<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael Bernstein</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:msb@cs.stanford.edu">msb@cs.stanford.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Sep 21, 2015 at 8:34 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: Getting Stanford more involved in CHI<br>To: <a href="mailto:hci-friends@mailman.stanford.edu">hci-friends@mailman.stanford.edu</a><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Michael — </span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Could you send this around to the hci-friends and chi-research lists (and anywhere else appropriate!) please?  Thanks!</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jofish</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">-----------------</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear Stanford friends and colleagues -</span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">We wanted to draw your attention to the Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference which we’re holding in May at the San Jose Conference Center. CHI is the largest human-computer interaction conference, and if you’re interested in HCI, UX, human factors, or just people and technology, then it’s absolutely worth checking out. In many ways, Stanford has been the epicenter of HCI in Silicon Valley, and we’d really like to see a lot of Stanford folk at the conference.</div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="line-height:19px">We wanted to mention, in particular, two venues which we think might be worth thinking about, in addition to the usual Papers, Notes and Late-Breaking Results, and that's Case Studies and Workshops. We have </span><span style="line-height:19px">completely revamped the Case Study venue this year to make it a</span> <span style="line-height:19px">better place for people working in industry to submit their work. If you’ve finished up a</span> <span style="line-height:19px">really interesting project as part of an internship and they recognize the value that comes from</span> <span style="line-height:19px">people talking about that project in public, or you’ve got a technique you’ve found works</span> <span style="line-height:19px">really well, then this is a great place to present that work.</span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br><span style="line-height:19px">Workshops are a bit different: they’re really a place to find people interested in the same thing you are.  If you’re really interested in, say, digital money, or aging populations and technology, or design thinking for developing markets, then a workshop is a great way to find other people interested in the same topic. It’s a great way to meet people and find collaborators, interns, colleagues, friends, and jobs. Our highly capable Workshops Chairs — Stanford’s own Sanjay Kairam, Eve Hoggan, Frank Vetere and Siân Lindley — have really improved and streamlined the Workshops process this year, and we think it’s going to be a great program.</span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="line-height:19px"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="line-height:19px">One of the things that we want to particularly point out is the <a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/student-volunteer/" target="_blank">Student Volunteer</a> program which opens September 30th  Student volunteers (SVs) work twenty hours and in return receive free registration (a $400(+) value). Most student volunteers serve their time during the conference itself, but for local students there’s another opportunity. Before the main conference we have a Program Committee meeting, where around 200 of the field’s leaders get together to decide which papers are accepted into the conference. It’s particularly useful if you want to submit papers to CHI or similar conferences, as understanding how the program committee meeting works can only improve your chances of getting papers in! </span><span style="line-height:19px">We’re having that meeting on Friday, December 11th and Saturday, December 12th, and we’re looking for a dozen-or-so student volunteers to work over those two days. If you’re interested, check out the </span><span style="line-height:19px">link and register after September 30th</span><span style="line-height:19px">.</span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br><span style="line-height:19px">We’ve got a description of the various venues below, so flip through and see what strikes you.  We are happy to take any questions you might have (offline would probably be better, by the way, so we don’t spam the list) — just email <a href="mailto:generalchairs@chi2016.acm.org" target="_blank">generalchairs@chi2016.acm.org</a>.  And we look forward to seeing you in San Jose!</span><br><br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jofish Kaye & Allison Druin, Co-Chairs, CHI 2016</span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b><font size="4">Get involved in CHI!</font></b></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The </span><a href="http://chi2016.acm.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Computer-Human Interaction (CHI) conference</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is coming to San Jose, California, USA in May 2016, and </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">if you’re interested in HCI, UX, new technologies for humans and computers to work together</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, or just </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">understanding more about how people and computers interact</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, then </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">now is the time to get involved</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">! </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The main way to be part of CHI is to </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">submit a write-up of some new work or research</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> you’ve done. It's then evaluated by a group of experts, and if accepted you’ll present it at the conference. Depending on the kind of work you’ve done, there are a bunch of different ways to get involved.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The most rigorous kind of research is called a </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/papers-and-notes/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Paper,</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Note</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, depending on the length. It’s equivalent to a journal publication in other fields, and it’s due on </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">September 25th</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. These typically reflect several months or years of hard work, and are anonymous and thoroughly peer reviewed. But there’s a whole bunch of other ways to tell people about the work you’ve done! Read on. </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you’ve been working in industry, you may want to think about writing a </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/case-studies/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Case Study</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">,</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> due on </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 9th</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Case Studies are compelling stories about real-world experiences of applying HCI, and focus on innovation.  