Chinese CHI 2017 Video Competition
Chinese CHI will be held on June 8–9, 2017, in Guangzhou, China, hosted by Guangdong University of Technology. We are delighted to announce the first human–computer interaction video competition. It provides students, researchers, and practitioners with a platform to share creative and innovative work related to human–computer interaction. Accepted videos will be screened and exhibited during the conference and promoted through social media and video-sharing platforms. An awards ceremony will recognize award-winning works selected by the jury and audience.
Chinese CHI 2017 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 for students, researchers, and practitioners to share exciting and innovated ideas of Human-Computer Interaction. The accepted submissions will be presented throughout the Chinese CHI 2017 conference and made accessible on YouTube and other selected social media. An award ceremony for juried best videos and audience’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, smart homes, and related topics;
- Robotics and interactions between artificial and human intelligence;
- Social and crowd computing, including social media, social networks, crowdsourcing, and crowdfunding;
- Virtual reality, augmented reality, games, and related topics.
This year’s theme is Ecological HCI. We welcome video 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 the following system: (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chinesechi2017).
- In addition to the title, authors, affiliations, contact details, and other basic information, each video submission must include:
- A downloadable video link or a video attachment of no more than 50 MB uploaded to the system;
- A description of no more than 300 Chinese characters;
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 or a video file (no bigger than 50MB) uploaded to the system.
- 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 between two and five minutes;
- Videos must have English narration or English subtitles to reach a broad audience;
- Video files must use a commonly supported format, such as MP4;
- Videos must not contain prohibited content or be used for product marketing;
- Authors must own the copyright or have permission to use all materials, including images, video, music, and sound effects;
- Chinese CHI reserves 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 (2–5 minutes).
- Best Short Video (under 1 minute).
- Audience Choice
- Most Educational Video.
- Most Innovative Video.
- Most Entertaining Video.
Specific Awards:
- Best long video (up to 5 min)
- Best short video (up to 1 min)
- 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 13, 2017
- Results announced: May 10, 2017
- Final versions and agreements due: May 25, 2017
- Premiere and Audience Choice selection: June 9, 2017
- Awards ceremony: evening of June 9, 2017
Key Dates:
- Submission of video: April 13, 2017
- Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2017
- Cameral-ready submission and distribution license: May 25, 2017
- Premiere and audience voting: June 9, 2017
- Award ceremony: June 9, 2017
Video Competition Co-chairs:
- LI, Wei, Canada Research Center, Huawei, Canada
- MA, Xiaojuan, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Judging Panel:
- ZHAO, Chen, NetEase, China
- LI, Liu, California State University, Northridge, USA
- 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