Important Dates

IUI 2019 Student Consortium Call for Papers

Overview

The IUI 2019 Student Consortium is intended to provide an opportunity for Doctoral and advanced Masters students to present and receive feedback about their research in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of mentors selected from senior people in the field. We invite students who feel they would benefit from this kind of feedback on their research to use this unique opportunity to share their work with students in a similar situation as well as senior researchers in the field. The consortium will be organized with 8 to 12 presentations by the students, whose applications have been selected by the Student Consortium chairs and potentially other reviewers. The strongest candidates will be those who have a clear topic and research approach, and have made some progress, but who are not so far along in their research that they can no longer make changes. The final version of accepted SC submissions will be included in the main conference proceedings published in the ACM DL.

Complimentary/reduced conference registration will be available for students. Student Consortium participants will also be given high priority when applying for the student travel awards. Moreover, we are working to provide partial reimbursement of travel/accommodation expenses specifically for the participants of the Student Consortium. More information will come soon.

Objectives

The objectives of the student consortium are to:

1. Serve as a supportive setting to provide/receive feedback on students' current doctoral and masters' research and guidance on future research directions
2. Offer each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from researchers and students outside of their own institution
3. Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research
4. Contribute to the conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events

Submission Instructions

To apply for the Student Consortium, please submit to the URL below a single PDF containing the following (in order):

1. A brief cover letter containing your full name, contact details, affiliation, web page, expected graduation date and target degree, the name of your thesis advisor, gender (optional), home country (optional), and whether you are a member of an underrepresented minority group (optional) - one page maximum.
2. Your SC submission: a document describing your thesis/dissertation research plan and your progress thus far and should be no more than two pages long, including references. Key points the submission should include: Motivation for your dissertation research, goal and research questions, related work that frames your research, methods/approach to reach the goal, results if any, and next steps for your research.
3. Submissions should follow the standard sigconf format, using one of the following templates:
• Microsoft Word Template for Papers
• LaTeX Template for Papers
• PDF Example for Papers
4. Your CV (maximum two pages).

Submit your single PDF (containing cover letter and SC submission) to https://new.precisionconference.com by November 9th, 2018.
In addition, a letter of recommendation from your thesis or doctoral advisor should be sent separately by email to the Student Consortium co-Chairs at sc-iui2019@acm.org.

Student Consortium Chairs

Andrea Kleinsmith, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA
Tsvi Kuflik, the University of Haifa, Israel
Ilaria Torre, the University of Genova, Italy
Contact: sc-iui2019@acm.org