=========================== CALL FOR ACM IUI 2015 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 20th ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI’15) Atlanta, USA March 29 - April 1, 2015 Deadline: September 12, 2014 Notification: October 15, 2014 http://iui.acm.org/2015/workshops.html =========================== =========================== Chairs =========================== Ben Steichen, University of British Columbia Nava Tintarev, University of Aberdeen Contact: workshop-tutorial2015@iui.acm.org =========================== Overview =========================== Workshops will be held on the first (March 29th) and last day (April 1st) of the conference. We invite submissions of full-day and half-day workshop proposals on any of the conference topics. The conference may provide a free registration for each workshop to assist its organization. =========================== Submission Guidelines and Notes =========================== The proposals should be PDF documents not exceeding 3 pages, submitted by e-mail to the workshop chairs at: workshop-tutorial2015@iui.acm.org Each workshop proposal should provide the following information: - Name and title: A one-word workshop name/acronym, and a full title. - Description of workshop topic and goal: This description should discuss the workshop’s relevance to the general IUI community and the IUI 2015 audience. Include a brief discussion of why and for which audience the workshop is of particular interest. - Organizers: Names, affiliation, email addresses and homepage URLs for all organizers. Please indicate the primary contact person. Strong proposals typically include organizers who bring diverse perspectives to the workshop topic and who are actively connected to the communities of potential participants. - Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the workshop program committee in charge of evaluating the workshop submissions. - Participants: The expected number of participants and how you plan to invite them. - Workshop format: A brief description of the workshop format regarding the mix of events such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations, and general discussion. - Length: Full-day or half-day. Further guidelines: - Submission: September 12, 2014 - Workshop proposal format: Workshop proposals should be no more than 3 pages long and should follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI. ( http://chi2014.acm.org/authors/format) - Review: Workshop proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the workshop chairs and the IUI 2015 conference and program committees. - Publication: Extended abstracts of the workshop are to be included in the ACM Digital Library. Workshop papers will be published in a joint CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). - Cancellation: Workshops with a low number (ca 10 for full day, 5 for half day) of paper submissions by December 22, 2014 may be cancelled. =========================== Responsibilities of Workshop Organizers =========================== - Producing a call for participation: This call will be posted on the IUI 2015 web site. - Publicity: Organizers are responsible for additional publicity such as distributing the call to relevant newsgroups (e.g. wikicfp) and electronic mailing lists, and especially to potential audiences from outside the IUI conference community. - Submission: Submissions of the workshop papers will be handled by the workshop organizers. - Web site: Organizers must maintain their own website with updated information about the workshop. - Workshop notes: The workshop organizers coordinate the paper collection, production, and distribution of the working notes for the workshops. Produce a single PDF with the workshop material for a joint CEUR proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org/). - Extended Abstract: The extended abstract is a description of the workshop intended for publication in the IUI 2015 proceedings and may not exceed four pages. It must contain a summary of the workshop goals and an overview of the workshop topics. It must follow the formatting instructions from SIGCHI (http://chi2014.acm.org/authors/format). -- Dr. Ben Steichen University of British Columbia www.cs.ubc.ca/~steichen/