They can illustrate, explore, report, analyze, summarize, challenge, or simply describe practical HCI work. They’re 2-10 pages long, and if accepted you’ll be able to present your Case Study as a talk at the conference.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/workshops/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Workshops</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> are a great way to find your tribe! Let’s say you’re interested in gesture interaction — or digital money, or fitness tracking, or any other HCI-related topic — and you want to meet others with the same interest. Find a few people who work at another institution or company from you, and submit a workshop together by </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 9th</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. If you’ve got a startup trying to find your lead users or people pushing the boundaries of your field, workshops can be a great way to find those people. Workshops are usually 1 day long and attract about 15-25 people.  They’re collaborative events, about meeting new people and presenting early work in a field: if you want to teach people how to do something, then that’s a Course.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/courses/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Courses</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">are “the best university there isn’t” for HCI! They’re (roughly) 2, 4, or 6 hours long, and can cover anything related to HCI. Previous courses have covered everything from sketching, electronics prototyping and computer vision to mobile interaction, data mining and card sorting. Course Instructors also get free conference registration! Submit your course proposal by </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 9th</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you want people to use something you’ve built, then you want to submit to </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/interactivity/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Interactivity</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">!</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> We’ve had everything from smart igloos to sound-, smell-, and even golf-based interfaces. This year, we’ve got two deadlines for Interactivity. If you want to submit a specialized </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/interactivity/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Installation</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> of some kind, like an interactive wall or augmented full-body digital harp, then get it to us by </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">October 9th.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> If you just need a table, a monitor and a powerstrip to show your </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/interactivity/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Demonstration</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, then you can wait until </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">January 13th</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. If you’re a hardware startup looking for a place to show off your kit: this could be a great place for you.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We’ve also got several other venues due on </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">January 13th</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. Perhaps the most widely relevant is </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/late-breaking-work/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Late-Breaking Work</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, a chance to write up your research and present it as a Poster at the conference. This is usually a smaller contribution than a full Paper or Note or Case Study, and a great way to break into CHI. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">January 13th</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is also the deadline for submitting a </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/panels/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Panel</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4-or-so people discussing an important topic or issue. If you’ve done a great movie about your work, submit it to our </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/video-showcase/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Video Showcase</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> - and get a chance of winning the coveted Golden Mouse Award! If you’d like to meet with people about a particular topic — like a 2-hour workshop — submit a </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SIG</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. January 13th is also the deadline for our </span><span style="font-family:Arial;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Student</span><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/student-design-competition/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Design</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/student-game-competition/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Game</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/student-research-competition/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Research</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> competitions as well as one of our most popular venues, </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/alt-chi/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">alt.chi</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, an opportunity to submit novel, wacky, crazy, alternative or bizarre work which doesn’t fit into any other place.</span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Finally, CHI is a great place to meet new people, to build your network, and, importantly, to recruit the top talents in HCI and UX, as well as Computer Science, Information Science, Human-Centered Computing, Informatics and more. We’re always looking for companies to get great visibility and show their support of cutting-edge research by </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/sponsors/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Sponsoring</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> the conference, </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/exhibitors/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Exhibiting</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> their products in their own booth, or </span><a href="https://chi2016.acm.org/wp/recruiters/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recruiting</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> top level talent. </span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We look forward to seeing you in San Jose in May 2016!</span></div><br><span style="font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Jofish Kaye & Allison Druin, Co-Chairs, CHI 2016</span></div></div><br></div>
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