WORKSHOP: The ASSETS 2018 Doctoral Consortium

该基金支持来自美国的10名有前途的研究生参加博士联盟（研讨会），以及大约5名杰出的研究人员。该活动将于10月21日星期日举行，紧接于2018年10月22日至24日在爱尔兰戈尔韦举行的第20届国际ACM SIGACCESS计算机与可访问性会议（ASSETS 2018）之前。ASSETS会议是展示主流和专业辅助技术的设计和使用方面的创新研究的主要论坛，这些技术支持与语言、运动、听力和视觉障碍、认知限制、情感和学习障碍以及老龄化相关的需求，以及与这些人群一起工作的专业人员。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 2018上会面，交流思想并展示他们的最新工作。有关会议的更多信息可在http://assets18.sigaccess.org/网站上找到。建立任何社区的一个关键组成部分是通过青年。博士联盟将帮助年轻研究人员扩大在该领域进行研究生学习的参与，为他们提供一个机会，使他们的创新工作在社区中获得更广泛的曝光，并从研究社区的资深成员那里获得反馈和指导。它将进一步帮助培养这些年轻研究人员之间的社区意识，允许他们在他们自己之间以及与处于专业发展关键阶段的资深研究人员建立一个社会网络。由于学生和教师构成了一个跨越不同维度的多元化群体，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，促进那些拥有相对大量来自弱势群体学生的机构的参与。为了进一步增加多样性，主办单位将以男女平等参与为目标，并且不会邀请超过1至2名来自同一教育机构的学生；如果选择来自同一教育机构的两名学生，组织者将确保其中至少有一名来自STEM中代表性不足的少数族裔。为了进一步将博士联盟的参与者融入会议本身，在技术计划中留出了一个会议，允许所有博士联盟的参与者向整个会议展示他们的研究。ASSETS 2018博士联盟将是一个以研究为重点的会议，由选定的博士候选人组成的国际小组和杰出的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，建筑等）的研究生提供一个机会，在PI和专家小组的指导下，在一个跨学科的研讨会上聚集在一起，探索他们的研究兴趣，这样他们就可以欣赏到辅助技术和普遍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展示他们的工作，并将从教师小组获得建设性的反馈。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研究，他们的主题是否充分集中在论文研究项目，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，该联盟将帮助形成正在进行的和未来的研究项目，旨在辅助技术和普遍获取，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，并将使年轻的研究人员接触到更大的社区。此外，教师还将为学术界和工业界的研究人员介绍工作机会，以便在考虑职业选择时更好地告知学生。将对该联盟进行评估，评估结果将提供给今后此类活动的组织者。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This grant supports 10 promising graduate students from the United States for a Doctoral Consortium (workshop), along with about 5 distinguished research faculty. The event will take place on Sunday, October 21, immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2018), to be held October 22-24, 2018, in Galway, Ireland. The ASSETS conferences are the premier forum for presenting innovative research on the design and use of both mainstream and specialized assistive technologies in support of the needs associated with speech, motor, hearing, and vision impairments, cognitive limitations, emotional and learning disabilities, and aging, as well as the professionals who work with these populations. Researchers and developers from around the world, in both academia and industry, will meet at ASSETS 2018 to exchange ideas and present their latest work. More information about the conference may be found online at http://assets18.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 2018 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.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.