CHItaly 2021
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Frontiers of HCI
11-13 July, Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) and online (www)
Camera-Ready Instructions
ACM is revising its Publication Workflow and Article Templates for the article submission and publication process. As part of this process, ACM is switching to a single-column manuscript for submission and a camera-ready version format. The purpose of the updated process is to increase the accessibility of articles published in the ACM Digital Library.
The following instructions will help you in formatting the camera-ready version of your paper. Please, read all of them carefully before submitting it. This flowchart summarizes all steps required to complete this process:
General Tips
Please do not email about a missing eRights form until 5 days prior the initial TAPS submission deadline (May 10th).
- ACM provide best practice guidelines for the submission process with TAPS: https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/taps-best-practices
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Have you completed the ACM e-Rights review form for your submission? Did you check that all the information in that form is correct?
As CHItaly will be a hybrid conference, we emphasize that authors should agree to videotaping in the e-Rights form to attend virtually the conference. If you have not received an email from rightsreview@acm.org until a week before the initial TAPS submission deadline, check the contact author(s)'s junk or spam email folders and complete the form promptly. If the e-Rights review form can not be located, email proceedings.chitaly2021@gmail.com with your Paper ID number, title, and correct contact author's valid email address. - All submissions must comply with the ACM SIG proceedings templates and formatting.
- Be sure that all 3rd party material is properly documented. Please review the copyright policy.
- If you have questions or problems, please contact the proceedings co-chairs at the following email address: proceedings.chitaly2021@gmail.com
- After completing the e-Rights form, you will receive an email from tapsadmin@aptaracorp.awsapps.com with a link through which you can access TAPS. Have you received this email? If not, check the contact author(s)'s junk or spam email folders. If the access link can not be located, email proceedings.chitaly2021@gmail.com with your Paper ID number, title, and correct contact author's valid email address.
- Submit your paper to The ACM Publishing System (TAPS) using the link sent to you by email.
Submission Deadlines
The submission deadlines for the production of the proceedings are:
- Initial submission to TAPS: May 10th
- Final submission addressing any TAPS issues: May 24th
Deadlines refer to 23:59 (11:59 pm) in the CEST (Central European Summer Time) time zone. We kindly encourage the authors to start the submission process as soon as possible, to tackle any issue with TAPS well before the final deadline.
ACM Templates for Camera Ready
Your camera-ready submission must be formatted according to the new standard ACM SIG proceedings format. This is the same format you have already used for the original submission (as in the CHItaly’s call for papers), but you may need to perform some minor changes, detailed below. Further, the authors are required to include a proper classification for the paper according to the ACM Classification System (CCS). Additional information on how to use CCS is available in this dedicated webpage.
Word Instructions and Primary Article Templates
Starting from your accepted manuscript, download and attach the following template to the paper.
Please choose the correct version of the ACM Primary Article Template depending on the version of Word you are using. Follow the instructions detailed in the ACM Instructions for Applying the Primary Article Template document for attaching this template to your accepted paper. The same instructions are also reported in the video tutorial below:
In addition, based on how the ACM e-Rights form was completed, paste the copyright macro you received in the email confirmation for getting the right copyright notice in your paper.
LaTeX Instructions and Primary Article Template
If you did not, please, use the latest version of the Primary Article Template – LaTeX (previously called: “Master” Template) to create your submission. You must use the "manuscript" option with the \documentclass[manuscript]{acmart} command to generate the output in a single-column format which is required for a camera-ready submission. Please see the LaTeX documentation and ACM's LaTeX best practices guide for further instructions.
To ensure 100% compatibility with The ACM Publishing System (TAPS), please restrict the use of packages to the whitelist of approved LaTeX packages.
After completion of the ACM e-Rights form, you will receive another email from rightsreview@acm.org which contains the commands that need to be inserted into your final LaTeX file in order to generate the proper rights statement and Bibstrip data. Please do not enter the page numbers.
