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 competition of international reputation. Students making submissions will have the opportunity to interact with a wide audience including experienced professionals, academicians and others interested in the domain of Interaction Design, Design and HCI.

The tracks for SDC 2021, in line with the theme of India HCI 2021 “Designing for Disruption”, focusing on several novel challenges in current times. These include (but not limited to):

• Technology mediated education and learning,
• Leading a life with rich social experiences,
• Contemporary themes in Design-based interventions, and
• Health and well-being.

Scope

• This challenge shall entertain entries based on students’ projects of varying durations. This may include classroom projects, semester length projects, year-long graduation projects and research projects. The students may be registered with an Institute in India or elsewhere in the world in undergraduate, graduate or doctoral level programs.
• The submissions may include projects undertaken by individuals, or a group of individuals.
• The challenge is open solely for registered students and students must be the only authors of a SDC submission. Faculty members associated with the project need to be acknowledged in the submissions.
• Students in their final year of the degree program, or those completing their degree by the mid of 2021 are also eligible to apply. Please read the eligibility guidelines carefully mentioned later in the call.

Evaluation

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

• Does the design intervention address a real-world need?
• Does the design intervention align with the design brief/theme?
• Does the intervention use technology in an appropriate and novel way?
• Whether systematic analysis, synthesis, design, and evaluation is done or not?
• Does the proposed intervention demonstrate the key ideas?
• Did the team explore the entire ecosystem of stakeholders, conditions, and contexts?
• Was the intervention well-crafted and effectively presented?

Submission Format

The submission must have the following FOUR components:

Extended Abstract: Teams will submit an anonymised paper (6 pages maximum) written in the ACM Paper Format (mentioned below), summarising 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 of no larger than 50 MB, illustrating how your solution fits the lives of the users with the help of scenarios. It may illustrate some details of the interface and the information presented. Kindly submit your video to this link. Please make sure that your video is anonymised as per the requirements of the track.

If your video is larger than 50 MB: In case the size of your video file is larger than 50 MB, please upload it on the internet and paste the URL to a text file and upload the text file to the same link. Please make sure that your video and your URL are anonymised 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:

• We accept submissions from students, both as individuals as well as Teams. However, a single team 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 organisation.
• 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).

ACM Paper Format

All authors should submit manuscripts in the ACM Paper Format using Microsoft Word Template, LaTeX Template, or Overleaf.

[Please note that the Microsoft Word Template contains invisible meta-tags related to the paper format and structure. While writing the paper authors are requested to add their content without altering any format and structure of the template.]

Important information

Important Dates

There will be three independent reviewers for each paper. In addition, a meta-review will be done by a program committee member.