Hello HCOMP 2015 PC members,
We need your help!
Please distribute the HCOMP DC
call for participation (below) as far and wide as you can! Send to
the student d-list and the students you work with or think would
benefit! Send to people who can send it to those types of places!
Post it online! Get the word out!
Thanks!!!
--Laura & Brent (DC chairs)
Call For Participation
Human Computation 2015
Doctoral Consortium
San Diego, CA
November 8, 2015
***SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
August 21, 2015***
The Third AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP-2015) will be held November 8-11, 2015 at the Kona Kai Resort and Marina in San Diego, CA, USA. The HCOMP conference is cross-disciplinary, with submissions across a broad spectrum of crowdsourcing and human computation research.
The HCOMP 2015
Doctoral Consortium will provide doctoral
students researching crowdsourcing and human computation with a
unique professional development opportunity. Students will be
mentored by a group of faculty who
are leaders in the diverse specialties that make up the HCOMP
field.
The
objectives of the Doctoral Consortium are:
Doctoral Consortium Co-Chairs
Brent Hecht (University of Minnesota)
Laura Dabbish (Carnegie Mellon University)
Program committee members include:
Jeff Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University
Lilly Irani, University of California at San Diego
Matt Lease, University of Texas at Austin
Haoqi Zhang, Northwestern University
...
Date/Location
The Consortium will take place on November 8, 2015 in San Diego, CA, immediately before the main HCOMP 2015 conference.
Eligibility
Prospective: attendees should have written, or be close to completing, a thesis proposal (or equivalent). We will give preference to students who have proposed or are about to propose but are far enough from completing their thesis that the feedback they receive at the event can impact their work. Before submitting, students should discuss this criterion with their advisor or supervisor. Those accepted are required to attend the event in person.
Selection Criteria: Selection will be based upon the expected potential of both the student and their proposed work, as well as the expected benefit to the student from participation. Priority will be given to students whose research goes beyond locally available expertise at their home institutions.
Required Materials: Applicants must submit: 1) a solely-authored overview of their doctoral research, and 2) a supplementary paragraph describing their motivation for attending and proposal status.
Doctoral Research Overview: You should submit a paper that describes your doctoral research. Your paper submission will be distributed to mentors and other attendees of the doctoral consortium. Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium will NOT be archived. As such, students may freely submit their research contributions for official publication in other venues. Abstracts will be publicized on the conference website.
Sections of the submitted paper should include:
Format Requirements: Submitted papers must be written in English, formatted according to AAAI Format guidelines, and submitted as a single PDF file (embedding all required fonts). The paper should be no more than 3 pages in length including all figures and references, but not including the one page appendix. The first page must contain the title of the paper, full author name, affiliation and contact details, an abstract of up to 250 words, and up to 3 keywords describing the research topic areas.
Supplementary Paragraph (Paper appendix). The paper should also include an appendix (placed after the references) containing a short paragraph written by the student explaining 1) why she/he wants to participate in the consortium at this point in their doctoral studies and how she/he expects to benefit from the consortium, 2) the student’s proposal status (writing proposal or recently proposed), and 3) expected defense date (approximately).
Submission Guidelines: Papers must be submitted via the CMT online submission system (https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/HCOMP2015/) to the "Doctoral Consortium" track. It is the responsibility of the student to ensure that their submissions use no unusual formatting and are printable on a standard printer. Submissions will be reviewed by the members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee.
Schedule:
21 August 2015: Submissions due
15 September 2015: Acceptance notifications
8 November 2015: Doctoral Consortium