Upcoming Event: PAPERTHON 2020. Please register.

[Debjyoti Ghosh]

PAPERTHON is back after a short hiatus! The Singapore-HCI community is happy to announce the third iteration of the event between 6-8th July, 2020.

Register here to participate: tinyurl.com/paperthon2020

(Registration is absolutely free).

EVENT SCHEDULE

Program Briefing*: 6th July (Monday) at 5 PM

Plenary*: 7th July (Tuesday) between 5 - 5:30 PM

Submission Deadline: 8th July (Wednesday) at 9 PM

*Both the program briefing and the plenary would be held over Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent to registered participants, closer to the start date. First 15 minutes of the plenary, all participants are encouraged to join in and discuss any relevant issues with the mentors. In the following 15 minutes, the participating groups can book a short one-on-one discussion with a mentor for a more in-depth discussion, if needed.

Panel of Mentors/Judges: Shengdong Zhao (NUS), Alex Mitchell (NUS), Pin Sym Foong (NUS), Tamas Makany (SMU), Kotaro Hara (SMU), and Simon Perrault (SUTD).

FAQ

What is Paperthon about?

Just a bit of background to the uninitiated. Paperthon is a paper-writing competition and shares much of its philosophy with design sprints and hackathons, just that the process is directed towards producing a short paper as an outcome. So, participants quickly ideate (ideally their next CHI/UIST, etc. projects), try to prototype and conduct short pilots with 2 or 3 participants, and finally write the process in the form of a short (4-6 pages) manuscript, within a span of ~50 hours. Participants are encouraged to work in teams of 2 or 3 if they happen to share a common idea and can strike up a collaboration, else they may opt to work individually.

Who should participate?

If you are looking to kickstart your paper writing process for CHI 2021, then Paperthon is the perfect platform to get you started. Use this opportunity to get feedback from mentors and shape your paper’s direction. You are strongly encouraged to combine this opportunity with the CHI 2021 Pitching Session — incorporate the feedback you receive from the pitching session, concretize your idea, form collaborations, and get started with writing your idea (and preliminary results) down in the form of a CHI paper. As the experts say, writing is a process of thinking and it should be a process that you start from the beginning of a project.

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere" -- Albert Einstein

Kind Regards,

Debjyoti Ghosh,

Ph.D. Research Scholar, National University of Singapore :: School of Computing :: Singapore :: Connect to +65 8694 4032 (M / WA) :: Mail @ debjy...@gmail.com <debj...@u.nus.edu>

[Debjyoti Ghosh]

Just a reminder that the Paperthon will start next week on Monday (6th July). Those who want to participate, please sign up soon and I'll send out the zoom links on Saturday.

Kind Regards,

Debjyoti Ghosh,

Ph.D. Research Scholar, National University of Singapore :: School of Computing :: Singapore :: Connect to +65 8694 4032 (M / WA) :: Mail @ debjy...@gmail.com <debj...@u.nus.edu>