WORKSHOP: VL/HCC'05 Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金用于支持一个博士联盟，该联盟有10-14名来自美国的有前途的研究生，以及杰出的研究人员，以及最多5名非美国学生(他们将被邀请参加，没有经济资助)，该联盟将与2005年IEEE视觉语言和以人为中心的计算研讨会(VL/HC‘05)一起举行，该研讨会将于9月21-24日在得克萨斯州达拉斯举行，由IEEE计算机学会赞助。我们的社会已经演变成两个截然不同的阶层：信息富人和穷人。移动计算和多传感器技术的最新进展为通过加强后一群体获得信息技术来缩小富人和穷人之间的差距提供了巨大机会，但也存在重大挑战。只有当所有人都能轻松访问计算机、手持设备和Web时，通用终端用户编程才有可能。但轻松访问意味着需要超越传统的键盘和鼠标交互方式。因此，今年的VL/HCC博士联盟的重点是数字设备和环境的设计者如何通过多种交互模式更好地解决普遍接入问题。本次活动的参与者将探索人与计算机、人与网络、人与人之间的多模式和多媒体交互。这次活动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在计算机科学、社会学还是教育界。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，这一问题以前得到的关注太少。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 doctoral consortium for 10-14 promising graduate students from the United States, along with distinguished research faculty, and up to 5 non-U.S. students (who will be invited to participate without financial support), which will take place in conjunction with the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC'05), to be held September 21-24 in Dallas, Texas, and sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society. Our society has evolved into two distinct classes: the information haves and have-nots. Recent advances in mobile computing and multi-sensory technologies provide great opportunities for reducing the gap between the haves and have-nots by enhancing access to information technology for the latter group, but there are significant challenges as well. Only if computers, hand-held devices, and the Web are easily accessible by all will universal end-user programming be possible. But easy access implies a need to look beyond traditional keyboard and mouse interaction styles. Thus, the focus of this year's VL/HCC doctoral consortium, the third to be funded by NSF in this series, is on how designers of digital devices and environments can better address universal access issues through multiple modes of interaction. Participants in this event will explore multimodal and multimedia interaction between human and computers, between human and the Web, and between human and human. 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 too little prior attention. 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.