Call for Doctoral Consortium Participation at the 2020 ACM SIGIR
Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR)
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada 14–18 March, 2020
PhD students working in the areas of information seeking behaviour (IB),
information seeking (IS), human computer interaction (HCI), and
information retrieval (IR) are invited to submit their proposals for
participation in a Doctoral Consortium, which will be held on Saturday,
14 March, 2020, in conjunction with the 5th ACM SIGIR Conference on
Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (CHIIR 2020) in Vancouver,
Canada.
The Doctoral Consortium has the following objectives:
- To provide valuable feedback to students on research methods and plans
- To provide helpful guidance on students’ research directions and topics
- To promote the development of a community of scholars that will help
students in their future careers
- To provide students with opportunities to meet and interact with
experienced researchers in the areas of IB, IS, IR and HCI.
PhD students with accepted proposals are expected to present their
research at the Doctoral Consortium. We welcome submissions representing
a broad spectrum of research topics relevant to the CHIIR community.
Participants will benefit from the advice of senior researchers in the
field and from the interaction with peers being at a similar stage of
their careers.
***Submission***
PhD students interested in engaging in detailed discussions on their
research at the Doctoral Consortium are invited to submit a 4-page paper
(maximum) describing their thesis work and, in particular, provides
clear discussions on:
- The research problem being addressed
- The research methodology and techniques being applied
- The solution being proposed and its validity
- The relation of the work to the state of the art in HCI, IB and IR
When submitting the paper, please indicate the stage of your progress
within the PhD program, e.g., year of study, pre-proposal. The submitted
paper should be discussed with the students’ respective PhD supervisors
before submission. It should adhere to the submission guidelines for the
CHIIR conference, available at: http://sigir.org/chiir2020/guidelines.html
***Review Process***
Submitted proposals will be reviewed by the Doctoral Consortium jury.
The review of the reported research in each proposal will take into
account its originality, its potential for advancing the CHIIR related
research, and whether the work is at a stage where the student can
benefit from participating in the consortium. Rejected submissions will
receive written feedback. Confidentiality of submissions will be
maintained throughout the review process.
Authors will be notified of the result of their submission by 10
December 2019. Accepted doctoral candidates will receive instructions on
how to submit a camera-ready copy of their proposal, and will receive
information on the preparation of the presentation and poster.
Acceptance to the Doctoral Consortium is an honour. In turn, accepted
candidates are expected to fully commit themselves to the success of the
consortium by being open to new ideas and suggestions and providing
ideas and suggestions to other participants. Accepted DC student
participants will be encouraged to apply for ACM SIGIR Student Travel
Grants to assist with their travel to CHIIR 2020. More information about
the travel awards is available at:
http://sigir.org/general-information/travel-grants/
***Key Dates***
October 29, 2019 DC paper submission
December 10, 2019 Notification of acceptance
January 2020 Camera-ready copy
March 14, 2020 Consortium
***Doctoral Consortium Chairs***
Eric Meyers (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)
Vivien Petras (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
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Vivien Petras, PhD
Head of School
Professor for Information Retrieval
Berlin School of Library and Information Science
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dorotheenstr. 26, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 2093-70954
Fax: +49 30 2093-70951
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www.ibi.hu-berlin.de
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