--------------------------------------- ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) 2016 Niagara Falls, Canada November 6-9, 2016 http://iss2016.acm.org/ ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ACM ISS 2016), formerly known as the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (ITS), welcomes original, high-quality research and industry contributions that advance the state-of-the-art in the area of interactive surfaces and spaces (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. Call for Workshops: --------------- Workshops organizers for ISS 2016 will select a topic of interest about new and emerging interactive surfaces and spaces technologies. The organizers manage submissions and reviews for workshops. The deadline for workshop proposal submissions is June 10, 2016 and the notifications will be sent on June 15, 2016. Workshop organizers are welcome to submit any topic of interest, some suggestions include: * Multi-touch on mobile devices * Large (wall-sized) surfaces * Surfaces in public spaces, workplaces, homes * Surfaces in domain specific environments (e.g. safety critical, education, games) * Information or Scientific Visualization on Interactive Surfaces * and other exciting topics! The workshop chairs are looking for leaders in interactive surfaces and spaces topics to run workshops between 4 and 8 hours in length and occur the day before the conference starts (i.e., November 06, 2016). Workshop organizers of full-day workshops will receive two complimentary workshop registrations; organizers of half-day workshops will receive one complimentary workshop registration. Workshops can be open (free to anyone who registered for it) or closed (attendees need to submit position papers). We request a short proposal (up to 4 pages) in the SIGCHI Extended Abstracts publication format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-word-template/view). Accepted proposals will be part of the ISS main proceedings available in the ACM Digital Library. Please be sure to indicate the following: * Topic of workshop * Full contact information of all organizers of the workshop and the main contacting person * Relevance to Interactive Surface and Spaces community * Topics covered in the workshop and planned activities * Nature of the workshop - specify details as appropriate * Program Committee members for the workshop * Please add one additional page (for a total of 5 pages maximum) with the following information: - A maximum 200 words Call-for-Papers to your workshop - Link to workshop website - Room requirements: tables, chairs, projector configuration, whiteboards, etc. - Requested length (4h, 8h) - Open or closed workshop This year we are planning to publish a companion proceedings for the accepted papers in workshops. This companion proceedings will be published by ACM Digital Library (non-archival form) and will be searchable in the ACM Digital Library. The accepted workshops’ organizers will tell the workshop chairs whether they would like their workshops’ accepted papers to be part of the companion proceedings. In the case, if the workshop’s organizers decide to go for the companion proceedings, they have to work according to these guidelines: * Manage a PC and reviewing system for the submitted paper * It is up to organizers to decide which submission system (e.g., easychair) they like to use for the submissions * Our recommendation date for workshop paper submission is September 30 (However, organizers can make an earlier deadline as per their convenience) and notification date is October 07 (hard deadline!). We will provide workshop organizers a special code for early bid registration that they will give in the accepted notification to authors. * The workshop organizers will provide the meta-data of all the accepted papers to workshop chairs on October 07 (hard deadline!). * The page limit for workshop papers is up to 7 pages including references using the SIGCHI Extended Abstracts publication format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-word-template/view). * The final camera ready deadline for workshop papers is not set yet, but will be notified to the accepted workshops’ organizers as we receive the confirmation from the ACM. Please submit the workshop proposal using the ISS Precision Conference ((http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi) until the deadline on June 10, 2016. Call for Tutorials: --------------- The tutorial chairs are looking for industry or academic leaders in interactive surfaces and spaces technologies to run morning tutorials (60 or 90 minutes in length) and to participate in an afternoon panel providing feedback on studio submissions on the day before the conference starts (November 6, 2016). Organizers of tutorials will receive one complimentary conference registration. The deadline for tutorial proposal submissions is June 10, 2016 and the notifications will be sent on June 15, 2016. Please feel free to submit a tutorial proposal about any topic of interest to the ISS community. Tutorials could for example be on topics like: * Architectural concepts and emerging trends * Museum and art installation trends * Interaction paradigms around large surfaces (tangibles, pens+touch, etc.) * New and emerging body and space sensing technologies * Overview of social protocols, presence, territoriality, and proxemics * Evaluation methods for surface applications * Multi-touch interaction with mobile devices * Natural User Interfaces (NUI) on surfaces * ... and other exciting topics! We request a short proposal (up to 4 pages) in the 2014 SIGCHI Extended Abstracts publication format (http://www.sigchi.org/publications/chipubform/sigchi-extended-abstracts-word-template/view). (Note that this format utilizes the "Lastname, F.M." author-name reference style, not the more recent "Firstname M. Lastname" convention.) Accepted proposals will be part of the ISS main proceedings and will be searchable in the ACM Digital Library. Please indicate the following in your tutorial proposal submission: * Topic of tutorial of relevance to Interactive Surfaces and Spaces community * Description of planned hands-on activities and topics covered * Short bio of speaker(s) Please add one additional page (for a total of 5 pages maximum) with the following information: * Cost of material and hardware (per participant, with list of individual items) * Physical requirements: space, equipment, video/audio, specialized tools, etc. * Requested length (60 minutes or 90 minutes) Please submit the tutorial proposal using the ISS Precision Conference (http://precisionconference.com/~sigchi) until the deadline on June 10, 2016. Important Dates: --------------- June 10, 2016 5:00 p.m. PDT: Deadline for proposal submissions June 15, 2016: Notifications September 9, 2016: Final camera-ready submissions November 6, 2016: Workshops and Tutorials Day Workshops and Tutorials Co-Chairs: --------------- * Edward Tse, SMART Technologies * Shah Rukh Humayoun, University of Kaiserslautern Contact: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------