Development Consortium: Beyond the Desktop

Each year, the Development Consortium sets out to look at the issues and directions that the HCI community and SIGCHI should develop in the coming years. For CHI 2000, the Development Consortium will focus on "Beyond the Desktop" - the extraordinary growth of computer based devices and services world-wide that are becoming embedded in the way we live. Areas affected by portable, wearable and embedded computing include communications, home entertainment and automation, e-commerce, transportation, financial and health services.

Issues to consider could include:

• the limitations of being human
• use of small, powerful, and diverse types of devices
• usage context: public, private, and personal
• device usage and the evolution of social practices, privacy and trust
• enhancing community and communication
• application and device ecology
• the evolution of consumer expectations and wants
• interaction technologies
• enabling effective control, convenience, and enhancing the experience of use
• design practice
• the daily practice of designing for and catering to social context and user diversity

Format
Prepare a position paper of two pages using the Conference Publications Format. We strongly prefer an additional electronic submission as a PDF file by email to the Send To address shown. This is optional, but will greatly assist the reviewing process. Please refer to Electronic submissions.

In addition to your position paper please outline on a separate page your motivation for participating. Also, prepare an electronic version of the motivation paper as a simple email message.

Review criteria
Submissions will be reviewed on the basis of their relevance to the theme and their potential for stimulating discussion at the workshop.

Upon Acceptance
Applicants to the Consortium will be notified of acceptance by 7 November 1999. Accepted position papers will be published in the CHI 2000 Extended Abstracts. Authors of accepted position papers will receive an Author Kit with detailed instructions on how to submit the final camera-ready copy of the extended abstract for publication. The camera-ready copy is due on 13 December 1999.

At the Conference
"Beyond the Desktop" will be a special workshop held on the Sunday and Monday before the conference. Participants will receive free registration for Sunday and Monday, including lunches and coffee breaks. Participants are responsible for their own travel expenses and for their own CHI 2000 conference registration.

After the Conference
Following the conference a report summarizing the outcome will be published in the SIGCHI Bulletin.

Submissions

• Your submission must be in English.
• Submissions will not be accepted by fax or electronically without hardcopy.
• Submissions arriving after the deadline will not be considered.
• Your submission should contain no proprietary or confidential material and should cite no proprietary or confidential publications.
• Responsibility for permissions to use video, audio, or pictures of identifiable people rests with you, not CHI 2000.
• We strongly suggest the use of express mail or a courier service for speedy delivery. Customs labels should bear the words "Educational materials with no commercial value."

Checklist
Please perform the activities in this checklist to ensure completeness in your submission.

• Read the Conference Overview and Submitting to CHI.
• Fill out Cover Page One. We strongly encourage the use of the electronic version.
• Prepare the two-page position paper, as described above.
• Create a PDF version of the extended abstract if possible.
• Prepare a one-page paper describing your motivation.
• Create an electronic version of the motivation paper as simple email message.
• Collect Cover Page One, the position paper and the one-page motivation paper in the order given, in a packet. Make 6 copies of the packet. Use 8.5 x 11 inch or A4 paper.
• Make sure each copy of the packet is stapled, not loose or held by clips.
• Send the 6 packets to:
  Ian McClelland
  Philips Consumer Electronics
  Building SFF
  P.O. Box 80002
  5600 JB Eindhoven
  The Netherlands
  
• Send the electronic versions of the submission paper and motivation paper by email to chi2000-dev@acm.org.
• You may include a stamped, self-addressed reply postcard, which we will mail to acknowledge receipt of your submission.