<br><font size=4 face=" Arial">Call for Experience Reports to ACM CHIMIT'08</font>
<br><font size=3 face=" Arial"><b>ACM CHIMIT'08 (Computer Human Interaction
for Management of Information Technology), November 14-15, 2008, San Diego</b></font>
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<br><font size=3 face=" Arial"><i>CHIMIT'08 is co-located with LISA, only
10 minutes from the LISA conference center. If you will be there you should
consider submitting your experience...</i></font>
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<p><font size=3 face=" Arial">CHIMIT 2008 will include a new experience
report session to share insights from actual practice. Accepted reports
will be presented in a special Experience Report Session, allowing authors
to share and discuss their experience with all symposium participants.
This session is expected to be highly interactive. Experience reports are
non-archival. While reports will not be published in the Symposium Proceedings
and ACM Digital Library they will be available on the Symposium web site,
prior to the symposium start date.</font>
<p><font size=3 face=" Arial"><b>Preparation Guidelines </b></font>
<p><font size=3 face=" Arial"><i>Please submit a<b> 1-2 paragraph summary</i></b><i>
of an experience you can share from the practice of IT management, involving
some kind of interface between people and technology.</i></font>
<p><font size=3 face=" Arial">Additionally, please submit brief answers
to all of the following questions: </font>
<ul>
<li><font size=3 face=" Arial">When did the experience take place?</font>
<li><font size=3 face=" Arial">What was your personal role in the experience?</font>
<li><font size=3 face=" Arial">How many people were involved in or affected
by the experience?</font>
<li><font size=3 face=" Arial">What was the financial or business impact
of the experience?</font>
<li><font size=3 face=" Arial">What do you think is the top insight about
human interfaces for IT management from the experience?</font>
<li><font size=3 face=" Arial">What changes for you or your organization
were motivated by this and/or similar experiences?</font></ul><font size=3 face=" Arial">We
are interested in answers to these questions to evaluate the overall contribution
to the symposium of a discussion of the experience, not because we are
seeking only reports on major events or deep insights. A problem successfully
solved by a couple of sysadmins that illustrates some issue of UI in management
of a complex network is as relevant as a case study of a failure with major
impact but a simple root.</font>
<p><font size=3 face=" Arial">Presentations of accepted reports can include
more details and discussion than is included in the brief summary and answers
submitted. We want to encourage informal storytelling with lots of interaction
during the session.</font>
<p><font size=3 face=" Arial"><b>Submission</b></font>
<p><font size=3 face=" Arial">Experience report submissions should be e-mailed
to the Program Co-Chairs (programchairs@chimit08.org)</font><a href="mailto:programchairs@chimit08.org?subject=CHIMIT08%20Report%20Submission"></a><font size=3 face=" Arial">.
Only PDF version of reports is accepted. All submissions must be received
by the chairs by 5:00pm Pacific Time on July 14, 2008. Submissions received
after this date/time will not be considered. </font>
<p><font size=3 face=" Arial"><i>All submissions will be acknowledged by
e-mail.</i></font>
<p><font size=3 face=" Arial">Authors will be notified on August 18, 2008.
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<p><font size=3 face=" Arial">All questions regarding reports should be
directed to Program Co-Chairs.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face=" Arial">Eser Kandogan</font>
<br><font size=3 face=" Arial">AEleen Frisch</font>
<br><font size=3 face=" Arial">CHIMIT'08 General Chairs</font>