Chinese CHI 2017 Video Competition: Call for Submissions
Chinese CHI, taking place in Guangzhou, China, on June 8–9, 2017 (http://chchi2017.icachi.org), is pleased to announce its first video competition. It offers students, researchers, and practitioners a platform for sharing creative and innovative HCI work. Accepted videos will be screened and exhibited during the conference and promoted on social media and video platforms. An awards ceremony will recognize entries selected by the jury and audience.
Chinese CHI 2017 (http://chchi2017.icachi.org) is pleased to announce the first HCI Video Competition as an integrated part of its technical program (June 8-9, 2017 in Guangzhou, China). The Video Competition will serve as a platform forstudents, researchers, and practitioners to share exciting and innovated ideasof Human-Computer Interaction. The accepted submissions will be presented throughout the Chinese CHI 2017 conference and made accessible on YouTube andother selected social media. An award ceremony for juried best videos andaudience’s choice videos will be held during the conference.
This year's video competition explores the human–computer interaction ecosystem. Relevant areas include, but are not limited to:
Internet of Things, smart cities, and smart homes
Robotics and interaction between artificial and human intelligence
Social and crowd computing, including social media, social networks, crowdsourcing, and crowdfunding
Virtual reality, augmented reality, and games
This year’s theme is Ecological HCI. We welcomevideo submissions related but not limited to the following topics under this theme:
- Internet of Things, smart city, smart home, etc
- Human-Robot Interaction, machine intelligence and human intelligence argumentation
- Social and Crowd Computing, e.g., social media, social network, crowdsourcing, crowdfunding, etc
- VR, AR, and game
Submission Guidelines
- Submit all videos through: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chinesechi2017
- In addition to title, authors, affiliations, and contact details, each submission must include:
- A downloadable video link
- A description of no more than 300 words
Submission Guideline
- All the submissions of video competition should go through Easychair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chinesechi2017
- Besides basic information (title, authors, affiliation, contact), the submission should include
- A url (web link) to download the video
- A short introduction of the submission (up to 300 words)
Submission Requirements
- Videos must relate to human–computer interaction
- Short videos must be no longer than one minute; long videos must be two to five minutes
- Videos must include English narration or subtitles to reach a broad audience
- Use a common video format such as MP4
- Videos must contain no prohibited content and must not serve as product advertising
- Authors must hold copyright or permission for all materials, including images, video, music, and sound effects
- Chinese CHI retains the right to re-encode and publish submitted videos
Submission Requirement
- The video submission must be relevant to HCI and the given theme
- Short video submission is up to 1 min and long video submission is 2-5 min
- The video submission must be narrated and/or subtitled in English to ensure comprehensibility of a wide audience
- The video submission needs to be in widely accepted encoding format, such as mp4
- The video submission must not contain offensive information and must not be used to promote commercial products
- The authors must hold the copyright or obtain explicit written permission from copyright owners of all the materials used in the videos, such as images, video clips, sounds, and music
- The Chinese CHI conference reserves the right to recode and distribute videos online
Awards
- Best Long Video
- Best Short Video
- Audience Choice
- Most Educational Video
- Most Innovative Video
- Most Entertaining Video
Specific Awards
- Best Long Video
- Best Short Video
- Audience' Choice
- Most Educational Video (intellectually and/or socially)
- Most Innovation Video (concept and/or application)
- Most Entertaining Video (story and/or presentation)
Schedule
- Submission deadline: April 10, 2017
- Results announced: May 10, 2017
- Final versions and agreements due: May 25, 2017
- Premiere and Audience Choice voting: June 8, 2017
- Awards ceremony: June 9, 2017
Key Dates
- Submission: April 10, 2017
- Notification: May 10, 2017
- Cameral-Ready and License: May 25, 2017
- Premiere and Audience Voting: June 8, 2017
- Award Ceremony: June 9, 2017
Co-Chairs
- LI Wei, Autodesk Research
- MA Xiaojuan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Judging Panel
- ZHAO Chen, NetEase, China
- LI Yunqiu, BBC UX&D, UK
- LIU Wei, Beijing Normal University, China
- SILPASUWANCHAI Chaklam, Kochi University of Technology, Japan
- TU Huawei, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China
- YUAN Xiaojun, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
- ZHAO Jian, FX Palo Alto Laboratory, Inc. (FXPAL), USA