Call For Participation

Call for Participation

The use of the interactive surfaces is an exciting and emerging research area. Display technologies, such as projectors, LCD and OLED flat panels, and even flexible display substrates, coupled with input sensors capable of enabling direct interaction, make it reasonable to envision a not-so-distant future in which many surfaces in our environment from tabletops, walls and floors will function as a digital interactive display. This cross-disciplinary domain brings together different technologies and backgrounds such as camera and projector based systems, new display technologies, multi-touch sensing, user interface technologies, augmented reality, computer vision, multimodal interaction, novel input and sensing technologies, CSCW, and information visualization.

The intimate size of this single-track symposium provides an ideal venue for leading researchers and practitioners to exchange research results and implementation experiences. We encourage submissions on (but not limited to) the following topic areas as they relate to interactive tabletops and surfaces:

• Applications
• Gesture-based interfaces
• Multi-modal interfaces
• Tangible interfaces
• Novel interaction techniques
• Data handling/exchange on large interactive surfaces
• Data presentation on large interactive surfaces
• User-interface technology
• Computer supported collaborative systems
• Middleware and network support
• Augmented reality
• Social protocols
• Information visualizations
• Sensing and input technologies
• Human-centered design & methodologies

Submissions

Papers/Notes: We invite paper submissions of two kinds: Papers (8 pages) and Notes (4 pages) describing original research on investigations into tabletop and interactive surface based systems. Papers must present original, highly innovative, prospective and forward-looking research in one or more of the themes given above. Notes must also report novel and complete research, but where the scope and scale of the contribution is more focused and succinct than Papers. Reviewing will be double-blind, so please anonlymize your submissions. All accepted submissions will be presented at ITS 2009, will appear in the ACM ITS 2009 proceeding, and be archived in the ACM digital library.

Interactive Posters: Interactive Posters provide an interactive forum for authors to present research prototypes and works in progress to conference attendees. Submissions should be in the form of a 2-page extended abstract describing the Interactive Poster. Interactive Poster abstracts will not be published in the main conference proceedings, but will be included in the adjunct CD. Authors of accepted Interactive Poster abstracts are responsible for preparing an Interactive Poster to display/demonstrate on site at the conference. Interactive Posters focus more on visual presentation and discussion between the author and attendees around the poster.

Demonstrations: Demos provide an interactive forum for authors to present their work to conference attendees and get feedback on it from the leading experts. The demo session provides an opportunity to interactively present research prototypes and works-in-progress as well as your best demos of the last year. Both independent demonstrations and those accompanying accepted papers and posters are welcome. Demo submissions should be submitted through our online system in the form of a maximum 4 minute video. At the conference we want the TIS participants to literally get in touch with your demos. Our main goal is to provide a forum for lively discussions and a hands-on experience with many of your prototypes. See the extra page for more details.

Electronic submissions can be made through the ITS 2009 PCS at https://precisionconference.com/~tabletop/. Papers/Notes (camera-ready versions) and Interactive Poster submissions must be formatted according to the ACM SIGCHI Template (Word version, LaTeX version). Note that this template is different from the ACM SIG Proceedings template. Papers and Notes will appear in the printed proceedings, but Interactive Posters will not.

Important Dates

(:cellnr width=40% :) Abstract submission deadline: (:cell width=60% :) June 12, 2009, 5pm PST