« Testing A song on PlanetInfo | Main | I never got into the flow... »
August 26, 2006
A Guaranteed Trip to CHI2007
At CHI last year I was complaining to the Student Volunteer Chair about how much I hated the way SV's had to schedule their tasks. Each student is expected to work at least 20 hours to justify their free hotel and registration at the conference, and this is done by selecting from several available tasks on a website. Anyhow, the conference chair emailed both me and Jonathan Diehl, who was also an SV that year, and gave us a chance to remake the interface. We've put several hours into it and I think the final result is leaps and bounds above the old one. Our reward is a guaranteed spot as SV's this year at CHI in San Jose California. For the rest of you, I highly recommend you apply to be SV's particularly the PhD students. It is important to go to these conferences to meet the important members of your field, but it is just as important to meet the people who are going to be the big names in your field 10 years from now. Being an SV at CHI and at PERVASIVE has opened the way to a lot of opportunities for me, I never would have guessed it would be so beneficial. Open registration for SVs will probably open up on September 1st.
On a related note, Justin emailed me earlier this month and told me he was going to go ahed and submit what he's been working on to the Doctoral Consortium at the i-Conference this year. Of course I couldn't let him be the only one from Informatics, so I shaped up a submission as well. I've been told by my adviser that the Doctoral Consortium is similar to being an SV in the sense that you have a golden opportunity to make connections with people who may be close colleagues in the future. The more I think about it, the more I hope that I'm selected to attend, and Justin to I suppose.
Posted by whazlewo at August 26, 2006 3:34 PM
Comments
Posted by: Josh at August 27, 2006 5:58 AM
i remember this coming up as an idea, and i'm glad to see that you followed up on it. let me know if you need volunteers for usability or something. :)
sadly, now that i have given up my student status but not yet claimed my work status, i'm not sure what will be happening on the CHI front next year, but i'm hoping to make it somehow. a few of us from my group here in edinburgh are hoping to write a short paper about what we did, so... we'll see!
best of luck with the new semester!
Posted by: Kynthia at August 27, 2006 2:22 PM
good to hear they remembered :)
Posted by: matt at August 30, 2006 9:47 AM
Posted by: Richie at September 26, 2006 11:54 AM