项目来源

美国国家科学基金(NSF)

项目主持人

Amy Hurst

项目受资助机构

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-BALTIMORE COUNTY

立项年度

2016

立项时间

未公开

项目编号

1637206

研究期限

未知 / 未知

项目级别

国家级

受资助金额

8356.00美元

学科

未公开

学科代码

未公开

基金类别

Standard Grant

关键词

HCC-Human-Centered Computing ; Cyber-Human Systems ; CONFERENCE AND WORKSHOPS

参与者

未公开

参与机构

未公开

项目标书摘要：This is funding to support a Doctoral Consortium(workshop)of approximately 10 promising graduate students(8 from the United States and 2 from abroad,the latter to be supported by Google),along with 5 distinguished research faculty.The event will take place on Sunday,October 23,immediately preceding and in conjunction with the 18th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility(ASSETS 2016),to be held October 24-28,in Reno,Nevada.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 2016 to exchange ideas and present their latest work.More information about the conference may be found online at http://assets16.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.The ASSETS 2016 Doctoral Consortium will be a research-focused meeting of an international group of selected Ph.D.candidates and a 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 this emerging interdisciplinary area,and will also expose these promising young researchers to a larger community.In an effort to integrate Doctoral Consortium participants into the conference itself,a poster session has been set aside in the technical program to allow all Doctoral Consortium participants to present their research to the full conference.In addition,the international panel of faculty will give a presentation on job opportunities for researchers in both academia and industry;such a discussion has taken place in doctoral symposia at other conferences,and has been considered extremely valuable by 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.