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IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | May 10, 2017 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | May 10, 2017 |
| Award Number: | 1743034 |
| Award Instrument: | Standard Grant |
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Tatiana Korelsky
IIS Division of Information & Intelligent Systems CSE Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering |
| Start Date: | May 15, 2017 |
| End Date: | April 30, 2018 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $8,000.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $8,000.00 |
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| NSF Program(s): | Robust Intelligence |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.070 |
ABSTRACT
The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) is the premier international forum for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. Its broad scope includes: multi-modal recognition or synthesis of human affect, psychological, cognitive, and neurological affect modeling, affective computing for social and behavioral sciences, and affective interactions for social robotics and virtual agents. The conference presents latest research in these and related areas and it plays an important role in shaping related scientific, academic, and educational programs. A theme of this ACII 2017 will be to emphasize the affective computing in action. The theme will showcase how affective computing can impact scientific knowledge and address societal challenges. Besides the main conference program, the conference will also feature workshops, tutorials, exhibitions, and a doctoral consortium. This project is to support the travel of approximately 10 U.S. Ph.D. students to attend the 7th ACII conference to be held from October 23rd to 26th, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. Besides attending the main conference program, the Ph.D. students will also attend the Doctoral Consortium, where they will share their research results with the community and receive feedback from senior researchers in the field. This will help the students only learn the state of the art in affective computing research but also have an opportunity to present their own work to, and receive feedback from, an invited committee of faculty and industry researchers along with other students working in related areas. The event organizers will make a particular effort to support underrepresented students (in particular, women and minorities) to maximize the benefits of the NSF support.
The specific goals of the doctoral consortium are to provide an opportunity for face-to-face interaction and constructive feedback for doctoral research of student participants; to promote collaborative research with peer Ph.D. students and senior researchers; to develop a supportive community of scholars in the affective computing field; and to support the next generation of researchers and provide advice on academic, research, industrial, and non-traditional career paths in the field. The Doctoral Consortium solicits extended abstract (4 pages plus 1 page for references) from students from any U.S. PhD granting institution whose research falls within the Affective Computing field. Students are expected to be the sole authors on their submission. For student selection, the DC committee is committed to student and research diversity. The event organizers will make a particular effort to achieve a diversity of research topics, disciplinary backgrounds, methodological approaches, and home institutions in ACII 2017 Doctoral Consortium cohort. Each student participant will be assigned a mentor based upon similarity of research interests and experience, and have a one-one-one meeting to discuss the work. There will be a Doctoral Consortium poster session, in which all participants will present their doctoral work or a recent paper that is part of their doctoral work.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
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Support for U.S. Students to Present at the 7th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 17)
The International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction ACII) is the premier international forum for interdisciplinary research on the design of systems that can recognize, interpret, and simulate human emotions and related affective phenomena. The project funded graduate students from U.S. institutions to attend and present their work at the 7th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 17) from October 23rd to 26th, 2017 in San Antonio, Texas, USA. The size and format of the meeting support intensive discussion, which often continues long after the conference has ended. Active participation of young researchers in this conference is very important for the health of the field and for the researchers themselves. Thus, by bringing young and creative researchers to the 2017 ACII conference, the project advances an important and socially valuable research field.
All funded students had the opportunity to attend sessions with keynote speakers, papers, posters, tutorials, and workshops as well as informally interact with peers and accomplished researchers. Students presented their own research in oral and/or poster sessions at the conference and a subset participated in the Doctoral Consortium. Thus, students presented their work to the research community, received feedback from senior researchers who served as their mentors during the conference, and were integrated into the broader ACII research communities. Many of these conversations should continue during the year and many mentors are expected to serve on student dissertation committees. This professional development activity supports the mission of NSF and other granting agencies to train more advanced professionals in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The project is anticipated to have a significant long-term impact to the careers of the future generation of ACII researchers by allowing them to attend and present their work at ACII, the premier conference of the field. This will lead to the next generation of ACII researchers, striving to develop futuristic affective computing and intelligent interactive systems that can improve productivity, performance, and satisfaction of society at large.
Last Modified: 05/30/2018
Modified by: Yelin Kim
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