Presenting demos at IDC 08

A table, power outlet and wireless internet access will be made available at the poster and demo area for each demo. Presenters should bring their own laptop and any additional equipment needed.

It will be the responsibility of each presenter to set up the demo in time. Please look at the schedule and set up your demo at least half an hour before your session. However, we encourage you not to leave any equipment unattended as we cannot be responsible.

You should plan to stand near your demo table during your assigned demo session. In the past, the inclusion of a packet of the author's business cards or an hand-out of the demo with a short paper to elaborate on demo content has proved an effective way to encourage communication with interested people.

You must take down demo at the conclusion of the poster & demo session on your assigned day.

Submitting demos

Deadline: March 3, 2008
Demo Chair: Shuli Gilutz (Columbia University)

Demos may fall into any of the areas identified in the call for papers. Examples are demonstrations of interactive systems for children, tools for studying children's interaction with interactive systems, and videos of particularly relevant interactions that children have had with interactive systems. Presenters are encouraged to demonstrate work in progress, late-breaking research results or innovative development related to interaction design for children, and to move outside of the traditional media of the paper or poster. We invite presentation of ongoing work and preliminary results, by experienced academics, as well as young researchers and designers.

Demos must be of original work that has not been previously demonstrated, and that is clearly relevant to the conference topic. The demo submission paper will be published in the conference proceedings, and should stand as a description of the system, as well as of the importance, novelty and relevance of the current work to the conference topic, and to previous work.

In addition, in the demo category we ask for a one-page free-form description (submitted as a third page, at the end of the two-page submission) of how the demo will be run and how participants can interact with it. This will not be published, but will allow us to understand what conference attendees will see. You must include any unusual conditions needed (bright lights, secluded booth, etc.) for display of the demonstration.

Submissions must be complete and formatted according to our extended abstract template. Demo submissions may be up to 2 pages long plus an additional page of description of demo conditions. Your demo must be submitted as a PDF no later than 3 March 2008 (6:00pm PST) at the IDC 2008 submission web site. Submissions arriving after the deadline or with improper formatting or anonymization will not be considered.