<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 14pt; color: rgb(199, 43, 47);">ITS’14 Call for Participation: </span></b><b class="" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 13pt; color: rgb(199, 43, 47);">Posters</span></b><br><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class="">ACM Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces 2014</span></b><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><b class=""><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Calibri">Dresden, Germany, November 16-19<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></b></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 112, 192);"><font face="Calibri"><a href="http://www.its2014.org/" class="" style="color: purple;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">http://www.its2014.org</span></a><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 6pt 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="color: rgb(199, 43, 47);">Submission system PCS now open at</span><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="color: red;"><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);"><a href="http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi" class="" style="color: purple;"><span class="" style="color: rgb(0, 112, 192);">http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Calibri"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Sponsored by the ACM's special interest group on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI), ITS has been established as a premier venue for research in the design, development and use of new and emerging interactive surface technologies. This year’s conference will be held at the Hilton Hotel right in the heart of beautiful Dresden, Germany from Nov. 16-19, 2014.</span><span lang="EN-US" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><font face="Calibri"> </font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Calibri">ITS 2014 welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces (including tabletops, large displays, mobile, and mini devices). We embrace innovations in a wide variety of areas including design, software, hardware, understanding of use, and applications or deployments of interactive surfaces.</font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Calibri"><br class=""></font></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class=""><b class=""><font size="3" class="" face="Calibri">Important Dates</font></b></span></div><div class="" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" class="" style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Calibri"><ul><li><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">August 29, 5:00 p.m. PDT</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">: Deadline for submissions</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">September 11: Posters Notification</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">September 17: Camera-ready Deadline</span></li></ul><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Quick Links</b></span></p><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt;"><ul><li><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Formatting instructions: </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><a href="http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform">http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform</a></span></li><li><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Precision Conference Submission: </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><a href="https://precisionconference.com/~sigchi/">https://precisionconference.com/~sigchi/</a></span></li></ul></span><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>General Information</b></span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">We invite submissions to the poster category of ITS 2014.</span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">The ITS 2014 poster program offers an engaging venue to present and discuss new and developing research. Posters provide the opportunity for researchers to get feedback on early-stage work, establish potential collaborations and discuss the burning issues in ITS 2014 in an informal manner with the larger ITS community during the interactive poster session.</span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Work that is best suited for a poster submission includes </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">– </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">but is not limited to </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">– </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or prototypes that have not been fully tested but show great promise, summaries of small-scale studies, design explorations of interactive tabletops and surfaces.</span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">In addition to a poster being displayed during ITS 2014, a poster submission will feature</span></p><span class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt;"><ul><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">an extended abstract of the poster (max. 6 pages) published in the electronic conference proceedings in the ACM DL.</span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">a plenary fast-forward session. </span></li></ul></span><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Preparing the Submission</b></span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">All submissions must include an extended abstract and a draft poster. The extended abstract has a maximum limit of 6 pages, including all figures and references, and must be in the SIGCHI Extended Abstracts Format (</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">LaTeX Template</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">, </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Word Template</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">). It should include a concise description of the idea, the results or findings, supporting imagery and figures, and a discussion of the implications of the work to the selected domain. Full literature searches are not expected, although relevant citations should be included.</span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">The reviewing of abstract will be </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">single-blind </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">-- that is, your submission should </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">*not* </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">be anonymized but reviewers will remain anonymous to you. As there is only one week after notification to the final camera- ready deadline, one cannot make larger changes until the camera-ready deadline. Final camera-ready </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">versions of accepted papers therefore must be accompanied by a signed copyright form which will be provided to accepted authors. </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">All submissions conflicting with one or more guidelines will be removed before the reviewing process as we could not assure an on-time publication.</span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Your abstract should be submitted by August 29, 2014 to the </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">Precision Conference System</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">. The submitted files must be in PDF format.</span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Reviewing</b></span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Posters abstracts will be reviewed by members of the ITS 2014 Poster Session Committee. Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference.</span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Presentation at the Conference</b></span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Upon acceptance you should prepare your poster in order to effectively communicate your research problem, techniques, and results. In particular you should highlight what is novel and important about your work. For each accepted poster, at least one author must register for the ITS 2014 conference. During a dedicated poster session, the author(s) will have the opportunity to present and discuss their poster with conference attendees.</span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">The posters themselves have no predefined formatting, but we recommend that the posters dimensions are in A0 or similar format (84cm x 119cm / 33 x 47). The posters must be in portrait orientation. Authors are expected to bring the accepted posters to the conference site with them and be present throughout the poster session.</span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>Final Submission</b></span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">Subsequently, ACM will send you a copyright form, which you have to complete. Once completed, we will provide you with the new copyright information to be put on your paper. You can then submit the final version (including the new copyright notice) through the </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);">submission system</span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">.</span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt; position: static; z-index: auto;"><span class="" style="font-size: 12pt;"><b>More Information</b></span></p><p class="" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 10pt;"><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt;">If you have questions about Posters for ITS 2014, contact the Poster Chairs: Petra Isenberg and Johannes Schöning at </span><span class="" style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 255);"><a href="mailto:posters@its2014.org">posters@its2014.org</a></span></p></font></span></div></div></div></div><br></body></html>