- Papers: Thursday, April 3, 2008
- Tech Notes: Thursday, April 3, 2008
- Posters: Friday, July 11, 2008
- Demonstrations: Friday, July 11, 2008
- Doctoral Symposium: Friday, July 11, 2008
- Student Volunteers: Friday, July 11, 2008
UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) is the premier forum for innovations in the software and technology of human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by ACM's special interest groups on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI) and computer graphics (SIGGRAPH), UIST brings together researchers and practitioners from diverse areas that include traditional graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, and CSCW. The intimate size, the single track, and comfortable surroundings make this symposium an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and implementation experiences.
Accepted papers and tech notes will be published in the UIST 2008 Conference Proceedings and the UIST 2008 DVD Proceedings, and will be included in the ACM Digital Library. The primary author of each accepted paper or technote will receive an Author Kit with detailed instructions on how to submit a final, publication-ready version of the paper or tech note. Accepted demos and posters will be published in a separate booklet that will be made available to the conference attendees and in the DVD proceedings.
We recommend that prospective authors consult the UIST 2008 Author's Guide.
This document contains information on the
reviewing process and a description of what constitutes an excellent
UIST contribution, including the page format for all submissions. Note
that submissions are not anonymous.
We only accept electronic submissions. To submit, see the UIST Electronic Submission site
(
http://www.precisionconference.com/~sigchi).
Videos accompanying submissions should be submitted through the UIST Electronic Submission Site. Although papers tech notes must stand on their own, submitted videos will be sent to reviewers as supporting material. We refer authors preparing a video for UIST to the
Video Guide. Please do not be intimidated by the guide. Videos are viewed only as supporting material, and authors of accepted papers and tech notes will have the opportunity to prepare a more polished final video presentation for inclusion in the DVD proceedings and as supplemental material in the ACM Digital Library.
When submitting your video for review, please encode your video in a format
that works across as many platforms as possible without the installation of
additional codecs (i.e., it is best if your video will play on vanilla
versions of Windows Media Player and/or Quicktime player). Please note that
the total aggregate size for a submission cannot exceed 50 MBytes (including
all documents and additional material).
Full-length papers (up to 10 pages) are the main medium for conveying new research results at UIST. Submissions are sought that describe original, unpublished work on user interface devices, techniques, applications, or metaphors.
Please consult the UIST 2008 Author's Guide for information on
paper format and UIST's policies on previous and simultaneous publications.
Appropriate topics include but are not limited to:
- Novel enabling technologies such as innovative input devices, displays, new interaction techniques, or new media that extend the boundaries of traditional interaction, such as perceptual user interfaces, augmented reality, ubiquitous computing, and computer-supported collaborative work;
- Innovative user interfaces for difficult interaction contexts or challenging applications, such as the management of large, complex information sets, multi-user interaction, or techniques that span devices distributed in time and space;
- Novel application of techniques from disciplines such as machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, speech processing, networking, or human perception and cognition, that contribute to user interaction techniques;
- Innovative software architectures, toolkits, and development environments that support the development and use of the above technologies in user interfaces.
The submission of supplementary videos is encouraged.
However, videos should be no more than five minutes in length
and 50MB in size.
See the video guide and the
general information above for details.
Rigorous reviewing is a UIST hallmark: each paper will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and three external reviewers. Authors of accepted papers will also be invited to participate in the demo session.
All papers should be submitted electronically to
http://www.precisionconference.com/~sigchi.
Relevant dates:
May 28 - June 3, 2008: Authors will have the opportunity to provide a rebuttal to reviewer comments
June 27, 2008: Authors will be notified of the committee's decision. All acceptances will be conditional pending changes that the papers committee may suggest or require for the final camera-ready draft of the paper. This means that your paper will not be formally accepted to UIST until you revise it and submit a final draft for approval by the program committee.
July 10, 2008: Authors submit revised conditionally accepted papers to committee for final review.
July 24, 2008: Final camera ready papers due. Program Chair:
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (mbl[at]lri.fr),
Université Paris-Sud
Tech notes provide a forum for disseminating new interaction techniques. UIST tech notes are rigorously peer-reviewed, shorter, and more focused submissions that bring new techniques to the research and practice community. The combination of text, pictures, videos, and live presentation help these techniques get rapid feedback and early adoption.
Please consult the UIST 2008 Author's Guide for information on
paper format and UIST's policies on previous and simultaneous publications.
Typically, a tech note is a succinct description, possibly including screen dumps and accompanying video, of a novel user interface technique with sufficient detail to assist an expert reader in replicating the technique. Tech notes generally should not include exhaustive implementation details or user studies.
A tech note submission should be no more than four ACM conference pages in length, and any accompanying digital video file should be at most 50MB in size. See the
video guide and the
general information above for details. Tech notes undergo the
same rigorous review process as regular papers.
All tech notes should be submitted electronically to
http://www.precisionconference.com/~sigchi.
Relevant dates:
May 28 - June 3, 2008: Authors will have the opportunity to provide a rebuttal to reviewer comments
June 27, 2008: Authors will be notified of the committee's decision. All acceptances will be conditional pending changes that the papers committee may suggest or require for the final camera-ready draft of the tech note. This means that your tech note will not be formally accepted to UIST until you revise it and submit a final draft for approval by the program committee.
July 10, 2008: Authors submit revised conditionally accepted tech notes to committee for final review
July 24, 2008: Final camera ready papers due
Program Chair:
Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (mbl[at]lri.fr),
Université Paris-Sud
Posters provide an interactive forum in which authors can present work to conference attendees during special poster sessions. Posters provide an opportunity to describe new work or work that is still in progress, and will be more lightly reviewed than papers or tech notes.
