Call for Papers
IMCL2023 Doctoral Consortium (DC)

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Overview

The IMCL2023 Doctoral Consortium (DC) is an interdisciplinary workshop that provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present their research projects and get valuable feedback from a panel of distinguished researchers. We invite doctoral students (especially those in the first years of their research) in technology-enhanced learning, learning technologies, mobile communication technologies, infrastructures and services and their implications for education, business, governments and society, and related areas to apply for this unique opportunity to share their ideas and current work with senior researchers in the field and other students as well.

The IMCL2023 DC will be organized as a special session, dedicated to DC Students as part of the program of the main IMCL2023 conference. During the Doctoral Consortium Special Session, each participant (i.e., PhD student) will have the opportunity to present ongoing research to the audience of the main conference by means of an oral presentation. In this way, PhD students can interact, share ideas, and receive constructive feedback from fellow students, established researchers, and the members of the DC program committee on topics of research, career and trends in ICT in Education.

Topics

• Technology-enhanced learning
• Learning technologies
• Interactive communication technologies and infrastructures
• Mobile Applications
• AI in Education

Contribution Type

Proposals for participation in the Doctoral Consortium can be submitted as a complete paper Research Summary (8–10 pages). They should address the following aspects (possibly organized in separate sections):

• Personal information of the prospective attendee: Name, last name, email, name of the Doctoral program and institutional affiliation.
• Introduction and Motivation: The main problem you are trying to tackle and why it is relevant.
• Background: What is the state-of-the-art in relation to existing solutions to the problem.
• Goals and Results: Advances beyond the state-of-the-art in terms of your specific contribution and research plan, as well as expected achievements and - optionally possible evaluation metrics to establish the level of success of your results.
• Research Plan: Current status of the research plan, and already accomplished results (if any).
• Bibliographical References.

All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings published through Springer, provided the author pays an “Author – Student” registration fee.

More info for the paper preparation and the templates is available at: https://imcl-conference.org/current/paper_preparation.php. For further questions, please contact the Doctoral Consortium chairs: Jenny Pange (jpagge@uoi.gr) and Thrasyvoulos Tsiatsos , (tsiatsos@csd.auth.gr).

Presentation Types

IMCL2023 is planned as an onsite event. However, distant (online) presentations for Doctoral Consortium papers are supported.

Proceedings

All Doctoral Consortium paper submissions are subject to a double-blind reviewing process. Only accepted and presented special session papers will appear in the proceedings if they have been uploaded before the deadlines. The conference proceedings will be published as IMCL2023 Proceedings in the Springer series "Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems". More info is available at: https://www.imcl-conference.org/current/proceedings.php

Important Dates

29 May 2023	Submission of Special Session proposals
15 Jun 2023	EXTENDED Submission of: (i) structured abstracts (for full papers, short papers) for the main conference
19 Jun 2023	Notification of acceptance for abstracts for the main conference.
01 Aug 2023	EXTENDED Submission of: (i) complete papers for all submission types (ii) proposals for round tables, workshops, tutorials
24 Aug 2023	Notification of acceptance
07 Sep 2023	Late Paper and Doctoral Consortium submission
11 Sep 2023	Late Paper and Doctoral Consortium notification of acceptance
20 Sep 2023	Camera-ready due & author registration deadline
16 Oct 2023	Submission for the 1st round of the competition
23 Oct 2023	Notification of acceptance for the 2nd round of the competition
30 Oct 2023	Team members registration for participation in the 2nd round of the competition
09 Nov 2023	IMCL2023 Conference Opening