Workshop Event: Programming Languages/Environments for the Educationally Disadvantaged

这笔资金将用于支持10-14名来自美国和海外的有前途的博士生以及杰出的研究人员参加的研究活动，该活动将与2003年IEEE以人为中心的计算语言和环境研讨会(HCC2003)一起举行，该研讨会将于10月28日至31日在新西兰奥克兰举行，由IEEE计算机学会赞助。少数民族和农村地区的许多学校甚至难以向他们的学生提供基本的教育，更不用说技术培训了，这些学生成了教育上的弱势成年人；在为某些人口提供更好服务的学校里，这个问题也可能存在于某些群体。由于缺乏经验或对自己处理技术的能力缺乏信心，教育上处于不利地位的人在试图应对由“信息拥有者”设计的软件时，面临着严重的障碍。具有可编程性能力的软件是否以及如何能够为弱势群体服务是本次活动的主题，它将在致力于研究问题的不同方面的年轻研究人员中聚集并建立社区，无论他们的研究社区是计算机科学、社会学还是教育学。讲习班将向与会者(包括直接参与的研究生和大会与会者)强调与这一紧迫的研究问题有关的研究的交叉性质，这一问题几乎没有得到任何先前的研究。研讨会的目标包括建立一个新研究人员队列小组，然后他们将拥有一个遍布世界各地的同事网络，通过让研究领域的专家为新研究人员提供建议来指导他们的工作，并使该领域有前途的新进入者能够参加他们的研究会议。学生参与者将在研讨会期间对他们的工作进行正式陈述，并将收到教员小组的反馈。这些反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于其他人机交互研究的定位，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。学生工作的扩展摘要将在会议记录中发表，并有广泛的印刷版和电子发行版。会议指导委员会将评估研讨会的结果，结果将提供给未来可能发生的类似事件的组织者。广泛的影响：研讨会将有助于形成正在进行的和未来的研究项目，旨在缓解与我们社会中的许多人相关的紧迫问题。这一活动将通过鼓励学生研究人员探索一个困难和具有挑战性的开放问题，通过一个任务是提供建设性反馈的知名研究人员小组的参与，以及通过吸收其他与会者，他们也将向学生和彼此学习并提供额外的反馈，来促进发现和学习。

This is funding to support a research event for 10-14 promising doctoral students from the United States and abroad, along with distinguished research faculty, which will take place in conjunction with the 2003 IEEE Symposia on Human-Centric Computing Languages and Environments (HCC 2003), to be held October 28-31 in Auckland, New Zealand, and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. Many schools in minority and rural areas struggle to provide even the basics of education, let alone technological training, to their students, who become educationally disadvantaged adults; this problem can also exist for certain groups in schools that serve some populations better than others. With little experience or confidence in their ability to deal with technology, educationally disadvantaged people face serious obstacles when trying to cope with software designed by and for "information haves." Whether and how software with the power of programmability can be viable for disadvantaged populations is the subject of this event, which will bring together and build community among young researchers working on different aspects of the research problem, whether their "home" research community is in Computer Science, Sociology, or Education. The workshop will emphasize to attendees (both the graduate students immediately involved and general conference participants) the crosscutting nature of research relevant to this pressing research problem, which has received almost no prior study. Goals of the workshop include building a cohort group of new researchers who will then have a network of colleagues spread out across the world, guiding the work of new researchers by having experts in the research field give them advice, and making it possible for promising new entrants to the field to attend their research conference. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the workshop, and will receive feedback from the faculty panel. The feedback is geared to helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other human-computer interaction 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. Extended abstracts of the students' work will be published in the conference proceedings, which has wide print and electronic distribution. The conference steering committee will evaluate the workshop outcome, and the results will be made available to the organizers of possible similar future events.Broader Impacts: The workshop will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at alleviating a pressing problem of relevance to a great many people within our society. This event will promote discovery and learning, by encouraging the student researchers to explore a difficult and challenging open problem, through involvement of a panel of well-known researchers whose task is to provide constructive feedback, and through inclusion of other conference participants who will also learn from and provide additional feedback to the students and to each other.