A poster submission should be in the form of a two-page paper in UIST format, describing the research problem, contribution, and value to UIST attendees. In addition to the two-page paper, poster submissions require submitting a sketch of the poster itself. Both the paper and poster should be submitted as PDF files. Authors may also include a video (optional). Video files should be at most three minutes long and 30MB in size.
See the video guide and the general submission information for more details about preparing your submission.
Before designing your poster, we also recommend checking out the UIST 2005 Poster Example Gallery.
Accepted poster abstracts will be published together with demos in both a booklet and a DVD distributed to the conference attendees. Posters and videos may also be published in the DVD, at the authors' discretion. Poster abstracts and previews should be submitted electronically to Precision Conference.
Posters will be displayed on corkboards during conference break periods. We expect to be able to accommodate posters of up to 3 feet by 4 feet (either vertical or horizontal), so we suggest using that size or smaller for your prototype. In addition, poster authors are expected to give a 40-second presentation of their work at the conference as part of the “UIST madness” session.
Authors will be notified of poster results on or before Friday, August 8, 2008. Final versions will be due Friday, September 5, 2008.
Posters chairs:
Patrick Baudisch, Microsoft Research
Dan Morris, Microsoft Research
Peer-reviewed demonstrations show early implementations of novel, interesting, and important interaction concepts or user interface systems. They can also serve to showcase commercial products not previously described in the research literature. Demonstrations should be brief, so that they can be shown repeatedly. We particularly encourage demos with which attendees can interact.
Accepted demos will be published, together with posters, in a booklet distributed to UIST attendees. UIST will showcase accepted demos at a demo reception on Monday evening, October 20. In addition, demo presenters are expected to give a 40-second summary of their work at the conference as part of the "UIST madness" session. We will also invite authors of accepted papers and Tech Notes to present their work at the demo reception.
A demo submission consists of an extended abstract in UIST format that should be no more than two ACM conference pages in length. Submitting an accompanying video is optional, but highly encouraged. Any submitted video should be at most three minutes long and 30MB in size.
See the video guide and the general submission information for more details about preparing your submission.
Both the demo abstract and the optional digital video should be submitted electronically to Precision Conference.
Authors who need to submit a physical videotape should contact the Demos chairs directly. Authors will be notified of demo results on or before Friday, August 8. Final versions will be due Friday, September 5, 2008.
Demos chairs:
Hrvoje Benko, Microsoft Research
Xiang Cao, University of Toronto
The UIST Doctoral Symposium is a forum in which Ph.D. students can meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced UIST researchers in an informal and interactive setting. We welcome applications from current Ph.D. students studying within the full range of disciplines and approaches that contribute to the UIST community. 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 four pages in normal UIST format, as described in the authors' guide).
This paper should describe ongoing work and might summarize the student's full dissertation work, or highlight a particular part in depth.
The Doctoral Symposium committee will select approximately eight participants who will be expected to give a short presentation of their work, which will be followed by an extensive discussion. In addition, each student is encouraged to present a poster describing his or her work to the full conference. Participants will be selected based on their anticipated contributions to the breadth and depth of the intellectual discussions of the symposium.
The symposium will start with an informal dinner Saturday evening, October 18, continue all day Sunday, October 19, and conclude with poster presentations at the UIST poster reception. Doctoral Symposium papers will be published in the UIST conference companion distributed at the conference. We anticipate that a travel stipend and free registration to the UIST conference will be provided to each participant.
Doctoral Symposium papers and poster sketches should be submitted electronically to Precision Conference.
Authors will be notified of doctoral symposium results on or before Friday, August 8.
Doctoral Symposium Chair:
Beth Mynatt, Georgia Tech
The UIST 2007 Student Volunteer chairs are Karen Tang (kptang[at]cs.cmu.edu)
and Susumu Harada (harada[at]cs.washington.edu).
Timetable
- Applications now open.
- Application deadline: Friday, July 11, 2008.
- Results notification: Friday, July 18, 2008.
Application Instructions
To apply to be a student volunteer, please email the information below (with subject "UIST SV") to Karen Tang (kptang[at]cs.cmu.edu)
Name:
Email:
City, Country:
University:
Degree Program:
Year in program:
Advisor:
Number of previous UISTs attended:
Have you been a UIST student volunteer before (when):
Have you been a student volunteer for other conferences which ones):
Language(s) spoken:
If you have any questions/problems, please send email to the Student Volunteer chairs.
Benefits and Duties
If you are a UIST Student Volunteer, you get...
Free conference registration
Free T-shirt
A chance to attend the premier forum for innovations in
developing human-computer interfaces
In the past, volunteers have also been given up to three
nights of free housing. As soon as this year's housing
benefit is confirmed, we will post information about it.
Student volunteers will be required to help set up and perform needed work during the conference. Duties include: bag stuffing, registration desk, AV assistance, poster and demo setup, badge checking, break monitoring, etc. Volunteers will also need to be available during the conference if tasks come up. Because UIST is single track, SVs usually get to attend most of the sessions, even when working. There will be approximately 15 scheduled hours per SV.
Arriving and Leaving
SVs need to be available to help throughout the conference. You should try to arrive at least a couple hours before the start of the conference on Sunday and should not leave the hotel until sessions end on Wednesday. Also, we strongly encourage you to put off leaving until as late as you possibly can, because it's traditional to have a small party for student volunteers after UIST (or occasionally during UIST). The time and place for this party will be announced when we know all the student volunteers' travel plans.
Work Schedules
To give you an idea of what to expect, you can see the
UIST
2006 Student Volunteer Schedule.
If you have any questions/problems, please send email to the Student Volunteer chairs.
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