REU Site: Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education-Emerging Interface Technologies

SPIRE-EIT（Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education - Emerging Interface Technologies）是爱荷华州州立大学为本科生开设的为期10周的暑期课程，整合了关于新兴接口技术的研究和教育。学生使用网络基础设施获得实践研究经验，并参加计算机编程，3D图形和人机交互的简短重点课程。在剩下的时间里，学生们分组进行跨学科的研究项目。研究项目在夏季校园范围内的研究研讨会结束时以海报，演示和五页研究论文的形式呈现。SPIRE-EIT招聘重点是代表性不足的群体，为学生在人机交互的跨学科领域的研究生教育做好准备，这是美国经济的重要领域。通过包括道德和基于研究的评估技术的教学，SPIRE为学生提供了终身有用的技能，独立于学科，并且学生可能不会在传统的工程或计算机科学课程中遇到。两个主要趋势正在推动新兴界面技术的研究：界面技术本身的急剧增加，以及技术无处不在地渗透到日常生活中。相应地，研究问题集中在四个广泛的新兴技术领域：信息可视化;移动的/无处不在的接口;扩展，虚拟和增强现实;和智能软件代理。这些研究问题将通过项目进行探索，例如通过XR中的沉浸式讲故事，XR中的多智能体轨迹表示，人类-智能体团队行为理解的测试平台以及对网络病的适应等职业途径。研究项目的设计，使本科生（三人一组）可以做出有意义的贡献。爱荷华州州立大学的人机交互研究生项目的教师们竞相参加SPIRE，并列举了参与后带来的巨大好处。每年，SPIRE项目通常会在一至两个专业学术会议上发表演讲，SPIRE学生作为合著者，将SPIRE研究成果发布给公众。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审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

SPIRE-EIT (Summer Program for Interdisciplinary Research and Education - Emerging Interface Technologies) at Iowa State University is a 10-week summer program for undergraduates that integrates research and education about emerging interface technologies. Students gain hands-on research experience using cyberinfrastructure and take brief focused classes in computer programming, 3D graphics, and human computer interaction. For the remaining time, students conduct interdisciplinary research projects in groups. The research projects are presented at an end-of-the summer campus-wide research symposium in the form of posters, demos, and a five-page research paper. SPIRE-EIT recruits with an emphasis on underrepresented groups, preparing students for graduate education in the interdisciplinary area of human computer interaction, an area of importance to the U.S. economy. By including instruction on ethics and on research-based evaluation techniques, the SPIRE gives students skills that are useful lifelong, independent of discipline, and which students might not otherwise encounter in a traditional engineering or computer science curriculum. Two major trends are driving research in Emerging Interface Technologies: a dramatic increase in interface technologies themselves, and the ubiquitous permeation of technology into everyday lives. Correspondingly, research questions focus on four broad areas of emerging technologies: information visualization; mobile/ubiquitous interfaces; extended, virtual, and augmented reality; and intelligent software agents. These research questions will be explored through projects such as career pathways through immersive storytelling in XR, multiagent trajectory representation in XR, testbed for human-agent teaming behavior understanding, and adaptations to cybersickness. Research projects are designed so that undergraduates (in teams of three) can make a meaningful contribution. Faculty in Iowa State University's Human Computer Interaction graduate program compete to participate in the SPIRE and cite strong benefits from participation afterwards. Each year, the SPIRE projects typically result in one-two professional academic conference presentations with SPIRE students as co-authors, which distributes SPIRE research results to the public.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.