Student Research Competition

About the Student Research Competition

This year, the ASSETS conference will host the second annual SIGACCESS student research competition (sponsored by Microsoft Research). This is an exciting opportunity for students to participate in an ACM conference and get visibility for their research.

Students wishing to participate submit abstracts of their work, and up to 25 entrants will be selected for the competition. Qualifying research must deal with issues related to computing and information technology to help persons with disabilities. Selected students will receive partial support from ACM to attend the conference. At the conference, entrants will display a poster and make a brief presentation to a panel of judges. A small number of semifinalists will be chosen by the judges to present their work in a conference session, and of those up to three undergraduate and three graduate students will be designated finalists by the judges, and entered in the Grand Finals of ACM's Student Research Competition.

Eligibility

Entrants must be undergraduate or graduate students, and members of ACM. Entrants must be sole authors of their abstracts and posters. Work accepted as a full paper for one of the technical sessions of the conference cannot also be considered for the Student Research Competition. Students having a technical paper, however, are encouraged to submit other research to the Student Research Competition.

Please note that the judges will look more favorably on complete, or nearly complete, work than research which is still in its early formative stages. Students at, or near, the outset of their work in this area are encouraged to submit to the Doctoral Consortium instead.

Note: Upon request, American Sign Language interpreters will be provided for the Student Research Competition and all other ASSETS events. Requests for an interpreter must be indicated on the conference registration form when registering for ASSETS 2007.

Additional conference accessibility information is available at http://www.acm.org/sigaccess/assets07/accessibility/

Competition submissions

Abstracts must be formatted using the ACM conference format http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html
Abstracts should be formatted for letter paper size (8.5" by 11")
Abstracts should be a maximum of 2 pages long, including all figures, tables and references.
Abstracts must be submitted in PDF format. Please refer to Adobe’s
Accessibility Resource Center for information on how to make your PDF file accessible.
Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material.

Please refer to the ACM policy on plagiarism for guidance. Abstracts that do not meet the length or ACM conference formatting requirements may be rejected without review.

Submit your entry here

Contact

Harriet Fell
ASSETS 2007 Student Research Competition Chair
Professor of Computer and Information Science
Northeastern University
fell at ccs dot neu dot edu

Student Research Competition Committee

Clayton Lewis
Professor of Computer Science
Scientist in Residence, Coleman Institute for Cognitive Disabilities
University of Colorado

Research Professor Marilyn Tremaine
Center for Advanced Information Processing
Rutgers, the State University

I.V. Ramakrishnan
Professor of Computer Science
State University of New York at Stony Brook

Dr Donal Fitzpatrick
Lecturer, School of Computing
Dublin City University

Dominique Archambault
Maître de Conférences
Département Information Communication
Université du Havre (IUT), France

Additional information about ACM's Student Research Competition can be found at http://www.acm.org/src/

Accepted Student Projects

Semantically and Syntactically Improved Predictive Disambiguation Text Entry Methods
Jun Gong Northeastern University, US
SADIe: Exposing Implicit Information To Improve Accessibility
Darren Lunn, University of Manchester, UK
Information Overload in Non-Visual Web Transaction: Context Analysis Spells Relief
Jalal Mahmud, Department of Computer Science, Stony Brook University, US
WADER: A Novel Wayfinding System with Deviation
Shih-Kai Tsai, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan