REU Site: Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education - Emerging Interface Technologies (SPIRE-EIT)

爱荷华州立大学的SPIRE-EIT（跨学科研究和教育暑期项目-新兴接口技术）是一个为期10周的跨学科暑期项目，面向10名本科生，将新兴接口技术的研究和教育与参与者的个人改变生活的体验结合起来。自2006年以来，随着研究成果的发表，学生们的个人转变一直是戏剧性和一致的结果。为学生提供课堂培训，并获得使用尖端仪器、设备、计算机和网络基础设施的实践经验。计算机编程和图形学、界面设计、人机交互、研究技能、团队技能和道德等课程占据了学生大约35%的时间。在一个专注于建立实践社区的不同寻常的结构中，学生以两到三人为一组进行跨学科研究项目，所有学生都位于虚拟现实应用中心（VRAC）。每个小组在VRAC教师的监督下与VRAC研究生进行互动。这些研究项目将以海报、演示和五页研究论文的形式在夏季结束时全校范围的研究研讨会上展示。学生们经常在学年晚些时候的研究会议上展示他们的研究。两个主要趋势正在推动新兴接口技术的研究：接口技术本身的急剧增长，以及技术在我们日常生活中的无处不在的渗透。相应地，本研究侧重于增强人们感知、理解和表现的新界面。SPIRE向学生展示了EIT的四个广泛领域：信息可视化、移动/无处不在的界面、智能代理和启用网络基础设施。有关此REU网站的更多信息可在SPIRE-EIT网站上找到：http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/hci/reu/。

SPIRE-EIT (Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education - Emerging Interface Technologies) at Iowa State University is a 10-week interdisciplinary summer experience for 10 undergraduates that integrates research and education in emerging interface technologies with a personal, life-changing experience for participants. Students' personal transformations since 2006 have been a dramatic and consistent result alongside research publications. Students are provided with classroom training and gain hands-on experience using cutting-edge instruments, equipment, computers and cyberinfrastructure. Classes in computer programming and graphics, interface design, human-computer interaction, research skills, team skills, and ethics occupy approximately 35% of the students' time. In an unusual structure that is focused on building a community of practice, students conduct interdisciplinary research projects in groups of two or three, with all students co-located in the Virtual Reality Applications Center (VRAC). Each group interacts with VRAC graduate students under the supervision of VRAC faculty. The research projects are presented at an end-of-the summer campus-wide research symposium in the form of posters, demos, and a five-page research paper. Frequently the students present their research at research conferences later during the school year. Two major trends are driving research in Emerging Interface Technologies: a dramatic increase of interface technologies themselves, and the ubiquitous permeation of technology into our everyday lives. Correspondingly, this research focuses on new interfaces that enhance people's perception, understanding, and performance. The SPIRE exposes students to four broad areas of EIT: information visualization, mobile/ubiquitous interfaces, intelligent agents, and enabling cyberinfrastructure. More information about this REU Site can be found at the SPIRE-EIT web site: http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/hci/reu/ .