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UbiComp 2009 Demonstrations - Call for Submissions
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Important Dates:
Submission Deadline
June 25th 2009 (23:59 PST)
Notification of acceptance
July 20, 2009
Final Version Due
August 1, 2009
Call for Demos
The Demonstrations Program offers an excellent way to showcase
tangible results of ubiquitous computing research and development to
hundreds of attendees from academia and industry. A successful demo
communicates ideas and concepts in a powerful way that a regular
presentation cannot. We invite you to contribute your vision of the
ubicomp experience to the Demonstrations Program at the UbiComp 2009
conference. We particularly encourage demonstrations that include
participation by conference attendees and provoke discussion about
issues within the field of ubiquitous computing.
The demonstration abstract will be published in the Conference
Supplement and be distributed physically and be available
electronically afterwards.
We seek proposals for demonstrations of ubiquitous computing
technologies across the full milieu of everyday life: office, home,
street, park, train, automobile, bedroom, bathroom, work, play,
desktop, handheld, worn, public, private, community, individual,
shared, and personal. We welcome a wide range of submission from
scenarios involving innovative and creative solutions of focused tasks
as well as playful pursuits.
Reviewing
All submissions will be peer-reviewed to ensure a high quality
demonstrations program. Each demonstration will be reviewed by at
least two members of the demonstration review committee. In an
electronic discussion, the committee will make final decisions on
which submissions to accept. Proposals will be judged on their
relevance for the ubicomp community, level of innovation, technical
merit, conceptual contribution and the potential to include
participation by conference attendees. Furthermore, to make a
successful demo submission, you need to have a strategy to present
visitors the main points in a short time. You must also convince the
committee that you are capable of installing and running the demo at
the conference.
Demonstrations do not have the same requirements on originality as
papers and posters. It is acceptable to submit a demonstration even if
the main points have been published at the UbiComp conference
(including this year) or elsewhere. However, the demonstration format
should still add significantly to any previous presentations. To make
it easier to judge this, you must provide a complete history of
previous presentations of the submitted work and work directly related
to it.
A demonstration is intended as a forum to promote exchange of research
ideas not mature commercial products. In the case of a commercial
product, please instead consider becoming a sponsor or exhibitor.
However, if you submit a demo proposal in addition to being an sponsor
or exhibitor of a quality so that the submission passes the review
process along the criteria listed above in an equal and fair
competition with non-commercial demos, we can include the abstract in
the adjunct proceedings on request.
Submission Requirements
A demonstration submission requires two parts:
Part I
A demonstration abstract that describes the technology being exhibited
and discusses the novelty and distinguishing ideas or approaches it
brings to the ubiquitous computing community. The demonstration
abstract will be published in the Conference Supplement and should
therefore be self-contained. It should be a maximum of 2 pages, in the
ACM SIGCHI conference publications format, including all figures and
references. Please make sure that your submitted abstract complies to
all the formatting guidelines and is ready for publication, since
there will be no time to make major revisions
Part II
A demonstration supplement that details how the demo will be executed
in practice, and how visitors will interact with it during the
conference. The interaction can be described in the form of a short
usage scenario, storyboard sketch, screenshots, illustrations, photos,
and/or video documentation. The demonstration supplement can include
movie or other supporting material. It should also include the various
technical requirements such as preferred setting, space, power,
networking, lighting, acoustical, and other special equipment.
Demonstration supplement materials are for the purposes of review only
and will not be published.
Your submission including optional additional materials (videos, etc.)
should be submitted through the PCS system at https://precisionconference.com/
~ubicomp. If you do not already have an account, you will need to
create one. You may upload your submission any time from now until the
deadline (Thursday, June 25th at 23:59 PST). You will be able to
modify your submission up until the deadline. Please note that the
deadline is firm and late submissions will not be accepted, so we
encourage you to begin this process early.
Upon Acceptance
You will be required to install your demonstration in the conference
venue and keep it running throughout the Demonstrations and Poster
Reception which is planned for the first conference day. In addition,
we encourage you to have your demo optionally staffed and available
throughout the conference, especially during breaks.
The conference will at minimum provide a space for your demo, a table
and chairs, and a power connection (120V). If you need any special
equipment you should provide that yourself, including power
converters, projectors, audio amplification, wireless LAN, etc.,
please specify this in your demonstration supplement so that we can
plan the demo area accordingly.
Formats accepted: Please use the ACM SIGCHI conference publications
format (see http://sigchi.org/chipubform/). The Demonstrations
Supplement template can be downloaded from here.
Abstract Page limit: 2 pages (ACM SIGCHI conference publications format)
UbiComp 2008 Demo Co-Chairs
Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Tsutomu Terada, Kobe University, Japan
If you have any question, please email the demo co-chairs at
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UbiComp 2009 Demo Committee:
Martin Griss, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
David Merrill, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab, USA
Chris Saddler, Google, USA
Wenyuan Xu, University of South Carolina, USA
Jie Liu, Microsoft Research, USA
Trevor Pering, Intel Inc., USA
Jacky Shen, Microsoft Research Asia, China
Christine Julien, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Jan Beutel, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
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Andreas Bulling
PhD Candidate
Research Assistant
Wearable Computing Laboratory
ETH Zurich
www.andreas-bulling.eu
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