SIGCHI Conference Proceedings Format
1st Author NameASSESSMENT COVER SHEET
Affiliation
Address
e-mail address
Optional phone number
2nd Author Name
Affiliation
Address
e-mail address
Optional phone number
3rd Author Name
Affiliation
Address
e-mail address
Optional phone number
ABSTRACT
In this paper we describe the formatting requirements for
SIGCHI Conference Proceedings, and this sample file offers
recommendations on writing for the worldwide SIGCHI readership. Please review this document even if you have submitted to SIGCHI conferences before, some format details have
changed relative to previous years.
Author Keywords
Guides; instructions; author’s kit; conference publications;
keywords should be separated by a semi-colon.
Optional section to be included in your final version, but
strongly encouraged.
ACM Classification Keywords
H.5.m. Information Interfaces and Presentation (e.g. HCI):
Miscellaneous
See: http://www.acm.org/about/class/1998/ for more information and the full list of ACM classifiers and descriptors.
Optional section to be included in your final version, but
strongly encouraged. On the submission page only the classifiers letter-number combination will need to be entered.
INTRODUCTION
This format is to be used for submissions that are published
in the conference proceedings. We wish to give this volume a
consistent, high-quality appearance. We therefore ask that authors follow some simple guidelines. In essence, you should
format your paper exactly like this document. The easiest
way to do this is simply to download a template from the
conference web site, and replace the content with your own
material.
PAGE SIZE AND COLUMNS
On each page your material (not including the page number)
should fit within a rectangle of 18 x 23.5 cm (7 x 9.25 in.),
centered on a US letter page, beginning 1.9 cm (.75 in.) from
the top of the page, with a .85 cm (.33 in.) space between two
8.4 cm (3.3 in.) columns. Right margins should be justified,
not ragged. Beware, especially when using this template on a
Paste the appropriate copyright statement here. ACM now supports three different
copyright statements:
• ACM copyright: ACM holds the copyright on the work. This is the historical approach.
• License: The author(s) retain copyright, but ACM receives an exclusive publication
license.
• Open Access: The author(s) wish to pay for the work to be open access. The additional fee must be paid to ACM.
This text field is large enough to hold the appropriate release statement assuming it is
single spaced.
Every submission will be assigned their own unique DOI string to be included here.
Macintosh, Word can change these dimensions in unexpected
ways. Please be sure that your PDF is US letter and not A4. If
your PDF or paper are formatted for A4, the submission will
be returned to you to fix.
TYPESET TEXT
Prepare your submissions on a word processor or typesetter.
Please note that page layout may change slightly depending
upon the printer you have specified. LATEX sometimes will
create overfull lines that extend into columns. To attempt to
combat this, the .cls file has a command, nsloppy, that essentially asks LATEX to prefer underfull lines with extra whitespace. For more details on this, and info on how to control
it more finely, check out http://www.economics.utoronto.
ca/osborne/latex/PMAKEUP.HTM.
Title and Authors
Your paper’s title, authors and affiliations should run across
the full width of the page in a single column 17.8 cm (7 in.)
wide. The title should be in Helvetica 18-point bold; use Arial if Helvetica is not available. Authors’ names should be
in Times Roman 12-point bold, and affiliations in Times Roman 12-point. For more than three authors, you may have to
place some address information in a footnote, or in a named
section at the end of your paper. Please use full international
addresses and telephone dialing prefixes. Leave one 10-pt
line of white space below the last line of affiliations.
Abstract and Keywords
Every submission should begin with an abstract of about 150
words, followed by a set of keywords. The abstract and keywords should be placed in the left column of the first page
under the left half of the title. The abstract should be a concise statement of the problem, approach and conclusions of
the work described. It should clearly state the paper’s contribution to the field of HCI.
The first set of keywords will be used to index the paper in the
proceedings. The second set are used to catalogue the paper
in the ACM Digital Library. The latter are entries from the
ACM Classification System [3]. In general, it should only be
necessary to pick one or more of the H5 subcategories, see
http://www.acm.org/class/1998/ccs98.html
Normal or Body Text
Please use a 10-point Times Roman font or, if this is unavailable, another proportional font with serifs, as close as
possible in appearance to Times Roman 10-point. The Press
10-point font available to users of Script is a good substitute
for Times Roman. If Times Roman is not available, try the
font named Computer Modern Roman. On a Macintosh, use
the font named Times and not Times New Roman. Please use
sans-serif or non-proportional fonts only for special purposes,
such as headings or source code text.
