In the spirit of this year’s conference theme of “Connecting…”, this year’s challenge is to design an object, interface, system, or service intended to help us appreciate our differences. Differences come in many forms, including culture, community, age, politics, education, and abilities and disabilities. CHI promotes issues of diversity and under-represented groups. We want you to find new solutions, new groups of people and new issues that could benefit from the application of good design and good technology.
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Student Team Requirements
Teams must consist of at least two, but no more than five, students. There is no limit to the number of teams that may compete from any given University.
Submissions are invited from all students at all stages of their university careers, from undergraduate to postgraduate. While not a mandatory requirement, it is strongly encouraged that the teams put forward a multidisciplinary, multi-national team.
Reviewing Criteria
Each team’s short paper submission will be reviewed by both academic and professional usability experts.
Round one, the written submission, will be reviewed based on:
- Use of ethnography and contextual research
- Analysis of/approach to the proposed challenge
- Appropriateness/relevance of the solution to the posed challenge
- Originality of the solution
- Quality of the design process
- Quality of the argument for the proposed solution
- Cost efficiency of solution
- Clarity of writing
Round two, the poster submission, will be judged based on:
- Clear communication of key aspects of solution
- Clear communication of design method
- Clear communication of rationale for proposed solution
- Visual design and aesthetic appearance
Round three, the presentation, will be judged based on:
- Clarity and organization of the oral presentation
- Relevance and clarity of presentation material (slides, video, etc)
- Quality of argument used to justify why the solution is worthy of consideration
Submission Deadline: 14 January 2011
Website: http://chi2011.org/authors/index.html