WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium for the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2013)

这笔资金用于支持来自美国机构的约6名研究生，以及ICMI社区的5-6名高级成员（教师和行业研究人员，仅获得部分支持）参加博士联盟（研讨会），该研讨会将于2013年12月9日至13日在澳大利亚悉尼举行的第15届国际多式联运会议（ICMI 2013）同时举行，并在此之前举行。由计算机协会（ACM）组织。ICMI系列会议是多模态人机交互、界面和系统开发的多学科研究的首要国际论坛。会议的重点是理论和经验基础，组件技术，以及定义多模态交互分析，界面设计和系统开发领域的组合多模态处理技术。今年会议特别感兴趣的主题包括多模态交互处理、交互系统和应用、人类通信模式建模以及多模态交互系统的数据、评估和标准。ICMI 2013将以单轨主要会议为特色，包括：主题演讲，技术全文和短文（包括口头和海报演讲），特别会议，演示，展览和博士重点论文。ICMI会议集将由ACM出版社出版，并收录在ACM数字图书馆中。作为对高质量学生参与的进一步激励，ICMI将颁发优秀论文奖，并为学生论文设立一个特殊类别。有关会议的更多信息可在http://www.acm.org/icmi/2013网站上找到。ICMI博士联盟的目标是为博士生提供一个机会，向一群来自不同学术和工业机构的导师和同行展示他们的工作，接收他们的博士研究计划和进展的反馈，并建立一个对设计多模态界面感兴趣的年轻研究人员群体。学生参与者将在联盟上以简短的演讲形式展示他们正在进行的论文研究，并在会议博士焦点会议上作为海报。今年，组织者寻求扩大博士联盟的范围，为学生和该领域的资深成员之间提供更多的互动机会；为此，该计划还将在研讨会当天为学生和导师提供午餐，一个职业小组将为学生和导师提供提问和回答问题的机会，并讨论该领域的挑战和机遇，以及一个晚宴，将为学生提供在他们之间以及与组织者和导师进行非正式对话的机会。更广泛的影响：博士联盟将通过展示自己的工作以及观察和与该领域的知名专业人士互动，为学生参与者提供接触新的研究社区的机会。它将鼓励学生在职业生涯的这个关键时刻开始建立一个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。少数民族学生、女学生、来自地理代表性不足的州的学生将被优先考虑，最后是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，任何一所美国高等院校邀请的学生不得超过两名。

This is funding to support participation by about 6 graduate students from U.S. institutions, along with 5-6 senior members of the ICMI community (faculty and industry researchers, who will receive partial support only), in a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) to be held in conjunction with and immediately preceding the 15th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2013), which will take place December 9-13, 2013, in Sydney, Australia, 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 2013 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 2013 proceedings will be published by ACM The ICMI proceedings will be published by ACM Press and included in the ACM Digital Library. As a further incentive for high-quality student participation ICMI will be awarding outstanding paper awards, with a special category for student papers. More information about the conference may be found online at http://www.acm.org/icmi/2013. 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 no more than two students will be invited from any given U.S. institution of higher learning.