ASSETS 2006: posters, demos, and student competition - 07/05/2006 The 8th ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2006) will be held this year from the 23rd to 25th of October, at the Embassy Suites Downtown in Portland Oregon. We've had a phenomenal response to the technical program call and have selected a range of very high quality papers for the technical sessions. We are now seeking submissions for the poster and demo sessions, student research competition and the doctoral consortium. The deadline for submissions is 14 July, 2006. This year's ASSETS conference should be a great event. 1 - Posters - 2 page extended abstracts sought for poster presentation at the conference - http://www.acm.org/sigaccess/assets06/cfp/instructions.php 2 - Demonstration papers - 2 page extended abstracts sought for a practical demonstration of a working prototype system - http://www.acm.org/sigaccess/assets06/cfp/instructions.php 3 - Student Research Competition - see below **NEW** for this year is the SIGACCESS student research competition. This is an exciting opportunity for students to participate in an ACM conference and get visibility for their research. Students wishing to participate should submit abstracts of their work, and up to 25 entrants will be selected for the competition. Qualifying research must deal with issues related to computing and information technology to help persons with disabilities. At the conference, entrants will display a poster and make a brief presentation to a panel of judges. A small number of semi-finalists will be chosen by the judges to present their work in a conference session, and of those up to three undergraduate and three graduate students will be designated finalists by the judges, and entered in the Grand Finals of ACM's Student Research Competition. To be eligible to enter this competition, entrants must be undergraduate or graduate students, and members of ACM. Entrants must be sole authors of their abstracts and posters. Work accepted as a full paper for one of the technical sessions of the conference cannot also be considered for the Student Research Competition. Students having a technical paper, however, are encouraged to submit other research to the Student Research Competition. Please note that the judges will look more favourably on complete, or nearly complete, work than research which is still in its early formative stages. Students at, or near, the outset of their work in this area are encouraged to submit to the Doctoral Consortium instead. URL: http://www.acm.org/sigaccess/assets06/src/ 4 - Doctoral Consortium - see below ASSETS 2006 invites doctoral students to apply for the Doctoral Consortium. The consortium provides a great opportunity to doctoral students to share and discuss their research with other students and a panel of established researchers. The consortium has the following objectives: Provide a forum for students to present their current research and receive feedback; Promote contacts among doctoral students working in similar areas; and, Support students with information and advice on their research. The Consortium will be held on Sunday 22 October 2006 in Portland, Oregon. Approximately 10 students and four faculty members will be invited to attend and discuss each student's work in turn. Students will present their work during a poster session dedicated to the work of the Doctoral Consortium participants that will take place during the main conference. Please note: the purpose of the Doctoral Consortium is to provide feedback to Doctoral candidates at an early stage of their research, to help guide and shape their research program. Student work that is complete, or near to completion, should be submitted as either a technical paper or poster. Students submitting papers for the Doctoral Consortium may submit a different (and more complete) piece of work for the Student Research Competition, but may not submit the same work to both the Doctoral Consortium and the Student Research Competition. URL: http://www.acm.org/sigaccess/assets06/doctoralconsortium/ Funding support for students The Doctoral Consortium is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF). Conference registration and basic travel expenses including airfare, hotel, and some meals will be covered for all students accepted to the Consortium. The ASSETS 2006 conference organizers express their deepest appreciation to the National Science Foundation for its support. The Student Research Competition is supported by ACM and Microsoft Research. Bursaries of up to $500 are available to reimburse travel and other expenses (but not conference registration). With best regards, Harriet Fell ASSETS'06 Publicity Chair Harriet Fell Professor College of Computer and Information Science WVH-202 Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115 617/373-2198 http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/fell Submitted by: Vicki L Hanson - vlh@us/ibm.com