Workshop: Doctoral Consortium at the 14th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

这笔资金用于支持大约12名研究生(10名来自美国机构，2名来自非美国机构)和5-6名ICMI社区的高级成员(教师和行业研究人员)参加一个博士联盟(研讨会)，该联盟将与第14届多模式交互国际会议(ICMI 2012)同时举行，并在此之前举行，该会议将于2012年10月23-26日在加利福尼亚州圣莫尼卡举行，由计算机械协会(ACM)组织。ICMI系列会议是关于多模式人-人和人-机交互、界面和系统开发的多学科研究的主要国际论坛。会议的重点是定义多模式交互分析、界面设计和系统开发领域的理论和经验基础、组件技术和组合多模式处理技术。今年会议特别感兴趣的主题包括多模式交互处理、交互系统和应用、人类通信模式建模以及多模式交互系统的数据、评估和标准。ICMI 2012将以单轨会议为特色，包括：主旨演讲者、技术全文和简短论文(包括口头和海报演示)、特别会议、演示、展览和博士论文。ICMI 2012年会议记录将由ACM出版，作为其国际会议会议记录系列的一部分。欲了解更多有关这次会议的信息，请访问http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012.。ICMI博士联盟的目标是为博士生提供一个机会，向来自不同学术和工业机构的一群导师和同行介绍他们的工作，获得对他们的博士研究计划和进展的反馈，并建立一支对设计多模式界面感兴趣的年轻研究人员队伍。学生参与者将在联合会上发表他们正在进行的论文研究的简短演讲，并在会议的博士聚焦会议上作为海报。今年，主办方寻求扩大博士联盟的范围，为学生和该领域的资深成员提供更多的互动机会；为此，该计划还将包括在研讨会当天为学生和导师提供午餐，为学生和导师提供提问和回答问题并讨论该领域挑战和机会的机会，以及为学生提供机会在他们之间以及与组织者和导师进行非正式对话的晚宴。广泛影响：博士联盟将通过展示他们自己的工作，以及通过观察和与该领域公认的专业人士互动，让学生接触到他们新的研究社区。它将鼓励学生在职业生涯的关键时刻开始建立由同龄人和导师组成的社会支持网络。组织者将积极采取措施，在学生中实现研究主题、学科背景、方法方法和家庭机构的多样性。首先将优先考虑少数民族学生、女学生、来自代表人数不足的州的学生，最后将优先考虑那些导师或部门没有足够资金支持他们参加会议的学生。为了进一步增加多样性，最多可以邀请两名来自国外的学生参加，任何一所美国高等教育机构的邀请都不会超过两名。

This is funding to support participation by about 12 graduate students (10 from U.S. institutions and 2 from non-U.S. institutions) and 5-6 senior members of the ICMI community (faculty and industry researchers) in a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) to be held in conjunction with and immediately preceding the 14th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2012), which will take place October 23-26, 2012, in Santa Monica, California, and which is organized by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). The ICMI conference series is the premier international forum for multidisciplinary research on multimodal human-human and human-computer interaction, interfaces, and system development. The conference focuses on theoretical and empirical foundations, component technologies, and combined multimodal processing techniques that define the field of multimodal interaction analysis, interface design, and system development. Topics of special interest to the conference this year include multimodal interaction processing, interactive systems and applications, modeling human communication patterns, and data, evaluation and standards for multimodal interactive systems. ICMI 2012 will feature a single-track main conference which includes: keynote speakers, technical full and short papers (including oral and poster presentations), special sessions, demonstrations, exhibits and doctoral spotlight papers. The ICMI 2012 proceedings will be published by ACM as part of their series of International Conference Proceedings. More information about the conference may be found at http://www.acm.org/icmi/2012. The goal of the ICMI Doctoral Consortium is to provide PhD students with an opportunity to present their work to a group of mentors and peers from a diverse set of academic and industrial institutions, to receive feedback on their doctoral research plan and progress, and to build a cohort of young researchers interested in designing multimodal interfaces. Student participants will present their ongoing thesis research as a short talk at the Consortium and also as a poster at the conference Doctoral Spotlight Session. This year, the organizers seek to expand the scope of the Doctoral Consortium to provide more opportunities for interaction between the students and senior members of the field; to this end, the program will also include a lunch on the day of the workshop for students and mentors, a career panel that will provide the students and mentors the opportunity to ask and answer questions and discuss challenges and opportunities in the field, and a dinner that will provide the students with the opportunity to hold informal conversations among themselves as well as with the organizers and mentors.Broader Impacts: The Doctoral Consortium will give student participants exposure to their new research community, both by presenting their own work and by observing and interacting with established professionals in the field. It will encourage students at this critical time in their careers to begin building a social support network of peers and mentors. The organizers will take steps proactively to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions among the students. Priority will be given first to minority students, female students, students from geographically underrepresented states, and finally to students whose advisors or departments have insufficient funds to support their participation in the conference. To further increase diversity up to two student participants may be invited from abroad, and no more than two will be invited from any given U.S. institution of higher learning.