STUDENT DESIGN CHALLENGE


A new challenge event known as the Student Design Challenge is being introduced at i-CREATe 2008 with the inaugural challenge theme – "Human Machine Interface".

Professionals in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) are unique in their ability to impact the quality of people's lives. Tackling real-world problems, HCI researchers and designers - in both academia and industry - face many fascinating challenges in designing usable and enjoyable services, applications, interfaces and environments.

The i-CREATe Student Design Challenge is aimed at meeting three goals:

Prize Rewards for the Challenge
The prize rewards for the top three winners are as follows:

Entry deadline (extended) – 31 March 2008.
Download the i-CREATe 2008 Student Design Challenge Letter of Intent/Entry form HERE.

To enter the challenge, student teams may present either a concept (i.e., a clear, detailed design specification that can be taken to prototype), or a fully realized prototype. Either way, teams must clearly illustrate their design decisions and demonstrate the human-centered design processes that have been followed.

Teams will be assessed on the exposition of methodology, the originality of design, and ability to communicate the proposed solution to the reviewers and the judges. We strongly encourage consideration of:

Owing to the competitive nature of the Student Design Challenge, i-CREATe 2008 will not provide individual mentoring for potential submissions. Student authors may take advantage of mentoring opportunities with faculty and colleagues at their University as long as it remains mentoring and not active participation by the mentors.


Student Team Requirements

This challenge is open to Institute of Higher Learning; which includes Universities, Polytechnics and also Institute of Technical Education. Teams must consist of at least two, but no more than five, students. There is no limit to the number of teams that may compete from any given Institute of Higher Learning.

Submissions are invited from all students at all stages of their university careers, from undergraduate to post-graduate. While not a mandatory requirement, it is strongly encouraged that the teams put forward a multidisciplinary, multi-national team.

All members of the team must provide proof that they were students at the time the work for the challenge was conducted.


Proof of Student Status

To be eligible for the student challenge, participants must provide a signed letter from their academic supervisor confirming that at least 50% of their working week is spent following an academic course of study, and that they were not employed within HCI-related industries when working on the team's submission. All students must provide proof of their student status on or before 31 March 2008. Each team must provide one proof package; please do not submit them individually. You may send your Team proof package via regular or courier mail, or email a file containing scanned copies for each team member. Please send these to:

i-CREATe Student Design Challenge
Kaki Bukit TechPark II
49 Kaki Bukit View
Singapore 415973
SINGAPORE


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