Student participant support for ICMI 2006

这笔资金用于支持大约15名研究生参加博士联盟(研讨会)，该联盟将于2006年11月2-4日在加拿大班夫举行第八届国际多模式接口会议(ICMI‘06)，由计算机械协会(ACM)赞助。ICMI是最重要的会议，代表了人们对下一代感知、自适应和多模式用户界面、系统和应用程序的日益增长的兴趣，这些界面、系统和应用程序特别适合解释现实世界环境中的自然通信和活动模式；它们的出现代表了与以前的计算的根本背离，并通过创建更自然、更强大、更灵活和更健壮的与计算机交互的方式来迅速改变人机交互的性质。为期3天的会议将汇集来自世界各地的学术界和产业界的研究人员，介绍和讨论该领域的最新多学科工作。今年会议的主题是通过不同的平台和应用进行多模式协作；会议将集中讨论该领域的主要趋势和挑战，包括为未来的研究和商业成功提炼路线图。博士联盟的参与者将收到一个由六名高级人员组成的特邀委员会对海报的反馈，这些海报反映了正在进行的工作还不够成熟，不足以在ICMI发表一篇完整的论文；他们还将在博士聚光灯会议上向整个会议口头介绍他们的工作，突出顶尖学生研究的更广泛影响：博士联盟将通过展示他们自己的工作以及通过观察和与该领域的知名专业人士互动，让学生接触到他们新的研究社区。它将鼓励学生在职业生涯的关键时刻开始建立由同龄人和导师组成的社会支持网络。与会者将被挑选出来，目的是增加会议的广度和多样性；组织者将努力招募传统上代表性不足的群体的成员，包括妇女、少数群体和残疾人，以及来自资金较少的机构，这些机构可能无法为学生会议的出席提供足够的支持。

This is funding to support attendance by approximately 15 graduate students in a doctoral consortium (workshop) to be held in conjunction with the Eighth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI'06), to be held November 2-4, 2006 in Banff, Canada, and sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). ICMI is the foremost conference representing the growing interest in next-generation perceptive, adaptive and multimodal user interfaces, systems, and applications, which are especially well-suited for interpreting natural communication and activity patterns in real-world environments; their emergence represents a radical departure from previous computing, and is rapidly transforming the nature of human-computer interaction by creating more natural, expressively powerful, flexible and robust means of interacting with computers. The 3-day conference will bring together researchers from academia and industry from around the world to present and discuss the latest multi-disciplinary work in the field. The theme of this year's conference is multimodal collaboration through different platforms and applications; the conference will focus on major trends and challenges in this area, including distilling a roadmap for future research and commercial success. Participants in the doctoral consortium will receive feedback from an invited committee of half a dozen senior personnel to posters which reflect work-in-progress not mature enough for a full paper at ICMI; they will also get to present their work orally to the conference as a whole during a doctoral spotlight session highlighting top student research Broader Impacts: The doctoral consortium will give students exposure to their new research community, both by presenting their own work and by observing and interacting with established professionals in the field. It will encourage students at this critical time in their careers to begin building a social support network of peers and mentors. Participants will be selected with the goal of increasing the conference's breadth and diversity; the organizers will make an effort to recruit members of traditionally under-represented groups including women, minorities, and people with disabilities, as well as from less well-funded institutions where adequate support for student conference attendance may be otherwise unavailable.