24 May
2022
24 May
'22
4:23 p.m.
*VL/HCC '22 Graduate Consortium*
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*Important Dates*
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* Submission by e-mail: 8th June 2022- Notification of final decision: 13th
June 2022 - Camera-ready deadline: 19th June 2022- Consortium date: 12th
September 2022*
(all deadlines are *23:59, AoE*)
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*Call for Participation*
The primary goal of this year's event is to stimulate graduate students'
and other researchers' thinking about “*Human-Centric AI*”, addressing
issues such as how to ensure that tools and explanations for AI fit the
needs of the broad populations they need to serve.
Research areas could involve the design, building, or evaluation of
technologies involving or relating to human-centric AI and issues of
human-centric AI, such as trust and fairness. This goal aligns with the
theme of the 2022 VL/HCC main conference. Other areas within the remit of
VL/HCC are also welcome.
*Why You Should Participate*
- Present your work to a smaller, more attentive audience
- Get detailed, critical, constructive feedback from a diverse panel of
experts
- Meet other students working on similar problems
- Travel funding may be available to help cover your cost of attending
VL/HCC (details below).
*Who Can Participate?*
The consortium is open to both master's and PhD students worldwide.
Participation is particularly encouraged from PhD students who are close to
proposing a thesis, as well as from members of groups identified by NSF as
underrepresented in the sciences and engineering. If multiple applicants
from a particular university apply for the consortium this year, then no
more than two per university will be selected to participate. To be
eligible, each applicant may have participated no more than once in the
VL/HCC graduate consortia of past years.
*Application Process*
Email the following items with *_VLHCC22-GC_* in the subject line to *Andrew
Fish at [andrew.fish `at' brighton.ac.uk <http://brighton.ac.uk>]* and
*Thomas LaToza [tlatoza `at' gmu.edu <http://gmu.edu>]:*
- A 2-page research abstract, formatted as a PDF in the standard IEEE
Conference Proceedings format. NOTE: Accepted participants' abstracts will
be included in the conference proceedings. To make it easier for you to
write a successful abstract, we provide examples from past years below.
Your curriculum vitae (CV), as a second PDF file. This CV should mention
whether you have previously participated in any graduate consortia at any
conferences.
- A letter of recommendation sent directly by your thesis advisor. This
letter should summarize your accomplishments and describe how far along you
are in your master's or PhD program, why attending the GC this year would
be important for you, and please ask them to mention if you have already
attended VL/HCC GC in any past year. In addition, if you are a member of a
group designated by NSF as underrepresented, then the letter may mention
this fact.
*Selection Process*
For one-third of the slots, students who have participated once before will
be given priority. The remaining slots will be given to students who are
new to the event. Each student from the returning group will be linked with
new students in a mentoring arrangement. See _Who Can Participate?_ above
for additional selection criteria.
*Posters*
Selected students will be asked to present a poster on their work at the
Showpieces Reception during the main conference. Details will be provided
to accepted applicants.
*Travel Support*
We expect to be able to offer partial funding for travel expenses for US
participants to attend, contingent on the availability of funds.
*Schedule*
The consortium event will be a full day the Monday before the main
conference. All participating students are expected to attend the main
conference as well as the graduate consortium. Other conference attendees
are invited to attend the consortium, to listen to the presentations, to
interact with participants, and to give feedback to presenters. More
details will be provided, closer to the event, including times and
locations.
*Examples of Successful Applications*
To be successful, a submission to the VL/HCC Graduate Consortium generally
has to have the following parts:
1. The paper starts with a sentence or two that describes a real-world
setting.
2. It then identifies a problem in that setting.
3. The remainder of the paper's introduction outlines an approach for
solving that problem.
4. In a subsequent section, the paper describes a prototype or preliminary
study showing the feasibility of that approach.
5. The paper explains why more work is still required in addition to this
prior work.
6. The paper concludes by describing future work that will build on this
prior work in order to finish completing the approach.
7. Somewhere along the way, the paper explains how the approach builds on,
or differs from, other related work.
We have annotated three excellent submissions that exemplify the pattern
described above (PDFs available via links at
https://conf.researchr.org/track/vlhcc-2022/vlhcc-2022-graduate-consortium).
We hope that you will find these examples thought-provoking and helpful as
you design your own submission this year.
- [Information on the Web: How End Users Make Use of Data]
- [Roles in Online Collaborative Problem Solving]
- [Re-forming the Internet with its End Users]
*Panel Members and Organizers*
- Andrew Fish, University of Brighton (chair)
- Thomas LaToza, George Mason University (chair)
- Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University
- Brittany Johnson-Matthews, George Mason University
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Emanuele Panizzi
Associate Professor
Computer Science Department
Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy