Submission of research papers, research in progress papers and Doctoral Forum applications has now closed.

Research papers

The conference encourages the submission of high quality research papers that have not been previously published and are not under review for another conference or journal. Submissions are welcomed in any of the symposium themes. All accepted research papers will be published in the symposium proceedings by a major publisher.

Submissions will be reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee on the basis of the originality of the research presented, the quality of the theoretical contribution made by the research, the validity and robustness of the methodology chosen, the significance of the results presented and the overall contribution to our understanding of information interaction in context.

Research papers should be submitted through the conference submission website as PDF or postscript documents. Please use the first author's surname as the filename of the pdf. If you are submitting more than one paper add a number after the surname, e.g. smith1.pdf, smith2.pdf.

The first page must contain the title of the paper, an abstract of not more than 150 words, and up to 2 areas taken from the symposium themes. Topic areas are necessary to ensure that your submission is reviewed by appropriate experts in your area of research. All submissions should be anonymous. No page should identify the authors or their affiliations. Authors who cite their previous work should refer to themselves in the third person, e.g. “In [9] Smith and Akkerman demonstrated that…”.

Papers should contain at most 5000 words. Papers that are clearly longer than the limit will be rejected immediately. All correspondence with authors will be through email.

Research in progress papers

Research in progress papers should describe novel research that is at an early stage in development and is not sufficiently mature to warrant a full paper. These papers should describe research that is ongoing not merely proposals for research. Research in progress papers will be reviewed as ongoing research but quality criteria will apply as to the full papers. Submissions in this category should be formatted as per the instructions for full papers (above), the maximum length of research in progress papers is 2000 words. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference but will be given a shorter time for presentation than the full research papers.

The working language of the conference is English.

Queries regarding paper submissions should be directed to the Programme Chair: Ian Ruthven.