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<span style="font-family:Arial;">ACM ICMI 2021: Call for Late-Breaking Results</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cflbr</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">18-22 Oct 2021, Montreal, Canada</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Call for Late-Breaking Results</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Based on the success of the LBR in the past ICMI 18-20, the ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI) 2021 continues soliciting submissions for the special venue titled Late-Breaking Results (LBR). The goal of the LBR venue is to provide a way for researchers to share emerging results at the conference. Accepted submissions will be presented in a poster session at the conference, and the extended abstract will be published in the new Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the main ICMI Proceedings. Like similar venues at other conferences, the LBR venue is intended to allow sharing of ideas, getting formative feedback on early-stage work, and furthering collaborations among colleagues. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">For online paper submissions, please click on the following link: https://new.precisionconference.com/user/login?society=sigchi</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Highlights</span><br>
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</span><span style="font-family:Arial;">Submission deadline: August 1st, 2021</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">Notifications: August 27th, 2021</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">Camera-ready deadline: September 18th, 2021</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">Conference Dates: October 18-22, 2021</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">Submission format: Anonymized, short paper (four pages not including references), following the submission guidelines</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">Selection process: Peer-Reviewed</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">Presentation format: Participation in the conference poster session</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">Proceedings: Included in Adjunct Proceedings and ACM Digital Library</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">LBR Co-chairs: Babak Taati (University of Toronto and University Health Network) and Nadia Berthouze (University College London)</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">What are Late-Breaking Results?</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Late-Breaking Work (LBR) submissions represent work such as preliminary results, provoking and current topics, novel experiences or interactions that may not have been fully validated yet, cutting edge or emerging work that is still in exploratory stages, smaller-scale studies, or in general, work that has not yet reached a level of maturity expected for the full-length main track papers. However, LBR papers are still expected to bring a contribution to the ICMI community, commensurate with the preliminary, short, and quasi-informal nature of this track. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Why submit to the Late-Breaking Results track at ICMI?</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Accepted LBR papers will be presented as posters during the conference. This provides an opportunity for researchers to receive feedback on early-stage work, explore potential collaborations, and otherwise engage in exciting thought-provoking discussions about their work in an informal setting that is significantly less constrained than a paper presentation. The LBR (posters) track also offers those new to the ICMI community a chance to share their preliminary research as they become familiar with this field.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Late-Breaking Results papers appear in the Adjunct Proceedings (Companion Volume) of the ICMI Proceedings. Copyright is retained by the authors, and the material from these papers can be used as the basis for future publications as long as there are “significant” revisions from the original, as per the ACM and ACM SIGCHI policies. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Submission Guidelines</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Extended Abstract: An anonymized short paper, four-page paper, not including references, in the ICMI format (http://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=authors). The paper should be submitted in PDF format and through the ICMI submission system in the "Late-Breaking Results" track. Due to the tight publication timeline, it is recommended that authors submit a very nearly finalized paper that is as close to camera-ready as possible, as there will be a very short timeframe for preparing the final camera-ready version and no deadline extensions can be granted.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Anonymization: Authors are instructed not to include author information in their submission. In order to help reviewers judge the situation of the LBR to prior work, authors should not remove or anonymize references to their own prior work. Instead, we recommend that authors obscure references to their own prior work by referring to it in the third person during submission. If desired, after acceptance, such references can be changed to first-person. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Review Process</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">LBRs will be evaluated to the extent that they are presenting work still in progress, rather than complete work which is under-described in order to fit into the LBR format. The LBR track will undergo an external peer review process. Submissions will be evaluated by a number of factors including (1) the relevance of the work to ICMI, (2) the quality of the submission, and (3) the degree to which it “fits” the LBR track (e.g., in-progress results). More particularly, the quality of the submission will be evaluated based on the potential contributions of the research to the field of multimodal interfaces and its impact on the field and beyond. </span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Attendence</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">Similar rules for registration and attendance will be applied for authors of LBR papers than for regular papers. Further information will be available later on.</span><br>
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<span style="font-family:Arial;">Questions?</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">For more information and updates on the ICMI 2021 Late-Breaking Results (LBR), visit the LBR page of the main conference website:</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">https://icmi.acm.org/2021/index.php?id=cflbr.</span><br>
<span style="font-family:Arial;">For further questions, contact the LBR co-chairs (Babak Taati, Nadia Berthouze) at icmi2021-latebreaking-chairs@acm.org </span><br>
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