Have a gaze interaction technique to share? Or want to show off how your new eye tracking method works? At ETRA 2014, we are adding a demo/video session where researchers give demonstrations of their research or show videos of their work. To take part in this session, we request a 2-page extended abstract to be submitted, if not a full or short paper have been accepted to the conference.
Video & Demo track submissions will be open in December 2013
To submit to the Video & Demo Track, you need to prepare a 2-page extended abstract, along with: a) the video submission if no demonstration will be given at ETRA 2014 OR b) a description of the demonstration set-up. For demonstrations, a video submission is optional, but highly encouraged. Detailed instructions are available below. In case if you have full or short paper accepted and you would like to present video/demo or both related to the paper, please enter accepted paper number into the submission form.
Video & Demo track: January 6th, 2014, January 12th, 2014.
Abstracts should be 2 pages in length and they should follow preparation instructions found at: http://www.siggraph.org/publications/instructions.pdf.
To prepare the content of the PDF file, SIGGRAPH encourages authors to use LaTeX, but we also provide a Word template below.
A LaTeX class is available here:
A template for Word users is available here:
When generating the PDF file, please make sure that the fonts are embedded in the PDF file. This will ensure that reviewers can view the paper without problems.
The submitted abstracts do not have to be be anonymized for peer review.
The video should depict you technology in action and we encourage the researchers to explain in the video a) motivation for their work, b) specific problem being addressed, c) demonstrated solution to the problem. Note that video should be self-explained, no in-person explanation of the videos should be necessary at the conference.
A submitted video cannot be longer than 5 minutes and more than 100 MB. We recommend using MP4 format with H.264 codec. Most video production systems can encode in this format and most video applications are able to play it. If you use a different codec, you risk that reviewers might not be able to view the video clip and you will need to re-encode the video clip for the conference proceeding disc. As for the paper submission, the companion video needs to be blinded for peer review.
For a longer guideline of how to make good videos for conference submission, please see the UIST video guideline.
The demo submission should include a diagram or a mock-up photo of the demonstration showing the envisioned setup such as demo hardware components, tables, chairs, lights and other equipment. It is encouraged to label and annotate all parts of the image(s) so that reviewers and organizers get a good understanding of your setup and how the public will be interacting with it. Please also provide a list of equipment you will bring and the equipment you will need (tables, power, etc) at the conference. Such description will allow to better assess if it would be possible to accommodate you presentation.