Author: Pranjal Protm Borah

A warm hello to you from the IndiaHCI2020 organizing committee. We hope that you and you loved ones are safe and healthy in these uncertain times pf COVID 19.

We are writing to you in my capacity as the sponsorship chair of India HCI 2020. We are a community driven group of people passionate about HCI and UX, and for the last 12 years we have been organizing India HCI, a meeting group of some of the best minds in industry and academia cross the world. This conference is an opportunity for you to showcase your brand and offerings to a global community of researchers, designers, academicians and practitioners. Over the years, our sponsors have used this platform to showcase products, recruit talent and make connections in the HCI and UX community.

There are various ways you can avail sponsorship. We have programs that are customized for specific needs of corporates as well as academic institutes.

If you are interested to learn more, please reach out to sponsorshipchairindiahci@gmail.com

Warm regards

Prachi Sakhardande & Rucha Tulaskar

Sponsorship co-chairs

IndiaHCI 2020 Ticket Details

Full Conference Ticket

• Attend all sessions on all conference days
• Does not include workshops & courses fee
• The following ticket timelines are in Indian Standard Time

		Professional	HCIPAI Member	Students
SuperEarly	Open till 27th Sept 2020	₹2000 Closed	₹1000 Closed	₹1000 Closed
Early	28th Sept 2020 – 24th Oct 2020	₹2500 Closed	₹1500 Closed	₹1500 Closed
Late	25th Oct 2020 – 6th Nov 2020 (till 08:00 PM IST only)	₹3500	₹1800	₹1800

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One-day Conference Ticket

• Attend all sessions on the first day of the conference only
• Does not include workshops & courses fee
• The following ticket timelines are in Indian Standard Time

		All categories
Early	28th Sept 2020 – 24th Oct 2020	₹2000 Closed
Late	25th Oct 2020 – 27th Oct 2020	₹3000 Closed

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Workshops & Courses

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		Professional		Students
Courses		₹1500 Closed		₹1000 Closed
Workshops		₹1000 Closed		₹1000 Closed

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Format 

Submissions must be in the conference format, except they should have page numbers so the reviewers can more easily refer to portions. 

• Microsoft Word Template for Papers
• Microsoft Word Template for Extended Abstracts

Submission

Submissions must be in PDF format through IndiaHCI electronic submission system supported by EasyChair.

Copyright 

The authors must be prepared to sign an ACM copyright transfer form before the submission is published. The author retains several rights, including the right to post versions on their homepage and employer website. See the ACM copyright policy (some link) and copyright form for details.

Out of India is a curated track at IndiaHCI 2020. Through this track, we aim to showcase some of the best HCI research done in India, which has been presented at premier international venues from September 2019 through October 2020. Over the years, IndiaHCI has been attracting a diverse set of attendees, including students, researchers, industry professionals, and start-ups. The 11th edition of IndiaHCI (IndiaHCI 2020) will be organized as a virtual conference. We are expecting an increase in the number of participants. This presents the authors from India an excellent opportunity to share their published work to a vast audience from India and abroad, socialize with the local HCI community and trigger new collaborations.

We look forward to your virtual participation and presentation at IndiaHCI 2020.

Selection

The authors do not need to submit their paper for the review process. Authors will be invited based on their prior record of publication that fulfills the criteria of this track. However, we do welcome suggestions. We request authors to write to us if they believe their prior publication will be a good addition to this track.

Presenting an Out of India Submission at IndiaHCI

• At least one author of the paper needs to register for the conference by the first week of October.
• Each presenting author is required to submit a recording of their presentation by 25th October. Since these papers are already published, the presenters can send us the links to their earlier presentations or submit a recorded presentation of 6 minutes.
• During the conference, the presenting author needs to join the Zoom session to present the paper, interact with the audience, and answer questions.
• Each paper will get 6 minutes for presentation followed by 1 minute for QnA.

List of papers

[1] Utilizing Participant Voice in Volunteer Training, CHI 2020

[2] GAZED– Gaze-guided Cinematic Editing of Wide-Angle Monocular Video Recordings, CHI 2020

[3] Menstrual (Im)Mobilities and Safe Spaces, CHI 2020

[4] It’s a girls thing’: examining challenges and opportunities around menstrual health education in India, TOCHI 2019

[5] “Like Shock Absorbers”: Understanding the Human Infrastructures of Technology-Mediated Mental Health Support, CHI 2020

[6] Sociocultural Dimensions of Tracking Health and Taking Care, CSCW 2020

[7] Making Chat at Home in the Hospital: Exploring Chat Use by Nurses, CHI 2020

[8] Diversifying Future-Making Through Itinerative Design, TOCHI 2019

[9] Eye Gaze Controlled Robotic Arm for Persons with Severe Speech and Motor Impairment, ETRA 2020

