Doctoral Consortium
The INTERACT 2017 Doctoral Consortium (DC) is a forum for PhD students to discuss their research goals, methods, and results at an early stage in their research. The Doctoral Consortium aims to provide useful guidance for completion of the doctoral research and the initiation of a research career in a friendly and constructive atmosphere.
The Doctoral Consortium will be held on September 25-26, 2017. The Consortium will be a closed event, open only to the selected participants and other invited attendees.
The list of accepted Doctoral Consortium submissions is now available online
Quick Info
The Doctoral Consortium and INTERACT 2017 provides an opportunity for student participants to interact with other students, established researchers, and the broader HCI community. PhD students who are currently working in an HCI related field are eligible to apply.
Guidelines
Doctoral Consortium candidates should have chosen a research focus and also have selected theoretical and methodological approaches and begun to conduct their research.
To benefit from the Consortium students should have at least 6-12 months of work remaining before the expected completion of their theses.
The number of participants in the Consortium will be limited. Selection for the Consortium will be based on the quality of the submission, its relevance to HCI, the relevance of the student’s contribution to the Consortium, and the potential benefit of the Consortium to the student’s research.
Students selected to attend the Doctoral Consortium will be asked to present their work to get feedback for future directions. Consortium attendees are free to submit a paper or contribution to any of the other tracks at INTERACT 2017 on content similar to that in the proposal for the Doctoral Consortium.
Submissions
Each prospective PhD student participant must submit a package of materials, consisting of two parts for consideration by the Doctoral Consortium Committee,
- Extended Research Abstract
- Letter of Recommendation
The submissions must be done no later than April 19, 2017 via the conference submission system (PCS)
Part 1: Extended Research Abstract
The research description should be in PDF format, up to four pages long, formatted according to the conference papers format, and must include:
- The title of the work
- The student’s name, university, address and e-mail address
- Name and e-mail address of the dissertation advisor/supervisor
- The research area or sub-area of the work (ten words or less)
- A brief description of the research topic (25 words or less)
- A description of the research problem to be solved, why it is important and a justification that prior research has not solved the problem
- The research hypothesis (claim)
- The methods used or proposed to use to carry out the research; it is important to describe a plan for evaluating the work and presenting credible evidence of the results to the research community
- A sketch of the proposed solution
- The expected contributions of the PhD research
- A statement of work to date and open questions/issues for discussion at the DC
Part 2: Letter of Recommendation
The letter of recommendation should come from the student’s PhD advisor/supervisor, or head of school, or equivalent, supporting the student’s nomination for the Consortium. This letter should include the student’s name, a short assessment of the current status of the PhD research, an expected date for dissertation submission, an assessment of what the student would bring to the Consortium, and how the student would benefit from attendance. The letter should be in PDF format, and must be uploaded on the conference submission system along with the Extended Research Abstract.
To protect the intellectual property of students, shortened abstracts will only be made available to participants of the Doctoral Consortium and will not be available or published publically.
Students whose proposals are accepted for presentation at the Doctoral Consortium will be offered support in the form of waived conference fees for INTERACT 2017, but will have to fund their own travel and accommodation expenses.