Contributions can be technical, theoretical, conceptual, experimental, or survey. Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the conference tracks.
Important Dates
• Congress: 15, 16 and 17 October 2020
• Early registration: August 1, 2020
• Camera-ready papers due : July 16, 2020
• Notification to authors: June 29, 2020
• Paper Submission: May 14, 2020 June 7, 2020
Submission Categories and Process
DTUC’20 invites submissions in the following categories:
• Long Papers: dedicated to long and mid-term research and experiences. The extension ranges from 4 to 6 pages.
• Short Papers: ongoing projects, simulations, tests, experiments, self-critique and reflection. Extension: 2 to 4 pages.
• Posters: innovative discoveries, new systems and approaches. Extension: 2-page description.
• Demos: interactive systems, novel interfaces, emergent approaches to human-computer interaction. Extension: 2-page description.
Submission Format
Please use the ACM Master Template to prepare your proposal.
Important: At the first step you are required to submit as anonymous author for peer-reviewing. That is, leave in blank the Author and Affiliation text of the template. If your proposal is accepted, you will then prepare a final version with your full name and contact details.
Evaluation Process
• All the proposals submitted to any of the five tracks follow a rigorous double-blind evaluation process. This means that both submitters and reviewers are anonymized during the reviewing process.
• The reviewing team consists of members of the scientific committee, whose composition includes scholars, engineers, technicians, specialists, and artists, depending on the track.
• Any submitted paper that includes affiliation information will be automatically discarded for review.
• Instead of submitting initial abstracts, proposals must be sent in a ready-to-print format from the beginning of the evaluation process. This allows to concentrate directly on the content, the research results, the scientific argumentation and methodology.
• The paper review criteria is based on originality, accordance to the theme and topics, scientific/technical contribution, and clarity of presentation.
• Accepted submissions will have the opportunity to make amendments and corrections suggested by the reviewers. Only at this phase, papers are allowed to display affiliation information.
Registration and Publication
• At least one author of accepted proposals is expected to register for the conference.
• Accepted submissions will be published in the DTUC’20 book of proceedings.
ACM will publish the proceedings of DTUC’20 in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series.
Accepted authors will be sent the ACM rights management form and complete instructions.
All rights management forms must be submitted and approved four weeks prior to DTUC’20. After completing their rights management form, authors will be emailed the correct rights text and bibliographic strip to place within their paper. Authors must enter the text into their final paper.
The book of proceedings will be available at the moment of the conference through the ACM Digital Library.
Last edition proceedings:
DTUC ’18. Digital Tools & Uses Congress.
ISBN 978-1-4503-6451-5/18/10
Edited by E. Reyes, S. Szoniecky, A. Mkadmi, G. Kembellec, R. Fournier-S’niehotta, F. Siala-Kallel, M. Ammi & S. Labelle
A selection of best papers will be invited to publish extended versions in form of book chapters under the series Digital Tools & Uses at ISTE & Wiley (indexed by Wiley Online Library).
Call for Workshops
Proposals for workshops should be no more than 1000 words in length and submitted in PDF Format. This should contain the following information.
1. Title and brief technical description of the workshop, specifying the goals and the technical issues that will be the focus of the workshop.
2. A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest and how it complement the main conference
3. The proposed organizing committee and the technical program committee.
4. The workshop submission and processing system
5. Experience of the main organizers in organizing similar events previously
6. Contact details of the main organizers
Notes for the Workshop Organizers:
Workshop chair(s) will be responsible for the following:
1. Producing a web page and a “Call for Papers/Participation” for their workshop. The URL should be sent to the Digital Tools & Uses Congress Workshops chairs. It should mention that at least one author of each accepted submission should attend the workshop and that all workshop participants must pay the appropriate registration fee. The CfP should make it clear that the registration of at least one author is required for the paper to be included in the conference proceedings.
2. Ensure that all workshop papers are a maximum of 2500 words in length. It is the responsibility of the workshop organizers to ensure that this page limit has been fulfilled.
3. Taking full responsibility of workshop submission, reviewing process and decisions
4. The publication of workshop papers will be n the same volume as the main conference.
5. Advertising the workshop beyond the conference web page.
6. Assistance in producing a camera-ready version of the workshop proceedings.
7. If the workshop is too small (i.e. does not attract enough submissions) the Digital Tools & Uses Congress Organizing Committee may propose to merge that workshop with another. So we encourage workshop organizers to attract a large community. In extreme situations we may also cancel workshops if there are insufficient number of submissions, while we may consider the paper for the main tracks.
8. Workshop organizers must ensure that suitable quality measures have been taken to ensure that the accepted papers are of high quality. All papers must be reviewed by an International Committee with a minimum of 2 reviews per paper.
The Digital Tools & Uses Congress Organizing Committee will be responsible for the following:
• Providing a link to a workshop’s local page.
• Providing logistics support and a meeting place for the workshop.
• In conjunction with the organizers, determining the workshop date and time.
• Inclusion of the workshop accepted papers into the main proceedings and provide it to workshop speakers.
