SUBMISSION

There are three categories of submissions:

• Papers
• Posters
• Reports

Papers

ACM CHIMIT 2008 will include paper sessions to allow researchers and practitioners report their research on cognitive, social, and technical issues in IT management. A sample of topics can be found in the Call for Papers -- Topics. Papers should present original and unpublished results. Accepted papers will be published in the Symposium Proceedings and ACM Digital Library.

Authors are strongly encouraged to address the intersection between Computer Human Interaction and Management of IT explicitly.

Preparation Guidelines

Please consider the following guidelines for a successful paper submission:

• Authors should strive for maximum clarity throughout the paper.
• State the contribution and originality of your work explicitly
• State the problem and solution clearly stating differences from prior work.
• Discuss approach and solution in detail allowing readers to replicate work and build on future research.
• Describe relevant prior research in sufficient detail.
• When applicable authors are encouraged to use figures.

Papers must be in standard ACM two-column format and cannot exceed 10 pages in total length, including the abstract, figures and references, and must be formatted according to the detailed ACM SIG publication instructions (http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).

Submission

Paper submissions should be made at the symposium submission site no later than 5:00pm Pacific Time on April 21, 2008. Only PDF versions of papers is accepted. Submissions received after this date/time will not be considered.

Authors will be notified on June 30, 2008.

All submissions are considered confidential during the review process. Papers submitted but not included in the techinical program will be kept confidential in perpetuity. Accepted papers will be kept confidential until the symposium dates. Paper's title, authors, and abstract however will be published in the advanced program before the symposium.Submissions should contain absolutely no information that will be proprietary or confidential at the time of publication.

All questions regarding papers should be directed to Program Co-Chairs.

Posters

ACM CHIMIT 2008 will include a poster session for sharing late-breaking preliminary results not yet readyfor a full paper. Accepted posters will be presented in a special Poster Session, allowing authors to interactively discuss their work one to one with participants. Accepted poster abstracts will be published in the Symposium Proceedings CD and ACM Digital Library.

Authors are strongly encouraged to address the intersection between Computer Human Interaction and Management of IT explicitly.

Preparation Guidelines

Please consider the following guidelines for a successful poster submission:

• State the contribution and originality of your work clearly and explicitly
• State the problem and solution clearly.
• Focus on the contribution of your work, with only a brief background on relevant work.
• Include the major graphical elements that will likely be used in the poster itself.

Posters must be in standard ACM two-column format and cannot exceed 2 pages in total length.

Submission

Poster submissions should be e-mailed to the Program Co-Chairs. Only PDF version of posters is accepted. All submissions must be received by the chairs by 5:00pm Pacific Time on July 14, 2008. Submissions received after this date/time will not be considered.

All submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail.

Authors will be notified on August 18, 2008.

Reports

CHIMIT 2007 will include a new experience report session to share insights from actual practice. Accepted reports will be presented in a special Experience Report Session, allowing authors to share and discuss their experience with all symposium participants. This session is expected to be highly interactive. Experience reports are non-archival. While reports will not be published in the Symposium Proceedings and ACM Digital Library they will be available on the Symposium web site, prior to the symposium start date.

Preparation Guidelines

Please submit a 1-2 paragraph summary of an experience you can share from the practice of IT management, involving some kind of interface between people and technology.

Additionally, please submit brief answers to all of the following questions:

• When did the experience take place?
• What was your personal role in the experience?
• How many people were involved in or affected by the experience?
• What was the financial or business impact of the experience?
• What do you think is the top insight about human interfaces for IT management from the experience?
• What changes for you or your organization were motivated by this and/or similar experiences?

We are interested in answers to these questions to evaluate the overall contribution to the symposium of a discussion of the experience, not because we are seeking only reports on major events or deep insights. A problem successfully solved by a couple of sysadmins that illustrates some issue of UI in management of a complex network is as relevant as a case study of a failure with major impact but a simple root.

Presentations of accepted reports can include more details and discussion than is included in the brief summary and answers submitted. We want to encourage informal storytelling with lots of interaction during the session.

Submission

Experience report submissions should be e-mailed to the Program Co-Chairs. Only PDF version of reports is accepted. All submissions must be received by the chairs by 5:00pm Pacific Time on July 14, 2008. Submissions received after this date/time will not be considered.

All submissions will be acknowledged by e-mail.

Authors will be notified on August 18, 2008.

All questions regarding reports should be directed to Program Co-Chairs.