The Scientific Programme Committee invites proposals for symposia, panel discussions, paper and poster presentations, round tables, demonstrations and workshops. See for session formats here
The official language of the conference is English.
Proposals can be submitted only through the conference website. Please note that the information you submit will be published exactly as it was submitted. No editing will take place by the conference organizers. Please only use characters of the English alphabet and take care to avoid spelling or other mistakes.
The abstract and the extended summary may contain tables and up to two diagrams. The diagrams can be in either .jpg or .gif format. Their size should not exceed 500 kB.
Deadline for submission of proposals: 31th October 2008
General regulations and policies
The conference policy is to cater for quality and variation. Therefore you may only present twice. You may also appear as a chairperson or discussant in up to two sessions. So the maximum is four appearances. Participating as a non-presenting author is unlimited. But please note that the scheduling process only will take into account the presenting author, chairperson and discussant; non presenting co-authors will not be considered.
How to submit
Step 1: Fill in Form for Contact person
First enter the details of the contact person in the Abstract submission form. Indicate the type of presentation you intend to submit, as the begin of the abstract submission process. Once you have done this, you will receive an email with a link and password that will allow you to proceed with the abstract submission process.
Please note that you will have to repeat this submission process for every symposium or individual paper that you would like to submit. It is also important to use the same e-mail address for all subsequent correspondence with the on-line system of the conference.
We regret that our proposal submission programme does not handle languages other than English. Please only use characters of the English alphabet in the information you submit. In particular, please take care to write your name, address and affiliation in English and not in any other language.
Step 2: Fill in submission form
The email you will receive contains important information to support the proposal submitting process and is best printed out. It will contain an url to your personal submission form, and a password to enter this form.
During the submission process you will need the information shown below. I recommend to have all information available in electronic form (eg. in a word file, or even better: in rtf.format) before you start the submission process.
If for some reason you cannot complete the submission process all at once, you can save your work and enter the later using again the same link and password shown above to return and modify any information you saved prior to submitting the final form.
All information will be published exactly as you submit it. No editing will take place. Hence, please take care to avoid spelling or syntactical errors and to use capital and small letters where appropriate.
INDIVIDUAL PROPOSALS
PAPER, POSTER, ROUND TABLE, DEMONSTRATION OR WORKSHOP Submit the following through the conference website:
1. An extended summary of 600-1,000 words, detailing all the aims, methodology, findings, and theoretical and educational significance of the research. Please know that this extended summary is the basis for the reviewers. Check the website for the criteria for each of the format you propose.
2. An abstract of 100-300 words.
3. Full contact information, including e-mail address and affiliation, for each of the authors involved.
During submission of your proposal you will be asked to indicate
a. The format (paper, poster, ICT demonstration, workshop, round table) of your proposal,
b. To which SIG it best fits (choose only one),
c. The most applicable domain of the conference,
d. The 'scheduling' categories that we will use for scheduling purposes. Choosing these words is very important. Do this carefully. The conference system will group accepted contributed automatically into sessions using these scheduling category words. Reviewers will be sought whose background matched your selection of scheduling category best, etc.
e. Keywords. The system will ask you to select from a list three keywords. In the conference program book these keywords are used as index words in the register.
f. For papers and posters, you will have to choose to be reviewed as a theoretical or empirical contribution.
ICT applicants should indicate in detail the kind of equipment and facilities they will need. The conference venue is rather well equipped. A fast network infrastructure is available.
If a summary or abstract exceeds the number of word limits, the proposal submission system will only record information up to the word limit. In such a case, it will not be possible to send the rest of your summary or abstract for review.
SYMPOSIA AND DISCUSSION PANELS
You will need to submit the following through the conference website:
For the symposium as a whole:
1. An abstract of the symposium/panel discussion of 100-300 words. The abstract should provide information regarding the aims of the symposium/panel discussion and its scientific and educational relevance.
2. The title of the symposium/panel discussion, the title of each presentation (symposium 4, panel 4 to 5) with the name and affiliation of each author, the name of the chair, and the name of one discussant (in the case of a symposium).
3. Full contact information, including email address and affiliation for each of th participants, including the chairperson and discussant.
For each contribution in the symposium
1. A 100-300 word abstract for each individual presentation.
2. In addition, for each individual presentation we require an extended summary of 600-1,000 words, detailing the aims, methodology/research design, findings, and theoretical and educational significance of the research. This means that if a symposium/panel discussion consists of four individual presentations, each symposium participant should prepare a 600-1,000-word extended summary, making a total of four summaries (max. 4,000 words).
Step 3 Confirmation
You will receive an email that confirms the reception of your proposal, with information how to get access to this proposal if you want to read it. No corrections are possible in that phase.
