IDC '08 Information for poster presenters

Your poster will be displayed on a stand that is 121cm x 183cm (4' x 6') including the legs and the frame. The surface to attach your poster will be a cork board of 114cm x 175cm (45" x 69"). You may format your poster as either portrait or landscape, however the poster should be a minimum of 84cm x 114cm (33" x 45"), and a maximum of 114cm x 175cm (45" x 69"). For additional suggestions on formatting your poster, see these useful tips from the ACM.

Please note that power outlets will not be available at the poster stations, nor will audiovisual or computing equipment be available.

It will be the responsibility of each presenter to hang your poster in time. Please look at the schedule and hang your posters during lunch, and at the latest by 2:00pm on the day of your assigned poster session. All posters should be hung with push pins, which we will provide.

You should plan to stand near your poster during your assigned poster session. In the past, the inclusion of a packet of the author's business cards or an envelope of fliers attached to the poster with a short paper to elaborate on poster content has proved an effective way to communicate with interested people when you are not at your poster.

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

Submitting posters

Deadline: March 3, 2008 (the deadline has passed)
Poster Chairs: Brooke Foucault (Northwestern University) & Francisco Iacobelli (Northwestern University)

Posters may address any of the areas identified in the conference topics. Authors are encouraged to demonstrate work in progress and late-breaking research results that show the latest innovative ideas. We invite presentation of ongoing work and preliminary results, by experienced academics as well as young researchers and designers.

Posters will be displayed during a well-publicized poster session, during the conference reception. Each poster author will also give a short presentation. The poster submission will be published in an extended abstract format in the IDC2008 conference proceedings.

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

The IDC 2008 review process will again use blind reviewing. Submissions 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, as indicated in the template, as well as to remove self-references that reveal authors' identities. For example "we have previously shown (Smith 2000)" should be changed to "Smith (2000) has previously shown."

Submissions must be complete and formatted according to our extended abstract template. Poster submissions may be up to 4 pages. Submission should be made electronically in PDF format.

Your poster 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.