Call for Participation: Papers & notes, demos, posters, and doctoral symposium ACM Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces 2012 "Surfaces Every Day" ---------------------------- November 11-14, 2012 Cambridge, MA, USA http://its2012conf.org/ Twitter: @its_2012 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ITS-2012/201803849895141 ------------------------------ 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 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: PAPERS 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) September 22: Deadline for camera-ready submissions New Review Process We are excited to introduce a new review process for ITS 2012. For details please see the cfp on our website: http://its2012conf.org/participationPapers.html#papers Mentoring ITS 2012 offers a mentorship program to help those with less experience in academic publication. This mentoring program is intended primarily for authors from non-academic backgrounds, including industry. Mentors will be the chairs or volunteers who are familiar with successful submissions at ITS and relevant conferences (such as CHI, UIST, and CSCW). They will help you prepare your submissions to the ITS audience through one-on-one advising. However, please note that we cannot guarantee that your submission will be accepted at ITS in any case. The deadline to submit a mentoring request is 5:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time on June 12, 2012. Please see the website for further details: http://its2012conf.org/participationPapers.html#papers CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DEMOS The ITS demo session provides an interactive forum for authors to present research prototypes and work-in-progress to conference attendees and receive feedback from the leading experts in interactive surface research. Both independent demonstrations and those accompanying accepted papers and posters are welcome. At the conference, we want the ITS participants to literally get in touch with your demos with the goal of having lively discussion and a hands-on experience. Demo proposals should be submitted through our online system in the form of: * a video of up to 3 minutes length * a 2-page extended abstract that will be published in the ACM DL (Latex template, Word template) and * a supplemental text document describing the necessary spatial and technical requirements for your demo (template will be made available soon). Please submit your video and PDF documents through the conference submission system by August 7, 2012. For specific queries, please contact: demos@its2012conf.org CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: POSTERS We invite researchers and practitioners to submit their work to the poster category of ITS 2012. Posters provide an interactive forum for authors to present research prototypes and works in progress to conference attendees. Posters provide the opportunity for researchers to get feedback on early-stage work, and to discuss potential collaborations in an informal setting during the conference. Submissions should be in the form of a 4-page extended abstract. The posters themselves will not be submitted with the abstracts - instead they should be brought to the conference by the author. The abstracts will be published in the main conference proceedings and will be included in the conference USB memory stick. They will also be placed in the ACM Digital Library, where they will remain accessible to thousands of researchers and practitioners worldwide. Important Dates * August 7, 5 p.m. PDT: Submission deadline * September 10: Notification to authors * September 20: Camera Ready version due CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM The ITS Doctoral Symposium is a forum in which Ph.D. students can meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced Tabletop researchers in an informal and interactive setting. We will give preference to applicants beyond the proposal stage and well into their dissertation research. Each applicant should provide a short written paper (no more than six pages in ACM landscape format). This paper should describe ongoing work and might summarize the student's full dissertation work, or highlight a particular part in depth. In addition, each student is asked to present a poster describing his or her work to the full conference. Doctoral Symposium papers will be published in the ITS conference companion distributed at the conference. Accepted authors will have free registration to the conference. The Doctoral Symposium will take place at the conference venue on Sunday, November 11, 2011 (for accepted authors only!). Submission details * Doctoral Symposium Submission Template * August 7, 5 p.m. PDT: Submission deadline * August 24: Notification to authors * September 20: Camera Ready version due * Submit proposals to: doctoralsymposium@its2012conf.org