REU SITE: Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education: Emerging Interface Technologies

爱荷华州州立大学的SPIRE-EIT（跨学科研究和教育暑期项目-新兴接口技术）是为本科生提供的为期10周的跨学科暑期体验，整合了新兴接口技术的研究和教育。为学生提供课堂培训，并使用尖端仪器，设备，计算机和技术基础设施获得实践研究经验。计算机编程和图形学，界面设计，人机交互和道德等课程约占学生时间的35%。在剩下的时间里，学生们三人一组进行跨学科的研究项目。每个小组在HCI教师的监督下与人机交互研究生课程的研究生进行互动。研究项目将在夏季结束时以海报、演示和五页研究论文的形式在校园范围内的研究研讨会上展示。 两个主要趋势正在推动新兴界面技术的研究：界面技术本身的急剧增加和廉价化，以及技术无处不在地渗透到日常生活中。相应地，研究问题集中在什么样的新界面可以设计和人们的感知，概念化，和这些接口的使用。SPIRE让学生接触到EIT的四大领域：信息可视化、移动的/无处不在的接口、智能代理和支持基础设施。由于SPIRE-EIT是从ISU HCI研究生课程中产生的，ISU的七个学科学院有72名教师，教师们竞相将他们的研究项目纳入SPIRE，并引用了参与之后的巨大好处。 更广泛的影响 随着知识工作和对新技术的适应性继续推动全球竞争力，美国必须保持跨学科技术研究和培训的领导地位。 ISU的HCI研究生课程是针对这一需求而开发的，是托管SPIRE-EIT的理想平台。HCI计划和SPIRE-EIT都强调代表性不足的群体，为学生在HCI跨学科领域的研究生教育做好准备，这是美国经济的重要领域。通过包括道德和基于研究的评估技术的教学，SPIRE为学生提供了终身有用的技能，独立于学科，并且学生可能不会在传统的工程或计算机科学课程中遇到。 由于与人机交互的联系，研究项目的结果可以很容易地传播到教师的本科生和研究生课堂。在实践中，SPIRE为参与者提供了令人印象深刻的经验，因为参与者中有大量的研究生导师。这些经验提供了这些导师，反过来，有机会实践指导，当他们成为教师。

SPIRE-EIT (Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education - Emerging InterfaceTechnologies) at Iowa State University is a 10-week interdisciplinary summer experience for undergraduates that integrates research and education in emerging interface technologies. Students are provided with classroom training and gain hands-on research experience using cutting-edge instruments, equipment, computers and technological infrastructure. Classes in computer programming and graphics, interface design, human computer interaction, and ethics occupy approximately 35% of the students'time. For the remaining time, students conduct interdisciplinary research projects in groups of three. Each group interacts with graduate students in the Human Computer Interaction Graduate Program under the supervision of HCI faculty. The research projects are presented at an end-of-the summer campus- wide research symposium in the form of posters, demos, and a five-page research paper.Intellectual Merit Two major trends are driving research in Emerging Interface Technologies: a dramatic increase and cheapening of interface technologies themselves, and the ubiquitous permeation of technology into everyday lives. Correspondingly, research questions focus on what new interfaces can be designed and on people's perception, conceptualization, and usage of these interfaces. The SPIRE exposes studentsto four broad areas of EIT: information visualization, mobile/ubiquitous interfaces, intelligent agents, and enabling infrastructure. Because SPIRE-EIT has arisen from the ISU HCI graduate program, with 72 faculty across ISU's seven disciplinary colleges, faculty members compete to have their research projects included in the SPIRE and cite strong benefits from participation afterwards. Broader Impact As knowledge work and adaptability to new technologies continue to drive global competitiveness, it is imperative for the US to maintain leadership in interdisciplinary technology-based research and training. ISU's HCI graduate program was developed in response to this need, and represents an ideal platform to host SPIRE-EIT. Both the HCI program and SPIRE-EIT recruit with an emphasis on underrepresented groups, preparing students for graduate education in the interdisciplinary area of HCI, an area of importance to the US economy. By including instruction on ethics and on research-based evaluation techniques, the SPIRE gives students skills that are useful lifelong, independent of discipline, and which students might not otherwise encounter in a traditional engineering or computer science curriculum. Because of the connection with HCI, the results of research projects can easily be incorporatedinto faculty members' undergraduate and graduate classes. Professionally, the SPIRE offers an impressivementoring experience for the participants because of the large number of graduate student mentors involved. The experience offers these mentors, in turn, an opportunity to practice mentoring for when they become faculty.