Think Tank (Doctoral Consortium) at International Conference on Auditory Display 2005

这笔资金用于支持一个由大约17名来自美国和国外的有前途的研究生以及杰出的研究人员组成的博士联盟（研讨会）。该活动将与将于7月6日至9日在爱尔兰利默里克举行的第11届国际听觉显示会议（ICAD 2005）同时举行。ICAD是一个跨学科会议，其重点是使用声音来显示/传达信息；主题包括但不限于数据声化、听觉寻路、听觉图形、语音界面和虚拟环境，以及相关的感知、认知、技术和技术研究与开发。这些努力中有许多与知觉障碍者，特别是视力障碍者直接相关；通用设计是该领域的一种常见方法，即开发一种显示策略，供各种类型的用户使用。博士联盟的目标是将来自不同背景（例如，工程，计算机，音乐和心理学）的研究生聚集在一起，这样他们就可以体验到听觉显示，辅助技术和通用设计的广泛方法，同时通过与同行的互动和在该领域杰出专家小组的指导下探索他们的研究兴趣。为了实现这些目标，智库将建立一个支持性的学者社区和合作研究精神，为参与者提供一个友好、开放、严谨的科学论坛，让他们展示自己的研究想法，听取同行学生正在进行的工作，并获得建设性的反馈。学生参与者将在智库会议期间正式展示他们的工作，并将收到教师小组的反馈。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。智库还将为学生提供有关博士候选人的重要问题的相关信息，无论他们是在考虑学术还是工业职业道路。该活动将进一步邀请演讲者和讨论小组，并将有许多学生作为观众和讨论小组的一部分，除了那些展示他们的工作。将对智库进行评估，评估结果将提供给未来会议和联盟的组织者。更广泛的影响：本次活动将促进一个重要的新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的奖学金和网络，并将有助于形成正在进行和未来的研究项目，这些项目对辅助技术的发展和普遍可及性具有明确和重要的影响。博士联盟将使参与者接触到更大的社区，使他们能够在自己的专业发展的关键阶段与自己的高级研究人员建立联系。由于学生和教师构成了一个多元化的群体，跨越了不同的维度，包括国籍和文化以及科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。

This is funding to support a doctoral consortium (workshop) of approximately 17 promising graduate students from the United States and abroad, along with distinguished research faculty. The event will take place in conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD 2005), to be held July 6-9 in Limerick, Ireland. ICAD is an interdisciplinary conference whose focus is on using sound to display/convey information; topics include, but are not limited to, data sonification, auditory wayfinding, auditory graphs, speech interfaces and virtual environments, along with associated perceptual, cognitive, technical, and technological research and development. Many of these efforts are of direct relevance to persons with perceptual disabilities, especially visual impairments; a common approach in this field is universal design, wherein a display strategy is developed once to be used by all kinds of users. The goal of the doctoral consortium is to bring together graduate students from diverse backgrounds (e.g., engineering, computing, music, and psychology), so that they can experience the broad spectrum of approaches to auditory displays, assistive technologies and universal design, while exploring their research interests through interaction with peers and under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field. To these ends, the ThinkTank will develop a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, by providing participants with a friendly and open, yet rigorous, scientific forum to present their research ideas, listen to ongoing work from peer students, and receive constructive feedback. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the ThinkTank and will receive feedback from the 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. The ThinkTank will also provide students with relevant information about important issues for doctoral candidates, whether they are considering academic or industrial career paths. The event will further offer invited speakers and discussion groups, and will involve many students as part of the audience and discussion groups, in addition to those presenting their work. An evaluation of the ThinkTank will be conducted, the results to be made available to the organizers of future conferences and consortia.Broader Impacts: This event will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in an important emerging interdisciplinary area, and will help shape ongoing and future research projects that have clear and important implications for development of assistive technologies and universal access. The doctoral consortium will afford participants exposure to a larger community, allowing them to bond 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 and culture as well as scientific discipline, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field.