WORKSHOP: ThinkTank (Doctoral Consortium) at ICAD 2023

这笔资金将用于支持由10名有前途的研究生学者和大约6名杰出的研究教师导师组成的“智库”（研讨会），以及将于6月26日至30日在瑞典Norrköping的Linköping大学举行的2023年国际听觉显示会议（ICAD'23）。ICAD是一个主要的国际论坛，介绍使用声音来显示数据、监测系统以及为计算机和虚拟现实系统提供增强的用户界面的研究。它的独特之处在于其对听觉显示和感知、技术和应用领域的独特关注，其中包括例如数据超声、听觉寻路、听觉图形、语音界面、虚拟环境以及相关的感知、认知、技术和技术研究与开发。许多跨学科的研究和发展工作与知觉障碍，特别是视觉障碍的人直接相关。今年大会的主题是“为群众发声”；更多关于ICAD 2023的详细信息，请访问https://icad2023.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。这个全天的研讨会将于6月26日在会议之前举行，该活动将通过为参与者提供一个友好、开放、严谨的科学论坛来展示他们的研究想法，听取同行正在进行的工作，并从一个杰出的专家小组获得建设性的反馈，从而建立一个支持学者的社区和合作研究精神。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的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）。学生参与者将在会议技术程序期间通过海报展示他们的作品，并在ICAD 2023网站上发布扩展摘要。因此，智库将帮助塑造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意义。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。今年，组织者预计将有多达10名美国智库学者获得旅行和出席活动的高额补贴。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 "ThinkTank" (workshop) of ten promising graduate student scholars along with about six distinguished research faculty mentors, in conjunction with the 2023 International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD'23), which will be held on June 26-30 at Linköping University in Norrköping, Sweden. ICAD is the premier international forum for presenting research on the use of sound to display data, monitor systems, and provide enhanced user interfaces for computers and virtual reality systems. It is unique in its singular focus on auditory displays and the array of perception, technology, and application areas that this encompasses, which include for example data sonification, auditory wayfinding, auditory graphs, speech interfaces, virtual environments, and associated perceptual, cognitive, technical, and technological research and development. Many of the interdisciplinary research and development efforts are of direct relevance to persons with perceptual disabilities, especially visual impairments. This year's conference theme is "Sonification for the Masses"; more details about ICAD 2023 are available online at https://icad2023.icad.org/. The ICAD ThinkTank is a doctoral consortium that promotes scholarship and networking among new researchers in this important emerging interdisciplinary area. This full-day workshop will take place on June 26 immediately preceding the conference proper, The event will develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, by providing participants with a friendly and open, yet rigorous, scientific forum in which to present their research ideas, to listen to ongoing work from peers, and to 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 ThinkTank 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). Student participants will present their work via posters during the conference technical program, and via extended abstracts published on the ICAD 2023 website. Thus, the ThinkTank 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. This year, the organizers expect that up to ten U.S.-based ThinkTank Scholars will have their travel and attendance heavily subsidized.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.