WORKSHOP: ThinkTank (Doctoral Consortium) at ICAD 2023

这笔资金将用于支持一个由10名有前途的研究生学者和大约6名杰出的研究人员导师组成的“智囊团”(研讨会)，以及将于6月26-30日在瑞典诺尔科平的林肯大学举行的2023年听觉显示国际会议(ICAD‘23)。ICAD是主要的国际论坛，用于介绍使用声音显示数据、监控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。它的独特之处在于它只专注于听觉显示以及它所涵盖的一系列感知、技术和应用领域，其中包括例如数据发声、听觉寻路、听觉图形、语音接口、虚拟环境以及相关的感知、认知、技术和技术研究和开发。许多跨学科的研究和发展努力与知觉障碍者，特别是视觉障碍者直接相关。今年会议的主题是“为大众发声”；有关ICAD2023年的更多详细信息，请访问https://icad2023.icad.org/.。ICAD智囊团是一个博士联盟，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。这一全天的研讨会将于6月26日在会议之前举行，活动将发展一个支持性的学者社区和合作研究的精神，为与会者提供一个友好、开放但严格的科学论坛，在其中展示他们的研究想法，听取同行正在进行的工作，并从一个杰出的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。智囊团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，无论他们是在考虑学术还是行业职业道路)。学生与会者将在会议技术项目期间通过海报展示他们的工作，并通过ICAD 2023网站上发布的扩展摘要展示他们的工作。因此，该智囊团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及服务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。今年，组织者预计，多达10名美国智库学者将获得巨额旅行和出勤补贴。这一奖项反映了NSF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 "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.