Call for Young Researcher's Track and Doctoral Consortium

Continuing the AIED Conference tradition to support young researchers and graduate students members of the AIED community, the Young Researchers Track (YRT) at the AIED 2009 provides opportunities for cross-fertilization of knowledge and ideas from young researchers and graduate students in the many fields that make up this interdisciplinary research area.

The theme of the AIED 2009 conference is Building Learning Systems that Care: From Knowledge Representation to Affective Modeling. In this vein, the AIED 2009 YRT, which might incorporate a Doctoral Consortium, will serve as a forum for new researchers and graduate students to present their work, exchange experiences with peers, discuss ideas for future research and receive feedback from established AIED researchers and the wider AIED community.

The YRT welcomes papers that report on work in progress. Non-student advisors or collaborators should be acknowledged appropriately, as co-authors or otherwise. However, students are requested to honour the spirit of the program by submitting only work for which they are primary investigators. In particular, students pursuing PhD studies should describe research that is at a stage where feedback from the international AIED community might be of value. Thus, it is expected that PhD students will be close to making a PhD research proposal, or have made it already. Further information on the AIED 2009 Doctoral Consortium will appear soon; please stay tuned.

Topics and structure of YRT papers

YRT papers topics should be related to the conference topics (see Call for Papers or the list of topics). Papers should be well organized and structured in a way that demonstrates the links between the concepts presented, and they should describe within a 2 page limit:

• the problem(s) that the proposed research is addressing and how it fits into the bigger picture
  
• the aims and objectives of the research
• the methodology to achieve the objectives and the proposed solution
• the main contribution(s) of the research to the AIED and, when applicable, a justification detailing why the contribution will lead to a PhD.

Format of YRT papers and submission instructions

All papers should be submitted electronically via the conference paper submission system. Submissions should be 2 pages long, including references, and be formatted according to IOS Press guidelines (formatting instructions are available on the IOS Press Authors Corner webpages at: www.iospress.nl/). YRT authors should follow the same format that is used for the main conference as YRT papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
For any questions regarding submissions, please email: gmagoulas@dcs.bbk.ac.uk.

Panel

At the end of the YRT, there will be an international panel, including several senior researchers. Researchers and graduate students participating at the YRT will be asked to provide questions for the panel in advance, such as questions about research and publishing in general, the process of getting a PhD, and/or general research directions in the area.

Important Dates

• YRT papers due: 15 Jan 2009
• Author notification: 16 March 2009
• Camera ready due: 15 April 2009

YRT Chairs

• George Magoulas, University of London, UK
• Tanja Mitrovic, University of Canterbury, New Zealand