*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). * * *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. * * *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. * * *Program Co-Chairs* Meredith Ringel Morris,*Microsoft Research* Michael Horn,*Northwestern University* program@its2012conf.org -- Petra Isenberg, PhD Research Scientist AVIZ group | INRIA Saclay Île-de-France phone: +33 16 91 54 249 | http://www.aviz.fr/~isenberg/