Short Talks and Interactive Posters

Deadline: 8 December 2000

A website for Short Talks and Interactive Posters submissions is now online.

The Short Talks and Interactive Posters category provides an opportunity to present exciting new findings, ongoing work that has demonstrated special promise, preliminary results, work that is timely and still in a state to be influenced by questions and discussions, or tightly argued essays or opinion pieces. The goal for this category is to provide a short, concise report of work that is important and likely to have high impact on the CHI community.

Submissions should be two-page papers to be published in the CHI 2001 Extended Abstracts, on acceptance. The submission should include: a concise description of the idea; your results or findings; implications of your work to the field of HCI; and recommendations for further investigation. Full literature searches are not expected, although relevant citations should be included. Summaries of wider findings or reduced versions of longer papers are not suitable for the Short Talks and Interactive Posters submission category.

Presentation Styles
Short Talks are mainly aimed at presenting material orally, while Interactive Posters focus more on discussion between the presenter and attendees. Authors should indicate their order of preference for presentation styles: Short Talks and/or Interactive Posters. Authors who provide only one preference will be considered for that presentation style only. Authors who provide a second preference will be considered for their second preference if their first preference is not available.

Review Criteria
Each submission will be reviewed on the basis of its contribution to the field of HCI, evaluations or demonstration of the results, originality of the work, and quality of the written presentation. See the papers submission category for more information on these review criteria. In addition, the submission's suitability for presentation as a Short Talk or an Interactive Poster will be considered.

Format
Prepare a two-page, camera-ready paper in the CHI Conference Publications Format including title, author information, abstract, keywords, body and references. Short Papers and Interactive Posters should be submitted electronically for reviewing. Accepted Short Talks and Interactive Posters will be published in the CHI 2001 Extended Abstracts.

Submission Instructions
The paper should be submitted electronically, in PDF format, at the CHI 2001 Instructions for Electronic Submissions by the Short Talks and Interactive Posters Deadline, 8 December 2000, 17:00 (5:00 p.m.), your local time.

Prepare the PDF file of your paper. Go to the CHI 2001 Electronic Submission Web Page and follow the instructions to submit the PDF file and enter the requested information. The confidentiality of your submission will be maintained throughout the review process.

For reviewing, we will use your electronically-submitted PDF file. However, if we have problems handling the PDF file for your paper, we may contact you individually shortly after the deadline to work out the problems or possibly to request a backup hardcopy printout. See the Submissions Instructions for Papers for more information about creating PDF files.

If you do not have web access, please contact the Short Talks and Interactive Posters Co-chairs to arrange an alternative submission procedure.

If you do not currently have software to make PDF files, you can obtain shareware software to do this (pstill, from http://www.this.net/~frank/pstill.html and others from http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost) as well as commercial software (Adobe Acrobat from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/main.html).

Upon Acceptance
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection by email by 19 January 2001. Please note that due to publication schedules, revisions will not be possible. Please ensure that your paper is clearly written, carefully proofread, and correctly formatted. Note that the PDF version submitted will be considered the final camera-ready version of your paper. Upon acceptance you must complete and return a copyright release form in order to be published. This form will be sent with the accept letter.

Authors of accepted Interactive Posters must prepare a poster presenting their ideas at the conference. Be sure to consult the Poster Preparation Guidelines on the web before preparing your poster.

At the Conference
Short Talks will be scheduled for 10 minutes of presentation with up to 5 minutes for discussion. Only standard technology support will be provided for Short Talks. The Interactive Poster will be displayed during the conference in an area where people walk around and meet during breaks. Authors are required to be available at the poster during a scheduled poster session for discussion with the attendees.

Submissions

• Your submission must be in English.
• Submissions will not be accepted by fax or email.
• 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 2001. Short Papers and Interactive Posters will be submitted only via electronic submission.
• If you cannot produce such an electronic submission, please contact the co-chairs as soon as possible.
• You will receive email notification upon receipt of your submission.

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

• Read the Conference Overview and Submitting to CHI.
• If you wish to request a mentor, please see the description of the mentoring program, and contact the Mentoring Liaisons no later than 29 September 2000.
• Prepare a two-page paper in the Conference Publications Format, available at http://www.acm.org/sigchi/chipubform/
• Create a PDF file of your submission.
• Test your PDF file by viewing or printing it with the same software we will use when we receive it, Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 4. This is widely used and obtainable at no cost from http://www.adobe.com/products
  /acrobat/readermain.html.
• Go to the CHI 2001 Instructions for Electronic Submissions and follow the instructions to submit the PDF file and enter the requested information, including author information, keywords, and abstract.
• Be available shortly after the Short Paper or Interactive Poster submission deadline in case we encounter any problems in handling your PDF file and need to contact you.

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