Publishing in HCI - how to avoid publish AND perish… and take the next step in a research career.

ABSTRACT:
What is a ‘personal publications strategy’? How should that strategy change across the course of a career (i.e. commencing PhD student, mature PhD student, then post doc->mid->late career researchers? What is the right balance between quality and quantity in publishing? What is ‘ERA’ and why should we care? Do I really have to worry about impact factors, citation counts and journal/conference tiers?

If you worry about any of these things, or anything to do with publishing in HCI, then this is the seminar for you! Run as a panel, we’ll allow plenty of time for you to ask your own questions…so come armed as there’s a risk we might actually answer a few of them!

BIO:
Steve Howard is the Head of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne.

FORMAT: Panel and discussion
VENUE: University of Melbourne, IDEA LAB, level 4, 111 Barry Street, Carlton
DATE and TIME: Friday 29th August 2008, 3-4 pm

For more information visit http://www.dis.unimelb.edu.au/research/groups/interactiondesign/seminars.html.