Call for Participation:
Papers & notes, demos, posters, and doctoral symposium
ACM Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces 2012
"Surfaces Every Day"
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November 11-14, 2012
Cambridge, MA, USA
http://its2012conf.org/
Twitter: @its_2012
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/ITS-2012/201803849895141
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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 at 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 at its2012conf.org
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