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Call for Demos

The RecSys demo session provides an exciting way for researchers and developers to present new recommender ideas, show off their work, and get valuable feedback from the recommender systems community. We invite demonstrations of developments in all aspects of recommender systems, including (but not limited to):

• Interaction techniques (preference elicitation interfaces, recommendation presentation, explanations, and more)
• Tools for development and analysis of recommender systems (design tools, evaluation systems, analytics tools)
• Innovative applications of recommender systems
• Recommender experiments (showing something new to RecSys attendees could be a valuable source of data on user interaction with your recommender concept)

RecSys demos provide innovators and researchers a unique opportunity to get feedback from the recommender systems community on their ideas. It can even be an chance to collect evaluation data; if you have a system in need of evaluation, why not take advantage of the conference attendees. We particularly welcome demonstrations that will include conference attendee participation (possibly encouraging participants to register before the conference date). Such demonstrations can be a valuable test bed for a wide variety of applications such as recommending social connections, group-based recommenders of restaurants, research papers to read, your next co-author or even your next co-founder. We hope the opportunity to engage the conference attendees will inspire creative and novel demonstrations.

RecSys has an excellent history of being well-attended by industry representatives -- past conferences have had attendees and presenters from Ebay, Pandora, Twitter, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Netflix, Amazon and IBM. The blend of industry and academic attention provides an excellent environment to demonstrate and discuss your latest invention or idea. Taking advantage of this environment, the demo track is particularly useful for several groups:

• Researchers wanting to allow attendees to interact with their work, not just see it presented, and possibly gather usage data for feedback.
• Deployed recommender systems available to interact with.
• Early stage start-ups looking to showcase their ideas and gain feedback and exposure.

Important Dates

• April 23, 2012: Submission deadline
• May 21, 2012: Acceptance notifications
• June 25, 2012: Camera-ready submission

Submissions

Demos should be submitted via e-mail to demo2012@recsys.acm.org and must include:

1. A two page, camera-ready extended abstract describing the demonstrated technology for publication in the conference proceedings (proceedings are published by ACM; use the ACM SIG format used by the long & short papers to format your abstract). For formatting templates please see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates.
2. A one-page summary of the demo system and the required setup and any additional user engagement envisioned such as pre-registration of attendees. If the system will feature an installable component (e.g. mobile app) or web site for users to use throughout or after the conference, please mention this; exact URLs and installation instructions can be provided as the conference approaches. The summary should also provide information about the presenter(s), including their relationship to the project.
3. A video of your system in action. (optional)

Demonstrations will be prominently featured during the 2012 RecSys conference. In addition to presenting during an interactive reception session, we will consider featuring demos during other parts of the conference as well, for example during breaks. Demo proposals may include such requests.

We look forward to a great demo session this year.

Demo Chairs

Elizabeth Daly, IBM Research, Ireland
Michael Ekstrand, University of Minnesota, USA