Submissions > Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium provides PhD students with a forum for expressing their research interests, comparing approaches with others and exploring ideas for the future of television. The consortium provides an excellent opportunity to share ideas, to connect with peers and to receive supportive feedback from members of the television community.

Submissions should describe PhD research that is at an early stage where feedback from the TV community might be of value. We expect submissions from students who are close to making a PhD research proposal, or have made it already but have at least a year of work remaining to complete their PhD thesis. Accepted submissions will published on this website.

Submission Criteria

Submissions for the Doctoral Consortium must be made via uxTV2008 's CMT (Conference Management Service).

Submissions must not exceed three pages (including references) and should be prepared using an ACM SIG Proceedings Template.  They should include the title, author, abstract, keywords, thesis research summary and references. Submissions must be in PDF format.

Submissions should be well organized and clearly specify:

• the problem(s) that the proposed research is addressing and how this fits into the bigger picture
• the aims and objectives of the research
• the methodology to achieve the objectives and the proposed solution(s), including a brief description of work done so far and a tentative plan for future work
• the main contribution(s) of the research to iTV and justification why the contribution will lead to a PhD

Key Dates

• Doctoral Consortium submissions due: August 4, 2008
• Notifications of acceptance: September 1, 2008
• Final copy due: September 15, 2008

Review Criteria

The Doctoral Consortium contribution will be judged against the following criteria:

• Originality of work
• Importance of the work for setting up the fundamental aspects of television experiences
• Rigorousness and soundness of results, gained or expected
• Balance between theoretical and experimental results

Confidentiality of Submissions

Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference, October 22, 2008. Submissions should contain no information or materials that are proprietary at publication time.