First Page Copyright Notice
Leave 3 cm (1.25 in.) of blank space for the copyright notice at the bottom of the left column of the first page. In this
template a floating text box will automatically generate the
required space. Note however that the text box is anchored
to the ABSTRACT heading, so if that heading is deleted the
text box will disappear as well. You can replace the default
copyright notice by uncommenting the ntoappear block at the
beginning of the document and inserting your own text, for
example, for versions under review.
Subsequent Pages
On pages beyond the first, start at the top of the page and
continue in double-column format. The two columns on the
last page should be of equal length.
Figure 1. With Caption Below, be sure to have a good resolution image
(see item D within the preparation instructions).
References and Citations
Use a numbered list of references at the end of the article, ordered alphabetically by first author, and referenced by numbers in brackets [2, 4, 5, 7]. For papers from conference proceedings, include the title of the paper and an abbreviated
name of the conference (e.g., for Interact 2003 proceedings,
use Proc. Interact 2003). Do not include the location of the
conference or the exact date; do include the page numbers if
available. See the examples of citations at the end of this document. Within this template file, use the References style
for the text of your citation.
Your references should be published materials accessible to
the public. Internal technical reports may be cited only if they
are easily accessible (i.e., you provide the address for obtaining the report within your citation) and may be obtained by
any reader for a nominal fee. Proprietary information may not
be cited. Private communications should be acknowledged
in the main text, not referenced (e.g., “[Robertson, personal
communication]”).
| Objects | Caption — pre-2002 | Caption — 2003 and afterwards |
| Tables | Above | Below |
| Figures | Below | Below |
Table 1. Table captions should be placed below the table.
SECTIONS
The heading of a section should be in Helvetica 9-point bold,
all in capitals. Use Arial if Helvetica is not available. Sections
should not be numbered.
Subsections
Headings of subsections should be in Helvetica 9-point bold
with initial letters capitalized. For sub-sections and subsubsections, a word like the or of is not capitalized unless
it is the first word of the heading.)
Sub-subsections
Headings for sub-subsections should be in Helvetica 9-point
italic with initial letters capitalized. Standard nsection,
nsubsection, and nsubsubsection commands will work fine.
FIGURES/CAPTIONS
Place figures and tables at the top or bottom of the appropriate
column or columns, on the same page as the relevant text (see
Figure 1). A figure or table may extend across both columns
to a maximum width of 17.78 cm (7 in.).
Captions should be Times New Roman 9-point bold. They
should be numbered (e.g., “Table 1” or “Figure ??”), centered and placed beneath the figure or table. Please note that
the words “Figure” and “Table” should be spelled out (e.g.,
“Figure” rather than “Fig.”) wherever they occur.
Papers and notes may use color figures, which are included
in the page limit; the figures must be usable when printed
in black and white in the proceedings. The paper may be
accompanied by a short video figure up to five minutes in
length. However, the paper should stand on its own without
the video figure, as the video may not be available to everyone
who reads the paper.
LANGUAGE, STYLE AND CONTENT
The written and spoken language of SIGCHI is English.
Spelling and punctuation may use any dialect of English (e.g.,
British, Canadian, US, etc.) provided this is done consistently. Hyphenation is optional. To ensure suitability for an
international audience, please pay attention to the following:
• Write in a straightforward style.
• Try to avoid long or complex sentence structures.
• Briefly define or explain all technical terms that may be
unfamiliar to readers.
• Explain all acronyms the first time they are used in your
text—e.g., “Digital Signal Processing (DSP)”.
• Explain local references (e.g., not everyone knows all city
names in a particular country).
• Explain “insider” comments. Ensure that your whole audience understands any reference whose meaning you do
not describe (e.g., do not assume that everyone has used a
Macintosh or a particular application).
