There are many ways to participate in the IDC 2013; see the following sections for guidelines. All submission deadlines have now passed. However, you may still register to participate in the general conference sessions, workshops and hands-on design activities. For additional questions please visit the FAQ page on the IDC website or contact us.
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Hands-on Design Activities Submission Criteria & Guidelines
- SUBMISSION: April 20, 2013
The Hands-On Design Activities will take place on Sunday, June 23rd at The New School and other locations throughout the City. These activities are optional and are not a part of the Main Conference, but a great way for students, families and others who cannot attend main conference activities to be involved.
KEY CRITERIA
The proposed activity should be resonant with the conference themes, while not creating repetitive activities within the conference. Please visit https://www.idc2013.org/program/ to read about existing programming, including examples of Hands-on Design Activities that are already on the conference roster.
SUBMISSION CRITERIA
Please submit no more than a one-page application including the following information:
- Title of activity
- Description of activity
- Organizer names and affiliations (and appropriate links)
- Any audio/visual needs or specifics on how activity will be run
- Expected number and background of participants
Please submit proposal to info@www.idc2013.org
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Youth Media Showcase Submission Criteria & Guidelines
- SUBMISSION: April 20, 2013
The NYC Youth Media Showcase will be held on Monday, June 24th, from 7:30PM – 9:30PM, at The New School’s Kellen Auditorium (2 West 13th Street). The Showcase will consist of screenings and discussion of short films created by high-school students involved with innovative youth media programs in New York City, led by the Engage Media Lab initiative in the School of Media Studies at The New School. This is an opportunity for youth to present their work in a relaxed and informal environment, in front of a friendly audience.
KEY CRITERIA
The proposed showcase should be resonant with the conference themes. The Showcase will be part ‘show & tell’ and part Q&A.
SUBMISSION CRITERIA
Please submit no more than a one-page application including the following information:
- Title of project
- Description of project
- Nomination names for 1-2 youth and/or organizers to present
- Link to project
Please submit proposal to info@www.idc2013.org
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Conference Topics
Submissions of papers, workshops and demos are invited on all topics from the domain of designing interactive technologies for children.
- Designing for children from diverse cultural backgrounds
- Designing for children with special needs and of different ages and genders
- Emerging technologies for children
- The impact of these technologies on children’s lives, personalities and needs
- Interactive technology for children’s civil involvement, democracy, social awareness of environmental, ethical, ethnographic or cultural issues
- Usability, enjoyability, accessibility, ethics and safety issues
- Children’s interests, desires and needs regarding technology
- Ethnographic and case studies in children’s use of interactive systems
- Replication studies that provide novel perspectives
- Design and evaluation methods
- Empirically derived guidelines
- Quantitative and qualitative evaluation of technologies
- Educational aspects in theory and practice
- Application of developmental and cognitive theories to design
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Guidelines
The IDC 2013 review process will continue with blind reviewing for full and short papers. These two types of submission should be anonymized so that the identity of the authors is not immediately obvious. Therefore, authors are expected to remove author and institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper.- All submissions must be written in English. Spelling and punctuation may be consistent with any dialect of English.
- Please write for an international audience.
- Write in a straightforward style using simple sentence structure
- Use common and basic vocabulary
- Use active voice whenever possible
- Define or explain all technical terms
- Explain all acronyms the first time they are used in your text, and avoid using many acronyms
- Explain local references, colloquial language and puns
- Use inclusive language that is gender-neutral
- Please write for the IDC audience. Read previous years’ proceedings to understand the writing style and conventions that successful authors have used.
- All submissions must be formatted using the ACM SIG Proceedings Template.
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Full Papers
- SUBMISSION: January 22, 2013
- ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: March 4, 2013
- FINAL VERSION: April 8, 2013
Full papers may address any of the areas identified in the conference topics. Full papers must report original work that has not been previously published. The contribution should be made clear in the paper and in its abstract. Papers making one clear, significant contribution are more likely to be accepted than papers making several lesser contributions. The paper must identify and cite published work relevant to the paper topic. It should explain how the presented work has built on previous contributions, and should indicate where and why novel approaches have been adopted. Papers should stress their contribution to concepts and theories in the field of interaction design and children. Papers addressing novel techniques and technologies should clearly identify the relevance and importance to IDC.
Full papers should be in the neighborhood of eight pages long. Note that the absolute maximum page length for a long paper is ten pages due to restrictions on publishing.
We encourage full paper submissions from low-income regions of the world. We will consider remote participation for those who cannot afford to participate in person.
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Short Papers
- SUBMISSION: March 18, 2013 – Final Deadline March 19, 6:30 AM EST
- ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: April 19, 2013
- FINAL VERSION: April 29, 2013
Short papers may address any of the areas identified in the conference topics. They must report original work that has not been previously published. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research results that show the latest innovative ideas. We invite presentation of ongoing work and preliminary results, by experienced academics as well as young researchers and designers. Short papers are not expected to include as thorough a literature review as full papers.
At the conference, authors of accepted short papers will participate in a ‘madness’ session, giving a very quick overview of their work. This will be followed by a poster session where they will have the opportunity to speak with attendees about their work.
