~~~ CARING TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH ANNOUNCEMENT LIST ~~~ A moderated list to announce research jobs, studentships, conferences and workshops in: telecare, telehealth; assistive technology; inclusive design, and the accessibility of ICT ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Send your announcements to: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ NOTE: Please reply to article's originator, not the News Service ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION at the ASSETS-2008 CONFERENCE Students working on computing and information technology to help persons with disabilities are invited to enter the second annual SIGACCESS Student Research Competition. This is an exciting opportunity for students to participate in an ACM conference and get visibility for their research. About the ASSETS Conference The ASSETS series of conferences is aimed at providing a technical forum for presenting and disseminating innovative research results that address the use of computing and information technologies to help persons with disabilities. Dates: October 13-15, 2008 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada www.acm.org/sigaccess/assets08/ Participating in the Student Research Competition Students wishing to participate submit two-page abstracts of their work, and up to 25 entrants will be selected for the competition. Students will receive partial support to attend the conference (up to $500) from the ACM. Qualifying research must deal with issues related to computing and information technology to help persons with disabilities. At the conference, entrants will display a poster and make a brief presentation to a panel of judges. A small number of semifinalists will be chosen by the judges to present their work in a conference session, and of those up to three undergraduate and three graduate students will be designated finalists by the judges, and entered in the Grand Finals of ACM's Student Research Competition. Eligibility Entrants must be undergraduate or graduate students, and members of ACM. Entrants must be sole authors of their abstracts and posters. Work accepted as a full paper for one of the technical sessions of the conference cannot also be considered for the Student Research Competition. Students having a technical paper, however, are encouraged to submit other research to the Student Research Competition. Please note that the judges will look more favorably on complete, or nearly complete, work than research which is still in its early formative stages. Ph.D. students near the beginning of their research are encouraged to submit to the Doctoral Consortium instead. Deadline and Submissions The deadline for the 2-page abstracts is Monday 23 June 2008 (Midnight HST). See the student research competition web page at http://www.sigaccess.org/assets08/submission/src.php for more information and the submission system, which is currently open. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To join the Caring Technology Research Announcement List, send the message: JOIN CARING-TEC-RESEARCH your_firstname your_lastname to [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Announcement archives: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/Caring-Tec-Research.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~