Special Interest Groups

Deadline: 8 December 2000

CHI 2001 Special Interest Groups (SIGs) enable conference attendees who share an interest to meet informally for 90 minutes of discussion CHI 2001 provides meeting space and advertises formal SIG meetings in the CHI 2001 Final Program. Submissions for formal SIGs must be received by the deadline; informal SIGs may be organized at the conference on a space-available basis.

Sample SIGs submissions are available.

Review Criteria
SIG success depends on effective leadership and planning. Please contact the SIG Chair before submitting a proposal to discuss your ideas and questions. SIG proposals will be reviewed by a committee. Acceptance is based on the relevance of the SIG topic to HCI and the plan for attendee interaction and participation. Proposals must be authored by two or more individuals that represent at least two organizations.

Proposal
Prepare a one-page proposal describing the content of the SIG and how the SIG discussion will be organized. Also, list at the end of your proposal any related submissions that you have made to CHI 2001. Prepare your proposal as a PDF file. If you cannot prepare an electronic PDF file to send to us, please contact us at the Send To email address. For CHI 2001, SIG proposals will not be published in the extended abstracts.

Upon Acceptance
You will be notified of acceptance or rejection of your submission by 19 January 2000. Formal SIGs will be listed in the CHI 2001 Final Program.

At the Conference
The only audiovisual support for SIGs is the use of an overhead projector. The SIG is scheduled for a 90 minute session.

After the Conference
Following the conference SIG organizers are encouraged to submit an article summarizing the SIG for publication in the SIGCHI Bulletin. Several SIGs have led to proposals for successful workshops at subsequent CHI conferences.

Submissions

• Your submission must be in English.
• Submissions arriving after the deadline will not be considered.
• Your submission should contain no proprietary or confidential material and should cite no proprietary or confidential publications.
• Responsibility for permissions to use video, audio, or pictures of identifiable people rests with you, not CHI 2001.
• You will receive email notification upon receipt of your submission.

Checklist
Please perform the activities in this checklist to ensure completeness in your submission.

• Read the conference overview and Submitting to CHI.
• Prepare a proposal for review, as described above.
• Prepare a PDF version of the proposal.
• Send the PDF version of the proposal by email to the address under the Send To address shown.

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