ASSETS 2008

Student Research Competition Papers

This year, the ASSETS conference will host the third 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 (up to $500 (USD)) 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 semi-finalists 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. If the applicant is a Ph.D. student, then he or she must be in the final half of their PhD programme to submit to the SRC. 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 2008.

Student Research Competition Submission

The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) is an event open to undergraduate and graduate students, interested in presenting their research to a panel of experts. Students wishing to participate submit abstracts of their work. Qualifying research must deal with topics that are relevant to the mission of the ASSETS series, as described by the call-for-papers. Preference will be given to work which has been completed (or close to completion), and not submitted for presentation as a regular technical paper. 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 semi-finalists will be chosen by the judges to present their work in a conference session, and of those up to three students will be designated finalists by the judges, receive cash prizes and award certificates from the ACM, and a chance to compete in the SRC Grand Finals, whose winners will be recognised at the Annual ACM Awards Banquet.

Abstracts must be formatted using the ACM conference format. Abstracts should be formatted for letter paper size (8.5" by 11") and should be a maximum of 2 pages long, including all figures, tables and references. Submissions MUST contain substantial original, unpublished material and be submitted in PDF format. Successful entries will be published in the ASSETS 2008 proceedings.

For more information, please feel free to email Matt Huenerfauth and Pawan Lingras, the Student Research Competition Co-chairs at src-assets08-at-sigaccess.org.

The Student Research Competition submission system is now open.