成果分发给公众。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。

SPIRE-EIT (Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education - Emerging Interface Technologies) at Iowa State University is a 10-week summer program for undergraduates that integrates research and education about emerging interface technologies. Students gain hands-on research experience using cyberinfrastructure and take brief focused classes in computer programming, 3D graphics, and human computer interaction. For the remaining time, students conduct interdisciplinary research projects in groups. The research projects are presented at an end-of-the summer campus-wide research symposium in the form of posters, demos, and a five-page research paper. SPIRE-EIT recruits with an emphasis on underrepresented groups, preparing students for graduate education in the interdisciplinary area of human computer interaction, an area of importance to the U.S. economy. By including instruction on ethics and on research-based evaluation techniques, the SPIRE gives students skills that are useful lifelong, independent of discipline, and which students might not otherwise encounter in a traditional engineering or computer science curriculum. Two major trends are driving research in Emerging Interface Technologies: a dramatic increase in interface technologies themselves, and the ubiquitous permeation of technology into everyday lives. Correspondingly, research questions focus on four broad areas of emerging technologies: information visualization; mobile/ubiquitous interfaces; extended, virtual, and augmented reality; and intelligent software agents. These research questions will be explored through projects such as career pathways through immersive storytelling in XR, multiagent trajectory representation in XR, testbed for human-agent teaming behavior understanding, and adaptations to cybersickness. Research projects are designed so that undergraduates (in teams of three) can make a meaningful contribution. Faculty in Iowa State University's Human Computer Interaction graduate program compete to participate in the SPIRE and cite strong benefits from participation afterwards. Each year, the SPIRE projects typically result in one-two professional academic conference presentations with SPIRE students as co-authors, which distributes SPIRE research results to the public.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.