Call for Posters

NOTICE – Poster Deadline Extended to Friday March 31st, 2017, 11:59 pm PST.

Graphics Interface (GI) 2017, the 43rd annual conference in co-operation with ACM SIGCHI AND SIGGRAPH, will be held in Edmonton, Alberta from May 16th to May 19th, 2017. GI is the longest running conference in the field, consistently attracting high-quality submissions on recent advances in computer graphics, human-computer interaction (HCI), and visualization.

Poster submissions are well-suited to on-going work and work with modest contributions. They offer authors an opportunity to present and discuss methods, results and/or future extensions of presented work. A Best Poster Award will be awarded at the conference.

For more information on Graphics Interface visit http://graphicsinterface.org/

Preview of the Conference

GI 2017 will be held in conjunction with Computer and Robot Vision (CRV) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as part of AI/GI/CRV 2017. A single registration provides access to all keynotes, invited and paper talks, as well as a common poster and demo session of the three conferences. GI 2017 will have joint sessions for the graphics and HCI tracks.

Keynotes

  • Andy Wilson, Microsoft Research
  • Karol Myszkowski, Max-Planck-Institut fuer Informatik
  • Sylvain Paris, Adobe Systems

Invited Speaker Series Talks

  • Lyn Bartram, Simon Fraser University
  • Alec Jacobson, University of Toronto
  • Ed Lank, University of Waterloo
  • Derek Nowrouzezahrai, McGill University
  • Tony Tang, University of Calgary
  • Nils Thuerey, Technische Universitaet Muenchen

These talks are in addition to those given by winners of the 2017 CHCCS Achievement Award and the 2016 Bill Buxton and Alain Fournier Ph.D. dissertation awards.

Workshops

The conference will be preceded on the 16th by a number of workshops, which will be advertised separately. These include:
-The Second Canadian HCI Curriculum Workshop organized by Cosmin Munteanu (University of Toronto, Mississauga) and Olivier St-Cyr (University of Toronto).

Deadlines

  • Poster Deadline (Extended): Friday March 31st, 2017, 11:59 pm PST
  • Author notification: Monday, April 4th, 2017

Submission Information

Submissions should not be anonymous, but otherwise use the GI conference format (link below), and not exceed 2 pages. A draft of the poster can optionally be added to the submission. Submissions should be converted to PDF, and be uploaded to the Precision Conference system at https://precisionconference.com/~gi/ by 11:59 p.m. Pacific Time on March 28th, 2017. The PCS system will be open for uploading submissions beginning on March 1st.

GI Submission formatting instructions: http://graphicsinterface.org/conference/2017/submissions/formatting-instructions/