Basic Research Symposium
Alan Dix, University of Huddersfield, UK
Francesmary Modugno, University of Washington, USA
A two day Research Symposium will be held on the Saturday and Sunday
preceding the main conference. The goal of the Symposium is to provide
an interactive forum to promote and enhance scientific discussions of
developing research issues.
The Basic Research Symposium is designed to complement other parts of
the CHI 96 Conference. The Symposium allows active researchers in
the field of Human-Computer Interaction to present new and ongoing
work in addition to more mature work.
Those attending the Symposium will be given the opportunity to enter
into extensive dialogue with a community of peers. The Symposium will
provide both an opportunity for feedback on one's research ideas, as
well as a chance to learn about the variety of perspectives present in
the international research community. The Symposium is designed to
stress research and interaction among the attendees and to promote
understanding, asking of questions and dialogue between fellow
researchers as well as reflection on methods and results, etc.
Topics
Contributions are invited from any active area of HCI research. The
Symposium attains its vibrancy from the wide range of disciplines
represented and the critical but informal interchanges between them.
At the Symposium
The Symposium will alternate between plenary sessions with
presentation of interesting, enlightening, even provoking research
issues, with follow-up discussions and smaller focused discussion
groups with short talk presentations and intense dialogue among
participants.
Organization of the talk sessions will depend on the general topics
addressed by submissions. However, some of the sessions will focus on
the the conference theme: Common Ground.
We will be looking for common ground between different research disciplines
and common ground between theory and practice.
Format
Invitation to the Symposium will be based on a two page position
paper. The position papers will be distributed electronically to all
participants before the Symposium. The late date for submissions
reflects the intention that the Symposium represents the participants'
current work. Moreover, the limited size of the Symposium -- no more
than 50 participants -- emphasizes the high degree of interaction and
collaboration between participants.
After the Symposium
The most important output of the symposium is the interaction between
the participants. In addition, a sub-group will provide feedback from
the Symposium to the
Doctoral Consortium and the main conference.
After the conference, a short report of the event will be published in
SIGCHI Bulletin and the collected position papers will be published
electronically.
chi96-webmaster@acm.org
/ 95-11-02
Call
for Participation