Transcript Program Mission

Welcome to the HRI
Cluster Workshop
What is the
HRI Cross-Cutting Technical Area?
And how does it fit into The New IIS?
Ephraim P. Glinert, PhD
CISE / IIS Division
National Science Foundation
[email protected]
September, 2006
CISE Directorate
Peter A. Freeman, Assistant Director
[email protected]
Currently organized into 3 divisions:
 Division of Computing and Communication
Foundations (CCF)
 Division of Computer and Network Systems (CNS)
 Division of Information and Intelligent Systems (IIS)
IIS Division
C. Suzanne Iacono, Acting Division Director (FY’06)
[email protected]
Haym Hirsh, Division Director (FY’07)
[email protected]
We’ve reorganized in conjunction with our new solicitation
NSF 06-572 to consist primarily of 3 clusters representing
“core technical areas” instead of the many programs and
old clusters we used to have:
 Human Centered Computing (HCC)
 Information Integration and Informatics (III)
 Robust Intelligence (RI)
Human Centered
Computing (HCC)
Subsumes the following old programs:
Digital Society and Technologies
Human-Computer Interaction
Universal Access
Program officers staffing the cluster:
Amy Baylor, William S. Bainbridge,
Ephraim P. Glinert, Wayne Lutters, Mary Lou Maher
Information Integration
and Informatics (III)
Subsumes the following old programs:
Data Management Systems
Digital Government
Digital Libraries and Archives
Information and Knowledge Management
Science and Engineering Informatics
Program officers staffing the cluster:
Larry Brandt, Steve Griffin, Le Gruenwald,
Frank Olken, Sylvia Spengler, Maria Zemankova
Robust Intelligence (RI)
Subsumes the following old programs:
Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science
Computational Neuroscience
Computer Vision
Human Language and Communication
Robotics
Program officers staffing the cluster:
Daniel DeMenthon, C.-S. George Lee, Tanya Korelsky,
Edwina Rissland, Kenneth C. Whang
Why Clusters?
• Larger pots of money that will allow us to make more big awards
each year.
• The ability to allocate each year appropriate amounts (more or less,
as the case may be) to areas according to the overall quality of the
proposals received.
• Agility to pursue promising emerging research areas as they are
detected, while still being able to fund existing areas at reasonable
levels.
• A team of Program Directors to thrash out which proposals represent
the most exciting new ideas and best potential value, rather than each
PD having to agonize over this on his/her own.
How Does HRI Fit Into
The Picture?
• We have identified two “cross-cutting technical areas” that appear at this
time to be of growing interest to the research community and society.
• Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is one of these. Information Privacy and
Security (IPS) is the other.
• Research in a cross-cutting technical area will typically be highly relevant
to more than one of our core clusters, so proposals submitted to them will
be managed by small teams of PDs. For HRI, the current lead PDs are
George Lee (RI) and Ephraim Glinert (HCC).
• We may add new cross-cutting technical areas from time to time, as
science and technology evolve - and we may also delete those whose time
has passed.
What’s Human-Centered?
Human beings assume participatory and integral roles
throughout all stages of IT development and use:
• People design new technologies.
• People, in teams and organizations, at work, at school, at home
and at play, use them.
• People anticipate and enjoy their benefits.
• People learn about the outcomes of use and translate that
knowledge into the next generation of systems.
New IT and human societies co-evolve, transforming each
other in the process.
The design of IT must be sensitive to human values and
preferences.
Current HCC Topics of
Interest Include...
• Problem-solving in distributed and mobile environments
• Multimedia and multi-modal interfaces used by people and machines to
communicate.
• Intelligent interfaces and user modeling, information visualization, and adaptation
of content for different display capabilities, modalities, bandwidth and latency.
• Multi-agent systems that control and coordinate actions and solve complex
problems in distributed environments.
• Models for effective computer-mediated human-human interaction.
• Definition of semantic structures for multimedia information to support crossmodal input and output.
• Specific solutions to address the special needs of particular communities.
• Collaborative systems that enable knowledge-intensive and dynamic interactions
for innovation and knowledge generation.
• Novel methods to support and enhance social interaction.
• Studies of how social organizations respond to and shape the introduction of new
information technologies.