Short papers should be no more than 4 pages long and in ACM SIG Proceedings format.
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Workshops
Please note that workshop proposal and position paper submissions deadline has passed. Authors of accepted workshop position papers will be notified by April 19. More information on this year’s IDC workshops are available here.
- PROPOSAL SUBMISSION: January 22, 2013
- PROPOSAL ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: February 4, 2013
- WORKSHOP WEBSITES ONLINE: February 11, 2013
- POSITION PAPER SUBMISSION: March 25, 2013 (extended deadline)
- POSITION PAPER ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: April 19, 2013
- FINAL VERSION: April 29, 2013
Workshops are an opportunity for focused discussion, resource exchange, and forging potential collaborations around specific interest topics within the IDC community. Outcomes of a workshop could include a report or poster that helps crystallize the key constructs and approaches in the particular research area, a repository of online resources for the community, a set of agenda points or research questions to drive future investigations in the area, or even a proposal for creating an edited book or special issue of a journal around the topic of interest. A workshop may be half-day or full day in length, and typically have 15 to 20 participants.
Persons interested in participating in an accepted workshop can submit a position paper to the organizers of that workshop, but workshop participation will be open to any IDC 2013 participant, upon place availability. Please notice that attendants must register for both the workshop and the IDC conference itself.
Potential organizers are invited to submit a workshop proposal packet consisting of the following components:
- Coversheet with workshop title, names & contact information for organizers, proposed workshop length.
- A proposal (not to exceed 3000 words) describing the scope of the workshop, who is expected to participate, main topics covered, and expected workshop outcomes
- Brief abstract to appear in the program
- Short CV or bio for each of the organizers
- 300-word call for participation that you will use to publicize your workshop
- Long call participation which will contain any further information that may help to promote the workshop
Proposals will not undergo a full peer review, however an expert jury will consider each submission based on the workshop topic’s potential for generating community interest and useful results, and based on the strength of the proposal in demonstrating the organizers’ potential for organizing a successful workshop. The chairs reserve the right to suggest potential changes to the proposal or to cancel a workshop due to insufficient participation. Workshops should have at least 10 participants in order to not be canceled.
If accepted, the workshop organizers will be responsible for the following:
- Implementing the publicity plan and soliciting position papers from potential participants
- Setting up and maintaining an external website with updated information about the workshop for potential participants.
- Managing the submission-review-acceptance-rejection of position papers.
- Sending the list of accepted position papers to the Workshops Chairs.
- Preparing a workshop extended abstract and selecting one position paper suitable for publication in the proceedings. Both should be no more than 4 pages long and in ACM SIG Proceedings format. Note that the rest of the position papers will not be published in the conference proceedings
- Making position papers and other pre-workshop materials available to participants in advance of the workshop
- Developing a final agenda of workshop activities
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Demos
- SUBMISSION: March 25, 2013 (extended deadline)
- ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: April 19, 2013
- FINAL VERSION: April 29, 2013
Demos are your chance to fully engage IDC attendees at a personal level by letting them see, touch, squeeze, hear, or even smell your interactive technology. Demos promote and provoke discussion of the role of technology. We invite contributions from academia, industry, new media, the arts and design.
Demo submissions should be made through 4 page paper in ACM SIG Proceedings format. It should not be anonymous (i.e., it should list the names of the authors and their affiliations). It should describe the novelty and distinguishing ideas of your project, even for readers who will not be able to view the demo at the conference. It should also include a description of the system, installation, or exhibit and the problem it addresses, the group of children it intends to serve, and the relevance of the work to the IDC community. Accepted demos will have this 4 page paper published in the proceedings.
Demos will not undergo a full peer review, however an expert jury will consider each submission.
At the conference, authors of demos will participate in a ‘madness’ session, giving a very quick overview of their work. This will be followed by the demo session where they will have the opportunity to demonstrate their technology.
Please note that demos proposal deadline has passed. Authors of accepted demos will be notified by April 19.
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Doctoral Consortium
- SUBMISSION: March 18, 2013
- ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION: April 19, 2013
- FINAL VERSION: April 29, 2013
The Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum for Ph.D. students to present their work, to receive feedback and guidance, to help them in completing their Ph.D. research. It is a closed event where only Ph.D. students can participate. Interested students should submit a 4 page extended abstract in ACM SIG Proceedings format describing their research topic, their work so far, the methods used, and their future plans. This submission should include name and affiliation (it is not anonymous).
Abstracts will be reviewed and selected on the basis of quality, and the benefit students may derive from participating in the DC. Preference will be given to students who have already worked at least 9 months on their PhD and who have more than 9 months of work left to do. Accepted Doctoral Consortium Abstracts will be published as part of the conference through ACM.
Candidates should also have a brief recommendation letter from their main thesis advisor sent to the Doctoral Consortium chairs, supporting the candidate’s application.
The format of the DC will consist of presentations and feedback from a panel of experts from the IDC community. Panels will also discuss examples of model Ph.D. theses and discuss practical advice. Participants in the DC will also be invited to present their research as a poster to the conference participants.
Please note the paper submissions deadline has passed. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by April 19.
