Important dates (AoE)

• DC Contributions - Jan 9, 2024
• Camere Ready Submissions - Feb 8, 2024

Consortium Chairs email

Overview

The IUI 2024 Doctoral Consortium (DC) provides students an opportunity to present and receive feedback about their research in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance of a panel of mentors selected from senior researchers in the field. We invite students who feel they would benefit from this kind of feedback—the ideal participant is a doctoral student about two years from finishing their Ph.D. We will also consider advanced Master's students and junior Ph.D. students provided their research plan is sufficiently developed to benefit from the discussion at the DC.

Submissions will be selected by the DC chairs and potentially other reviewers. The strongest candidates will be those who have a clear topic and research approach and who have made some progress, but are not too far along in their research so that they can still reshape their research topic or approach.

The final version of accepted Doctoral Consortium submissions will be included in the main conference proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library. The Doctoral Consortium workshop will take place as a separate session in parallel to workshops and tutorials, and DC participants will have the opportunity to present their research in the poster session during the main program.

Complimentary conference registration will be granted to Doctoral Consortium students under the precondition that they agree to assist as student volunteers in the organization of the event. DC participants who register as student volunteers will also be given high priority when applying for the student travel awards.

Objectives

The objectives of the Doctoral Consortium are to:

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

Submission Instructions

If you are unsure about eligibility or submission requirements, please do not hesitate to email us at dc2024@iui.acm.org!

To apply for the Doctoral Consortium, two steps are required:

Please submit a single PDF containing your technical submission (for details see below) via PCS by January 9.

In addition, your doctoral or thesis advisor should send a separate, brief letter of recommendation to the DC chairs at dc2024@iui.acm.org by January 12.

For the technical submission, please upload a single PDF containing the following four items to https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by January 9, 2024:

1. Cover Letter (1 page max):

Please include 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).

2. DC Submission (4 pages max including references)

A document describing your thesis/dissertation topic and research plan and your progress thus far. 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
• next steps for your research

3. Questions to mentors and co-students (1 page max):

List the main questions and discussion points regarding your thesis/dissertation topic for which you expect to receive feedback from the Doctoral Consortium mentors/participants.

4. Your CV (3 pages max)

Provide an academic curriculum vitae (CV) document.

How to format and submit

Prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template , or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template.

All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0 https://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the Doctoral Consortium deadline.

In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for society, conference, and track select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2024" and "Doctoral Consortium", respectively, and press "Go".