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DESIGNING INTERACTIVE SYSTEMS - DIS2004
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1-4 August 2004
http://www.sigchi.org/DIS2004/
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Online version of the Call For Entries:
http://www.sigchi.org/DIS2004/
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CALL FOR ENTRIES - DIS2004 INTERACTIVE DESIGN AWARD
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Have you designed an interactive system recently
That is ground-breaking, fun, unexpected? We are now
accepting entries into the DIS2004 Interactive Design
Award. The Design Award will recognize the most
innovative, intriguing, provocative, and delightful
designs of interactive systems completed in the last two
years.
DIS2004 is keen to further encourage interchange
between artists and designers engaged with exploring
the boundaries of interactive technologies through
the addition for the first time of an Interactive Design
Award. In the tradition of the design arts, where the
communities of designers use the winners to sense where
design trends are going, the DIS2004 Interactive Design
Award will provide a similar trend-setting event for
interactive system designers. Who is the interactive
design avant-garde? What emergent interaction
sensibilities will influence mainstream interaction
design and research, and inspire our material and visual
culture to come?
- Design Categories
We particularly encourage entries relating to
Interactive performance and installation based work and
site-specific interactive work, web and screen based
work; interactive sound installations and performances;
physical computing projects; work that explores new forms
of interaction; and work that blurs boundaries between
traditional design disciplines.
- Eligibility
Interactive designs created within the past two years
(after January 1, 2002) will be eligible. The works
do not have to have been fully implemented, but should
Have a complete design and some form of interactive
presentation of key features.
- Submission format
Designs must be submitted via four (4) copies of
physical media -- DVD (preferred), CD ROM, or NTSC/PAL
Videotape -- and must be accompanied by a fully completed
submission form, available at:
http://www.sigchi.org/DIS2004/designaward.pdf
The submission must include a 30 words overview
and a description that states clearly what the aims and
objectives of the designs were, the issues addressed
and why these were significant and timely. In addition,
entrants should provide a technical overview of the
requirements for viewing the material (including OS,
applications, plug-ins, bandwidth, etc). Digital format
must be suitable for either MacOS or Windows.
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Important Dates
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April 30, 2004
Submissions Due (Submissions must arrive latest
by 5 pm EST)
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June 30, 2004
Notification of Winners
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July 15, 2004
Exhibition Requirements of Winners Due
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August 1-4, 2004 Award Ceremony and Exhibitions
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Awards
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A panel of distinguished judges will choose winners
in three categories: professional, conceptual, student;
a fourth category - "best in class" - will be judged
during the conference by the conference attendees.
The jury process will be in two parts to allow as many
participants as possible. The first part will be similar
to the ACM paper reviews - where a number of reviewers
simply judge the submission to be finalist. Then a
selected group of judges rank and select the winners.
The criteria for the winners will include conceptual
refinement, aesthetic qualities, interaction elegance,
technical innovation and utility.
- Announcement of Winners
The winners of the contest will be asked to have
an exhibit in the DIS2004 Exhibits. The exhibit can
be a presentation, demo, or the actual designed systems,
and is intended to provide viewers a chance to experience
the winning qualities of the design. A presentation
awards ceremony of the winners will be held at the first
evening reception. The winners of the "best in show"
category will be announced the morning of Wednesday,
August 4, 2004, the final day of the conference.
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Contacts:
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