WORKSHOP: Doctoral Consortium at the 2018 ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction (HRI) Conference

该奖项支持大约24名学生（20名研究生参与者，一名本科生参与者和三名学生组织者）的先锋研讨会（博士联盟），沿着有杰出的研究人员。 该活动是3月5日至8日在芝加哥举行的第13届人机交互国际会议（HRI 2018）第一天活动的一部分，由ACM和IEEE联合赞助。 HRI是展示人机交互最好的跨学科和多学科研究的首要会议，其根源在于不同的领域，包括机器人技术，人工智能，社会心理学，认知科学，人机交互，人为因素，工程等等。 这是一个单一轨道，高度选择性的年度国际会议，邀请广泛参与。 HRI 2018的主题是“机器人为社会公益服务”。“会议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的先进方法实现人机交互。 有关会议的更多信息可在http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2018上查阅。 先锋研讨会旨在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。 鼓励与会者在他们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，以建立合作关系，并提出未来几年要解决的新研究问题。 参加者还获得了领导和服务经验，因为讲习班主要是学生组织和学生领导的。 PI表示，他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，活动组织者考虑了每个申请人的潜力，以提供一个新的视角和观点，就人权倡议，并努力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。 先锋研讨会的目的是补充会议，通过提供一个论坛，为学生和应届毕业生在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，与会者讨论了该领域即将到来的重要研究主题。 鼓励建立跨学科和跨地域的合作关系。 为此，研讨会的形式包括各种活动，包括主题演讲，杰出的小组会议和分组会议。 开始一天，所有研讨会与会者简要介绍自己和他们的兴趣。 在开幕式主题演讲之后，大约一半的与会者介绍了他们的工作3分钟的概述，导致了互动海报会议。 这使所有参与者能够在非正式的环境中分享他们的研究，并从学生和高级研究人员那里获得反馈。 研讨会组织者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出问题。 午餐后，剩余的研讨会参与者进行了3分钟的概述，然后在第二次互动海报会议上展示了他们的海报。 高级研究人员（除小组成员外）应邀出席学生报告会和海报展示会，以便向参加者提供反馈，该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。

This award support a Pioneers Workshop (doctoral consortium) of approximately 24 students (20 graduate participants, one undergraduate participant, and three student organizers), along with distinguished research faculty. The event takes place as part of the first day of activities at the 13th International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2018), held March 5-8 in Chicago, and which was jointly sponsored by ACM and IEEE. HRI is the premier conference for showcasing the very best interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research on human-robot interaction, with roots in diverse fields including robotics, artificial intelligence, social psychology, cognitive science, human-computer interaction, human factors, engineering, and many more. It is a single-track, highly selective annual international conference that invites broad participation. The theme of HRI 2018 was "Robots for Social Good." The conference sought 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/2018. The Pioneers Workshop was designed to 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. 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 were 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 also gained leadership and service experience, as the workshop was largely student organized and student led. The PI expressed his strong commitment to recruiting women and members from under-represented groups. To further ensure diversity the event organizers considered each applicant's potential to offer a fresh perspective and point of view with respect to HRI, and worked to recruit students who are just beginning their graduate degree programs in addition to students who are further along in their degrees. The Pioneers Workshops are 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 talk about the important upcoming research themes in the field. The formation of collaborative relationships across disciplines and geographic boundaries is encouraged. To these ends, the workshop format encompasses a variety of activities including keynotes, a distinguished panel session, and breakout sessions. To start the day, all workshop attendees briefly introduce themselves and their interests. Following the opening keynote, approximately half of the participants present 3-minute overviews of their work, leading into an interactive poster session. This enables all participants to share their research and receive feedback from students and senior researchers in an informal setting. The workshop organizers facilitate the post-presentation discussion and encourage participants to ask questions of their peers during the interactive break and poster session. After lunch, the remaining workshop participants 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) are invited to attend the student presentations and poster sessions in order to provide feedback to participants, and workshop participants are invited to present their posters during the main poster session of the HRI conference as well.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.