IUI2009 - Call for workshop proposals
(http://www.iuiconf.org/cfw.html)
Background and Motivation
IUI 2009 is the annual meeting of the intelligent interfaces community
and serves as the principal international forum for reporting
outstanding research and development on intelligent user interfaces.
Workshops provide members of a community a forum to discuss common
interests in a focused way.
If you are working in an emerging area in Intelligent User Interfaces,
consider organizing a workshop.
They are a chance to meet mind-alike researchers and discover what
others are doing.
A workshop offers a good opportunity for young researchers to present
their work and to obtain feedback from an interested community.
Successful workshops may result in edited books or special issues in
international journals.
IUI09 is looking for exciting proposals for half-day or full-day
workshops to be held on February 8th, 2009, the first day of the
conference.
Each workshop should generate discussions that give the IUI community
a new, organized way of thinking about the topic, or ideas that
suggest promising directions for future research.
A successful workshop can move the field forward and help in building
community.
Researchers and practitioners in the intelligent user interfaces
community at large are invited to submit proposals for review.
Submission Requirements
Each workshop should have one or more organizers and an international
program committee.
Proposals for workshops should be a maximum of 1000 words, and should
contain the following information to judge the importance, quality,
and benefits for the research community:
A cover page including:
* Workshop title
* Name, affiliation, full postal address, homepage and e-mail address
for each organizer
* Identification of the primary contact person(s)
* One-paragraph biography for each workshop organizer
Motivation and Objectives: A brief description of the workshop topic
and goals, its relevance to IUI09 and significance for the research
field.
* Motivation: What is the overall topic of the workshop? Why is this
topic of particular interest at this time? If the workshop has been
organized in the past at an IUI or other conference,
please give details (audience, URL) and describe why it should be held
again and how improvements will be made.
* Objectives: What are the objectives that the workshop aims to
achieve? Objectives may include
(a) targeting a predefined set of focus questions,
(b) presenting alternate views on a particular issue that is of
concern to the IUI community and attempting to resolve the issue,
(c) identifying priorities for new directions of research, and/or
(d) initiating the appropriate collaborations.
Potential Participants and Workshop Attraction:
A brief discussion of why and to whom the workshop is of interest.
(Target audience, areas from which the participants are expected to
come, strategy for publicizing the workshop, number of expected
participants, names of potential attendees).
* Potential Participants: Indicate how you plan to select participants
and contributions to the workshop.
State your estimate of the number of participants. If possible, give a
list of tentatively confirmed participants.
* Workshop Attraction:
Indicate how you plan to attract submissions and/or participants.
If you have a plan to edit a book or a journal special issue as a
result of your workshop, please indicate it.
* Format:
Give a description of the proposed workshop format, including the
planned activities (such as position statements, invited talks,
panels, demos, and general discussion),
as well as how these activities address the workshop objectives.
Preference will be given to proposals for activities designed to fuel
discussion and interaction among participants; workshops consisting
solely of paper presentations are discouraged.
Provide a preliminary schedule with estimated times. Design your
schedule for a length of 3 hours (half-day workshop) or 6 hours (full-
day workshop) with a lunch break and one or two coffee breaks,
respectively.
Organization: Give short descriptions of each of the organizers'
qualifications related to the workshop topics. Give names and contact
information of PC members, if available.
The list of PC/Organisers should preferably include people from at
least three different sites.
Potential workshop organizers are encouraged to send their draft
proposals to potential participants for comments before submission.
Submission Dates and Details
Timeline for workshop proposal submissions:
Friday, July 18th, 2008
Informal "intention to submit" email with general details
Friday, August 1st, 2008
Submission of proposal by email to workshop chairs
Friday, September 5th, 2008
Notification about acceptance or rejection
Sunday, February 8th, 2009
IUI workshop date
Workshop intentions and proposals should be submitted via email in PDF
format to the IUI09 workshop chairs:
workshops2009 at iuiconf.org with a subject line of: IUI09 Workshop
Proposal
Organizer's Responsibilities
The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to:
1. Define, produce and distribute the workshop's call for participation.
2. Gather and review submissions, and decide upon final program content.
3. Assure workshop participants are informed they have to register for
the workshop.
4. Set up and maintain a website linked to the official IUI website
that contains information about the workshop, the materials from the
workshop
(presentations, if any) and a summary of the workshop outcome.
5. Producing a single printable PDF with workshop material to allow
printing of workshop proceedings and make it available to workshop
participants.
Workshop proceedings will not be published/printed as part of IUI 2009
organization.
6. Schedule, attend and coordinate their entire workshop (at least one
organizer must register at early registration date).
7. Prepare a poster summarizing the workshop results to be presented
at the IUI poster session.
Review Criteria
The proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the chairs and IUI
2009 organizing/program committee members.
The following criteria will guide the review: Relevance to IUI,
interesting for the audience, Quality, Organization.
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