<div dir="ltr"><div><h2 style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;box-sizing:border-box;font-stretch:normal;line-height:45.36px;margin:0.75em 0px 0px;padding:0px">ACM ISS 2020 Tutorials Call for Participants!<br></h2><div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:transparent;white-space:pre-wrap"><font size="4">Important Dates</font></span><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Submissions: <b>August 7, 2020</b>, 5PM PDT<br>Notifications sent to Authors: August 21, 2020<br>Camera-Ready: September 9, 2020<br>Workshop day: November 8, 2020</font></div></div><div><br></div>ISS is a premier venue for presenting research in the design and use of new and emerging <b>surface and space technologies</b>. Tutorials provide a broad overview of particular topics in the area of Interactive Surfaces and Spaces from recognized experts in the field.<p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.35em 0px 0px;padding:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">We invite industry and academic leaders in interactive surfaces and spaces technologies interested in leading a tutorial session at ISS 2020 to submit a tutorial proposal following the guidelines below. Tutorials should focus on topics relevant to the ISS community and can include but are not limited to the following areas:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:1.5em"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Architectural concepts and emerging trends</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Immersive analytics and data physicalization</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Museum and art installation trends</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Interaction paradigms around large surfaces (tangibles, pen+touch, etc.)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">New and emerging body and space sensing technologies</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Overview of social protocols, presence, territoriality, and proxemics</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Evaluation methods for surface applications</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Multi-touch interaction with mobile devices</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Large scale and outdoor interactive spaces (projected interfaces, drones, ...)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Feel, taste, smell and splash user interfaces on surfaces</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">... and other exciting topics!</font></li></ul><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.35em 0px 0px;padding:0px"></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.35em 0px 0px;padding:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">In particular, we invite tutorial organizers to <b>think creatively about how tutorials can leverage the fact that ISS 2020 will be held as an online conference</b>. We encourage tutorials that explore new ways of engaging the ISS community that would not be possible in a traditional offline format. Topics include but are not limited to:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:1.5em"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Online tools and technologies</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Demonstrating hardware setups and installations, exploring the ins and outs of setting up interactive spaces in our labs</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Live coding and code demonstrations</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">The latest hardware and platforms (e.g. HoloLens 2, pen & touch, gaze trackers, LIDAR sensors, MaxMSP, P5.js)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Using online tools to scale tutorials (e.g. multiple camera angles for sketching)</font></li></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Tutorials can run from <b>90 minutes</b> to a full day (the length is up to the tutorial organizers).</font><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.35em 0px 0px;padding:0px"></p><h2 style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;box-sizing:border-box;font-weight:300;font-stretch:normal;line-height:45.36px;margin:0.75em 0px 0px;padding:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000" size="4">Submitting a Tutorial Proposal</font></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.35em 0px 0px;padding:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">We request a short proposal (up to 4 pages, excluding references) in the single-column <a href="https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">ACM Master Article Submission Template</a>. Accepted proposals will be part of the ISS conference proceedings and will be available in the ACM Digital Library.<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Please include the following information in your tutorial proposal submission:</font></p><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:1.5em"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Title of the tutorial</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Full contact information of all tutorial organizers and the main contact person (if there are multiple organizers)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Topics and objectives of the tutorial and how these are relevant to the ISS community</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Description of planned hands-on activities and topics covered during the tutorial</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b style="box-sizing:border-box;line-height:1em">New:</b> A description of how the organizers plan to handle the online aspects of the workshop</font></li><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:1.5em"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Given the situation with COVID-19, the ISS 2020 conference will be online.</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Please indicate how you aim to facilitate and support an engaging tutorial in an online format.</font></li></ul><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Short bio of the tutorial organizers</font></li><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Please include a single information page (in addition to the 4-page proposal) with the following information:</font><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:1.5em"><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">A maximum 100 words pitch advertising the aim and objectives to your tutorial</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Proposed tutorial length (90 min, half day or full day)</font></li><li style="margin-left:15px;box-sizing:border-box"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Maximum number of tutorial participants</font></li></ul><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br style="box-sizing:border-box">Please submit your tutorial proposal using the <a href="https://new.precisionconference.com/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">ISS Precision Conference</a> submission system by the deadline on <b>August 7, 2020</b>.</font></ul><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:1.5em"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000"><ul style="box-sizing:border-box;margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-left:1.5em"><br></ul>Tutorials Co-Chairs</font><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.35em 0px 0px;padding:0px"><font face="arial, sans-serif" color="#000000">Jo Vermeulen, Aarhus University<br style="box-sizing:border-box">Simon Völker, RWTH Aachen<br style="box-sizing:border-box"><a href="mailto:tutorials2020@iss.acm.org" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:border-box;background:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">tutorials2020@iss.acm.org</a></font></p></ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>Best,<br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;outline:0px;background-image:initial;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