Student Support for the Tenth International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems

这笔资金用于支持大约25名来自美国和海外的高级博士生参加将于2010年6月14日至18日在匹兹堡举行的第十届国际智能辅导系统会议(ITS 2010)。第一次ITS会议于1988年在蒙特利尔举行，在过去的12年里，每两年举行一次，地点包括巴西、台湾、法国、加拿大和美国。ITS会议为来自世界各地的跨学科研究人员提供了一个难得的专业机会，让他们汇聚并展示人工智能、计算机科学、认知和学习科学、心理学和教育技术等领域的尖端成果。其目标是促进应用于教育、认知科学和人类学习的计算机科学先进系统的研究，供所有年龄段的学习者使用。为此，该系列为计算机科学和人类学习的所有领域提供了一个交流思想的论坛，一个独特的环境，研究人员和从业人员在其中交流想法、理论、实验、技术、应用和对支持与未来相关的新发展的倡议的评估。历届ITS会议的评论和反馈表明，精心安排的会议形式继续对所有与会者产生专业回报和激励作用。它的会议是高度受推崇的国际活动，并作为研究界的参考指南；每篇论文通常由4名推荐人审查，因此在ITS发表的论文是任何研究人员评估的质量参考。这些会议在一个独立的非营利性组织的赞助下运作，资金完全来自注册费。有关会议的更多信息可在http://www.cmu.edu/its2010.Students上获得，由国家科学基金会基金支持的将有机会参加会议，论文，海报，教程，研讨会，以及与有成就的研究人员的非正式互动，后者在青年研究人员轨道的框架内，包括学生展示他们的研究想法，会见有相关兴趣的同行，并从ITS社区的高级成员那里获得反馈和指导的特别会议。将提供一个有组织的计划，每个学生都与一位导师配对，导师将被鼓励在学生准备报告时、在博士联盟会议期间以及至少一次一对一会议中向他们提供反馈和支持。博士联盟将设在主会议计划内，以鼓励最大限度的社区参与。其结构将为尽可能多的讨论和反馈提供便利。考虑到这一目标，学生们将在午餐时间的海报会议上展示他们的作品，向所有与会者开放。为了避免与其他活动竞争，并最大限度地提高上座率，目前不会安排其他讲座，所有与会者的自助餐都将在同一房间内张贴海报。为了让与会者熟悉学生的工作，在学生海报会议之前，将立即举行“消防水龙头”会议，学生们将非常简要地总结他们的工作。为了让海报演示者能够看到和讨论彼此的海报，海报演示将跨越主会议的所有3天，以便让学生有一天展示自己的海报，两天看到其他人。在空间和后勤条件允许的情况下，演讲者将能够在会议的所有3天时间里张贴海报，从而提供更多机会与其他研究人员讨论这些海报，例如在喝咖啡休息时间。更广泛的影响：这项活动支持NSF的核心使命之一，即培训更多科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)方面的高级专业人员。参加这次会议将为入选的学生提供一个独特的机会，让他们接触到国内外不同研究社区的最新研究方向。这对该领域很重要，因为人们已经认识到，研究中的变革性进展往往源于跨学科知识和多国观点的融合。将鼓励参与者在他们之间以及与处于其专业发展关键阶段的高级研究人员建立一个社交网络，以形成协作关系，并产生新的研究问题，以便在未来几年得到解决。国际和平研究所将高度重视支持来自学位授予机构的年轻研究人员(中级和高级博士生)，这些机构缺乏必要的资金来支持他们的学生参加ITS等国际会议。

This is funding to support attendance by approximately 25 advanced doctoral students from the United States and abroad at the 10th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS 2010), which will take place June 14-18, 2010, in Pittsburgh. The first ITS conference was held in 1988 in Montreal, and they have continued every two years for the past 12 years in locations that include Brazil, Taiwan, France, and Canada as well as the United States. The ITS conferences offer a rare professional opportunity for interdisciplinary researchers from around the world to converge and present cutting-edge results from the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science, cognitive and learning sciences, psychology, and educational technology. The goal is to promote studies in advanced systems in computer science applied to education, cognitive science and human learning for learners of all ages. To that end, the series provides a forum for the interchange of ideas in all areas of computer science and human learning, a unique environment in which researchers and practitioners exchange ideas, theories, experiments, techniques, applications and evaluations of initiatives supporting new developments relevant for the future. Comments and feedback from each previous ITS conference indicate that the carefully structured conference format continues to be professionally rewarding and stimulating to all who attend. ITS conferences are highly refereed international events and serve as reference guidelines for the research community; each paper is generally reviewed by 4 referees so that having a paper published at ITS is a reference of quality for any researcher evaluation. The conferences operate under the auspices of an independent nonprofit organization and are funded entirely by registration fees. More information about the conference is available at http://www.cmu.edu/its2010.Students supported by NSF funds will have the opportunity to attend sessions with papers, posters, tutorials, workshops, and informal interactions with accomplished researchers, the latter within the framework of a Young Researchers Track that includes special sessions for the students to present their research ideas, meet peers who have related interests, and receive feedback and mentoring from senior members of the ITS community. A structured program will be provided in which each student is matched with a mentor who will be encouraged to offer feedback and support to students as they prepare their presentations, during the doctoral consortium sessions, and in at least one 1-on-1 meeting. The doctoral consortium will be situated within the main conference program in order to encourage maximal community involvement. Its structure will facilitate as much discussion and feedback as possible. With this goal in mind, students will present their work at lunchtime poster sessions open to all attendees. To avoid competition with other events and to maximize attendance, no other talks will be scheduled at this time and posters will be in the same rooms as the buffet lunch for all conference attendees. To acquaint attendees with student work, student poster sessions will be immediately preceded by "fire-hose" sessions where students summarize their work very briefly. To enable poster presenters to see and discuss each other's posters, poster presentations will span all 3 days of the main conference so as to give students one day to present their posters and two days to see others. Space and logistics permitting, presenters will be able to leave their posters up all 3 days of the conference, affording additional opportunities to discuss them with other researchers, for example during coffee breaks. Broader Impacts: This activity supports one of NSF's core missions, to train more advanced professionals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). Participating in the conference will provide the selected students with a unique opportunity to be exposed to current research directions in different research communities both domestic and foreign. This is important for the field, because it has been recognized that transformative advances in research tend to derive from the melding of cross-disciplinary knowledge and multinational perspectives. Participants will be encouraged to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development, to form collaborative relationships, and to generate new research questions to be addressed during the coming years. The PI will place high priority on supporting young researchers (intermediate and advanced doctoral students) from degree-granting institutions that lack the funding necessary to support attendance by their students at international conferences such as ITS.