At the conference, each student will give a poster presentation. Based on the juried poster session, a group of students will advance to the next round and be invited to give a short talk. Information for Poster Presenters for poster requirements.
This year we will also invite past SRC finalists to serve as mentors for those who are interested in submitting to SRC at CHI2013. Please take advantage of this by contacting the SRC mentors about their experiences and processes.
The Student Research Competition (SRC) is a forum for undergraduate and graduate students to showcase their research, exchange ideas, and improve their communication skills while competing for prizes at CHI 2013. Sponsored by Microsoft Research, the CHI SRC competition is a branch of the ACM Student Research Competition which hosts similar competitions at other ACM conferences.
For work accepted to the CHI 2013 Student Research Competition, a travel grant of up to US $500 will be awarded to help cover travel expenses to the conference. While the student must be an ACM member to qualify for travel funding and awards, she/he does not need to be one to submit to the competition.
The top three winners at CHI 2013 in each category (undergraduate and graduate) will receive prizes of US $500, US $300, and US $200, respectively. All winners will receive an award plaque and two-year complimentary ACM membership with a subscription to ACM’s Digital Library. Winners will be recognized during the closing plenary session of the CHI 2013 conference. These winners will also go on to compete in the ACM grand finals with winners from other ACM conferences.
A submission to the Student Research Competition should describe recently completed or ongoing student research in any of the topic areas covered by CHI. Even if the research was completed under the supervision of a supervisor, the submission must be authored by the student alone (no co-authors – even other students – are allowed). Submissions should be original work that is neither in submission nor already published in CHI or another conference or journal.
Students should submit a camera-ready non-anonymized paper (6 pages maximum) written in the Extended Abstract Format along with a poster. Submissions not meeting the page limit or formatting requirements will be automatically disqualified.
The student competing in the research competition must be the primary contributor of the work. Supervisors or other students may not be co-authors of the paper.
Select any communities of interest that are relevant to your work, allowing us to find reviewers that are able to best evaluate your submission. Core communities include Design, Engineering, Management, and User Experience. Featured Communities include Digital Arts, Games and Entertainment, Health, Sustainability, and Child-Computer Interaction.
The Student Research Competition is a Juried track for CHI 2013. Juried content is reviewed by a jury of experts that will evaluate the work based on its overall quality, originality, and relevance to the CHI community. While not considered archival, content from most juried venues will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. Publishing in the Student Research Competition will not constrain future submissions: Your abstract and poster are not considered to be a prior publication of the work for the purposes of a future CHI Paper or CHI Note or for a journal publication.
Up to twenty-five students in total will be chosen to participate in the competition at CHI 2013.
Submissions not accepted for the Student Research Competition may be asked to be part of the Works-in-Progress track.
The first round of the competition evaluates the research during a poster presentation at CHI. The presentation will be evaluated on two dimensions, given equal weight: (1) the presentation of the research, including visual aspects of the poster and the student’s oral discussion, and (2) the research, specifically its quality, novelty, and significance of the contribution.
The poster must meet the size requirements for CHI posters. Please see the Information for Poster Presenters.
The winners from each category will advance to ACM Grand Finals of the Student Research Competition where the winners of several ACM conferences compete for more prizes and recognition.