DemosACM ISS 2024

Call for Demos

Quick Links & Facts

• Formatting instructions: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow
• Precision Conference Submission: https://new.precisionconference.com/
• Submissions should not be anonymized

General Information

The ACM ISS 2024 demo session provides a great opportunity for authors to present their prototypes, products, and applications to conference attendees. We will provide a virtual demonstration area where you can showcase your best interactive experiences and commercial products during the ISS 2024 conference. Our goal is to provide a highly interactive forum for lively discussions and hands-on experiences around the most exciting interactive technologies and installations.

A demo will allow you to:

• Present your demo in person at the conference so that you can share the hands-on experience of using your device/system
• Show a recorded video demonstration to online attendees.
• Publish an extended abstract of the demo in the electronic conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library.

Topic Areas

ISS 2024 welcomes Poster Submissions about a range of topics relating to interactive surfaces and spaces, as well as novel interface technologies, that include (but not limited to):

• Large display interfaces and multi-display environments
• Gesture-based interfaces (i.e., hands, fingers, body)
• Multi-modal interfaces (i.e., eye-gaze, neural, physiological)
• Tangible user interfaces
• Novel interaction techniques and paradigms
• Interaction with mobile and body-worn devices
• Different materials and form factors (e.g., curved, sand, water, and so on)
• Interactive 3D spaces (i.e., Mixed Reality and Augmented Reality, mid-air displays, and so on)
• Large scale and outdoor interactive spaces (e.g., projected interfaces, drones, and so on)
• Interactive architecture
• Beyond traditional surfaces (i.e., shape-changing and actuated surfaces, body-related, and so on)
• Interactive information visualization/data presentation
• Software engineering methods and frameworks
• Social aspects and protocols related to interacting with surfaces and spaces
• Interactive surfaces and spaces that support group work or social interaction
• Hardware, including sensing and input technologies with novel capabilities, and results from maker communities
• Human-centered design and methodologies related to interactive surfaces and spaces
• Empirical evaluations of novel interactive surfaces and/or spaces designs- Evaluations of deployed interactive surfaces and/or spaces in specific domains (e.g., public spaces, education, science, business, entertainment, health, art, homes, and so on)

Preparing Your Demo Submission

The reviewing of extended abstracts will be single-blind, i.e., your submission should not be anonymized but reviewers will remain anonymous to you.

All demo submissions must include:

• An extended abstract with a maximum of 6 pages in the ACM Master Article Submission Template.
• A video showing the demo in appropriate detail. This will also be used for online conference attendees (maximum 5 minutes, and at most 100 MB in size).

Your extended abstract, poster design, and optional video should be submitted by August 15 to the Precision Conference System.

By submitting your extended abstract to an ACM Publication, you are acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your extended abstract, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

1. Extended Abstract

Your extended abstract should not be longer than 6 pages. It must include all figures and references and use the ACM Master Article Submission Templates. The extended abstract should include a concise description of your idea, a description of the relevance of your work to the ISS conference community and the broader ISS community, your results or findings, supporting imagery and figures, and a discussion of the implications of your work to the selected domain. Full literature reviews are not expected, although relevant citations should be included.

2. Video

A video must be submitted along with the written document, as it is the optimal medium to communicate your demonstration to the reviewers of how authors envision their demonstration to the live audience at the conference. The video must be no longer than 5 minutes and must be less than 100 MB in size. Please make sure that your video is playable on standard PC and Macintosh computers. We recommend that you encode your video as an MP4 using the H.264 codec. Submitted videos may be used on the ISS website during and after the virtual conference. Be sure to have permission for all content, and use rights-free music tracks.

Selection Process

Demo submissions will be reviewed by the ISS demos co-chairs for the suitability of ISS. Review comments will be lightweight and justify the outcome, and there will be no rebuttal phase. Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference. Abstracts of invited demos from the papers track will not be reviewed. We want to showcase interactive technologies from all over the world and create a highly exciting event. We thus encourage the resubmission of existing exciting demos.

Novelty

Resubmitting a demonstration shown at a previous venue is allowed. Authors are requested to mention that the work has been demonstrated at other venues in the PCS submission.

Upon Acceptance of Your Demonstration

As there is a short time between notifications and the camera-ready deadline, it is not possible to make large changes to your extended abstract. The camera-ready versions of accepted extended abstracts must be accompanied by a signed copyright form which will be provided to accepted authors by the ACM. Once the form is completed, we will provide you with the copyright information to be included in your paper. You can then submit the final version (including the new copyright notice) through the Precision Conference System by September 26.

For each accepted demo, at least one author must register for the ISS conference. Authors will also be required to upload a still image as well as a 30-second preview video that will both be used to advertise the demonstration before and during the conference.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted extended abstract. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper attribution, and contributing to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

Invited Demos from the Full Paper Track

Authors of (conditionally) accepted full papers are invited to participate in the ISS demo session to present the work described in their paper. To request a slot in the demo track, you should create a submission in PCS like the regular demo submission. However, you are not required to prepare a new extended abstract document. You can submit the (conditionally) accepted paper instead of the extended abstract and the video submitted with the paper.

Demos Co-Chairs

Seongkook Heo, University of Virginia, USA

Ken Pfeuffer, Aarhus University, Denmark

If you have questions about Demos for ISS 2024, contact the Demos Chair

demos2024@iss.acm.org