A: Use the short paper category if the contents of your work can best be presented in a lecture style format. Use the interactive poster format if the contents of the work can best be presented in a visual format (e.g. novel visual design approaches). Interactive posters are the ideal category for informal discussions and idea exchange not bound to a strange time limit. Accepted contributions in both categories are printed in the Conference Companion
A: No! Interactive posters submitted as a suite should have something in common. Try to collect interactive posters showing diverse perspectives on a common theme. Use the suite summary to make explicit the common theme, explain their diverse perspectives and indicate the relationships.
A: No! Present the interactive poster in reduced size (one single page) to indicate the layout of the interactive poster combined with short descriptions of the various parts and/or reduced size graphics. The sketch should provide a good overall feeling of the visual quality of the interactive poster.
A: No! In the event of a reject decision for the set, then each component will considered as an indvidual submission.
A: No! We will not extend the deadline no matter who you are and no matter what your excuse is. If the material of your interactive poster submission is not physically in the office of one of the Co-Chairs by 5:00 pm (17:00) local time at receiving address on Friday, December 15, 1995 we will not be able to include it in the review process. We will probably have 300 or so submissions to deal with and a very tight schedule, so we simply cannot tolerate ANY delays in processing submissions.
A: Yes! There really and truly is a firm deadline. Even if you send it by courier and they promise to deliver it on time, if it's not here by that deadline it will be rejected. The moral of the story is: PLAN AHEAD !!! Send it early with few extra days as a safety margin.
A: Yes! All submissions arriving between the main deadline (December 15, 1995) and the second deadline, which is not later than than 5:00 pm (17:00) local time at receiving address on Friday, February 16, 1995, will be regarded as last minute submissions. But be careful !!!. The small space will be used only for work we think cannot wait for another possibility to present and there is NO formal publication of this material.
A: Please try to borrow one. If this is not possible, just use a typewriter or whatever printer you do have. Reproduce the standard format as well as you can, and make sure you stay within the page limit.
A: Try to match it as much as possible. This is an area where common sense should prevail. We might reject your interactive poster if you use a tiny font to squeeze 8 pages of text into the 2-page limit, but we will certainly not reject you just because your printer doesn't have a Times Roman font! Find a serif font that matches as closely as possible, and try to make the general characteristics match (e.g., use Helvetica-like sans serif font for subtitles, use the specified font sizes and page layouts). The better your interactive poster matches the specifications, the happier you will be when you see it in print!
A: For submissions, you can use any standard letter-sized paper, such as for example A4 or 8.5x11 inch paper. Please keep the size of the printed text to the proceedings format no matter what size paper you use for printing the text.
A: In principle Yes! But reviewers will need the two page to get a feeling of your ideas. If you do not have enough to say to fill the two pages think about the contents of the interactive poster!
A: Absolutely not! Again, we have so many interactive posters to handle, and anticipate having such a large conference companion that we cannot make any exceptions. Interactive posters longer than the acceptable page count will be returned unreviewed.
A: No! The 2 pages includes everything that is submitted except the cover pages and the suite summary (if your interactive poster is part of a suite) -- that is everything that will actually appear in the Conference Companion if your interactive poster is accepted.
A: Color plates are expensive to reproduce. You should include them only if they provide critical support for the interactive poster. If black and white figures can support your points just as easily, consider including them instead. We cannot guarantee at this stage that color figures can be included into the Conference Companion. Color figures must appear on a seperate page at the end of the manuscript.
A: We are accepting supplemental video material to review along with interactive poster submissions. The material must be short, and you should think of it as a "dynamic figure" -- in other words, you cannot rely on a video to MAKE your points, only to support the issues of the printed interactive poster. If you believe that video material is essential to your submission, please consider s well the video program.
A: You have two choices, two analog formats (NTSC/VHS and PAL/VHS). The analog video clips must be no more than two minutes in length. SIX copies of the dynamic figures are required.
A: We have asked each reviewer to select the interactive poster keywords describing areas in which they have expertise. We have also asked them to identify (via the keywords) those areas in which they have no experience. We will use the keywords you provide, to identify appropriate reviewers.
A: Briefly, your interactive poster will be assigned to 4-6 reviewers. The reviewers will provide evaluations both in the form of scores (e.g., for overall quality), and in comments. The actual accept/reject decisions will be made at a meeting of the Co-Chairs in January based on the reviewer comments.
A: Authors will be notfied of acceptance or rejection by the end of January 1996.
A: No! Publication schedules do not permit revisions. If accepted the interactive poster (and the one-page suite summaries) will be printed as received.
A: Yes! Reviewers are asked if the prefered presention category is appropriate. Authors can be asked to change the presentation category from lecture format to interactive format and vice versa.
A: Each accepted interactive poster will be presented during at least one 90 minutes period using a display space of approximately 2.5 m by 1.2 m), with a table for other materials. We will try to manage that the interactive poster can remain set up during the whole conference. You are encouraged to organize your own informal demonstrations.