To attend in Winter School the participants should submit a 1-2 pages light Position Paper through submission form ( this is not a peer reviewed conference paper, but a statement regarding your current research idea). The position paper requires the description of participants Current Research Project/or idea of a Project. The position paper should be Double column submission (PDF) in ACM Template (Interim layout) is preferable. Participants should fill the form providing their Area of Interest in Research, Research Motivation, Reason of Attending Summer School and Bio in submission form. The accepted participants will eligible to attend the summer school and will require to present a poster in a session.
Participants will be selected based on the research idea aligning to Winter School speakers research (please, check their bio pages for recent papers), being a undergraduate or graduate student or participants representing industry or academia from a South or South east Asia. Priority given to South Asian students.
Important dates
Call for Winter School Participation: Open on August 1st 2023
Deadline for submission form: September 30th 2023 [APPLICATION CLOSED]
If you do not need a travel grant or Student/Industry based in Sri Lanka pls submit your application through – https://forms.gle/WugjY4p7CJKc8LVc6
Notification of Acceptance: October 20th 2023 [Notifications for travel grant sent] [Notification for acceptance sent]
Contact: colombosigchi@gmail.com if you did not receive notifications
Registration deadline: October 30th 2023 extended to Dec 10th
Winter School dates : 2nd, 3rd and 4th January 2024 from 9AM to 5PM, at University of Colombo, School of Computing (UCSC, Colombo)
Registration Fee
SIGCHI Student member – Free of Charge
SIGCHI Professional member – Free of Charge
Non SIGCHI student – 3500 LKR
Non SIGCHI academic/ Industry – 5000 LKR
*** Registration Fee should be paid in cash at the Registration desk on the 1st day.
*** If you are not a member we encourage you to obtain SIGCHI membership at nominal fee 10USD for students and 15USD for professionals.
*** Limited number of partial and full travel grants available for Students / Graduate students applying from South Asia – please check our FAQs for details.
Human-Computer Interaction is very much underrepresented in South Asia, with fewer opportunities for continents to interact as a coalition. This Winter School will bring together HCI interest researchers, students, academia and the industry in South Asia to discuss and educate about the potential of HCI as a field; HCI research methods, conducting HCI studies, writing papers and publication venues including the travel grant opportunities from SIGCHI. We aim this winter school for undergraduate students, graduate students and aspiring industry practitioners, academia in the South Asian Region. The sessions will provide education about SIGCHI’s wider goals – Promoting the expansion of HCI both globally and locally by bringing in new people to the field, and keeping the HCI field intellectually, technically, and creatively alive.
