Presenting papers at IDC08

Each paper presenter will have 20 minutes during which to present + 8 minutes for questions. Speakers will receive 3 time warnings from the session chair (5 minutes, 2 minutes, STOP NOW), and will be cut off at exactly 20 minutes, because of the tight schedule of our sessions. Session chairs and A/V assistance will be available 20 minutes before the start of each session in the session room (McCormick Tribune Forum). Please test your laptop during that time.

An LCD projector and speakers will be present in the main conference hall so that presenters may plug in a laptop in order to show powerpoint (with sound, if desired). No other A/V equipment will be available, unless you make special arrangements with us at least 2 weeks beforehand.. For special A/V requests (slide projector, document camera, VCR, DVD player, etc.) we will do our best, but cannot promise to provide it. For that reason, we recommend that you give us a lot of advance notice if you need additional equipment.

There will be a speaker presentation room in the McCormick Tribune Building in which the conference will take place, and in which you can practice your talk, test your equipment and so forth.

Submitting full papers to IDC08

Deadline: January 21, 2008
Paper Chairs: Mike Eisenberg (University of Colorado) & Yasmin Kafai (UCLA)

Full papers must report original work that has not been previously published. The contribution should be made clear in the paper and in its abstract. Papers making one clear, significant contribution are more likely to be accepted than papers making several lesser contributions. The paper must identify and cite published work relevant to the paper topic. It should explain how the presented work has built on previous contributions, and should indicate where and why novel approaches have been adopted.

Papers should stress their contribution to concepts and theories in the field of interaction design and children. Papers addressing novel techniques and technologies should clearly identify the relevance and importance to IDC.

The IDC 2008 review process will continue with blind reviewing. Papers should be anonymized so that the identity of the authors is not immediately obvious. Thus, authors are expected to remove author and institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper. Further suppression of identity in the body of the paper is left to the authors' discretion.

Submissions must be complete. Papers may be up to 8 pages formatted according to our paper template. If English is not your first language, we encourage you to have a fluent English speaker check your work. Your complete paper must be submitted as a PDF no later than 21 January 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.

For more information contact: info@idc08.org