A nice LaTeX template for typesetting CHI Extended Abstracts

Please read the README file!

Updates

1. [Feb 21, 2015] This template has been incorporated to the official SIGCHI github repository. Please go to that repo for up-to-date templates.
2. [Jul 12, 2012] Files moved to the sigchi-latex Google code repository.
3. [Feb 13, 2012] Added compatibility with the archival template (\toappear and \confname commands).
4. [Dec 14, 2011] This template is also the official LaTeX SIGCHI EA template :)
5. [Dec 9, 2011] Previously, references in the examples were formated by using the (standard) abbrv BST style. Now the ACM Transactions bibliography style is used instead, as in the MS Word CHI archival + EA templates.
6. [Jul 15, 2011] Colors for citations (red), URLs (pink), and cross-references (blue) were set on purpose to remark that they can be clickable (navigable). But of course you can set them to black. Read the README file for more information.
7. [Jul 15, 2011] This template is now the official LaTeX CHI EA template :)

Contents

• Introduction
• History
• Features
• Examples
• Download
• Feedback

Introduction

There are a few people in the HCI community that use the LaTeX system to write reseach papers, because of a number of reasons such as its really high quality, stability, or portability. LaTeX is the language of scientific publications, and it's widely supported by the main CS conference publishers (e.g., ACM, IEEE, Springer, etc.)

The CHI conference is the most relevant venue for HCI researchers worldwide, and CHI organizers do provide a decent LaTeX template for archival submissions (i.e., papers and notes) — although their LaTeX templates are unsupported, and they are making no commitment that such templates will be available in future years.

History

Manas Tungare released in 2009 a LaTeX template for preparing EA submissions. However, it did not support many features that were otherwise available in the CHI LaTeX archival format, making the typesetting of CHI EAs a bit tedious by using that template. Therefore, I decided to rewrite the class file almost from scratch, trying to achieve thus a more robust and flexible template (take a look at the examples).

Currently the CHI EA template is used for submitting workshops, courses, case studies, doctoral consortium, panels, interactivity, SIGs, works-in-progress, and the student design competition. This template is also used in other HCI venues, such as mobileHCI or CSCW.

Features

• A lightweight template with a very simple structure.
• Works on basic LaTeX distributions (tested on Linux Ubuntu 9.04 and Windows XP).
• Nice handling of marginal notes and footnotes.
• Uses two 'real' columns.
• Enhanced PDF bookmarking.
• Adheres to the ACM archival format, so you don't need to change your LaTeX markup significantly.
• Font sizes, spacing between paragraphs, and look&feel are quite similar to the CHI template for MS Word.
• Text paragraphs are not justified (according to CHI MS Word template).
• Supports an optional ACM teaser image on the first page.
• Takes care of some small details that will make your life easier when typesetting your CHI EA.

Examples

• CHI2012 sample PDF and its corresponding source file.
• Another CHI2012 sample and source. This file includes a teaser image and some "tricks" to handle figures. Also, hyperref colors are set to black.
• Yet another CHI2012 sample PDF with its source file. This one has a long copyright statement, includes a Side Bar (marginpar) example and a couple of tables.

Download

1. ZIP file: http://sigchi-latex.googlecode.com/files/SIGCHI2012LaTeX-EA.zip
2. Checkout the sources: svn checkout http://sigchi-latex.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/SIGCHI2012LaTeX-EA/ sigchi-latex-ea

Dependencies

This template uses some packages that your LaTeX distribution could be missing. They are: hyperref, caption, url, titlesec, footmisc, and bibspacing. You can put these files in the same directory as your source tex file, or download them from CTAN. You can also install such packages in your TeX system for better portability. Additionally, I recommend the balance package to better equalize the last page (both example files above make use of it: be sure that you have that package installed before compiling them).

Feedback

If you do like this template, or want to share your thoughts about possible issues, modifications, etc. please let me know by sending an email to llt AT acm DOT org.

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