The 5th Asian CHI Symposium is the annual symposium organized at CHI conference to showcase the latest HCI and UX works from Asia and those focusing on incorporating Asian sociocultural factors in their design and implementation. This symposium promotes the region's unique problems and approaches to the global community.
We encourage the participation of researchers and practitioners from Asian professional and academic communities in all career stages (e.g., seasoned academics, early career researchers, graduate students, and even undergraduates who have interests in HCI) from Asian communities to be part of this. It also intends to foster a network of young researchers from the Bachelor to Doctoral candidates, recent graduates and postgraduate researchers.
Important Dates
The times of submissions for all of the deadlines are 23:59 Japan time (GMT + 09).
Round 1
Submission Deadline
January 28th, 2021
Desk Rejection Notification
February 4th, 2021
Notification to the Authors
March 9th, 2021
Round 2
Submission Deadline
February 25th, 2021
Showcase Submission Deadline
March 4th, 2021
Desk Reject Notification
March 4th, 2021
Notification of Acceptance
April 9th, 2021
Submission of Camera Ready Papers Round 1 & Round 2
April 20th, 2021
Asian CHI Symposium 2021
May 7th - 8th, 2021
Themes
We invite submissions on any of the following research themes and/or contributions within the following HCI fields, but not limited to:
Novel interactive systems and interaction design and techniques;
Novel hardware and software enabling new forms of interaction with computers;
Input and output systems to support creative activities and expressions;
Studies for understanding human capabilities related to interaction with computers;
Knowledge, practices, methods, components, and tools that make technology more useful, usable, and desirable;
Systems and services that address issues prominent in Asia; HCI for development or addressing issues well-known in Asia;
HCI applications for learning, education and family in Asia;
Playful interaction, player experience, and games;
HCI for healthcare management, wellness, medicine;
HCI and UX applications in the industry.
Specific application areas or domains of interest that have significant impacts in the community, e.g.: marginalized community, disability, non-human stakeholders, charities, low and middle-income people, etc.
Submission Types
This year, we welcome two (2) types of submissions:
Original Works
Showcase
1. Original Works
This category showcases novel works that include the followings:
Completed systems and/or studies,
Preliminary results of early iterations of design, engineering, or empirical studies, or
An extension or a discussion of alternative perspectives of previously-published work.
For the submission of the Original Works, authors can choose to submit their works in the form of:
Paper (between 5-10 pages included references and acknowledgement)
Poster or demo (up to 4 pages included references and acknowledgement).
All accepted papers of the Original Works will be published to the ACM Digital Library.
Whereas, for the Poster/Demo submission, the authors can opt-out not to publish their works to the ACM Digital Library.
All the papers submitted to the works will undergo an anonymous peer-review process. The selected works will be published in the ACM Digital Library (ISBN: 978-1-4503-8203-8).
However, all accepted Original Works, both in the form of Paper or Poster/Demo submissions, will be presented or demoed during the Asian CHI Symposium sessions.
2. Showcase
The Asian CHI Symposium Showcase represents relevant works that have been accepted for presentation in one of the CHI 2021 tracks, or any HCI and/or UX-related works published in the last one year (max. May 2020).
This type of work could be submitted as long as they are in line with the goal of the Asian CHI Symposium and have potential to broaden the dissemination of high quality published research and to inspire applications, replications, continuation, spin-offs, and collaboration.
The authors should submit the publication-ready version of their accepted submissions, or, the published papers to this symposium. There is no need for the authors to follow the Asian CHI Symposium Format.
Their submission to the Asian CHI Symposium will be acknowledged in the Symposium Publication in the ACM Digital Library in the form of the title and author names with a pointer to the corresponding entry in the CHI 2021 Proceedings or Extended Abstract Proceedings, or to other the corresponding publications.
All accepted showcase submissions will be presented during the Asian CHI Symposium 2021.
SHOWCASE deadline is now extended to 4th March 2021.
Summary of Submission Types
Original Work (Paper)
Original Work (Poster/Demo)
Showcase
Submission Type
5-10 pages including references and acknowledgement
Up to 4 pages includingreferences and acknowledgement
Accepted/published HCI and UX-related works
Desk Reject process
Yes
Yes
No
Review process
Two-blind review process
Refereed with two blindreviewers
No
Shepherding process
Yes (case by case)
Yes (case by case)
No
Publication
ACM Digital Library (Unless opted as NO Publication)
ACM Digital Library (Unless opted as NO Publication)
No
Preparing Your Submission
Authors must submit Original Works in the form of Paper submission (between 5-10 pages) or Poster/Demo submission (max. 4 pages). The number of pages includes references and acknowledgement. The language of the submission must be English
The submission must follow the single-column ACM Master Article Template (in both Word or LaTeX format). Please read carefully and familiarize yourself with the information about the template above for the initial submission or publication. Failure to comply with the template within the deadlines provided will result in a Desk Rejection of the submission or cancellation of the publication at the ACM Digital Library.
Both the original and showcase submissions should include key references to publicly accessible resources. Authors may also submit a draft of their poster or demo video as supplementary material. Both types of submissions should not be anonymized and must be uploaded through HotCRP.
Selection Process
For the Original Work category, each submission will go through a refereed process and receive two anonymized reviews under the following criteria: Originality; Significance; and Validity.
The submissions under the Showcase category, each submission will be curated by taking into account the following factors: the number of accepted original submissions; the geographical diversity of the attendees; and the diversity of research topics. The decision will be sent to the authors without reviews or light feedback.
For the authors whose Original Works are accepted conditionally and require major revisions, we will provide the Shepherding process. Selected mentors will work closely with authors to improve the quality of the manuscript at and after the symposium. Only shepherded submissions that successfully go through the shepherding process with the approval of the shepherd mentor within the set deadline will be added to the ACM Digital Library. Submissions that require minor or no revisions will be added to the ACM Digital Library proceedings after the publication-ready deadline and confirmation from the Reviewing chairs.
Desk Reject
We value every submission, but in order to maintain high-quality submissions, we apply a Desk Reject policy. We will take each submission case by case, but here are some of key reasons why your submission may got rejected.
Submission is incomplete, e.g: missing abstract, references, etc
Your submission is not written in English
Not a conference paper (patent disclosure, popular press article, a complete book manuscript, etc.)
The topics are out of scope for the conference (e.g. formal methods for interstellar microcontrollers)
The submissions are severe that it is impossible to review (e.g., no logical flow like a research paper, no effort on finding references and connecting them in the article, wrong use of tables and figures, note: the paper length should not be criteria here if it exceeds 1-2 pages).
More than 20% of plagiarism in the paper.
Not submitted using the standard submission templates, i.e. TAPS compatible Word and LaTeX templates. (This will not be strictly applied in Asian CHI Symposium 2021 but will be implemented for 2022 onward)
Participation in the Symposium
At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the symposium to present their work. Registration deadlines, fees and conditions of acceptance (such as if workshop attendees must register for a day or more of the main conference) will be informed at a later stage, tentatively before March 2021.
Before the symposium, all accepted submissions must prepare a 5-minute video presentation summarizing their works and submit it to HotCRP at least five days before the event. These will be played during the symposium and followed by a 3-minute live Q&A session. At least one author should join the symposium virtually and answer queries from the attendees.
Authors of accepted poster and demo submissions must submit their final poster document (PDF) and 5-min demo video file at least five days before the symposium so that those can be showcased at the poster/demo session.
