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INSTRUCTIONS
WERE REVISED ON 7/23 @ 6:25 AM EST
Dear Accepted Author,
Thank you for participating in the UIST 2010 Conference (Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI). This web page will acquaint you to the formatting and submission instructions for the FINAL VERSION of your poster, demo overview, and doctoral symposium to the proceedings, the accompanying video, the mandatory thumbnail image, the required fields, and how and where to complete the ACM Permission Release Forms.
Please read the whole page. Submissions that do not conform to the ACM, SIGCHI, & UIST standards, specifications, guidelines, and formats will be returned to the author for corrections and/or alterations.
Click here if you are submitting a Tech Note or Full
Paper to UIST'10.
Submission Deadlines and Preparation of Copy
All ACM sponsored proceedings will be included in the ACM Digital Library as
well as prepared for printed publication. All papers for the conference must
be submitted in an electronic format which conforms to ACM specifications. Your
electronic submission is due on or before
Monday morning, August 2nd, 10:00 AM EST (NY time). Please submit as early as possible if you are able to do so.
Your
page limit is set by the category your submission has been selected for:
| 2 Page Limit |
|
| Demo Overview | 2 Page Limit |
| Doctoral Symposium | 2 Page Limit |
NOTES TO ALL AUTHORS, please read the following, this is important and to ensure the inclusion of your paper, poster, abstract, or talk in the proceedings and the ACM Digital Library (Portal).
(A) MANDATORY SECTIONS: The following list are MANDATORY SECTIONS and should be filled in properly and accurately by the authors on the FINAL VERSION papers and the submission page. The material/information entered on the submission page is used to produce the Indexing of the Proceedings and the metadata to include the conference proceedings in the ACM Digital Library (Portal):
Title of Your Submission Should be Initial Caps -- Meaning First Letter of the Main Words Should be Made Capital Letters.
Authors Complete Names -- For each and all authors their first name, middle initial (if any), and last name need to be included after the title of the paper on the first page, and on the electronic submission page (please recheck what you enter)
Affiliation -- EACH authors' affiliation, department (if any) affiliation location, State, Country, and email address should be included and MUST entered on the submission page.
Abstract -- Please include an abstract (short overview) of your paper or poster on the first page top of the left hand column. The abstract on the first page of your paper or abstract needs to be entered into the abstract field on the submission page word for word, and per the chairs should be limited to 150 words.
ACM
Classification Sections: If your
selection of these 3 sections on the submission page and the first page of
your paper do not match, your paper will be returned to you for revisions
and fixes.
(a) Author Keywords: This section is your
choice of terms you would like to be indexed by and are mandatory on the
submission page.ACM
(b) Categories & Subject
Descriptors: Your choices of the ACM
classifiers need to be included on the first page of your paper after the
abstract and Choosen Properly on the Submission Page. The setup of
This Section as well as the General Terms are available on both templates. The
ACM Computing Classification Scheme is available at: http://www.acm.org/class/1998/.
(c) General Terms:
Insert the General Terms section after the ACM Classifications section (see the
Sample UIST Abstract in Pdf). This is an
ACM requirement to provide broader classification of the nature of your work.
This section is limited to the following 16 terms and MUST be chosen
properly on the submission page and appear on the first page of your paper: Algorithms,
Design, Documentation, Economics, Experimentation, Human Factors,
Languages, Legal Aspects, Management, Measurement, Performance, Reliability,
Security, Standardization, Theory, Verification.
References -- ACM would like to collect the references/citations used within your paper in straight text (.txt with no coding), so these can be used to enhance the capabilities of the ACM DL (Portal).
B. Files to Submit (Source, PS (postscript), and PDF):
Source File -- We need the source file (tex, doc, or docx) for each submission, be sure your submission is formatted for US Letter (8.5x11 inches).
Postscript (.ps) File -- A ps file is NOT mandatory for Word submissions, but needed for LaTex submissions because of the extremely low percentage of properly created pdf from tex to pdf.
PDF
File (.pdf) -- Your pdf file should be ACM
Compliant. Right Click here to obtain the ACM
distiller settings for full versions of Adobe Acrobat and Distiller
ONLY.
(a) Tex submissions: If your pdf file is not ACM Compliant, we will
distill your PS file with the ACM distilling settings and use the PDF we
create for your submission in the proceedings.
(b) Word submissions: If your pdf file is not ACM Compliant, we
will distill your doc file with the ACM distilling settings and use the PDF
we create for your submission in the proceedings.
Video Presentation (Optional) -- Please be aware that we (Sheridan nor the Chairs/Organizers) will not be re-encoding your video files and the video file you submit will be the one included on the proceedings DVD and within the ACM DL. Click here or more information from the chairs.
