CHI 96 Basic Research SymposiumCall for Participation
CHI 96 Basic Research SymposiumSaturday and Sunday, April 13-14, 1996
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Alan Dix, University of Huddersfield, UK
Francesmary Modugno, University of Washington, USA
See also the final programme including all position papers and the report in SIGCHI Bulletin, 29(1) pp. 28-30.
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A two day Research Symposium will be held on the Saturday and Sunday preceding the main conference. The goal of the Symposium is to provide an interactive forum to promote and enhance scientific discussions of developing research issues.
The Basic Research Symposium is designed to complement other parts of the CHI 96 Conference. The Symposium allows active researchers in the field of Human-Computer Interaction to present new and ongoing work in addition to more mature work.
Those attending the Symposium will be given the opportunity to enter into extensive dialogue with a community of peers. The Symposium will provide both an opportunity for feedback on one's research ideas, as well as a chance to learn about the variety of perspectives present in the international research community. The Symposium is designed to stress research and interaction among the attendees and to promote understanding, asking of questions and dialogue among fellow researchers as well as reflection on methods and results, etc.
In our vision statement we stress that the symposium is not a market place. We do not expect contributions which sell well established and 'safe' methods and findings. Instead we actively seek contributions which are at the leading edge: tentative, controversial and ongoing research. The symposium should start where you are on the 13th April 1996. However, we hope that you will be somewere different on 14th April.
We are not suggesting specific scenarios or themes for the symposium as one of the strengths of the symposium is that it embraces the current interests of all the participants. Themes will emerge naturally from the contributions, but often some sessions specifically addressing a common scenario or theme can be very effective. To enable such themes to emerge we are happy to receive suggestions for scenarios or themes which we will then announce on the symposium web page.
The Symposium will alternate between plenary sessions with presentation of interesting, enlightening, even provoking research issues, with follow-up discussions and smaller focused discussion groups with short talk presentations and intense dialogue among participants.
Organization of the talk sessions will depend on the general topics addressed by submissions. However, some of the sessions will focus on the the conference theme: Common Ground. We will be looking for common ground between different research disciplines and common ground between theory and practice.
The position papers and agenda will be distributed electronically to all participants before the Symposium.
The most important output of the symposium is the interaction between the participants. In addition, a sub-group will provide feedback from the Symposium to the Doctoral Consortium and the main conference. After the conference, a short report of the event will be published in SIGCHI Bulletin and the collected position papers will be published electronically.
Invitation to the Symposium will be based on a 1500 word (max) position paper which summarises your current research. Submissions longer than 1500 words will not be reviewed. The late date for submissions reflects the intention that the Symposium represents the participants' current work. Moreover, the limited size of the Symposium - no more than 50 participants - emphasizes the high degree of interaction and collaboration between participants.
Submissions will be reviewed by the symposium organising committee. The accepted papers will be the basis of the organisation of the symposium. Participants may if they wish address specific advertised themes or scenarios, or one of the common ground issues. This will help the committee to build the agenda for the symposium, but will not be used as a criteria for acceptance.
All submissions should be in electronic form. Each submission should include full contact information (email address, conventional address, URL if you have one), a 50-100 word abstract, selected keywords and should include references to a maximum of 5 of your own research publications.
Please submit your paper by email to the symposium co-chairs at chi96-research-symposium@acm.org in one of the following forms:
A formatted version is optional in the case of an HTML document as we can print a formatted version using a browser. However, you may still wish to send an additional formatted version if, for example, illustrations do not reproduce well in a web document. The formatted version may be in rtf or postscript (use uuencode or binhex to transmit). If you have difficulty producing an appropriate electronic copy, please submit a plain text version electronically and fax a formatted version to both symposium co-chairs.
Two page research summaries due: Thursday, February 1st, 1996
(to arrive by 5pm PST)
Notification of acceptance: Friday, March 1st, 1996
Final version of research summaries due: Friday, 15th March, 1996
Symposium starts: Saturday, 13th April, 1996
All other adminsitrative arrangements for the symposium will be done electronically.
E-mail: chi96-research-symposium@acm.org
Alan Dix
School of Computing and Mathematics
The University of Huddersfield
Canalsiide, Huddersfield, HD1 3DH
United KingdomTel: +44 1484 472 908
Fax: +44 1484 421 106
and
Francesmary Modugno
Computer Science and Engineering, FR 35
Box 352350
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington 98195 USATel: +1 206 543 8099
Fax: +1 206 543-2969
Berardina (Nadja) De Carolis, University of Bari, Italy
Alan Dix, University of Huddersfield, UK
Hilary Johnson, Queen Mary and Westfield College, UK
Joseph Konstan, University of Minnesota, USA
Francesmary Modugno, University of Washington, USA
Janni Nielsen, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Marilyn Panayi, City University, UK
Dag Svanes, University of Trondheim, Norway
Leon Watts, University of York, UK
Cathleen Wharton, US West Advanced Tech, USA