Doctoral Consortium for Research In Universally Accessible IT

这笔资金用于支持约15名来自美国和国外的有前途的博士生以及杰出的研究人员的研究研讨会（研讨会）。该活动将与第六届国际ACM SIGCAPH辅助技术会议（ASSETS'04）同时举行，该会议将于10月18日至20日在亚特兰大举行，由计算机协会的计算机和残疾人特别兴趣小组赞助。ASSETS会议是展示软件和技术方面的研究成果和创新的主要论坛，旨在解决各种残疾人的特殊需求。来自世界各地学术界和工业界的研究人员和开发人员将齐聚一堂，就语言、运动、听力和视觉障碍、认知限制、情感和学习障碍以及衰老等方面的最新工作进行交流和报告。ASSETS'04博士研究研讨会将为研究生提供一个机会，在一个由该领域杰出专家组成的小组的指导下，在一个跨学科的研讨会上探索他们的研究兴趣。学生参与者将在研讨会期间正式展示他们的作品，并将从教师小组获得建设性的反馈。反馈的目的是帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作是如何定位相对于相关研究，他们的主题是否充分集中在论文研究项目，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。因此，这次研讨会将有助于形成针对辅助技术和普遍获取的正在进行和未来的研究项目，将促进这一新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的学术研究和网络，并将这些有前途的年轻研究人员接触到更大的社区。将对讨论会进行评价，并将评价结果提供给今后这类活动的组织者。更广泛的影响：博士研讨会将有助于扩大在该领域攻读研究生的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供一个在社区中获得更广泛的创新工作的机会，并获得研究社区资深成员的反馈和指导。它将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员之间的社区意识，允许他们在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社会网络。由于学生和教师构成了一个跨越不同维度的多元化群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。

This is funding to support a research symposium (workshop) of approximately 15 promising doctoral students from the United States and abroad, along with distinguished research faculty. The event will take place in conjunction with the 6th International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies (ASSETS'04), to be held October 18-20 in Atlanta, and sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computers and the Physically Handicapped. The ASSETS conference is the premier forum for presenting research results and innovations in software and technology designed to address the special needs of people with disabilities of all kinds. Researchers and developers from both academia and industry around the world will meet to exchange ideas and present reports on the latest work relating to speech, motor, hearing, and vision impairments, cognitive limitations, emotional and learning disabilities, and aging. The ASSETS'04 doctoral research symposium will provide an opportunity for graduate students to explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the symposium, and will receive constructive feedback from a faculty panel. The 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. Thus, the symposium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at assistive technologies and universal access, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in this emerging interdisciplinary area, and will expose these promising young researchers to a larger community. Evaluation of the symposium will be conducted, and the results made available to the organizers of future such events.Broader Impacts: The doctoral symposium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both 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/cultural and scientific discipline, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field.