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Cross-Cutting Challenges

New this year at the 2018 Haptics Symposium is a submission category called Cross-Cutting Challenges. The goal of this set of sessions is to come together to focus on interdisciplinary challenges (“themes”) calling for united solutions from the haptics community. Drawn from an open solicitation, two themes have been selected.

The Concept

Structure: AM and PM sessions, each focused on a single theme

  • Keynote talks (4 to 5 per session, presented sequentially)
  • Parallel interactive discussions (about 10 in parallel per session) where presenters stand with a poster and/or a laptop and spark new ideas, projects, and teams through personal conversation
  • Ample unstructured discussion time to follow up and expand

Scope: So that participants may develop a holistic understanding of the theme topic, the set of presentations is expected to cover:

  • Recent prior work: synthesize developments in the theme area over a period of years, multiple research teams, and multiple technical disciplines
  • Current work: relate ongoing work to the arc of research in the theme area
  • Future ideas: envision forward-looking, emerging directions requiring interdisciplinary teams 

Participation:

  • Principal Investigators propose themes, organize sessions with the aid of the Cross-Cutting Challenges Chairs, deliver keynote presentations, host interactive discussions, and/or attend
  • Students and Postdocs attend sessions and actively participate!

Points of contact

Manuel Cruz and Gregory Gerling (ccc@hapticssymposium.org)

Keynote and Interactive Discussion Submission Instructions (Due: December 22, 2017)

From now through December 22nd, individual keynote and interactive discussion proposals are being accepted in each of the two chosen theme areas. One of the theme organizers will automatically be a keynote speaker for each theme, unless the proposing team chooses otherwise for some reason. 

Investigators apply to deliver keynote talks (4 to 5 per theme session) and interactive discussions (about 10 per theme session). Those submitting must be a faculty member and/or independent researcher, i.e., holding a Ph.D. degree or equivalent. Note that while theme organizers may want to encourage particular individuals to submit, the selection of individuals within a theme will ultimately be based on finding a representative and coherent cohort of presenters that together create a powerful narrative and inspiring call to action.

Keynote talks

Each keynote talk should synthesize research performed by the presenter (perhaps 3 journal articles and 2 conference papers published over the past few years), and it should be framed in light of the on-going grand challenge as well as the work of others in the field. Specifically, talks should cover the following three components oriented around the cross-cutting challenge theme: 1) related prior work of this investigator done in the last 4-5 years, 2) present work that is in the process of being published in conferences and journals, and 3) forward-looking, emerging directions that the presenter sees as opportunities within this sub-domain. Adequate time should be devoted to each. Each talk will be sequenced appropriately by the organizers and Cross-Cutting Challenges Chairs, and the chosen presenters are expected to coordinate somewhat to craft a coherent message. Speakers should not assume a lay audience, but should dive into the details in presenting work done in their lab.

Interactive discussions

These contributions center around a poster and/or videos and may be led by an independent researcher with support from one or more other researchers from their team. Interactive discussions should cover some of the same type of content as a keynote talk. Proposers should aim to talk a large number of conference participants, so that personal and one-on-one discussions, idea generation, and future team formation might be sparked during this session.

Selection Committee

The selection committee for Keynote Talks and Interactive Discussions consists of three academic members, the Cross-Cutting Challenges Chairs, one conference chair, and that theme’s organizers. The three academic members will be chosen by the Cross-Cutting Challenges Chairs to represent haptic science, applications, and technology.

Submission Materials

Specify (as a single PDF document) the relevant theme, and then give a title, a description that is up to 500 words, and a list of recent publications that will be discussed in the presentation.

Email your submission to ccc@hapticssymposium.org. Each submission will be acknowledged by a confirmation email; please write to us again if you do not receive this response within three business days.