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.

Call for Participation

The IDC 2008 conference will continue to present significant contributions to research, development, and practice in the field of interaction design for children. The goals of the 2008 conference are to better understand children's needs, and how to design for them, with a specific focus on creativity and innovation. We invite researchers to step outside the domains of learning and play, and to consider designing for civic involvement, for democracy, and for physical and emotional well-being, among other topics. The theme for IDC 2008 is "Think outside the toybox".

This year we welcome submissions in the form of full papers, posters, demos, position papers for pre-conference workshops, and doctoral consortium papers. We also welcome position papers for the pre-conference workshop on designing for children with special needs. All submissions must be original and unpublished work.

All accepted papers will be presented at the IDC 2008 conference and all will appear in both the IDC 2008 Proceedings and in the ACM digital library.

Topics and Areas of Discussion:

Submissions are invited on all topics from the domain of interaction design for children, including, but not limited to:

• Emerging or new technologies and their impact on children's health, education or play
• Methods and techniques for establishing children's requirements for interactive systems
• Guidelines for the design of interactive systems for children, with a specific focus this year on children as a diverse group (children with special needs, children from developing nations, very young children, race, gender, and ethnicity concerns)
• Reports on the development of creative interactive systems for children (motivation, design, outcome, evaluation)
• Usability, enjoyability, accessibility, ethics, and safety issues, with particular reference to children
• Innovative evaluation methods for use with children
• Evaluations of interactive systems and technologies for children
• Novel theoretical models of interaction with special relevance to children
• Results of ethnographic and case studies in children's use of interactive systems
• Stimulating in-depth analyses of issues related to interaction design and children
• Effects of interactive technologies in children's lives (e.g. game violence and aggression, obesity, learning...)
• Design and evaluation of interactive systems for children with special needs
• Design for civic involvement, for democracy, and for physical and emotional well-being of children.

All accepted papers will be presented at the IDC 2008 conference and all will appear in both the IDC 2008 Proceedings and in the ACM digital library. All submissions must be original and unpublished work.

Submissions must be formatted according to one of the anonymous templates (either the extended abstract or full paper template, according to the submission type), and then must be submitted in PDF format at the IDC 2008 submission web site, according to the time-table for submissions below. Submissions that arrive after the deadline, or that are not anonymized or formatted properly, will not be considered.

Important Dates