WORKSHOP: The Pioneers Workshop at the 2016 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

这笔资金用于支持来自不同研究社区（例如，计算机科学与工程、心理学、认知科学、机器人学、人为因素、人机交互设计和通信），沿着杰出的研究教师。该活动将于2016年3月7日举行，紧接着将于3月8日至10日在新西兰基督城举行的第11届人机交互国际会议（HRI 2016），由ACM和IEEE联合赞助。HRI是一个单一轨道、高度选择性的年度国际会议，旨在展示人机交互领域最好的跨学科和多学科研究，其根源在于不同领域，包括社会心理学、认知科学、人机交互、人为因素、人工智能、机器人技术、组织行为学、人类学等等，为此，会议邀请广泛参与。HRI 2016的主题是“自然交互”，从广泛的角度寻求贡献，包括技术，设计，方法论，行为和理论，推进人机交互的基础和应用知识和方法，目标是通过新的技术进步，新颖的机器人设计，新的设计指南，以及理解和评估交互作用的先进方法。有关会议的更多信息可在http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/上查阅。本次研讨会将为下一代人机交互研究人员提供一个独特的机会，让他们接触并讨论当前和相关的主题，因为他们正在几个不同的研究社区（包括但不限于计算机科学和工程，心理学，机器人技术，人为因素和人体工程学，以及HCI）中进行研究。这对该领域很重要，因为人们已经认识到，在这一新兴领域的研究中，变革性的进步只能通过融合跨学科知识和多国视角来实现。将鼓励参与者在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的高级研究人员建立社会网络，以形成合作关系，并提出未来几年要解决的新研究问题。参与者还将获得领导和服务经验，因为研讨会主要是学生组织和学生领导的。PI表示她坚定地致力于从代表性不足的群体中招募妇女和成员。为了进一步确保多样性，活动组织者将考虑申请人的潜力，以提供一个新的视角和观点方面的人力资源投资，将招募学生谁是刚刚开始他们的研究生学位课程除了学生谁是进一步沿着在他们的学位，并会致力将每一院校的参加人数限制在最多两名。会议，通过提供一个论坛，为学生和最近的毕业生在HRI领域分享他们目前的研究与他们的同龄人和一个小组的高级研究人员在一个设置，这是不太正式，更具互动性比主要会议。在研讨会期间，与会者将讨论该领域即将到来的重要研究主题，鼓励跨学科和地理边界的合作关系的形成。为此，研讨会的形式将包括各种活动，包括三个主题演讲，一个杰出的小组会议和分组会议。开始一天，所有研讨会与会者将简要介绍自己和他们的兴趣。在开幕式主题演讲之后，大约一半的与会者将介绍他们的工作3分钟的概述，导致一个互动海报会议。这将使所有参与者能够分享他们的研究，并在非正式的环境中收到学生和高级研究人员的反馈。研讨会组织者将为演讲后的讨论提供便利，并鼓励与会者在互动休息和张贴海报期间向同行提问。午餐后，剩余的研讨会参与者将进行3分钟的概述，然后在第二次互动海报会议上展示他们的海报。高级研究人员（除小组成员外）将被邀请参加学生演讲和海报会议，以便向与会者提供反馈，研讨会与会者将被邀请在HRI会议的主要海报会议期间展示他们的海报。小组和与会者之间的对话将在午餐和晚餐期间继续进行。

This is funding to support a Pioneers Workshop (doctoral consortium) of approximately 31 graduate students (16 of whom are from the United States and therefore eligible for funding) from diverse research communities (e.g., computer science and engineering, psychology, cognitive science, robotics, human factors, human-computer interaction design, and communications), along with distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on March 7, 2016, immediately preceding the 11th International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2016), to be held March 8-10 in Christchurch, New Zealand, and which is jointly sponsored by ACM and IEEE. HRI is a single-track, highly selective annual international conference that seeks to showcase the very best inter- and multi-disciplinary research in human-robot interaction with roots in diverse fields including social psychology, cognitive science, HCI, human factors, artificial intelligence, robotics, organizational behavior, anthropology and many more, and to this end the conference invites broad participation. The theme of HRI 2016 is "Natural Interaction" which seeks contributions from a broad set of perspectives, including technical, design, methodological, behavioral, and theoretical, that advance fundamental and applied knowledge and methods in human-robot interaction, with the goal of enabling human-robot interaction through new technical advances, novel robot designs, new guidelines for design, and advanced methods for understanding and evaluating interaction. More information about the conference is available online at http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2016/. This workshop will afford a unique opportunity for the best of the next generation of researchers in human-robot interaction to be exposed to and discuss current and relevant topics as they are being studied in several different research communities (including but not limited to computer science and engineering, psychology, robotics, human factors and ergonomics, and HCI). This is important for the field, because it has been recognized that transformative advances in research in this fledgling area can only come through the melding of cross-disciplinary knowledge and multinational perspectives. Participants will be encouraged to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development, to form collaborative relationships, and to generate new research questions to be addressed during the coming years. Participants will also gain leadership and service experience, as the workshop is largely student organized and student led. The PI has expressed her strong commitment to recruiting women and members from under-represented groups. To further ensure diversity the event organizers will consider an applicant's potential to offer a fresh perspective and point of view with respect to HRI, will recruit students who are just beginning their graduate degree programs in addition to students who are further along in their degrees, and will strive to limit the number of participants accepted from a particular institution to at most two.The Pioneers Workshop is designed to complement the conference, by providing a forum for students and recent graduates in the field of HRI to share their current research with their peers and a panel of senior researchers in a setting that is less formal and more interactive than the main conference. During the workshop, participants will talk about the important upcoming research themes in the field, encouraging the formation of collaborative relationships across disciplines and geographic boundaries. To these ends, the workshop format will encompass a variety of activities including three keynotes, a distinguished panel session, and breakout sessions. To start the day, all workshop attendees will briefly introduce themselves and their interests. Following the opening keynote, approximately half of the participants will present 3-minute overviews of their work, leading into an interactive poster session. This will enable all participants to share their research and receive feedback from students and senior researchers in an informal setting. The workshop organizers will facilitate the post-presentation discussion and will encourage participants to ask questions of their peers during the interactive break and poster session. After lunch, the remaining workshop participants will give their 3-minute overviews, followed by presentation of their posters during a second interactive poster session. Senior researchers (in addition to those on the panel) will be invited to attend the student presentations and poster sessions in order to provide feedback to participants, and workshop participants will be invited to present their posters during the main poster session of the HRI conference as well. The conversations between the panel and participants will continue over lunch and during dinner.