=================== Call for Participation =======================

The 6th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children  
(IDC) invites submissions for short papers, posters, and demo  
presentations. IDC is a single-track, focused conference which offers  
researchers a unique opportunity for in-depth exchange of ideas,  
feedback, and interaction. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate work  
in progress and late-breaking research results that show the latest  
innovative ideas. We invite presentation of ongoing work and  
preliminary results, by experienced academics as well as young  
researchers and designers. The short papers as well as demo and  
poster tracks are particularly interesting for researchers to get  
feedback from experts in the field and fellow researchers.  IDC 2007  
will look for demonstrations and posters that include work in at  
least one of the following broad areas:

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES FOR CHILDREN (e.g., innovative educational  
simulations, online games, accessible fabrication devices, mobile  
communications devices, wireless embedded technologies, sensors and  
actuators, "smart" materials, authoring/programming tools)

THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGIES ON CHILDREN'S LIVES (e.g., in schools, at  
home, in public spaces)

NEW RESEARCH METHODS FOR INTERACTION DESIGN AND CHILDREN which give  
children a voice in the design, development, and evaluation processes  
(e.g., participatory design methods, usability testing, etc.)

The conference will be held at Aalborg University in Aalborg, Denmark.

Details can be found at http://idc2007.cs.aau.dk/index.html

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SUBMISSION INFORMATION

Submissions must report original work that has not been previously  
published. The contribution should be made clear in the paper and in  
its abstract. Papers making one clear, significant contribution are  
more likely to be accepted than papers making several lesser  
contributions. The paper must identify and cite published work  
relevant to the paper topic. It should explain how the presented work  
has built on previous contributions, and should indicate where and  
why novel approaches have been adopted.

In addition, in the demo category we also ask for a free-form  
description (submitted as additional material) of how the demo will  
be run and how participants can perceive it. Submissions must be  
complete and formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI Publications  
Format. Short papers may be up to 4 pages, while poster and demo  
submissions may be up to 2 pages and must be submitted as PDF files  
no later than 5 March 2007 at the IDC 2007 Submission web site.  
Submissions arriving after the deadline or with improper formatting  
or anonymization will not be considered. There will be no exceptions.

For more information see: http://idc2007.cs.aau.dk/submissions.html

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IMPORTANT DATES

Submissions due: 5th March, 2007
Notification of acceptance: 30th March, 2007
Camera ready submissions due: 10th April, 2007
IDC 2007: 6th-8th June, 2007

Conference chair: Mikael B. Skov (Aalborg University)
Program co-chairs: Tilde Bekker (Eindhoven University of Technology)  
and Judy Robertson (Heriot-Watt University)
Short papers chair: Mikael B. Skov (Aalborg University)
Posters and demos chair: Paulo Blikstein (Northwestern University)  
and Leah Buechley (University of Colorado at Boulder)

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