[10] FarmChat: A Conversational Agent to Answer Farmer Queries, UbiComp 2018

[11] Beyond Control: Enabling Smart Thermostats for Leakage Detection, UbiComp 2019

[12] FarSight: A Smartphone-based Vehicle Ranging System, UbiComp 2018

[13] Pedestrians and Visual Signs of Intent: Towards Expressive Autonomous Passenger Shuttles, UbiComp 2019

[14] MenstruLoss: Sensor For Menstrual Blood Loss Monitoring, UbiComp 2019

[15] Gesture-Based Auto-Completion of Handwritten Text, Mobile HCI 2019

[16] Photo-realistic emoticon generation using multi-modal input, IUI 2020

[17] Generating need-adapted multimodal fragments, IUI 2020

[18] Gathering garbage or going green?: shifting social perspectives to empower individuals with special needs, IDC 2020

[19] Gestatten: Estimation of User’s Attention in Mobile MOOCs From Eye Gaze and Gaze Gesture Tracking, EICS 2020

[20] ALT: Towards Automating Driver License Testing using Smartphones, SenSys 2019

[21] GesturePod: Enabling On-device Gesture-based Interaction for White Cane Users, UIST 2019

[22] Please Call the Specialism: Using WeChat to Support Patient Care in China, CHI 2020

Industry Showcase

We are eager to know if Emerging technologies be it AI, ML, AR, VR, or EDGE computing, how the UX teams are moulding their processes, changing their ways of working. This is an invite to all UX professionals and User researchers to share and present. Read more about Industry Showcase.

Panel Discussion

We want to democratize the process of choosing the topics for ‘Panel Discussions’ this year. The expert panel discussions are anchored by an experienced UX professional. Read more about Panel Discussion.

Welcome to the Student Design Consortium (SDC)!

This challenge provides students with a great opportunity to participate and showcase their problem solving and design skills in a national competition. It is a podium for interactions between IndiaHCI attendees, future professionals in HCI, and also the experienced HCI and Design professionals.

Over the years, this challenge has garnered a lot of interest and excitement among students from a variety of backgrounds. We are excited to be chairing the Student Design Consortium for this year, and we invite a large number of quality submissions.

The tracks for SDC 2020, in line with the broad theme of IndiaHCI 2020 “Emerging Trends in Technology Design” focus on societal challenges including:

• Well-being
• Social Isolation
• Social Distancing

Scope

We encourage students to engage were appropriate, with participatory design or co-creation approaches to evaluate current research or engage with upcoming developments in technology in modeling the relationship between machine intelligence and human agency, such 3D printing, digital fabrication, citizen sensing, the maker movement, AR, VR, MR, AI, machine learning, IoT, new sensors, and actuators, to name a few. We also encourage students to think beyond the existing solution and try to imagine innovative solutions to the problems proposed in our tracks.

Evaluation

For this year’s design challenge, the following are the evaluation criteria:

• Does the design intervention address a real need?
• Does the design intervention align with the design brief/theme?
• Does the intervention use technology in an appropriate and novel way?
• Were analysis, synthesis, design, and evaluation both systematic and sufficient?
• Was the intervention developed far enough to demonstrate the key ideas?
• Did the team explore the entire ecosystem of stakeholders, conditions, and contexts?
• Was the intervention well-crafted and effectively presented?

We look forward to seeing your submissions.

Submission Format 

The submission must have the following FOUR components:

Extended Abstract: Teams will submit an anonymized paper (6 pages maximum) written in the Conference Extended Abstract Format, summarizing their design solution and its evolution. Submissions not meeting the page limit or formatting requirements will be automatically disqualified. This document should be submitted as a single PDF and the file must be no larger than 10 MB in size. The paper should clearly describe the novelty and distinguishing characteristics of your work. 

Poster: The poster design should be one standard A4 page in size and submitted in PDF format. Kindly submit your poster to this link.

Explainer Video: Teams must provide a supplementary video (MP4 file, max 5-minutes), with a file-size no larger than 50 MB, illustrating how your solution fits the lives of the users with the help of scenarios. It may also illustrate some details of the interface and the information presented. In case the size of your video file is larger than 50 MB, please upload it on the internet and paste the URL in the submission portal. Please make sure that your video and your URL are anonymized as per the requirements of the track.

Proof of Student Status: All authors must submit a note signed by their academic supervisor(s)/head of school to SDCChairIndiaHCI@gmail.com with the title of their paper as the subject line. Authors working in teams must send their student proof as one zip file. The student proof is used to verify:   

1. Your university 
2. Whether the team members are graduate and/or undergraduate students  
    

All SDC submissions must be made through the EasyChair portal.

