Workshop: Support for Student Participation in the Intelligent User Interface 2012 Conference

该基金为10名来自美国大学的研究生（或美国公民）提供财政支持，以参加2012年2月15日至17日在葡萄牙里斯本举行的2012年智能用户界面国际会议（IUI 2012），作为博士会议的参与者，主要会议的演讲者，以及一般培训目的的会议与会者。由ACM主办的IUI年度会议代表了对下一代智能和交互式用户界面日益增长的兴趣；他们是学术界和工业界的研究人员的主要论坛，他们在人机交互（HCI）和人工智能（AI）的交叉点工作，聚集在一起交换互补的见解，并展示和讨论杰出的研究和应用，其目标是使计算机化的世界成为一个更容易适应的地方。与传统的人工智能不同，它的重点不是让计算机本身变得聪明，而是让计算机和人之间的互动变得更聪明。与传统的HCI不同，它关注的是涉及大量知识和新兴技术的解决方案，如自然语言理解、脑机接口和手势识别。为此，IUI不仅鼓励来自计算机科学的贡献，也鼓励来自心理学、认知科学、计算机图形学、艺术等相关领域的贡献。IUI 2012将是该系列的第15届会议；今年感兴趣的主题包括：智能交互界面、系统和设备；无处不在的接口;智能环境和工具；以人为中心的接口;移动接口;多通道界面;触控笔接口;口语和自然语言界面；会话接口;情感和社会界面；有形的接口;协同多用户界面；自适应界面;基于传感器的接口;用户建模和与新界面和设备的交互；个性化和推荐系统的接口；基于计划的系统的接口；结合基于知识或代理的方法的接口；复杂任务的帮助界面；基于示例和演示的界面；用于智能生成和表示信息的接口；智能创作系统；多模态虚拟角色与社交机器人的综合游戏和娱乐界面；以学习为基础的互动和卫生信息学；IUI界面的实证研究与评价设计智能用户界面的新方法。有关会议的更多信息，请访问http://iuiconf.org/。今年，IUI首次组织了一个学生博士联盟（研讨会），以扩大学生在这一领域的出席率和培训（见：http://iuiconf.org/doctoral_consortium.html）。博士联盟将于2012年2月14日在会议之前举行为期一天的活动，旨在让学生接触他们的研究社区，包括有机会向同行以及该领域的资深科学家导师展示他们的工作并获得建设性的反馈。学生的作品也将在主会议的海报环节中展出，在那里他们将获得额外的经验，向该领域的其他人解释他们的工作。我们这一代的学生在智能交互界面方面接受高质量的培训是至关重要的，因为这些界面将成为未来各种领域交互系统的关键组成部分；因此，博士联盟旨在鼓励博士生开始建立一个由同行和导师组成的专业支持网络。组委会已承诺积极招募来自传统上在IUI社区中没有很好代表的学校的学生参与者。优先资助代表不同院校的学生（每所院校不超过两名）；鼓励妇女、少数民族学生、残疾人和退伍军人参加。更广泛的影响：这笔资金将使那些可能因经济原因无法参加会议的学生能够参加这次会议。它将提高受资助参与者的教育经验，使他们接触该领域的主要研究人员，并使他们在会议期间接触到经常导致职业发展机会的热烈讨论。会议本身的质量也将得到提高，因为参会机构的基础扩大了，与会者的多样性增加了。IUI丰富的思想交流已被证明是未来研究的宝贵思想来源，并导致合作努力；这笔资金将扩大合作的机会，并为以前很少或根本没有派代表参加本次会议的项目提供智力激励。

This is funding to provide financial support for 10 graduate students from universities in the United States (or who are U.S. citizens) to attend the 2012 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2012), to be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on February 15-17, 2012, as participants in the doctoral session, presenters in the main conference, and attendees at the conference for general training purposes. Sponsored by ACM, the annual IUI conferences represent the growing interest in next-generation intelligent and interactive user interfaces; they are the premier forum where researchers from academia and industry, who work at the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), come together to exchange complementary insights and to present and discuss outstanding research and applications whose goal is to make the computerized world a more amenable place. Unlike traditional AI the focus is not so much on making the computer smart all by itself, but rather on making the interaction between computers and people smarter. Unlike traditional HCI, there is a focus on solutions that involve large amounts of knowledge and emerging technologies such as natural language understanding, brain computer interfaces, and gesture recognition. To this end, IUI encourages contributions not only from computer science but also from related fields such as psychology, cognitive science, computer graphics, the arts, etc. IUI 2012 will be the 15th conference in the series; topics of interest this year include: Intelligent interactive interfaces, systems, and devices; Ubiquitous interfaces; Smart environments and tools; Human-centered interfaces; Mobile interfaces; Multimodal interfaces; Pen-based interfaces; Spoken and natural language interfaces; Conversational interfaces; Affective and social interfaces; Tangible interfaces; Collaborative multi-user interfaces; Adaptive interfaces; Sensor-based interfaces; User modeling and interaction with novel interfaces and devices; Interfaces for personalization and recommender systems; Interfaces for plan-based systems; Interfaces that incorporate knowledge- or agent-based approaches; Help interfaces for complex tasks; Example- and demonstration-based interfaces; Interfaces for intelligent generation and presentation of information; Intelligent authoring systems; Synthesis of multimodal virtual characters and social robots; Interfaces for games and entertainment; for learning-based interactions and for health informatics; Empirical studies and evaluations of IUI interfaces; New approaches to designing Intelligent User Interfaces. More information about the conference is available at http://iuiconf.org/. This year IUI is organizing a student Doctoral Consortium (workshop) for the first time to expand student attendance and training in this area (see: http://iuiconf.org/doctoral_consortium.html). The Doctoral Consortium will be held as a day-long event on February 14, 2012, immediately preceding the conference, and is designed to give students exposure to their research community, including an opportunity to present their work to and receive constructive feedback from their peers as well as senior scientist mentors in the field. The students' work will also be featured during the main conference in the poster session, where they will gain additional experience explaining their work to others in the field. It is essential that our current generation of students receive good quality training in intelligent interactive interfaces, since such interfaces will be key components of future interactive systems in a variety of domains; therefore, the doctoral consortium is designed to encourage Ph.D. students to start building a professional support network of peers and mentors. The organizing committee has undertaken to proactively recruit student participants from schools that have not traditionally been well represented in the IUI community. Priority will be given to funding students representing different institutions (no more than 2 from any given institution); women, minority students, the disabled, and veterans all will be encouraged to participate.Broader Impacts: This funding will enable attendance at this conference by students who might otherwise be unable to do so for financial reasons. It will enhance the educational experience of funded participants, by bringing them into contact with leading researchers in the field and by exposing them to the lively discussion during the course of the conference that often leads to opportunities for career advancement. The quality of the conference itself will be enhanced as well, thanks to a broadening of the base of institutions represented and increased diversity of participants. The rich exchange of ideas at IUI has previously proven to be a valuable source of ideas for future research, as well as leading to collaborative efforts; this funding will extend the opportunities for collaboration and provide intellectual stimulus to programs that have previously sent few or no representatives to this conference.