Application
To apply to be a student volunteer, please sign up at the ITS SV portal [http://chisv.org/its13/]. If you have any questions/problems, please send email to the Student Volunteer chairs.

Benefits and Duties
If you are an ITS Student Volunteer, you get…

• Free conference registration
• Free hoodie
• Free lunch
• A chance to attend the premier forum for innovations in human-computer interfaces

Student volunteers will be required to help set up and perform needed work during the conference. Duties include: bag stuffing, registration desk, AV assistance, poster and demo setup, badge checking, break monitoring, etc. Volunteers will also need to be available during the conference if tasks come up. Because ITS is single track, SVs usually get to attend most of the sessions, even when working. There will be approximately 14 scheduled hours per SV.

Please note that ITS and UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Oct. 8-11, 2013) are held back-to-back this year, so you may want to consider applying as a UIST 2013 student volunteer.

Please see our corporate sponsorship page for more details.

• Intended location for the conference
• Suggestions for program chair – include brief bio
• Suggestions for conference chair – include brief bio
• Brief statement of chairs’ experience of running conferences
• Who will edit the proceedings (default = both chairs)
• Commitment to publish the proceedings with ACM DL
• What are the initial planned dates
• Which research groups will support the conference
• Which sponsors are likely and how will you attract sponsorship
• Any direction/theme change you would envisage [default=none]
• Any new features/tracks you would like to include or other changes you would like to make to the conference [default=none]
• Brief description (1/2 – 1 page) of conference venue
• Brief description (1/2 – 1 page) of conference city and region/country
• Rough idea of likely costs of (estimates only):
• Approximate registration rates
• Venue hire
• Travel costs and rough times from main world cities,
• A basic decent hotel for 3 nights

We would like to thank our web chair Jim Young for his hard work in getting this site underway and for managing it over the next two years. Thanks to Aaron Genest our social media chair for coordinating the online social presence with Google+, Facebook, Twitter and more. We would also like to thank our publicity chair Paul Marshall for arranging the postcard you see below. Printed copies of these are now being used to advertise the conference around the world at upcoming conferences. If you would like some of these postcards please do let us know. Thanks also to our PC chair Miguel Nacenta for his logo work and to our local chair Per Ola Kristensson for his hard work organising a multitude of things. A conference such as this is the culmination of work and often unseen efforts of many people. As general chairs we aim to highlight these efforts here through this blog over the next two years.

We would also like to thank all of our program chairs who over the coming months will be developing their plans in the form of committees, timelines, calls for papers all of which we aim to publish before the ITS conference in 2012. Following this will be the work of reviewing and determining the final program.

Giulio has already been to visit St Andrews for two days in late April 2012 to help assess the various conference facilities and plans for 2013. Aaron would like to thank Giulio for working on this conference with him, his valuable experience is already helping make our plans that much better!

ITS 2013 Postcard

We look forward to welcoming everyone to St Andrews in Scotland in October of 2013 for what promises to be a stellar international conference. Please follow us on Google+, Facebook or Twitter or check back to this site (or use RSS) to follow our developments over the coming weeks and months.

Giulio Jacucci and Aaron Quigley
June 13th 2012.