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                       Academic Mindtrek 2016

         Call for Papers, Posters, Demonstrations and Workshops
                       17th to 19th October 2016
                          Tampere, Finland

                   http://www.academicmindtrek.org/

        Full papers, posters, demonstrations and workshops due on:
                    —— DEADLINE 27th June, 2016 ——

            In cooperation with ACM, ACM SIGMM, and ACM SIGCHI.
       Contributions will be published in the ACM digital library.

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CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS, DEMOS & WORKSHOPS
We are pleased to invite you to the 20th International Academic Mindtrek 
conference, 17th to 19th October 2016. Academic Mindtrek is a meeting 
place where researchers, experts and thinkers present results from their 
latest work regarding the development of novel technology, media and 
digital culture for the society of tomorrow.

Academic Mindtrek is part of the renowned Mindtrek business conference. 
Mindtrek brings together people not only from various fields and domains 
but also from different sectors such as companies, academia and various 
other institutions. This is the perfect opportunity for pushing research 
results in the practice and industry, as well as getting out-the-box 
research ideas based on the interaction with industry and practitioners. 
Mindtrek events are accessible for the Academic Mindtrek attendees, and 
vice versa.

The academic conference features the following major themes:

- Human-Computer Interaction (HCI)
- Interaction design and user experience
- Games and gamification
- Virtual, augmented and mixed reality
- Media education
- Collaboration and multimedia technologies in education
- Crowdsourcing and citizen participation
- Open data and data science
- New forms of journalism and media
- Theater, performance and media
- Work in socio-technological environments

We are especially enthusiastic about applied research and papers related 
to practical work.

CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
Academic Mindtrek is organized in cooperation with ACM SIGMM, and ACM 
SIGCHI. The conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital 
Library, which includes full papers, posters, workshop proposals and 
demonstration proposals. All papers should follow the style guidelines 
of the conference. In the Finnish classification of publication forums, 
Academic Mindtrek proceedings are classified as Jufo 1.

There will also be rewards for the best papers from the academic conference.

FULL PAPER PROPOSALS
All submissions will be peer-reviewed double blinded, therefore please 
remove any information that could give an indication of the authorship. 
The papers should contain 6-10 pages, including the list of references.

WORKSHOP PROPOSALS
We welcome you to suggest workshops as part of the Academic Mindtrek. 
Workshop proposals should include the organizing committee, a 
description of the theme and goals of the workshop, a short CV of 
organizers, duration, and the schedule. Workshop proposals should be 
between 2-4 pages long. Workshop organizers can create their own 
proceedings of the accepted position papers.

Depending on the attracted number of papers for each workshop, we 
provide space for either half-day or full-day workshops. Previous 
examples include e.g. a workshop on eLearning.

DEMONSTRATION PROPOSALS
Interactive experience demonstrator proposals should be either short 
papers (2-4 pages long) or full papers (6-10 pages) and include: a) a 
description and motivation of the interactive experience demonstrator; 
b) general architecture of the interactive experience demonstrator; c) 
description of the main features of the demonstrator; d) a brief 
comparison with other existing related interactive experience 
demonstrators; e) audio-visual materials to illustrate the interactive 
experience demonstrator (a poster or a roll-up and other material on a 
laptop, for example); f) the type of license (if applicable), g) the 
Internet address of the interactive experience demonstrator (if 
applicable), and h) description of the scientific basis behind the 
interactive experience demonstrator (e.g., a regular paper 
presentation). It is strongly recommended that the authors make a video 
of the interactive experience demonstrator available on the Internet to 
accompany the article submission.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Posters proposals should be between 2-4 pages long and a poster should 
be presented during the conference. Attendees have the possibility to 
exhibit their posters on a A0 poster wall during the conference.

SUBMISSION DEADLINES

June 27th, 2016: Deadline for full papers, posters, demonstrations and 
workshops submissions.

August 19th, 2016: Notification of acceptance/rejection.

August 26th, 2016: Conference registration & copyright forms submission.

September 2nd 2016: Camera-ready papers submission.

October 17th to 19th, 2016: Academic Mindtrek Conference 2016

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Academic Mindtrek Conference Chair
Markku Turunen, University of Tampere

Program Chair
Janne Paavilainen, University of Tampere

Proceedings
Silvia Rubio Hernandez, University of Tampere

Local Arrangement Chair and Conference Management
Olli Purma, COSS Association

Mindtrek Conference Chair
Timo Väliharju, COSS Association

LOCAL ORGANIZERS
Pauliina Tuomi, University of Turku
Ossi Nykänen, Tampere University of Technology
Riku Roihankorpi, University of Tampere
Heli Väätäjä, Tampere University of Technology
Pekka Kallioniemi, SIGCHI Finland and University of Tampere
Thomas Olsson, SIGCHI Finland and Tampere University of Technology
Anssi Männistö, University of Tampere
Sirkku Kotilainen, University of Tampere
Mikko Kanninen, University of Tampere
Marleena Huuhka, University of Tampere

Technical Program Committee: To be announced later

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Please use the templates provided on the style guidelines site. A 
template for .doc can be downloaded from 
https://www.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/article-templates/pubform.docx 
and the LaTeX guidelines can be found in 
http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates .

Note that since the papers will be published by the ACM digital library 
all authors need to sign an ACM copyright form. For further guidelines 
please go to the ACM copyright form website 
(http://www.acm.org/publications/copyright_form). The copyright form 
would be sent through an automated system only for accepted papers.

You can start sending in your papers from April 15th onwards.

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SUPPORTED BY
COSS Association, City of Tampere, Tampere University of Technology 
(TUT), Tampere University (UTA), Tampere University of Applied Sciences 
(TAMK) and SIGCHI Finland.