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Overview
The annual CHI conference is the leading forum for the exchange of ideas on all as pects of human-computer interaction (HCI). This year's theme is "Looking to the Future" and CHI 97 seeks the active participation of individuals who desire to reflect upon the past and shape the future of HCI. The diversity of perspectives, disciplines, and institutional settings of contributors to our field will enable us to influence many facets of technological development during the next 50 years and beyond. It is an exciting time. As the cost of computing power continues to decrease, the potential for new ways to use this power opens before us. The HCI Community needs to harness the skills and expertise of HCI practitioners, researchers and educators to ensure that this power is used to the advantage of all the world's citizens and not just an elite few.
In this conference we invite a wide range of contributions that address the issues mentioned below and related topics:
- Tasks, work and technology.
- How will people's activities change over the next half-century, and what role will HCI play in these changes? In what ways will changes in information technology, work location and peoples' attitudes influence success and enjoyment of work and leisure?
- New applications and user populations.
- How will our user population 50 years from now compare to the users we now encounter, study and respond to? Fewer people will go out to work, more people "should" have access to computers as the demography of user populations changes throughout the world. How might developers meet the challenge of designing advanced applications for diverse user populations?
- Devices and displays.
- Slowly we are extending the range of input devices beyond keyboards and hand-held devices. Information displays, too, are changing, and more sophisticated two- and three-dimensional and virtual displays are being developed for visualizing large, complex data sets. What will be the characteristics of future devices and displays?
- Design and evaluation methods.
- How are our methods for designing and assessing paradigms of interaction and experience changing? What characteristics of new methods will help us to design better paradigms of interaction?
- Education about HCI and making use of HCI in education.
- How will styles of learning and teaching develop to best support education about HCI? How can we leverage work in HCI to design more effective experiences for learners of all ages, cognitive and physical abilities, experience, nationality and gender?
- HCI and society.
- What will be the role of HCI perspectives in computing and society? What are our responsibilities in guiding the adoption and assimilation of computing technology? How can we help to promote equality of opportunity so that "technology poor" groups and countries do not develop?
Submissions and Deadlines at a Glance: Technical Program
- Tutorials: Teach HCI methods and theory
- 26 July 1996
- Papers: Report research or practical results
- 20 September 1996
- Technical Notes: Present brief, tightly argued ideas or findings
- 20 September 1996
- Design Briefings: Report process of building an interface
- 20 September 1996
- Panels: Discuss and debate pressing issues
- 20 September 1996
- Demonstrations: Share system or technology developments in formal or interactive setting
- 20 September 1996
- Videos: Show and report on high-quality taped presentation of dynamic interactions
- 20 September 1996
- Organization Overviews: Summarize HCI work taking place in institutions, organizations, or groups
- 20 September 1996
- Workshops: Discuss focused topic in a small-group setting
- 20 September 1996
- Doctoral Consortium: Ph.D. students share their work
- 11 October 1996
- Development Consortium: Researchers from soft-currency countries meet to discuss their work
- 11 October 1996
- SIGs: Meet people with similar interests in informal setting
- 24 January 1997
- Late-Breaking Results and Informal Presentations: Presentlate-breaking results or ongoing work in interactive format
- 24 January 1997
Participation Categories
The field of HCI includes many interests and perspectives on human-computer interaction. In order to serve this large and heterogeneous community, CHI 97 invites submissions in a number of different participation categories, summarized in the table, and further described in their separate sections.
If you are unsure of which category to submit to, please consult the Co-Chairs of categories that seem relevant, or a Technical Program Co-Chair for general guidance.
Review Process
All submissions will be reviewed by the technical area Co-Chairs and their committees. Submissions will be evaluated according to accepted CHI standards of excellence. If you have questions about these standards, please see information in the individual submission categories, retrieve the additional electronic documents mentioned there, or contact the Chair or Co-Chairs.
Proceedings, Extended Abstracts and Videos
The CHI Proceedings is the main archival product of the conference; it serves as akey reference document for many researchers and practitioners in the field. This year the Proceedings will include Papers, Technical Notes, and Design Briefings. In prior years, the category of Short Papers was given a late submission deadline, and accepted submissions were published in the Conference Companion. For CHI 97, we make a distinction between the length of the contribution and when the work is done. Authors may submit Technical Notes at the early deadline; these will be reviewed rigorously and accepted submissions will appear in the Proceedings.
Authors may submit at a later date to Late-Breaking Results and Informal Presentations describing work that is recent or even still in progress; these submissions will be reviewed less rigorously, with accepted abstracts published in the CHI 97 Extended Abstracts. Like prior CHI Conference Companion volumes, the CHI 97 Extended Abstracts will also include abstracts from all other submission categories -- Tutorials, Videos, Demonstrations, Panels, Workshops, SIGs, Organization Overviews, Development Symposium and Doctoral Symposium.
Multiple and Related Submissions
You may prepare as many submissions as you like in the same or different categories. Related submissions in complementary categories -- for example, a Paper and a Video or Demonstration -- are strongly encouraged. However, related submissions in overlapping categories -- for example, a Paper and a Technical Note -- are strongly discouraged.
Note that CHI expects its archival materialto contain previously unpublished work. Except in extremely unusual circumstances, we will not accept Papers, Technical Notes or Design Briefings whose content significantly overlaps with work presented elsewhere.
Every year CHI submissions from people unfamiliar with the CHI community are rejected because authors do not understand the expectations for a CHI submission. We miss a lot of interesting viewpoints at the CHI Conference because of this problem. If you are unsure of how to write a good CHI submission, please ask for a mentor. A mentor is a person who helps you learn something unfamiliar through a personal one-on-one relationship. Ask for a mentor by contacting an appropriate Technical Program Co-Chair through electronic mail, fax or phone.
If you want to ask for a mentor we will need to hear from you no later than 1 June 1996. We highly recommend that you request a mentor even earlier -- mentors will be made available on a first-come first-serve basis. Mentors will be available for all submission categories.
