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Videos

Deadlines

  • July 18, 2008: Submissions due
  • August 22, 2008: Notification of acceptance

Videos are a great way to present work that involves dynamic interaction, ranging from demonstrations of new systems to complex aspects of group communication and work practice. CSCW'08 will accept both standalone full videos and video figures which illustrate papers in the Papers and Notes programs. Potential topics include, but definitely not limited to:

  • demonstrations of innovative research prototypes
  • demonstrations of innovative aspects of commercial systems
  • studies of work practice that have implications for CSCW
  • retrospective collections of significant CSCW fields of work
  • visions of future technologies

CSCW'08 Videos will play continuously during the conference and will be published and sold by the ACM (although copyrights will be retained by the authors). Abstracts of videos will be published in a booklet that will be circulated to attendees at the conference; they will not be incorporated into the main CSCW'08 conference proceedings.

Submission Guidelines

Video submissions should not have been previously presented in any formal video program. A panel of reviewers will review video submissions for their technical content, communication effectiveness, production quality, interest, and relevance.

The submitted versions will be considered final and there will not be a revision cycle. Please make sure the content of the submitted video is complete and the video quality is ready for production.

Submissions will include two parts:

  • A video in digital format. We request that you make your digital submissions in Apple Quicktime, Windows Media Format, MPEG, or DV-AVI. The total length of the video should not exceed 5 minutes. Please name this file ContactAuthorsLastName.extension.
  • An abstract that briefly notes the contents of the video and situates it in the literature. Abstracts should be two pages maximum and formatted according to the detailed submissions instructions found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html. If you are submitting a video illustration to accompany a Paper, Note, or Demonstration, please make it clear in the abstract. Please submit this in PDF format and name this file ContactAuthorsLastName.pdf

Several packages are available to help you author your videos. Free authoring packages are included in both Windows (Windows Movie Maker) and MacOS (iMovie) platforms. Tutorials can be found here:

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/using/moviemaker/default.mspx

http://www.apple.com/support/imovie/tutorial/

Video Submission Instructions

Please send an email to videos@cscw2008.org with "CSCW Video Submission" in the subject line and the following information in the email text:

  1. Author list
  2. Contact Author's name and contact information
  3. Title of the video
  4. URLs to allow us to download the abstract and the video (do not attach the abstract or video to the e-mail message)

Please send any and all questions to videos@cscw2008.org

Video Chair

David Nguyen, University of California, Berkeley, USA
videos@cscw2008.org