Travel: NSF Student Travel Grant for 2024 ACM Conference on Creativity & Cognition (C&C) Graduate and Undergraduate Student Symposia

创造力是计算创新的一个基本方面，也是艺术、科学和工程领域的驱动力。它在我们的经济和社会进步中起着至关重要的作用，是科学突破、技术发展以及新的文化和审美体验的先驱。ACM创意与认知（C&amp；C）会议成立于1993年，为研究人员、设计师、工程师和艺术家的多元化社区提供了一个平台，他们聚集在一起，就技术创新中创造力和认知的关系提供创新的、跨学科的见解。第16届C&amp；C将于6月24日至26日在伊利诺伊州芝加哥举行；通过支持学生参加研究生和本科生研讨会，该奖项将为学生提供一个独特的机会，展示早期研究成果，并从不同学科背景的导师那里获得反馈。他们将获得交流自己工作和批评同伴工作的经验和技能。他们将带着新的研究见解和可能的方向离开，更好地理解以前的工作和整个领域，并对来自不同学科的潜在有用方法有新的认识。这项资助将为大约8名研究生和8名本科生提供旅行支持，否则他们的旅行资金有限，因此可能无法参加。学生将根据他们对会议主题和社区的持续兴趣以及他们的经济需求进行选择，并着眼于支持来自不同学科，个人和机构背景的学生。由于许多申请者将是第一次参加会议和写作，组委会还将为潜在的与会者提供指导研讨会，以改进申请程序，并为最终无法参加会议的学生建立联系。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。

Creativity is a fundamental aspect of computing innovation and a driving force in arts, sciences, and engineering. It plays a crucial role in our economic and social advancement, serving as a precursor to scientific breakthroughs, technological developments, and novel cultural and aesthetic experiences. Established in 1993, the ACM Creativity and Cognition (C&C) conference provides a platform for a diverse community of researchers, designers, engineers, and artists who converge to offer innovative, interdisciplinary insights on the nexus of creativity and cognition in technological innovation. The 16th edition of C&C will take place June 24-26 in Chicago, IL; through supporting travel to Graduate and Undergraduate Symposia at the conference, this award will provide students with a unique opportunity to present early stage research and receive feedback from mentors with different disciplinary backgrounds. They will gain experience and skills in communicating their own work and critiquing the work of peers. They will come away with new research insights and possible directions, with better understanding of prior work and of the field overall, and with new awareness of potentially useful methods that draw from different disciplines.This grant will provide travel support to about 8 graduate and 8 undergraduate students who otherwise have limited travel funding and so might not be able to attend. Students will be selected based on their likely sustained interest around the conference topics and community and their financial need, with an eye toward supporting students from a diversity of disciplinary, personal, and institutional backgrounds. Since many applicants will be first time conference attendees and writers, the organizing committee will also provide mentoring workshops for prospective attendees to both improve applications and build connections even for students who ultimately cannot attend.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.