Mentoring

Every year CHI submissions from people unfamiliar with the HCI community are rejected because authors do not understand how to communicate their work effectively to the HCI community. We do not want to miss these interesting viewpoints.

If you are unsure how to write a good CHI submission, you may ask for a mentor. A mentor is a person who helps you learn something unfamiliar through a personal, one-on-one relationship. Mentors are volunteers familiar with successful submissions in the category you plan to submit to.

Mentors are available for late-breaking results, papers, panels, student posters, and tutorials. You may request a mentor by sending email to chi99-mentors@acm.org.

Your request must include:

• a paragraph describing the topic of your planned submission
• the submission category you are interested in submitting to (if you are unsure where to submit, let us know that)
• a list of matching phrases and weights from Cover Page Two.

If you want to ask for a mentor, we must hear from you no later than 4 June 1998 for tutorials, 15 June 1998 for papers, panels and workshops, and 8 October 1998 for late-breaking results and student posters.

We recommend that you request a mentor even earlier; a mentor will be most useful to you if his or her feedback can influence the way you focus your work, not just the way you write it up for the conference.