Page Limits
The following page limits refer to the single-column format for submission to TAPS.
- Long Paper: 10 pages plus 2 extra pages for references
- Short Paper: 6 pages plus 2 extra pages for references
Paper Metadata
- Double-check that your title and abstract fields in the TAPS submission page match the text in your paper.
- Be sure that the title is in Initial Caps. Initial Caps Meaning First Letter of the Main Words Should be Made Capital Letters. Capitalize the First Letter of Main Words in the Title (Most Nouns), except a, an, the, conjunctions (and, but, or, for, …), and prepositions (of, to, in, on, …).
- Insert the author's name, affiliation, and email in the paper.
Accessibility Guidelines
While working on your final document, please keep the following in mind:
- Published papers must follow the accessibility guidelines presented by ACM on the ACM Templates page.
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All images and figures should have text descriptions (“alt text”)
- ACM provides general guidance on creating and adding figure descriptions on the Describing Figures for ACM Publications page.
- You may also reference the SIGACCESS Guide on Describing Figures for additional suggestions regarding figure descriptions.
HTML proofs should support most accessibility features, but TAPS does not yet fully support automatic integration of accessibility features into your PDF proof. When you receive your proofs for approval, you may update the PDF document with accessibility features and return it by attaching it in a reply to the original email. For making your PDF accessible, please reference the CHI 2021 guide on Making Your Final PDF Accessible . This guide assumes Adobe Acrobat Pro, so you may be unable to add these features without access to this software.
If you have any questions or are in need of assistance regarding the accessibility guidelines, you may email the Proceedings Chairs at proceedings.chitaly2021@gmail.com
Camera-Ready Submission
You should submit a single ZIP file containing ALL your source files (e.g., *.tex, *.bib, *.sty, and all figures for Latex Users or the .docx file for Word users). To upload these files into TAPS, follow the instructions presented in the video tutorial (also reported below) or in this document . Before uploading the ZIP file and if you used Word, please, double check to have completed the validation, as mentioned above (in the “ACM Templates for Camera Ready” section).
The contact author will receive the 'Notification to upload your paper to the ACM TAPS' email from TAPS, in which the system will ask you to submit your source files and provide a unique link through which you can access TAPS (your specific author dashboard). In the top of your author dashboard TAPS provides the information about "Proceeding Acronym", "Paper ID" and "Title of Paper". You can upload a zip file in TAPS for further processing and the ZIP file naming should be like ProceedingAcronym–PaperId.zip. It is important to follow strictly all the instructions of file structure and naming of the zip file that should be uploaded on TAPS.
The publishing system produces automatically the traditional PDF output as well as ACM's new responsive HTML5 design. Within 24 hours after submitting the .zip file, the contact author will receive the 'PDF and HTML Proofs: available for review' email notifying that the proofs for the published versions of your paper (both PDF and HTML5 versions) are available for your review and approval. Note that TAPS will generate the output PDF using the double-column format, which follows the "sigconf" proceedings template. TAPS receives the information from ACM's system regarding which composition layout needs to be followed for the papers in your proceedings (i.e., "sigconf" in this case) and applies the required style internally.
If you find that the PDF and/or HTML file(s) did not convert correctly, follow the instructions presented in the author dashboard.
Should you have any questions or issues going through the instructions above, please contact support at confsupport@aptaracorp.com for both LaTeX and Microsoft Word inquiries.
Publication in the Proceedings
In order to include your paper in the proceedings of CHItaly 2021 and to schedule your presentation in the conference program, at least one of the authors MUST register for the conference. Further, at least one author MUST attend the conference to present the work. Make sure to use your institutional email address when registering (the same email address used in your paper). This will help us showcase speaker profiles alongside their paper in the conference platform.
Proceeding Chairs
- Davide Spano, University of Cagliari, Italy (proceedings.chitaly2021@gmail.com)
- Luigi De Russis, Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy (proceedings.chitaly2021@gmail.com)