WORKSHOP: The IEEE VR 2016 Doctoral Consortium

这笔资金用于支持来自美国教育机构的大约8名有前途的研究生，沿着学术界和工业研究界的大约5名资深成员作为导师参加博士生联合会（研讨会）将与IEEE虚拟现实（VR）2016年会议一起举行，该会议将于3月19日至23日在南卡罗来纳州格林维尔举行，并且自2006年以来与IEEE 3D用户界面研讨会（3DUI）并置。虚拟现实是一个多学科领域，涉及以人为中心的计算机模拟，试图模仿或增强真实的世界感官（通常是视觉，声音和触觉）和经验。VR研究包括方法和系统的开发和评估，以及促进和理解用户的感知，信念和行为。IEEE Virtual Reality于1993年首次由IEEE计算机协会组织，自1995年以来每年举办一次，是该领域首屈一指的国际会议和展览，包括技术论文演示，研讨会，教程，研究演示和行业展览。有关会议的更多信息可在http://www.ieeevr.org/2016上找到。博士联盟的目标是为虚拟现实中的中级研究生提供一个独特的互动，支持和着名的指导场所，为这些学生提供一个宝贵的机会，让他们从具有广泛的集体广度和知识深度的高级人员那里获得独立的研究观点，并在VR社区内建立一个年轻研究人员的队列。组织者做出了特别努力，以实现各机构学生的多样性，并从计算机科学领域传统上代表性不足的群体中招募参与者，包括妇女，有色人种和残疾人。今年的IEEE VR博士联盟建立在前三个此类活动的成功形式的基础上，这些活动也得到了NSF的支持。该活动将开始与晚餐上周六，3月19日，紧接在IEEE 3DUI研讨会开始之前，欢迎学生，并提供初步的指导和提示网络在会议上。主要活动将于3月20日星期日举行，与IEEE 3DUI的第二天平行。 研讨会将包括上午和下午的会议，每个学生向其他学生参与者和高级VR研究人员小组介绍他/她的工作，每次演讲后留出足够的时间进行讨论和建设性反馈，以解决工作的优势，可能出现的挑战和问题，以及结果的影响。由所有学生和导师参加的小组工作午餐对于统一小组内提出的个人目标和项目将特别有价值，作为未来10-20年该领域未来“大图景”的一部分。每个学生还将被要求准备一张关于他/她的研究的海报，该海报将在会议期间作为海报会议的一部分展出，并提交一份简短的（2页）摘要，存档在IEEE数字图书馆。VR会议将于当晚开始，并举行欢迎招待会，博士联盟的参与者将与他们在前两天学到的东西进行交流。额外的小型活动将在本周剩余时间的分散时间进行;特别是，2-3名学生的小组将与VR/3DUI社区的高级成员一起参加指导午餐和/或其他网络活动。

This is funding to support participation by approximately 8 promising graduate students from educational institutions in the United States, along with about 5 senior members of the academic and industrial research communities as mentors, in a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) to be held in conjunction with the IEEE Virtual Reality (VR) 2016 conference that will take place March 19-23 in Greenville, SC, and which is collocated since 2006 with the IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces (3DUI). Virtual reality is a multidisciplinary field involving human-centered computer simulations that seek to imitate or augment real world senses (usually sight, sound, and touch) and experiences. VR research includes the development and assessment of methods and systems, and facilitating and understanding user perceptions, beliefs, and behaviors. First organized by the IEEE Computer Society in 1993 and held annually since 1995, IEEE Virtual Reality is the premier international conference and exhibition in this field and includes technical paper presentations, workshops, tutorials, research demonstrations, and exhibits from industry. More information about the conference may be found online at http://www.ieeevr.org/2016. The goal of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide a unique venue for interactive, supportive, and prestigious mentoring for mid-level graduate students in virtual reality, to afford these students a valuable opportunity to get independent perspectives on their research from senior individuals with a wide collective breadth and depth of knowledge, and to build a cohort of young researchers within the VR community. Special efforts have been made by the organizers to achieve diversity among the students across institutions, and to recruit participants from groups traditionally underrepresented in the field of computer science, including women, persons of color, and people with disabilities. This year's IEEE VR Doctoral Consortium builds on the successful format of the first three such events, which were also supported by NSF. The event will begin with a dinner on Saturday, March 19, immediately prior to the start of the IEEE 3DUI Symposium, to welcome the students and provide initial mentorship and tips for networking at the conference. The main activities will take place on Sunday, March 20, in parallel with the second day of IEEE 3DUI. The workshop will include morning and afternoon sessions in which each student presents his/her work to the other student participants and a panel of senior VR researchers, with sufficient time set aside after each talk for discussion and constructive feedback that addresses the strengths of the work, challenges and issues that may arise, and implications of the results. A group working lunch attended by all the students and mentors will be particularly valuable for unifying the individual goals and projects presented within the group as part of a "big picture" envisioning of the future of the field over the next 10-20 years. Each student will also be asked to prepare a poster on his/her research that will be on display during the conference as part of the poster sessions, and to submit a short (2-page) abstract to be archived in the IEEE Digital Library. The VR conference will begin that evening, with a welcome reception where Doctoral Consortium participants will network with what they have learned over the first two days. Additional smaller activities will take place at scattered times over the rest of the week; in particular, small groups of 2-3 students will meet for mentoring lunches and/or other networking events with senior members of the VR/3DUI community.