Mentoring

Every year CHI submissions from people unfamiliar with the HCI community are turned down because authors do not understand how to communicate their work effectively to this community. We do not want to miss these interesting viewpoints. If you have not previously had a submission accepted to CHI and are unsure how to write a good CHI submission, you may ask for a mentor. A mentor is a person who will help focus your submission to the CHI audience through one-on-one advising. A mentor will also familiarize you with the high standards and strict deadlines of the CHI submission process. Mentors are volunteers familiar with successful submissions in each participation category.

Mentors are available for tutorials, papers, organization overviews, short talks, interactive posters, and student posters. You may request a mentor by going to the online mentoring request form. If you cannot access this form, send email to chi2000-mentors@acm.org and you will receive a request form.

If you want to ask for a mentor, we must hear from you no later than 28 May 1999 for tutorials, 15 June 1999 for organization overviews and papers, and 4 October 1999 for short talks, interactive posters and student posters. We recommend that you request a mentor even earlier; a mentor's feedback will be most useful to you if it can influence the way you focus your work, not just the way you write it up for the conference.

Volunteering to Mentor
Experienced members of the HCI community are also needed to mentor potential submitters new to CHI. If you would like to volunteer, please use the online Reviewer/Mentor sign up form at the Reviewer Volunteer Center and sign up to be a candidate mentor.

The CHI Reviewer Volunteer Center can be reached at
www.acm.org/sigchi/volunteers/rvcenter.html