WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at ASSETS 2017

这笔资金用于支持一个由大约12名有前途的研究生（10名来自美国，将由该奖项资助）组成的博士生联合会（讲习班），沿着还有5名杰出的研究人员。 该活动将于10月29日星期日举行，紧接着第19届国际ACM SIGACCESS计算机和无障碍会议（ASSETS 2017），将于10月30日至11月1日在马里兰州巴尔的摩举行。 ASSETS会议是介绍主流和专业辅助技术设计和使用创新研究的首要论坛。 这包括以下人员使用技术并为他们提供支持：有听力、视力和其他感官障碍的人;有运动障碍的人;有记忆、学习和认知障碍的人;有多重障碍的人;老年人;以及为这些人群工作的专业人员。 来自世界各地的学术界和工业界的研究人员和开发人员将在ASSETS 2017上会面，交流想法并展示他们的最新工作。 有关会议的更多信息可在http://assets17.sigaccess.org/上找到。 建设任何社区的一个关键组成部分是通过青年。 博士生联合会将帮助扩大在这一领域攻读研究生课程的年轻研究人员的参与，为他们提供机会，使他们在社区中更广泛地接触他们的创新工作，并从研究界的高级成员那里获得反馈和指导。 这将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员的社区意识，使他们能够在自己之间以及在其专业发展的关键阶段与高级研究人员建立社会网络。 由于学生和教师构成了一个跨各种维度的多元化群体，包括国籍/文化和科学学科，学生的视野被拓宽到该领域的未来利益。 组织者将采取措施，促进来自代表性不足群体的学生人数相对较多的机构的参与。 为了进一步增加多样性，组织者将致力于男女平等参与联盟，并且不会邀请来自同一教育机构的1至2名学生;如果来自同一教育机构的两名学生被选中，组织者将确保其中至少一人来自STEM中代表性不足的少数群体。 为了进一步将博士联盟参与者融入会议本身，技术计划中专门留出了一次会议，允许所有博士联盟参与者向全体会议展示他们的研究。ASSETS 2017博士联盟将是一次以研究为重点的会议，由国际选定的博士组成候选人和一个由杰出研究人员组成的国际小组（后者尚未命名）。 它将为来自不同背景（计算机，工程，心理学，建筑学等）的研究生提供机会。在PI和专家小组的指导下，在跨学科研讨会上聚集在一起，探索他们的研究兴趣，以便他们能够欣赏到辅助技术和通用可用性的更广泛的研究和开发方法，并体验他们可以继续努力的社区。 学生参与者将在联盟期间正式介绍他们的工作，并将收到来自教师小组的建设性反馈。反馈的目的是帮助学生理解和阐明他们的工作是如何定位相对于相关的研究，他们的主题是否充分集中于论文研究项目，他们的方法是否正确选择和应用，以及他们的结果是否得到适当的分析和呈现。 因此，该联盟将帮助制定旨在辅助技术和普及的正在进行和未来的研究项目，将促进这些跨学科领域的新研究人员之间的奖学金和网络，并将使年轻研究人员接触更大的社区。 此外，教师将为学术界和工业界的研究人员提供就业机会，以便在考虑职业选择时更好地告知学生。 将对该联合体进行评估，并将评估结果提供给今后此类活动的组织者。

This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium (workshop) of approximately 12 promising graduate students (10 from the United States to be funded by this award), along with 5 distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on Sunday, October 29, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2017), to be held October 30-November 1 in Baltimore,, MD. The ASSETS conferences are the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies. This includes the use of technology by and in support of: individuals with hearing, vision and other sensory impairments; individuals with motor impairments; individuals with memory, learning and cognitive impairments; individuals with multiple impairments; older adults; and professionals who work with these populations. Researchers and developers from around the world, in both academia and industry, will meet at ASSETS 2017 to exchange ideas and present their latest work. More information about the conference may be found online at http://assets17.sigaccess.org/. A key component of building any community is through its youth. The Doctoral Consortium will help expand the participation of young researchers pursuing graduate studies in this field, by providing them an opportunity to gain wider exposure in the community for their innovative work and to obtain feedback and guidance from senior members of the research community. It will further help foster a sense of community among these young researchers, by allowing them to create a social network both among themselves and with senior researchers at a critical stage in their professional development. Because the students and faculty constitute a diverse group across a variety of dimensions, including nationality/cultural and scientific discipline, the students' horizons are broadened to the future benefit of the field. The organizers will take steps to promote participation from institutions with relatively large numbers of students from under-represented groups. To further increase diversity, the organizers will aim for equal participation of females and males in the consortium, and will not invite more than 1 or 2 students from the same educational institution; if two students from the same educational institution are selected, the organizers will ensure that at least one of them is from an underrepresented minority in STEM. In an effort to further integrate the Doctoral Consortium participants into the conference itself, a session has been set aside in the technical program to allow all Doctoral Consortium participants to present their research to the full conference.The ASSETS 2017 Doctoral Consortium will be a research-focused meeting of an international group of selected Ph.D. candidates and an international panel of distinguished research faculty (the latter yet to be named). It will provide an opportunity for graduate students from diverse backgrounds (computing, engineering, psychology, architecture, etc.) to come together and explore their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of the PI and the panel of experts, so that they can appreciate the broader spectrum of research and development approaches to assistive technologies and universal usability, and also experience the community in which they can pursue their endeavors. Student participants will make formal presentations of their work during the consortium, and will receive constructive feedback from the faculty panel. The feedback is designed to help students understand and articulate how their work is positioned relative to related research, whether their topics are adequately focused for thesis research projects, whether their methods are correctly chosen and applied, and whether their results are appropriately analyzed and presented. Thus, the consortium will help shape ongoing and future research projects aimed at assistive technologies and universal access, will promote scholarship and networking among new researchers in these interdisciplinary fields, and will also expose the young researchers to a larger community. In addition, the faculty will give a presentation on job opportunities for researchers in both academia and industry, to better inform the students when considering career options. An evaluation of the consortium will be conducted and the results made available to the organizers of future such events.