Posters & Demos

Please use this link to go to the submission page to submit your work. After logging in (you might need to make a user account? if you don’t have one), select Author submission, and in the overview of tracks select “Posters & Demos”. 

Submissions should include author names and follow the template provided below. Please remember to choose “Posters & Demos” for your submission. 

At a special session during the conference, authors are given the opportunity to showcase their research to interested delegates, as well as to involve them in discussions about their work, exchanging ideas, providing feedback, and sharing work-in-progress relating to CSCW.  

Posters provide a great opportunity to present preliminary research results and disseminate novel ideas to conference visitors. Posters also offer the space to discuss potential collaborations and the emergent issues in CSCW in an informal manner with the larger EUSSET CSCW community. We particularly invite submissions that introduce speculative or provocative ideas that challenge existing epistemologies and methodologies.    

Demos may be submitted in various forms. These may be interactive research prototypes or products, but also low-fi prototypes, such as paper mock-ups etc. In addition, the demo session will provide space for exhibiting innovative materials that have been developed in the context of the deployment of (user-centered) research methods – for example, innovations in storyboards, personas, and other materials that foster creativity in the design process.  

If you are submitting a poster/demo on accessibility or assistive technology, please refer to the SIGACCESS guidelines on writing about disability.  

The submissions for Demos and Posters should be related to the main topics of interest of ECSCW 2024. Accepted Demos and Posters submissions will appear in the EUSSET digital library.  

Submission Format & Process

Both submission categories (posters and demos) require the submission of a short paper (2000 words maximum excluding references, figures, and a 150-word max. abstract) in PDF format. The submission should explicitly state the contribution and originality of the work, making clear how it differs from significant prior work. A full literature review is not required.  

For the demo submission, please specify the demo requirements in a separate PDF document with the specification of practicalities (e.g., power requirements, dimensions of an exhibit (cm), lighting conditions, the contact information of the presenters, description of the resources that you plan to bring, any additional requirements/requests). The conference venue will provide support for setting up the demo in the form of the standard equipment (power strip of 220V, WiFi, a table, a poster board), and is happy to organize further equipment (e.g., an external display, a projector) upon request.  

Submissions are not anonymous. They should include author names and follow the exploratory papers template (Latex/Overleaf template, RTF, or MS Word). The short papers and an auxiliary document (for demos only) should be submitted in PDF through the EasyChair submission system. See the link at the top of this page.  

Selection Process

The submissions will be single-blind reviewed by two external reviewers. The authors will receive formal feedback with a decision: conditional accept or reject. The conditionally accepted proposals will be required to submit the camera-ready version accommodating the feedback of the reviewers, which will be ultimately checked by the Posters and Demo co-chairs.    

Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference.  

Presentation During the Conference

Upon acceptance, the authors should prepare a poster (in the A0 format in vertical orientation) in order to effectively communicate your research problem, techniques, and/or early results. It should highlight the novelty and importance of your work and invite discussion.

The authors of the accepted demo submissions are also encouraged to develop a poster to support their demonstration. Authors are expected to bring the accepted posters and demos to the conference site with them and be present throughout the poster and demo session.  

Publication & Copyright Information

Accepted Posters and Demos are slated for publication in the European Society for Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) digital library (http://www.eusset.eu/digital-library) as an edited collection with an ISBN. Each paper will be assigned a DOI.  

Authors of accepted Posters and Demos will be given choice to either (1) publish their papers in the EUSSET DL using one of the copyright options (see below), or (2) not publish in the EUSSET DL, but still have an opportunity to present their work at the conference. The second choice is provided because some authors may prefer to keep their poster or demo offline (not findable in a digital library) as they are preparing a full publication.  

The EUSSET digital library (DL) is an open access repository. The EUSSET DL does not ask for a full transfer of copyright from authors. Instead, it requires only sufficient rights that allow “readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search and link to the full texts of articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose except where otherwise noted” (for full information please see here: https://www.eusset.eu/digital-library/).  

The authors will have several options when it comes to copyright upon paper acceptance: 

• grant EUSSET DL a non-exclusive and irrevocable license to distribute the article and certify that he/she has the right to grant this license; 
• certify that the work is available under one of the following Creative Commons licenses and that he/she has the right to assign this license: 
  1. Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0) 
  2. Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license (CC BY-SA 4.0) 
  3. Creative Commons Attribution -Noncommercial-ShareAlike license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) 
  4. or dedicate the work to the public domain by associating the Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication (CC0 1.0) with the submission. 

In the most common case, authors have the right to grant these licenses because they hold copyright in their work.