Call for Participation: Workshops
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  • New! Details of the accepted workshops can be found here.

Important Dates

  • May 26, 2017, 17:00 PDT: Deadline for proposal submissions
  • June 1, 2017: Notifications
  • August 21, 2017 : Final camera-ready submissions for workshop proposals
  • October 17, 2017 : Workshop Day

Workshops

We invite researchers and practitioners working in the field of interactive surfaces and spaces to submit workshop proposals for ISS 2017. ISS Workshops provide a unique opportunity to discuss ideas, challenges and new work around more specific topics in the area interactive spaces and surfaces. We welcome proposals from a large variety of topics and domains. Examples topics include but are not limited to:

  • Multitouch on mobile devices
  • Large (wall-sized) surfaces
  • Surfaces in public spaces, workplaces, homes
  • Surfaces in domain specific environments (e.g. safety critical, education, games)
  • Information or Scientific Visualization on Interactive Surfaces
  • Shape-changing surfaces and spaces
  • ... and other exciting topics!

All workshops will take place on October 17, 2017 (one day before the start of the conference) and will run for either half a day or the full day. Workshop organizers will receive one complimentary conference registration and one or two complimentary workshop registrations (one for half-day, two for full-day workshops). Workshops can be open (free to anyone who registered for it) or closed (attendees need to submit position papers). Please indicate the length and type of workshop in your proposal (see below).

Submitting a Workshop Proposal

We request a short proposal (up to 4 pages, excluding references) in the SIGCHI Extended Abstracts publication format as well as an additional information sheet about the particular workshop requirements (1 page).

Please include the following information in your 4-page workshop proposal:

  • Workshop title
  • Full contact information of all workshop organizers and the main contact person
  • Topic, nature and goals of the workshop
  • Relevance of the workshop to the ISS community
  • Topics and planned activities covered in the workshop and planned activities
  • Program Committee members for the workshop (if applicable)

Please include one additional information page (in addition to the 4-page proposal) with the following information:

  • A call-for-papers to your workshop (200 words max.)
  • Link to the workshop website
  • Proposed workshop length (half-day or full-day)
  • Workshop type (open or closed)
  • Room requirements: tables, chairs, projector configuration, whiteboards, etc.
  • Maximum number of people

Please submit the workshop proposal using the ISS Precision Conference system by the deadline on May 26, 2017.

Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers

Workshop organizers are expected to organize and facilitate all proposed workshop activities. We suggest the page limit for workshop papers to be 4-6 pages excluding references using the 2016 SIGCHI Extended Abstracts publication format , but it is up to the organizers to make this decision.

Workshop organizers will be asked to :

  • Organize and manage the review of submitted workshop papers (e.g. through a reviewing system such as EasyChair)
  • Set a workshop position paper submission deadline (the recommended deadline is August 1, 2017) and an author notification date (August 7, latest). We will provide workshop organizers a special code for early bird registration that they can provide in the accepted notification to authors.
  • Submit the final camera ready workshop proposals by August 21 the deadline set by ACM.

Workshops Co-Chairs

Audrey Girouard, Carleton University
Uta Hinrichs, University of St Andrews, UK
Kening Zhu, City University of Hong Kong

✉ workshops@iss2017.acm.org

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