The call for the Graduate Student Symposium is now closed.
Update: If selected for the symposium, students from U.S. academic institutions (regardless of citizenship) may receive reimbursement for airfare (up to $1500) and registration costs.
The Graduate Student Symposium (GSS) provides a forum in which students have a unique opportunity to meet and discuss their work with each other and a panel of experienced researchers and practitioners. The forum provides an informal and interactive setting for acquiring feedback on current research and creative explorations and to receive guidance on future directions. Applications may address any of the topics, approaches, and disciplines related to creativity and cognition (see the main call for papers). The GSS will be held on the 25th of June.
We welcome applications from graduate students in degree programs (i.e. doctoral programs in research fields and master programs in the arts and design) in any of the disciplines and approaches concerned with creativity and cognition. Applicants should have an established direction of research relevant to the conference, but whose research would benefit from guidance provided by peers and senior colleagues at the Graduate Student Symposium. Each application should include:
* A two-page written paper (it must be in the SIGCHI format)
* A brief letter of support from the student’s principal adviser
* A brief biographical sketch (2-3 paragraphs) together with a list of any relevant publications
The two page paper should describe ongoing work and summarize the student’s thesis or highlight a particular aspect. The paper must be first-authored by the student. Advisors’ or supervisors’ letters of support should indicate that the work has reached the appropriate level of maturity for presentation in this venue. The letter of support and biographical sketch should be submitted together with the paper on the conference submission site. Please note that submissions to the GSS, unlike submissions to the other venues, is not anonymous. For templates, please see the conference website under Submission.
Participants will be selected based on their anticipated contributions to the breadth and depth of the intellectual discussions of the symposium. Selected students will be expected to give a short presentation of their work, followed by discussion with the panel and the other student participants.
In addition, each student is encouraged to submit a poster describing his or her work. The poster would be submitted to the Poster track and reviewed independent of the GSS. An appropriate approach would be to extend the two page GSS submission into a four page poster submission. Authors may not submit an identical version of the GSS submission to the Poster track. If an author does submit a poster in parallel, please notify the chairs of the GSS.
Financial support may be available for graduate students to attend the GSS and conference. Please contact the Chair of the GSS for updated information about financial support.
All submissions will be handled through the Creativity and Cognition Precision Conference web site. Use the two-column ACM SIGCHI format. Templates are available for Latex and Word. You must submit a PDF. The total size of all submitted materials, including video, should not exceed 100 Mb. The CHI and UIST guides to producing good video figures are useful.