• Explain colloquial language and puns. Understanding
phrases like “red herring” may require a local knowledge
of English. Humor and irony are difficult to translate.
• Use unambiguous forms for culturally localized concepts,
such as times, dates, currencies and numbers (e.g., “1-5-
97” or “5/1/97” may mean 5 January or 1 May, and “seven
o’clock” may mean 7:00 am or 19:00). For currencies, indicate equivalences—e.g., “Participants were paid 10,000
lire, or roughly $5.”
• Be careful with the use of gender-specific pronouns (he,
she) and other gendered words (chairman, manpower, manmonths). Use inclusive language that is gender-neutral
(e.g., she or he, they, s/he, chair, staff, staff-hours, personyears). See [6] for further advice and examples regarding
gender and other personal attributes.
• If possible, use the full (extended) alphabetic character
set for names of persons, institutions, and places (e.g.,
Grønbæk, Lafreniere, S ´ anchez, Universit ´ at, Weißenbach, ¨
Zullighoven, ¨ Arhus, etc.). These characters are already ˚
included in most versions of Times, Helvetica, and Arial
fonts.
ACCESSIBILITY
The Executive Council of SIGCHI has committed to making
SIGCHI conferences more inclusive for researchers, practitioners, and educators with disabilities. As a part of this goal,
the all authors are asked to work on improving the accessibility of their submissions. Specifically, we encourage authors
to carry out the following five steps:
1. Add alternative text to all figures
2. Mark table headings
3. Add tags to the PDF
4. Verify the default language
5. Set the tab order to “Use Document Structure”
Unfortunately good tools do not yet exist to create tagged
PDF files from Latex. LaTeX users will need to carry out all
of the above steps in the PDF directly using Adobe Acrobat,
after the PDF has been generated.
For more information and links to instructions and resources, please see: http://chi2014.acm.org/authors/
guide-to-an-accessible-submission.
PAGE NUMBERING, HEADERS AND FOOTERS
Your final submission SHOULD NOT contain any footer or
header string information at the top or bottom of each page.
The submissions will be paginated in a determined order by
the chairs and page numbers added to the pdf during the compiling, indexing, and pagination processes.
PRODUCING AND TESTING PDF FILES
We recommend that you produce a PDF version of your submission well before the final deadline. Your PDF file must be
ACM DL Compliant. The requirements for an ACM Compliant PDF are available at: http://www.sheridanprinting.
com/typedept/ACM-distilling-settings.htm.
Test your PDF file by viewing or printing it with the same
software we will use when we receive it, Adobe Acrobat Reader Version 7. This is widely available at no cost
from [1]. Note that most reviewers will use a North American/European version of Acrobat reader, which cannot handle
documents containing non-North American or non-European
fonts (e.g. Asian fonts). Please therefore do not use
Asian fonts, and verify this by testing with a North American/European Acrobat reader (obtainable as above). Something as minor as including a space or punctuation character
in a two-byte font can render a file unreadable.
BLIND REVIEW
For archival submissions, CHI requires a “blind review.” To
prepare your submission for blind review, remove author and
institutional identities in the title and header areas of the paper. You may also need to remove part or all of the Acknowledgments text. Further suppression of identity in the body of
the paper and references is left to the authors’ discretion. For
more details, see the submission guidelines and checklist for
your submission category.
CONCLUSION
It is important that you write for the SIGCHI audience. Please
read previous years’ Proceedings to understand the writing
style and conventions that successful authors have used. It
is particularly important that you state clearly what you have
done, not merely what you plan to do, and explain how your
work is different from previously published work, i.e., what
is the unique contribution that your work makes to the field?
Please consider what the reader will learn from your submission, and how they will find your work useful. If you write
with these questions in mind, your work is more likely to be
successful, both in being accepted into the Conference, and
in influencing the work of our field.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank CHI, PDC and CSCW volunteers, and all publications support and staff, who wrote and provided helpful comments on previous versions of this document. Some of the
references cited in this paper are included for illustrative purposes only. Don’t forget to acknowledge funding sources
as well, so you don’t wind up having to correct it later.
REFERENCES FORMAT
References must be the same font size as other body text.
REFERENCES
1. Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/.
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