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The CHI 2018 Student Research Competition (SRC) is a forum for undergraduate
and graduate students to showcase their research, exchange ideas, and
improve their communication skills while competing for prizes at CHI 2018.
Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the CHI SRC competition is a branch of the
ACM Student Research Competition which hosts similar competitions at other
ACM conferences.

 

The Student Research Competition has the following goals:

 

·         to give undergraduate and graduate students the opportunity to
share their research ideas and results at CHI in a special forum that
provides visibility for their work

·         to give students the opportunity to meet with and interact with
CHI attendees to share ideas, gain new insights, and understand possible
practical applications

·         to give students an opportunity to sharpen their communication
skills

·         to provide detailed feedback to students about their research and
presentation, from a panel of distinguished judges from industry and
academia

·         to recognize and reward outstanding student research

 

Participants must be students pursuing an academic degree at the time of
initial submission. The contest has two categories, one for undergraduate
research and the other for graduate research. Three winners will be selected
in each category. Research completed while the student was an undergraduate
may be submitted to the undergraduate category even if the student is now a
first-year graduate student. *Each graduate-level competition entry must be
authored by one student only – neither supervisors or other students are
allowed as co-authors.* For work accepted to the CHI 2018 Student Research
Competition, a travel grant of up to US $500 will be awarded to help cover
travel expenses to the conference. While the student must be an ACM member
to qualify for travel funding and awards, she/he does not need to be one to
submit to the competition. The top three winners at CHI 2018 in each
category (undergraduate and graduate) will receive prizes of US $500, US
$300, and US $200, respectively. All winners will receive a medal and
two-year complimentary ACM membership with a subscription to ACM’s Digital
Library. Winners will be recognized during the closing plenary session of
the CHI 2018 conference. The first-place winners will also go on to compete
in the ACM grand finals with winners from other ACM conferences.

 

Elizabeth F. Churchill, Google Research, USA

Antti Oulasvirta, Aalto University, Finland

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Quick Facts / Dates


§  Submission deadline: 2 January 2018 (12pm (noon) PDT / 3pm EDT)

§  Notification deadline: 16 January 2018

Due to tight publication schedules, revisions to the submitted work will not
be possible. Your submitted PDF will be the publication-ready version.
Please note that upon acceptance authors will be required to complete the
ACM rights form, fill in the copyright information in their document, and
submit their final version within 24 hours of its being requested.


Submission Information


§  Authorship limit: All authors must be students. Graduate student
submissions can only have only one author (by ACM policy), but undergraduate
team projects may have multiple authors. For multiple-author submissions,
one author must be designated to present the poster.

*	Online submission: PCS Submission System:
http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi 

§  Submission format: Camera-ready, non-anonymized 6-page paper in
<https://chi2018.acm.org/chi-proceedings-format/> Extended Abstracts Format,
poster, and proof of student status. Note: For this venue, references DO
count towards page length.

§  At the Conference: Each student will give a poster presentation. Based on
the juried poster session, a group of students will advance to the next
round and be invited to give a short talk. Please see the Information for
Poster Presenters for poster requirements.

§  Archives: Extended abstract in ACM Digital Library


Highlights about the Student Research Competition


§  Posters will be included in the ACM Digital Library along with the
extended abstract.

§  We will be asking our reviewers to pay particular attention to the
quality of the poster, including appropriate level of detail and quality of
graphic design.

§  We strongly encourage participation from undergraduate students – you are
judged in a separate category from graduate students, so please submit your
work!


Preparing your Student Research Competition Submission


A submission to the Student Research Competition should describe recently
completed or ongoing student research in any of the topic areas covered by
CHI. Even if the research was completed under the supervision of a
supervisor, the submission must be authored by the graduate student alone
(no co-authors – even other graduate students – are allowed). For
undergraduate students, a group of undergraduate students who worked
together on a project can submit the research with all their names on it,
but all students must be undergraduates and the faculty advisor cannot be
listed as an author. Submissions should be original work that is neither in
submission elsewhere nor already published in CHI or another conference or
journal. Papers should describe:

§  The research problem and motivation for the work

§  Background and related work

§  Novelty of the research

§  Research approach

§  Results

§  Contributions to the field of HCI

To submit:

*	Submit to the Student Research Competition category via the
conference submission system: http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi 

§  The work (extended abstract and poster) should be submitted as PDF files
no larger than 4 megabytes.

§  Your poster design should be reduced to one standard letter page in size
and submitted in PDF format.

§  You must submit proof of student status by sending a note signed by your
academic supervisor verifying all of the following information:

§  your university

§  whether you were a graduate or undergraduate when the work was done

§  proof confirming that you are currently registered in an academic program
full-time: Participants must be students pursuing an academic degree at the
time of initial submission.


Selection Process for Student Research Competition


The Student Research Competition is a
<https://chi2018.acm.org/selection-processes/> juried track for CHI 2018.
Juried content is reviewed by a jury of experts that will evaluate the work
based on its overall quality, originality, and relevance to the CHI
community. While not considered archival, Student Research Competition
extended abstracts will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. Publishing
in the Student Research Competition will not constrain future submissions.
Your abstract and poster are not considered to be a prior publication of the
work for the purposes of a future CHI Paper or CHI Note or for a journal
publication. Submissions will be evaluated based on:

§  Quality of work

§  Novelty of approach

§  Significance of the contribution to the field of HCI

§  Clarity of written presentation

§  Quality of visual and oral presentation (poster)

NEW IN 2018: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are
made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks
prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date
affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work

Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All
rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted
materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start
of the conference or the release of conference abstracts in the ACM Digital
Library, with the exception of title and author information which will be
published on the website prior to the conference. Submissions should not
contain sensitive, private, or proprietary information that cannot be
disclosed at publication time.

Up to twenty-five students in total will be chosen to participate in the
competition at CHI 2018.

Submissions not accepted for the Student Research Competition may be invited
to be part of the  <https://chi2018.acm.org/authors/late-breaking-work/>
Late-Breaking Work track.


Upon Acceptance of your Student Research Competition


Authors of all accepted submissions will receive instructions on how to
submit the publication-ready copy of their Extended Abstract.
Publication-ready submissions are due on 22 February 2018. A travel grant
covering expenses for travel to CHI, including conference registration,
transportation, lodging, and meals, up to a limit of US $500 will be
provided to each student whose submission was accepted to the Student
Research Competition. Students must be members of ACM to qualify for these
awards.


At the Conference


The first round of the competition evaluates the research during a poster
presentation at CHI. The presentation will be evaluated on two dimensions,
given equal weight: (1) the presentation of the research, including visual
aspects of the poster and the student’s verbal discussion, and (2) the
research, specifically its quality, novelty, and significance of the
contribution. Based on the results from the poster session, the judges will
select students to advance to the second round. During the second round,
students will have the opportunity to give a short presentation of their
research (10 minutes) followed by a question and answer period (5 minutes),
which will be evaluated by a panel of judges. Winners will be announced
during the closing plenary.


Competition Judges


TBA


After the Conference


The first-place winners from each category will advance to the
<https://src.acm.org/> ACM Grand Finals of the Student Research Competition
where the winners of several ACM conferences compete for more prizes and
recognition. Accepted Student Research Competition Papers will be
distributed in the CHI Conference Extended Abstracts. They will be placed in
the ACM Digital Library, where they will remain accessible to thousands of
researchers and practitioners worldwide.

 


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