Consortium on IT accessibility

这笔资金用于支持一个由来自美国和国外的大约10名有前途的博士生组成的财团（讲习班），沿着约5名杰出的研究教师和一名最近完成博士学业的个人。 该活动将于10月22日（星期日）举行，紧接着2006年ACM SIGACCESS资产会议之前并与之同时举行，该会议将于10月23日至25日（星期一至星期三）在俄勒冈州的波特兰举行，并由ACM计算机和可访问性特别兴趣小组赞助。 ASSETS会议是展示软件和技术研究成果和创新的主要论坛，旨在满足各种残疾人的特殊需求。 来自世界各地的学术界和工业界的研究人员和开发人员将会面，交流想法，并就与言语，运动，听力和视觉障碍，认知限制，情感和学习障碍以及衰老有关的最新工作提出报告。 建设这个社区的一个关键组成部分是通过它的青年。 该资产'06博士财团将提供一个机会，研究生来自不同的背景（计算机、工程、心理学、建筑等）聚集在一起，在该领域杰出专家小组的指导下，在跨学科研讨会上探讨他们的研究兴趣，以便他们能够看到更广泛的研究和开发方法，以实现辅助技术和普遍可用性，并体验他们可以在其中努力的社区。 学生参与者将在联盟期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将收到教师小组的建设性反馈。 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的研究，他们的主题是否充分集中于论文研究项目，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，该联盟将帮助塑造正在进行的和未来的研究项目，旨在辅助技术和普及，将促进奖学金和新的研究人员在这一新兴的跨学科领域的网络，并将这些有前途的年轻研究人员接触到更大的社区。 将对该联合体进行评估，并将评估结果提供给今后此类活动的组织者。 在主要会议期间，专门安排了一次会议，让博士生联盟的参与者在整个会议上发言，并将从博士生联盟中选出一名学生在闭幕式上发表全体演讲。博士联合会将有助于扩大在这一领域攻读研究生课程的年轻研究人员的参与，让他们有机会在社会上更广泛地了解他们的创新工作，并从研究界的高级成员那里获得反馈和指导。 这将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员的社区意识，使他们能够在自己之间以及在其专业发展的关键阶段与高级研究人员建立社会网络。 由于学生和教师构成了一个跨各种维度的多元化群体，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 consortium (workshop) of approximately 10 promising doctoral students from the United States and abroad, along with about 5 distinguished research faculty and one individual who recently completed his/her PhD studies. The event will take place on Sunday, October 22, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 2006 ACM SIGACCESS ASSETS Conference, to be held Monday through Wednesday, October 23-25 in Portland, Oregon, and sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Accessibility. 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. A key component of building this community is through its youth. The ASSETS'06 doctoral consortium will provide an opportunity for graduate students from diverse backgrounds (computing, engineering, psychology, architecture, etc) to come together and explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field, so that they can see the broader spectrum of research and development approaches to assistive technologies and universal usability, and also experience the community in which they can pursue their endeavors. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the consortium, 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 consortium 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 consortium will be conducted, and the results made available to the organizers of future such events. A session has been set aside during the main conference to allow doctoral consortium participants to present to the entire conference, and one student from the doctoral consortium will be selected to deliver the closing plenary presentation.Broader Impacts: The doctoral consortium 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.