Support for Student Participation in the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces '03; November 5-7, 2003; Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

这笔资金用于支持大约8名学生作者或研究论文的共同作者参加11月5日至7日在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华举行的第一届多模态接口国际会议（ICMI-PUI'03），该会议由计算机协会（ACM）赞助。为期3天的会议将汇集来自北美、欧洲和亚洲的研究人员，介绍和讨论关于多模式接口、系统和应用的最新多学科工作。会议代表了对下一代感知、自适应和多模态用户界面日益增长的兴趣。这些新的接口特别适合于解释现实世界环境中的自然通信和活动模式；它们的出现代表了对以前计算的彻底背离，并且通过创造更自然、表达能力更强、更灵活和更健壮的与计算机交互的方式，正在迅速改变人机交互的本质。会议组织者汇集了一个强大的计划，包括46篇技术论文，3个知名演讲者的主题演讲，以及各种演示和其他活动。在这些技术论文中，有30多篇是由学生提交或与学生共同撰写的，但不幸的是，在某些情况下，他们的学术顾问和大学院系缺乏足够的资金来支付他们的费用。也有一些困难的情况，合格的学生想参加会议，在这个新的研究领域的一般培训，但不能这样做。获得国家自然科学基金资助的学生均已同意担任学生志愿者；作为贡献大约10个小时帮助举办会议的回报，他们每人将获得付费注册、共享酒店住宿和参加会议所需的差旅支持。更广泛的影响：会议的学生志愿者计划旨在通过展示自己的工作，并通过观察和与该领域的其他专业人士互动，让学生接触到新的研究社区。它将鼓励学生在职业生涯的这个关键时刻开始建立一个由同龄人和导师组成的社会支持网络。在招生过程中，鼓励女性、少数民族学生、残疾人和退伍军人申请。

This is funding to support attendance by approximately 8 student authors or co-authors of research papers accepted for presentation at the First International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI-PUI'03), to held November 5-7 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The 3-day conference will bring together researchers from North America, Europe and Asia to present and discuss the latest multi-disciplinary work on multimodal interfaces, systems, and applications. The conference represents the growing interest in next-generation perceptive, adaptive and multimodal user interfaces. These new interfaces are especially well suited for interpreting natural communication and activity patterns in real-world environments; their emergence represents a radical departure from previous computing, and is rapidly transforming the nature of human-computer interaction by creating more natural, expressively powerful, flexible and robust means of interacting with computers. The conference organizers have put together a strong program of 46 technical papers, 3 keynote talks by well-known speakers, and a variety of demos and other events. Of the technical papers, over 30 are to be presented by or were co-authored by students, but unfortunately in some cases their academic advisors and university departments lack sufficient funds to pay their way. There are also a number of hardship cases, where qualified students would like to attend the meeting for general training in this new research area, but cannot afford to do so. The students to be supported by NSF funds have all agreed to serve as student volunteers; in return for contributing about 10 hours of their time to help run the conference, they will each receive paid registration, shared hotel accommodations, and need-based travel support to attend the conference.Broader Impacts: The conference's student volunteer program is structured so as to give students exposure to their new research community by presenting their own work, and by observing and interacting with other professionals in the field. It will encourage students at this critical time in their careers to begin building a social support network of peers and mentors. During student recruitment, women, minority students, people with disabilities and veterans all were encouraged to apply.