April 18 - 23, 2015
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April 18 - 23, 2015
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Special Interest Groups (SIGs) provide an opportunity to attract a group of conference attendees who share a common interest and engage them in face-to-face discussions. Organizing a SIG is a great way to start or extend your involvement in the CHI conference program. Several SIGs have evolved into other successful contribution types at subsequent conferences. In addition to interesting and novel SIG topics, we also encourage creative approaches to conducting the SIG itself.
We welcome you to contact us before submitting a proposal to discuss your ideas for innovative and attractive SIGs!
Simone Barbosa, PUC-Rio, Brazil
Enrico Rukzio, University of Ulm, Germany
sigs@chi2015.acm.org
Special Interest Groups (SIGs) enable conference attendees sharing a common interest to meet informally for 80 minutes of facilitated discussion during a scheduled session at the conference. SIGs offer excellent opportunities for dialog and deliberation on a specific topic. The conference provides each SIG with meeting space and advertises SIG meetings to the rest of the conference in the Extended Abstracts and Conference Program.
SIG submissions must be submitted via the PCS Submission System by 5 January 2015, 5:00pm PST. The proposal must have the following two components (submitted as a single PDF file):
While not strictly required, we prefer that proposals be authored by a minimum of two individuals representing at least two different organizations. We also encourage prospective SIG organizers to examine examples of accepted SIG abstracts from recent CHI conferences, available for download from the ACM Digital Library.
Submissions will be reviewed independently by a Jury and the SIGs chairs, who will also make the final acceptance decisions. We will notify authors of acceptance decisions by 26 January 2015.
Submissions should not contain sensitive, private, or proprietary information that cannot be disclosed at publication time. Submissions should NOT be anonymous. However, confidentiality of submissions will be maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference, with the exception of title and author information which will be published on the website prior to the conference.
Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection on 26 January 2015.
Authors of accepted submissions will receive instructions on how to submit their publication-ready copy (which will consist of your extended abstract only). Publication-ready submissions are due on 2 February 2015.
Accepted SIGs will have a scheduled, 80 minutes long session at the conference. After your SIG is accepted, we will notify you what technical support will be available. Rooms will be set up to facilitate discussion.
After the conference, the organizers are encouraged to continue their SIG by organizing a workshop at a future conference or creating and maintaining a website. Accepted SIG abstracts will be distributed in the CHI Conference Extended Abstracts, available on USB and in the ACM Digital Library.
