REU Site: Exploring Human Centered and Socially Relevant Interactive Technologies in Computer Vision, Visualization, Pervasive Computing, Serious Games, and Social Networks

北卡罗来纳大学夏洛特分校REU网站的目标是实施有效的实践，以吸引不同群体的本科生参与计算研究。本科学生将积极从事应用人机交互（HCI）概念的研究，以推进特定领域的最新技术，包括普适计算、计算机视觉、数据可视化、社交网络和严肃游戏。每个研究项目都有一个社会相关的主题，为学生提供应用和扩展他们的计算知识的机会，以解决具有现实世界影响的问题。该网站强调来自计算机领域代表性不足的群体和研究项目有限的机构的有前途的学生的参与。为了帮助学生迅速融入研究文化，并为有意义的研究经验做好准备，该网站培养了一个真正的实践社区，重视REU学生作为研究人员的贡献，并在每周一次的研讨会上为REU参与者提供明确的、及时的研究技能培训。这个项目的智力价值在于REU的学生。对创新的交互式计算解决方案的发现和贬值作出贡献，以解决社会关注的问题；具体的项目可以解决计算机视觉、普适计算、数据可视化、社交网络和严肃游戏领域的开放问题。该项目的广泛影响在于有机会将有才华的学生从代表性不足的人群中引入计算机研究，并有可能增加国内学生参加计算机博士课程的入学率。

The objective of the REU Site at UNC Charlotte is to implement effective practices to engage a diversegroup of undergraduate students in computing research. Undergraduate students will actively pursueresearch that applies human-computer interaction (HCI) concepts to advance the state of the art in aparticular field, including pervasive computing, computer vision, data visualization, social networks, andserious games. Each research project has a socially relevant theme, providing students with theopportunity to apply and extend their computing knowledge to address problems that have a real-worldimpact. The site emphasizes participation of promising students from underrepresented groups incomputing and from institutions that have limited research programs. To help students become rapidlyimmersed in the culture of research and to prepare them for meaningful research experiences, the sitecultivates an authentic community of practice that values the contributions of REU students asresearchers, and provides REU participants with explicit, just-in-time training in research skills at aweekly workshop.The intellectual merit of this project lies in the REU students? contributions to the discovery andevaluation of innovative, interactive computing solutions to address problems of interest in society;specific projects may address open problems in the fields of computer vision, pervasive computing, datavisualization, social networks, and serious games. The broader impact of this project lies in theopportunity to introduce talented students from underrepresented populations to computing research andin the potential to increase the enrollment of domestic students in doctoral computing programs.