ASSETS 2008

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CFP: SRC + Requesting a Mentor

The ASSETS series of conferences is aimed at providing a technical forum for presenting and disseminating innovative research results that address the use of computing and information technologies to help persons with disabilities. This email contains information about the third annual SIGACCESS Student Research Competition and requesting mentors through the SIGACCESS Mentor Programme.

STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION

Students working on computing and information technology to help persons with disabilities are invited to enter the third annual SIGACCESS Student Research Competition. 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 favourably 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. The deadline for the 2-page abstracts is Monday 23 June 2008 (Midnight HST) See the student research competition web page at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/submission/src.php for more information and the submission system, which will be open shortly.

REQUESTING A MENTOR

Help with submissions by seasoned researchers is available through the ASSETS Mentoring Program. Mentors are experienced prior ASSETS program committee members who have themselves published in the ASSETS technical paper program. They may help with any of the following:

• deciding whether the ASSETS conference is an appropriate venue for your work
• deciding whether your work should be submitted as a paper, poster or demo
• identifying relevant previous research
• planning an appropriate research methodology
• structuring a technical paper submission
• identifying any weaker aspects of a submission and suggesting ways to improve those areas

Important deadlines for requesting a mentor: Technical Paper (8 pages):
Monday 07 January 2008 (Midnight HST) -> 2-3 Page Research Description
Monday 04 February 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Rough Draft of Submission
Monday 03 March 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Completed Submission (Pre-mentoring)
Monday 05 May 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Conference Submission

Other Papers (2 pages):
Monday 24 March 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Rough Draft of Submission
Monday 21 April 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Completed Submission (Pre-mentoring)
Monday 23 May 2008 (Midnight HST) -> Conference Submission

See the mentor programme web page at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/submission/mentors.php for more information and an application form.

Labels: CFP, Mentoring, SRC

posted on: Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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Submitting Papers To ASSETS

The ASSETS Conference is developed with the specific focus of facilitating sharing of information, exchange of ideas, through formal paper sessions, demonstrations, posters, and student research/doctoral consortium sessions. To this purpose, ASSETS is a single track conference to encourage group participation and interactions. The matrix below shows who is eligible for submission to each session and where those submissions will be published.

Labels: DC, Posters and Demonstrations, SRC, Submissions, Technical Papers

posted on: Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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