Eligibility Guidelines 

For this year’s design challenge, the following are the evaluation criteria: 

• 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 or organization. 
• However, one student cannot be part of multiple teams. 
• Submissions are invited from all students at all stages of their university careers, from undergraduate to postgraduate (Masters and PhDs). 

Review Process 

Each paper will be reviewed through a double-blind peer-review process. This will be done by at least three independent reviewers (experts in the relevant area that are not on the review committee) and a meta-reviewer (from the review committee).

Know thy Conference

IndiaHCI 2020 is the 11th edition of the Indian conference series on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Design and Research. We are a formal platform under the aegis of HCI Professional Association of India (HCIPAI). The intimate size, single track, peer-reviewed curation and novel features like shepherding make this conference an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and implementation experiences.

The theme for this year’s edition is “Emerging Trends in Technology Design”. We focus on several aspects of interactive technology design within the larger context of innovation in emerging markets and diverse end-users. We believe that there are distinct approaches to designing interactive technology systems in order to meet real-world challenges. IndiaHCI 2020 provides opportunities to the academia, industry, professionals, and others interested in revisiting these approaches and methods. Individuals working in diverse areas that include (but not limited to) traditional graphical & web user interfaces, speech user interfaces and virtual agent interactions; tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, computer games, privacy, security, visualisation, health, accessibility and ageing, design, user modelling, engineering interactive systems, ICT for development, Automotive user experience, and CSCW, are encouraged to participate and attend.

Share the joy of participating and attending an HCI Conference

Our participants include designers, design academicians, students, industry and start-up partners, and others interested in HCI-based design. We encourage them to discuss their insights related to research and practices. We curate exhibitions and demonstrations of exemplary work by industry players showcasing distinct innovations and talents. Students benefit by receiving dedicated mentoring tracks. They interact to find inspiration and required guidance from the design experts with extensive experience. In addition, the conference has been successful in terms of engaging stalwarts in the field- both from academia, industry, and consultants as keynote speakers. In our previous events, we have met the expectations of our participants across different levels without compromising on the quality of the experience that IndiaHCI conferences commit to deliver.

How we do what we do

IndiaHCI 2020 is committed to following a stringent blind peer-review process to select content in terms of academic papers, industry reports, presentations, workshops, and thematic courses. Accepted papers will be published in the IndiaHCI 2020 Conference Proceedings, and will be included in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted demos and posters will be made available to the conference attendees digitally. We recommend that prospective authors consult the IndiaHCI 2020 submissions guidelines mentioned in different Calls for Participation. They may also email their queries to track chairs, if needed.

The Student Research Consortium (SRC) is a venue for undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students (early stage) to showcase their research projects in engineering, design, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and the digital arts.

Topics include (though not restricted to)

• HCI, CSCW, Human Robot Interaction, Human Machine Interaction, Human-Centered AI
• Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Fieldwork for Design
• User Experience Research Case Studies  

Preparing your SRC Submission

Present the state-of-art or related work, and discuss the paper’s research contribution. Papers should describe:

• Background and related work
• The research motivation and research question
• Research methods
• Results depicting the novelty of the design/research

Submission Format

Submissions can be made as explained below.

Extended Abstract: Teams will submit an anonymized paper (6 pages maximum) written in the Conference SRC Format, summarizing their design solution and its evolution. Submissions not meeting the page limit or formatting requirements will be automatically disqualified. This document should be submitted as a single PDF and the file must be no larger than 10 Mb in size. 

Video: Paper submissions may be accompanied by videos of any length up to a maximum of 5 minutes and less than 90 MB. The video needs to effectively communicate the research idea. Kindly submit your videos following this link.

Eligibility Guidelines 

Current undergraduate, masters, and doctoral students not completing studies before the 2019-2020 academic year. Faculty members or professionals who may have contributed as guides or supervisors should be acknowledged separately, and should NOT be listed as “authors” of the submission. The reviewing will be done by mentors. The best submissions will be showcased in a session during the conference.

Proof of student status: All authors must submit notes signed by their academic supervisor/head of school to srcchairindiahci@gmail.com with the title of their paper as the subject line. Authors working in teams must send their student proofs as one zip file.

Review process

Each paper will be reviewed through a double-blind peer-review process. This will be done by at least three independent reviewers (experts in the relevant area that are not on the review committee) and a meta-reviewer (from the review committee).

Call for Posters

Poster presentation sessions help researchers receive feedback on their work that has not yet been published. We invite poster submissions, which explore recently completed research works, strongly relevant results of work in progress, or successful systems and applications, in all areas related to HCI. The relevance of the research work to the HCI community, the rationale for the research work and its potential must be clearly described in the submission.

