Workshop: Doctoral Consortium for ACM Conference on Computers and Accessibility; October 15-17,2007 in Tempe, AZ

这笔资金用于支持一个由来自美国和海外的大约10名有前途的博士生组成的联盟(研讨会)，以及大约5名杰出的研究人员和一名最近完成博士学习的个人。该活动将于10月14日(星期日)举行，紧接着将于10月15日至17日星期一至星期三在亚利桑那州坦佩举行的2007年ACM资产大会之前，由ACM计算机和可访问性特别兴趣小组(SIGACCESS)赞助。ASSITS会议是展示研究成果和软件和技术创新的主要论坛，旨在满足各类残疾人的特殊需求。来自世界各地学术界和产业界的研究人员和开发人员将会面，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交流意见并提交报告。建设这个社区的一个关键组成部分是通过年轻人。Assets‘07博士联盟将为来自不同背景(计算机、工程、心理学、建筑等)的研究生提供机会。在该领域著名专家小组的指导下，聚集在一起，在该领域的一个杰出专家小组的指导下，在一个跨学科研讨会上探索他们的研究兴趣，以便他们能够看到辅助技术和普遍可用性的更广泛的研究和开发方法，并体验他们可以继续努力的社区。学生参与者将在联盟期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将从教员小组获得建设性的反馈。这些反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于相关研究的定位，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。因此，该联盟将帮助形成目前和未来旨在辅助技术和普及利用的研究项目，将促进这一新兴跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的学术和网络联系，并将使这些有前途的年轻研究人员接触到更大的社区。将对该财团进行评估，并将结果提供给今后此类活动的组织者。在主会议期间留出了一段时间，允许博士联盟的参与者在整个会议上发表演讲，博士联盟的一名学生将被选为闭幕全体报告。广泛的影响：博士联盟将帮助扩大在该领域攻读研究生的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供一个机会，让他们在社区中获得更广泛的机会，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。它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与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社交网络。因为学生和教职员工在不同的维度上构成了一个不同的群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域未来的利益。

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 14, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 2007 ACM ASSETS Conference, to be held Monday through Wednesday, October 15-17 in Tempe, Arizona, and sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Accessibility (SIGACCESS). 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'07 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.