IDC Conference 08 Workshops

这笔资金将用于支持与2008年儿童互动设计大会(IDC08)相关的两项活动，该会议将于6月11-13日在伊利诺伊州埃文斯顿举行：一个博士联盟，将汇集大约9名来自美国和海外的有前途的博士生以及3名杰出的研究人员；以及一个关于为有特殊需要的儿童设计技术的会议前研讨会，该研讨会将以一个主题演讲结束，该研讨会将探索制作国际版儿童电视节目背后的挑战、机会和复杂性。一年一度的IDC大会是从研究和实践的角度展示和讨论儿童交互设计的领先国际论坛。IDC08将努力扩大以往会议的影响范围，无论是在出席人数和类型方面，还是在我们的技术针对的儿童数量和类型方面。博士联盟的目标是在社区内增加参与者工作的曝光率和知名度，帮助在下一代研究人员中建立社区意识，并通过在支持和互动的环境中提供该领域一群资深研究人员的实质性反馈和指导，帮助促进他们的研究努力。博士联盟的学生参与者将对他们的工作进行正式陈述，并将收到教员小组的反馈；反馈旨在帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作相对于其他研究的定位，他们的主题是否足够集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否被正确地选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和展示。为有特殊需要的儿童设计技术研讨会将允许该领域的顶尖研究人员和设计师之间进行智力交流。关于与特殊人群合作的挑战、应对这些挑战的新方法以及研究和设计的新方向的讨论将有助于并扩大所有参与者的研究视角。在主要会议期间，这两个活动的与会者将以海报形式展示他们的工作，摘要将包括在IDC会议论文集以及ACM数字图书馆中。广泛影响：IDC08的会前研讨会将汇聚儿童交互设计领域的一些最优秀的学生、研究人员和实践者，因此将为年轻参与者提供一个独特的机会，让他们在社区中获得更广泛的接触，展示他们的创新想法，同时也允许他们在彼此之间以及与该领域的资深同事建立一个社交网络。由于IDC会议在几个方面(如国籍、科学学科和研究专业)主办了不同的群体，与会者的视野将被拓宽，新的合作将出现，这将使该领域未来受益。

This is funding to support a pair of events in conjunction with the 2008 Interaction Design for Children conference (IDC08), which will take place June 11-13 in Evanston, Illinois: a Doctoral Consortium which will bring together approximately 9 promising doctoral students from the United States and abroad along with 3 distinguished research faculty; and a pre-conference Workshop on Designing Technologies for Children with Special Needs that will culminate in a keynote lecture that will explore the challenges, opportunities and complexities behind producing international versions of a children's television program. The annual IDC conference is the leading international forum for the presentation and discussion of interaction design for children, from the perspective of research as well as practice. IDC08 will strive to expand the reach of previous conferences, both in terms of the number and kind of attendees, and in terms of the number and kind of children that we target with our technologies. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to increase the exposure and visibility of the participants' work within the community, to help establish a sense of community among this next generation of researchers, and to help foster their research efforts by providing substantive feedback and guidance from a group of senior researchers in the area in a supportive and interactive environment. Student participants in the Doctoral Consortium will make formal presentations of their work and will receive feedback from a faculty panel; the feedback is geared to helping students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to other 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 Workshop on Designing Technologies for Children with Special Needs will allow intellectual exchange among top researchers and designers in this field. Discussions about challenges for working with special populations, new methods for approaching these challenges, and new directions for research and design will contribute to and expand the research perspective of all participants. During the main conference attendees of both events will present their work in poster sessions, and abstracts will be included in the IDC Conference Proceedings as well in the ACM Digital Library.Broader Impacts: The pre-conference workshops at IDC08 will bring together some of the best students, researchers and practitioners in the field of interaction design for children, and will thereby afford the younger participants a unique opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative ideas while also allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior colleagues in the field. Since the IDC conferences host a diverse group along several dimensions (such as nationality, scientific discipline, and research specialization), participants' horizons will be broadened and new collaborations will emerge, to the future benefit of the field.