*Call for Participation: Papers& Notes*
*ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2012*
http://its2012conf.org
*“Surfaces Every Day”*
The field of Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces is rapidly evolving.
Hardware prices are falling, core sensing technology is improving, software
toolkits are maturing, and interaction paradigms are slowly beginning to
solidify. As a result, interactive tabletops and surfaces are increasingly
making their way beyond laboratories and appearing in a wide variety of
private and public spaces including museums, offices, schools, airports,
hotels, medical centers, and homes. Such surfaces employ a variety of
technologies (capacitive sensing, computer vision, motion sensors, etc.)
and appear in varied form-factors (large walls and tabletops, tablets and
slates, flexible materials, on-demand projection, etc.). The ACM conference
on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces brings together researchers and
practitioners from a variety of backgrounds and interest areas. The
intimate size of this single-track symposium provides an ideal venue for
leading researchers, practitioners, and students to exchange research
results and experiences. We encourage submissions on (but not limited to)
the following topic areas as they relate to interactive tabletops and
surfaces:
- Systems for, experiences with, and/or evaluations of surfaces in
specific application areas (education, science, business, entertainment,
health, accessibility, homes, etc.)
- Gesture-based interfaces
- Multi-modal interfaces
- Tangible interfaces
- Novel interaction techniques
- Data handling/exchange
- Information visualization/data presentation
- Software engineering methods
- Computer supported collaborative work
- Co-located, distributed, or mixed-presence collaboration
- Middleware and network support
- Virtual reality and augmented reality
- Social protocols
- Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel
capabilities
- Human-centered design and methodologies
- Interaction in context
- Evaluations and user studies
*Paper and Notes*
We invite paper submissions of two kinds: Papers (10 pages) and Notes (4
pages). Papers must present original, innovative, and forward-looking
research, possibly in one or more of the themes given above. Notes must
also report novel and complete research, but with a more focused and
succinct contribution than papers. Submissions must be submitted as a
single PDF file in the ACM format through the submission system. When
appropriate, authors are also encouraged to submit a supplementary video
file (not to exceed 3 minutes in length and 30 MB in size).
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*Important Dates*
· June 25, 5:00 p.m. PDT: Deadline for initial submissions
· August 1: First-round notifications (*Revise *or *Reject*)
· August 24, 5:00 p.m. PDT: Deadline for revised submissions
· September 12: Final notifications (*Accept* or*Reject*)
· October 12: Deadline for camera-ready submissions
*New Review Process*
We are excited to introduce a new review process for ITS 2012. This
process is modeled on the process used for the 2012 ACM CSCW conference;
based on their experiences, we anticipate that this process will result in
more fair and consistent reviews, as well as higher and more uniform
quality in the final program, without increasing total reviewer workload.
Papers and Notes will undergo two review cycles. After the first review a
submission will receive either a “Revise” or “Reject” decision. Authors of
papers that are not rejected will have 3 ½ weeks to revise and resubmit
them. The final revision will be re-reviewed as the basis for the final
revision. This is similar to a journal process, except that it is limited
to one revision with a strict deadline.
The primary contact author will be sent the first-round reviews on August
1. Submissions that are rejected in the first round cannot be revised for
ITS 2012, but authors can begin reworking them for submission elsewhere.
The reviews should help the authors of papers in the “revise” category to
prepare their revisions for the second round. Authors will also submit an
additional document in the second round, which provides a description of
how the reviewers’ comments were addressed. Authors need to allocate time
for revisions between August 1 and August 24. Revised submissions must be
uploaded to PCS by 5 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on August 24 to be
considered. Final acceptance decisions will be based on the revised
submission.
This is not an invitation to submit extended abstracts or incomplete
papers. As in the past, submit the paper that you would like to have
published. Incomplete or otherwise non-competitive submissions will be
desk-rejected without review. We anticipate that approximately half of the
submissions will be rejected in the first round, enabling reviewers to
focus on papers that have a reasonable chance for acceptance. Acceptance is
not guaranteed for papers making the second round, but we expect that
papers that undergo serious efforts to address the reviewer comments will
have a strong chance for acceptance.
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*Papers vs. Notes*
Papers (up to 10 pages) and Notes (up to 4 pages) should detail original
research contributions. Papers and Notes will be presented at the ITS
conference, be included in the conference proceedings, and be archived in
the ACM Digital Library. ITS does not accept submissions that were
published previously in formally reviewed publications or that are
currently submitted elsewhere. Papers and Notes go through the same review
process.
A Paper must break new ground and provide complete and substantial support
for its results and conclusions as a significant contribution to the field.
A Note must report new results that represent a contribution to the filed.
Compared to Papers, Notes may include less discussion of related work,
evaluation, or implementation detail. Notes are held to the same standard
of scientific quality as Papers, but are more focused and succinct in scope
and scale.
ITS 2012 will have a “Best of ITS” awards program, in accordance with
SIGCHI guidelines. Approximately 5% of submissions may receive “Honorable
Mentions” and 1% may receive “Best Paper/Note” awards.
*Submission Information*
Submissions should use the format shown in the conference template (a
template Word and LaTeX file will be posted here in February 2012).
Submissions should be converted to PDF and uploaded to the Precision
Conference system athttps://precisionconference.com/~sigchi/ *by 5:00
p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on June 25, 2012*. The PCS system will be open
for uploading submissions beginning on May 25th.
When appropriate (such as for submissions introducing novel systems or
interaction techniques), authors are encouraged to submit a supplementary
video file (not to exceed 3 minutes in length and 30 MB in size).
*All submissions should be anonymized for double-blind review. *This
means that your paper and any supplementary video materials should have
authors’ names and affiliations removed and avoid obvious identifying
features. Citations to your own relevant work should not be anonymous, but
please cite such work without identifying yourself as the author. For
example, say “Prior work by Smith et al. [1]” instead of “In my prior work.”
Confidentiality of submitted material will be maintained. Upon acceptance,
the titles, authorship, and abstracts of Papers and Notes will be published
online in the Advance Program. Submissions should contain no information or
material that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of
publication, and should cite no publication that will be proprietary or
confidential at that time. Final versions of accepted Papers and Notes must
be formatted according to the instructions we provide. Copyright release
forms must be signed for inclusion in the proceedings and in the ACM
Digital Library.
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*Program Co-Chairs*
Meredith Ringel Morris,*Microsoft Research*
Michael Horn,*Northwestern University*
program at its2012conf.org
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Petra Isenberg, PhD
Research Scientist
AVIZ group | INRIA Saclay Île-de-France
phone: +33 16 91 54 249 | http://www.aviz.fr/~isenberg/
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