VL/HCC'04 Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金将用于支持一项研究活动（研讨会），由来自美国和国外的10-14名有前途的博士生沿着，以及杰出的研究人员，该活动将与9月26日至28日在意大利罗马举行的2004年IEEE视觉语言和以人为中心的计算研讨会（VL/HCC'04）一起举行，并由IEEE计算机协会赞助。 我们的社会已经演变成两个截然不同的阶层：信息拥有者和信息缺乏者。 因为信息就是力量，这种阶级区分是一个非常有效的障碍，阻碍了穷人在个人和群体中在职业和影响力方面取得进步。 开发允许最终用户对任务信息进行操作的编程工具（例如，通过复杂的查询和操作）可能会进一步增加这个差距。 发现和使用他人创建的信息将不再足够;越来越多的员工和公民将被期望以创造性的方式生成和操纵信息，以解决复杂的问题。 迫切需要考虑如何利用这些更强大的信息工具，以免贫富之间的差距变得太大而无法跨越。 我们需要设计包容性，因为我们设想并为最终用户构建编程工具，以便每个人都有机会从它们提供的功能中受益。 这是今年博士联盟的主题，这是NSF在本系列中资助的第二个。 该活动将汇集和建立社区的年轻研究人员在研究问题的不同方面的工作，无论他们的“家”研究社区是在计算机科学，社会学，或教育。 研讨会将向与会者（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相关的研究的跨学科性质，这一问题几乎没有得到过事先的研究。 该研讨会的目标包括建立一个新研究人员的队列组，然后他们将在世界各地建立一个同事网络，通过让研究领域的专家为他们提供建议来指导新研究人员的工作，并使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正式介绍他们的工作，并将收到来自教师小组的反馈。 反馈是面向帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作是如何定位相对于其他人机交互研究，他们的主题是否足够集中的论文研究项目，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。 学生工作的扩展摘要将在会议论文集上发表，该论文集具有广泛的印刷和电子分发。 会议指导委员会将对研讨会的成果进行评估，并将评估结果提供给未来可能举办的类似活动的组织者。更广泛的影响：研讨会将帮助制定正在进行和未来的研究项目，旨在缓解与我们社会中许多人相关的紧迫问题。本次活动将促进发现和学习，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，通过一个知名研究人员小组的参与，其任务是提供建设性的反馈，并通过包括其他与会者谁也将学习和提供额外的反馈给学生和彼此。

This is funding to support a research event (workshop) 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 2004 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'04), to be held September 26-28 in Rome, Italy, and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. Our society has evolved into two distinct classes: the information haves and have-nots. Because information is power, this class distinction is a highly effective barrier to the ability of the have-nots to advance in terms of career and influence, both individually and in groups. The development of programming tools that allow end users to operate on task information (e.g., via complex queries and manipulations) may increase this gap even more. It will no longer be enough to find and use information others create; increasingly, employees and citizens will be expected to generate and manipulate information in creative ways to solve complex problems. There is an urgent need to consider the accessibility of these more powerful information tools, before the gap between the haves and have-nots becomes too great to cross. We need to design for inclusiveness as we envision and build programming tools for end users, so that everyone will have the opportunity to benefit from the power that they offer. That is the theme of this year's doctoral consortium, the second funded by NSF in this series. The event 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.