Thumbnail Image (Mandatory) -- The chairs and organizers require a thumbnail image to use as a visual representation of the paper's contents. The thumbnail will be used in an HTML table of contents for the proceedings. The thumbnail should be saved in the PNG or JPG file format using RGB color with a horizontal resolution of 300 pixels and a vertical resolution of no more than 300 pixels. All unconforming thumbnails will be scaled to a 300 pixel width. Kindly also name the thumbnail image file the same as your source and pdf files for the paper (for example: uist999-smith.png --or-- uist999-smith.jpg)
Naming Scheme of All Files -- Please name all your files to be submitted with your Paper IDENTIFIER Number and the LEAD (first) author's last name in all lower case letters (for example: fp0099-smith.pdf, fp0099-smith.ps, fp0099-smith.tex or fp0099-smith.doc)
C. Page Size & Page Breaks: Submissions that do not conform to the ACM SIG standards, templates, and formats will be returned to the author for corrections and/or alterations. The page size for this ACM publication is US Letter (8-1/2x11 inches). Be sure that there are no bad page or column breaks--Meaning no widows (last line of a paragraph at the top of a column). If this happens either tighten the previous column or force a line over. Section and Sub-section heads should remain with at least 2 lines of body text when near the end of a page or column.
D.
figures or images.
(D1) Authors with color
figures, authors please be aware your figures are printing in black and
white (grayscale) in the body pages of print version proceedings. We suggest you
print your paper to a black/white printer (or black-white version) to be sure
that the tones, screening, images reproduce well in black and white (also for
ACM DL users accessing your paper online). Your images will and may appear
in color on your electronic submissions for inclusion on CD or DVD proceedings,
and will appear in color in the ACM Portal (digital library).
(D2) Resolution: We
recommend images to be at least 300 or 600 dpi for quality reproduction and
saved as .tif images.
(D3) TIF (EPS) vs JPG
(JPEG) images: TIFs were (and should be
created) created for pre-press applications where quality takes priority over
file size. While TIFs can be compressed (LZW compression option when saving out
of Photoshop, for example), no image data is lost, thus ensuring maximum
quality. JPEG was designed as a compressed image format designed to keep the
file size small which makes it idea for use in web graphics. To do this, the
JPEG format actually deletes image data from the image. The higher the level of
compression, the more data is removed. This is referred to as a lossy
compression system. On a printout, the removed data tends to show up as blocky
areas of a solid color. At higher resolutions (a minimum of 200 dpi ), there's
usually enough data in the JPEG file for the compression artifacts to be very
noticeable.
(D4) Rules/Lines: We
recommend for quality reproduction of rules in your graphs, tables or charts, that
the rules are at least a 0.5 pt. and black. Finer lines and points than
this will not reproduce well, even if you can see them on your laser printed
hardcopy when checked -- bear in mind that your laser printers have a far lower
resolution than the imagesetters that will be used.
(D5) Fonts: If
your figure uses custom or any non-standard font, the characters may appear
differently when printed in the proceedings. Remember to check your figure
creation that all fonts are embedded or included in the figure correctly.
(D6) Transparencies: If
a figure or image is assembled from multiple images, the images must be
embedded, layers flattened or grouped together properly in the file, not lined.
Transparencies should also be flattened.
E. Page Numbers, Headers and Footers: Your final submission SHOULD NOT contain any footer or copyright string information in the footer (bottom margin) area, headers or page numbers. The papers will be paginated in a determined order by the chairs and added to the bottom upon finalization, BUT your paper must include the ACM-UIST'10 copyright information in the correct position at the bottom/left of the first column and first page.
F. Click on which program you will be using to prepare your submission for the proceedings:
1.
Please use the SIGCHI formatted sample paper provided: http://www.sheridanprinting.com/sigchi/UIST-abstractsample.doc
See the
Sample
UIST Paper in PDF.
2. Name your .doc file using your UIST Paper # with the lead (first) author's last name (example: fp0099-weaver.doc / fp0099-weaver.pdf). Be sure to format your document for American Letter (8-1/2x11). Please check that your submission adheres to the set page limit for your type of submission (see above). See the email with notification of acceptance and formatting instructions from acm@sheridanprinting.com for your paper id#, and link to submit your paper.
3. Be sure to update and include the complete ACM/UIST 2010 copyright statement on the bottom/left of the first page in the correct position, see sample paper above (or just the copyright text: UIST-perm.txt, right click and download to cut and paste this text into your paper). This statement should appear in 8 pt. Times New Roman, justified text, with UIST'10 italicized. See the attached pdf as an example of just the copyright strip: UIST-perm.pdf
4. Be sure you have included ALL 3 ACM & SIGCHI classification sections (Authors' Keywords, ACM Categories, and General Terms on the first page after the ABSTRACT and before INTRODUCTION)
5. You need to upload your .doc, video, thumbnail, and .pdf files to: http://www.sheridanprinting.com/acm/uist/uist.cfm on or before August 2nd, 10:00 AM EST (NY time). We recommend using a modern, standards-compliant Web browser to upload the necessary files. You will receive an acknowledgment of receipt of your submission and signed forms, but due to the volume of submissions, please be patient it may take a few days to two weeks for us to process and check your submission.
6.
AFTER YOU SUBMIT TWO THINGS: You will receive
a confirmation email and within a few days you will receive a 2nd email with a
link to the appropriate ACM electronic form to sign. Both of these messages will
be sent to the contact author's email address.
Questions Thank you again for participating in this conference and I look forward
to receiving your materials on a timely basis.
Sincerely,
If you still have questions or problems please contact myself, by phone: 1-908-213-8988 or via email at: lisatolles@sheridanprinting.com
with the conference name (UIST'10) in the subject line.
Lisa M. Tolles
Proceedings Coordinator
Sheridan Printing Co., Inc.
phone: 1-908-213-8988