There will be online presentation tracks where authors can present a brief summary of their work to all conference attendees. For a poster to be presented, at least one author per accepted poster is required to register for the conference.

Call for Demos

The demo session of India HCI 2020 is a platform to present and share novel interactive technologies and experiences, with hands-on demonstrations to the participants. We invite demo submissions from academia, industry and all communities connected to HCI. Submissions are encouraged from any discipline related to HCI, games, interactive art/design and immersive media technologies. The interactive demo presentations are expected to provoke discussions on emerging technologies and research areas. The relevance of the demo project to the HCI community, the rationale for the demo presentation and the problems it attempts to address must be clearly outlined in the submission. Your submission should clearly describe the novelty and distinguishing characteristics of your work.

There will be online presentation tracks where authors can present a brief summary of their work to all conference attendees. For a demo to be presented, at least one author per accepted demo is required to register for the conference.

Submission Requirements

1. Extended Abstract: The submission for poster or demo must be made as an anonymized 4-page short paper (including references) in the CHI Extended Abstracts Format, summarizing the research work. This document should be submitted as a single PDF and the file must be no larger than 10 MB in size.
2. Explainer Video: Each poster or demo submission must be accompanied by a video, of length maximum of 5 minutes and size less than 90MB. The video must effectively communicate the research idea.

Authors should guarantee the anonymity of their submissions (please refer to the Review process below). Submissions not meeting the above-mentioned requirements will be automatically disqualified.
All Poster and Demo submissions must be made through the EasyChair portal.

Review Process

Submissions will be jury-reviewed. The review process will retain the anonymity of reviewers. Authors should guarantee the anonymity of their submissions (please remove names and affiliations from the document and any other material that would allow reviewers to identify the authors). Authors will be notified about the acceptance/non-acceptance on or before 15th of September 2020.

During the Conference

Only for accepted submissions 

Accepted posters and demos will be presented on an online platform. The guidelines and format for submitting the final presentation materials for the accepted works are as follows:

Guidelines for Final Presentation Materials

Please prepare your final presentation materials as per the guidelines mentioned below.

The link to an online folder containing these have to be mailed to PosterNDemoChairIndiaHCI@gmail.com
It must be sent on or before 26th October 2020.

Poster – Image & Video

Here are the guidelines to be followed for the submission of final presentation materials, for accepted Posters:

1. Poster Image File
This poster will be available to the participants, during the synchronous (live) discussion sessions of Posters& Demos track.
This poster must convey the details of your work and must be self-explanatory.
Specifications: 3000px by 4000px, 72dpi, PNG File
The poster template can be found here: Template_ Poster Image (3000px by 4000px)

2. Oral Presentation Video of your work (exactly 1 min)
This video will be part of the compilation of all posters & demos presentations, that will be played at the opening session.
This video must contain: Title, objective and summary of your work, explained through a voice-over, in not more than 60 secs.
Specifications: 1920×1080 (HD), MP4 File
The template for the slides can be found here: Template_ Oral Presentation Video (1min)
Please note that this video submission is primarily in case of any technical glitches with synchronous presentations.
So along with this video, please make sure to also submit the slides you are using for this presentation.
Note that the title slide of this video should be at least 4 seconds.

Demo – Videos

Here are the guidelines to be followed for the submission of final presentation materials, for accepted Demos:

1. Detailed explanation Video of your Demo (maximum 5 mins)
This video will be available to the participants, during the synchronous (live) discussion sessions of Posters& Demos track.
This video must convey the details of your work and must be self-explanatory.
The video must contain the title, objective, process, and most importantly, a detailed demonstration of your work.
Specifications: 1920×1080 (HD), MP4 File
The template for the title slide can be found here:Template_ Demo Video (max 5min)
Note that the title slide of this video should be at least 4 seconds.

2. Oral Presentation Video of your work (exactly 1 min)
This video will be part of the compilation of all posters & demos presentations, that will be played at the opening session.
This video must contain: Title, objective and summary of your work, explained through a voice-over, in not more than 60 secs.
Specifications: 1920×1080 (HD), MP4 File
The template for the slides can be found here: Template_ Oral Presentation Video (1min)
Note that the title slide of this video should be at least 4 seconds.
This video submission is primarily in case of any technical glitches with synchronous presentations.
So along with this video, please make sure to also submit the slides you are using for this presentation.

Important Note:
Please use only original images, videos and voice-recordings, for the final video submissions.
If any external content (photos, videos, sounds or music) is used, with appropriate permission or open license, it must be credited at the end of the video.