Position vs Research Papers at BELIV’10
There has been some confusion about the difference between position and research papers for BELIV’10, as a potential participant asks:
I’m thinking about submitting a paper to BELIV, but I’m not sure what
category to put it in – it’s a bit more than a position paper but not
quite a full research paper – i.e. I think it’s a nice idea and it’s
worked for me in the past, but it doesn’t have any formal validation.
Am I better of submitting it as a position paper (which I presume has
a high change of being accepted) or should I try for a full paper?
(and can I still submit it as a position paper if it is rejected?)
Our co-chair Enrico thoughtfully responds:
I understand we have a problem here, you are the second person to ask. Of course, even if we have had very good quality papers in the past, BELIV is just a workshop and we don’t expect lots of validation or strong results. What we are aiming at is more well-reasoned, innovative and, if possible, thought provoking, ideas.
So, if you think your paper has these characteristics, go on and send a full paper! Position papers are just a way to say: “hey I want to participate and this is what I have to put on the table when we will discuss”. And if anything goes wrong, you can of course always convert your paper in a position paper, no worries.
In any case I suggest to you to give a look to the papers of past editions. Many good papers don’t have any formal validation at all. You can for instance give a look to Catherine’s paper on MILC methodology (BELIV’06), or the one of Heidi and Tamara in BELIV’08 on the utility of empirical studies, or the one of Petra et al. on Grounded Evaluation.
BELIV 2010 Program Commitee announced…
BELIV 2010 continues the tradition of our workshop’s extremely strong program committee. We are proud to announce and thank our current PC members:
Remco Chang (UNC Charlotte, USA)
Carla Dal Sasso Freitas (Instituto de Informatica UFRGS, Brazil)
Jean-Daniel Fekete (INRIA, France)
Georges Grinstein (UMass Lowell, USA)
Jeffrey Heer (Stanford, USA)
Nathalie Henry (Microsoft Research, USA)
Petra Isenberg (Univ. of Calgary, Canada)
Silvia Miksch (Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria)
Tamara Munzner (Univ. of British Columbia, Canada)
Chris North (Virginia Tech, USA)
George Robertson (Microsoft Research, USA)
Jean Scholtz (Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA)
John Stasko (Georgia Tech, USA)
Jarke Van Wijk (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands)
Remember: Submissions to BELIV 2010 are due November 30! Full details are available on our workshop page.
BELIV ‘10 Submissions Due November 30
BELIV 2010 submissions are due November 30. Similar to 2008, you may submit full research papers or position papers. The complete details are on the BELIV 2010 website: http://www.beliv.org/beliv2010/
- Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2009 (5:00pm PDT)
- Notification of acceptance: December 21, 2009
- Camera ready papers due: Mid-March
- Workshop: April 10-11, 2008
- Research papers are longer (4-8 pages) and present new work and unpublished results. Research papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and selected according to their novelty, quality and relevance. Authors of accepted research papers will have a chance to revise their papers before they are published in the **ACM digital library**.
- Position papers are short statements (1-2 pages) describing a participant’s relevant experience and ideas that can contribute to the discussion during the workshop. They will be made available to the workshop participants only.
Help Shape BELIV 2010! Take our survey…
In order to make BELIV 2010 as productive and lively as possible, we are seeking your input on how the workshop should be organized.
Please take our survey and share your thoughts!
The BELIV Tradition Continues!
The BELIV workshop will once again be taking place at CHI! It will be held in Atlanta on April 10-11. For full details, please check out the BELIV 2010 Wiki.
BELIV at CHI 2010