WORKSHOP: Student Travel Support for the CHI Mentoring 2012 Workshop

人机交互（HCI）的主题现在比计算历史上任何时候都更加重要。随着计算机变得越来越小、越来越快、越来越普遍，我们有效使用它们的能力变得至关重要。我们不仅必须设计可用的系统，而且必须在包括桌面、移动电话和嵌入式系统在内的快速变化的计算硬件环境中这样做。HCI的一个独特之处在于，它不仅需要研究计算，还需要研究计算与人的结合。由于人的参与，HCI是一个在我们建立的系统中考虑文化、社会经济背景、性别等方面的领域。这是一个明确的论点，支持发展多样化领域的研究人员，这些研究人员在解决问题的技能方面具有广泛的经验。这是为2012年人机交互指导（CHIMe）研讨会http://chime.hci.cs.vt.edu提供部分支持的资金，该研讨会将汇集来自学术界和工业界的大约67名学生和10名杰出演讲者，作为特定学科指导研讨会的一部分，该研讨会部分由CRA-W的BPC联盟http://www.cra-w.org和CDC（多样化计算联盟http://cdc-computing.org）赞助。这是CHIMe工作坊的第二次提供，其目标是为属于以下一个或多个群体的HCI领域的学生提供交流和指导的机会：妇女、未被充分代表的少数民族和残疾人。研讨会将以一系列演讲和小组讨论的形式进行；演讲者将包括来自这些社区的该领域的主要研究人员，他们将讨论广泛的问题，从技术问题（例如适当的评估方法）到当今的一些热门话题。演讲者在政府实验室、学术界和工业界的不同职业将为与会者提供该领域的不同视角。该研讨会将与ACM 2012年计算系统中的人为因素会议（CHI 2012）同时举行，并被列为网站上的产品，该会议将于5月5日至10日在德克萨斯州奥斯汀举行，由计算机械协会人机交互特别兴趣小组（SIGCHI）赞助；这是介绍和讨论人机交互相关研究和实践的主要国际论坛，来自世界各地的约2,500名HCI专业人员参加了会议。国家科学基金将支付大约25名学生参与者的费用；CDC/CRA-W和微软公司提供了额外的资金。更广泛的影响：pi已经做出了认真和成功的努力，以吸引来自HBCU（传统黑人学院和大学），HSI（西班牙裔服务机构），ACU（阿巴拉契亚学院和大学）和TCU（部落学院和大学）机构的参与者。CHIMe 2012将利用成功的STEM专业人士在该领域积累的经验，提供一个独特的论坛，展示不同研究人员在计算方面的技术成就，并鼓励来自代表性不足群体的新一代研究人员。该研讨会的重点是HCI的研究生，它将对这一领域的未来教师和研究人员产生直接影响。它将为HCI领域未被充分代表的少数民族博士生提供一个高度技术性和支持性的环境，以讨论他们的研究并从专家那里获得建设性的反馈，以及充分的网络和同伴指导机会。

The topic of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is more important now than at any other time in the history of computing. As computers become smaller, faster, and more ubiquitous, our ability to use them effectively becomes critical. Not only must we design usable systems, but we must do so in a rapidly changing landscape of computing hardware that includes desktops, mobile phones, and embedded systems. A unique aspect of HCI is that it requires the study of not just computing, but of the combination of computing and people. Because people are involved, HCI is a field where aspects such as culture, socio-economic background, gender, etc., are considered in the systems that we build. This is a clear argument for the development of a diverse field of researchers who bring to bear a wide range of experiences in their problem solving skills.This is funding to provide partial support for the Computer-Human Interaction Mentoring (CHIMe) 2012 workshop http://chime.hci.cs.vt.edu, which will bring together approximately 67 students and 10 distinguished speakers from academia and industry as part of the Discipline-specific Mentoring Workshops sponsored in part by the BPC Alliance of CRA-W http://www.cra-w.org and CDC (the Coalition to Diversify Computing http://cdc-computing.org). This is the second offering of the CHIMe Workshop, whose goal is to provide an opportunity for networking and mentoring among students in the field of HCI who belong to one or more of the following communities: women, underrepresented minorities, and persons with disabilities. The workshop will be run as a series of presentations and panels; speakers will include leading researchers in the field drawn, to the extent they were available, from these same communities, who will address a broad range of issues ranging from technical concerns (such as appropriate evaluation methods) to some of today's hot topics. The speakers' diverse occupations in government labs, academia and industry will provide attendees with different perspectives of the field. The workshop will be collocated with and listed as an offering on the website of the ACM 2012 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012), which will be held May 5-10 in Austin, Texas, and is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Human-Computer Interaction (SIGCHI); this is the leading international forum for the presentation and discussion of research and practice relating to human-computer interaction, and is attended by approximately 2,500 HCI professionals from around the world. NSF funds will cover the costs of approximately 25 student participants; additional funds are being provided by CDC/CRA-W and Microsoft Corporation.Broader Impacts: The PIs have made a serious and successful effort to attract participants from HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities), HSI (Hispanic-Serving Institutions), ACU (Appalachian Colleges and Universities), and TCU (Tribal Colleges and Universities) institutions. CHIMe 2012 will harness the cumulative experience of successful STEM professionals in the field to provide a unique forum in which to showcase the technical achievements of diverse researchers in computing and to encourage a new generation of researchers from underrepresented groups. With its focus on graduate students in HCI, the workshop will be positioned to have a direct impact on future faculty and researchers in this area of endeavor. It will provide a highly technical and supportive environment for underrepresented minority doctoral students in the field of HCI to discuss their research and to receive constructive feedback from experts, along with ample opportunities for networking and peer mentoring.