Chinese CHI 2022: Call for Student Competition Entries

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Call for Student Competition Entries

Chinese CHI 2022, organized by International Chinese Association of Computer Human Interaction (ICACHI), will be held in Guangzhou, China, on October 22–23, 2022, in a hybrid online and in-person format. The theme is Inclusion, Resilience, and New Normal.

We invite students from diverse design backgrounds, including human–computer interaction, industrial, product, visual, user experience, and interaction design, to enter this student competition on-site or online.

The competition showcases students' ideas and skills in human–computer interaction design and user experience, providing opportunities to raise their work's visibility and receive expert feedback.

Submissions will be assessed by a committee of experienced experts in relevant fields, to be announced later, and through an online audience vote. The final award recipients will be invited to exhibit their award-winning work at the Digital Art Exhibition and receive an ICACHI competition award certificate.

Submission Information

Important Dates

• Proposal deadline: August 30, 2022, 23:59
• Review notification: September 30, 2022, 23:59

Submission Guidelines

Submission Guidelines

1. Poster: Prepare a standard letter-sized poster as a PDF no larger than 10 MB. It should include:
2. • Proposed solution title, team and author names, and institution
3. • Your perspective on the design challenge
4. • A brief description of the solution
5. • A clear presentation of the proposed solution's key information
6. Video: Teams should provide a video of up to five minutes, no larger than 100 MB. Explain how your proposal addresses a design challenge in an interaction scenario. You may also illustrate interface details and related information.
7. Supplementary video content includes:
8. • Important background data and examples of its analysis
9. • Major creative inspirations, including existing designs and systems
10. • Sketches of the solution
11. • Scenarios explaining how the solution addresses the design challenge
12. • Relevant interaction and design information
13. Proof of student status: Submit a statement signed by your academic supervisor verifying all of the following:
14. • Your institution
15. • Whether you were an undergraduate or graduate student when the work was completed
16. • Proof of student status for every student
17. Compress the materials above into a .ZIP file and send it to the following email address:
18. competition_chichi@163.com
19. Note: In your submission email, state whether you wish to participate on-site or online only.

Competition Assessment Criteria

Ensure that submissions contain no infringing or confidential materials and do not cite infringing or confidential publications.

Poster and video submissions will be reviewed according to:

• A brief explanation of how the design addresses this year's conference theme
• The clarity and credibility of the design focus, objectives, and solution in relation to the challenge
• The originality and quality of the design solution, including its claims and supporting literature
• Innovation, artistry, and human-centered considerations in the design process

Call for Student Competition

We invite practitioners, researchers, and students in art and design-related fields to submit proposals for on-site or online exhibitions at the Chinese CHI 2022 Art Gallery track. The theme of this year's hybrid Art Gallery is Inclusion, Resilience, and New Normal.

We invite students from a variety of design backgrounds (HCI, industrial design, product design, visual design, user experience and interaction design, etc.) to participate in this student competition (onsite or online).

This track aims to demonstrate their ideas and skills in HCI Design and User Experience, and provides a chance to expand the visibility of your design and get feedback from experts.

The submissions will be juried by a committee of experienced experts in relevant domains (to be announced later) and vote online from audience. The final winners will get invited to demonstrate their work in the Art Gallery track, and receive a Chinese CHI Competition Award Certificate from ICACHI.

Call for Student Competition

Important Dates

• Proposal Submission Due: August 30th 23:59, 2022 AoE
• Jury Notification: September 30th, 23:59, 2022 AoE

Submission Guidelines

1. Poster: The poster design should be one standard letter page in size and submitted in PDF format and the file must be no larger than 10 Mb in size.
2. The poster must include:
3. • The proposed solution’s name, team name, school affiliation
4. • The perspective taken to address the design challenge
5. • A concise description of the proposed solution
6. • Clear illustrations of key aspects of your proposed solution
7. Video: Teams must providea supplementary video (max 5-minutes), with a file-size no larger than 100Mb. The video may illustrate how your solution fits the design challenges with the help of scenarios. It may also illustrate some details of the proposed interface and the information presented.
8. The Supplementary Video may include:
9. • Examples of significant contextual data and its analysis
10. • Key creative sources of design inspiration (existing designs and systems)
11. • Sketches of the evolving solution
12. • Scenarios depicting how the solution fits the design challenge
13. • Details of the interface and information design where relevant
14. Proof of Student Status : submit a note signed by your academic supervisor verifying all of the following information:
15. • Your affiliation
16. • Whether you were a graduate or undergraduate when the work was done
17. • All students must provide proof of their student status by the letter mentioned above
18. Please compress your above submission materials into a .ZIP file and send it to the following email address:
19. competition_chichi@163.com
20. Note: In the submission email, please indicate whether you would like to participate in the on-site or online only.

The Competition Selection Criteria

Please be sure that submissions do not contain proprietary or confidential material and do not cite proprietary or confidential publications.

The poster and video submissions will be reviewed based on:

• Short description of how your proposed design fits with this year’s conference theme
• Clarity and credibility of design focus, purpose and solution relative to the posed challenge
• Originality and quality of the design solution, including claims and their supporting evidence
• Innovation, artistry and humanization within the design process

Visual design: Keqi Chen, University of Edinburgh

Layout and editing: Yuxin Xu, University of Toronto