Design Research Seminar 2024

IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay

DRS2024 invites research paper submissions from MDes / BDes / Dual Degree / PhD students and their supervisor faculty members.

A single-blind peer review process will be followed. The submission will be reviewed by faculty members and PhD students of IDC School of Design, who will read the papers, write a detailed review and provide a rating.

The chair for DRS2024 will be Jayesh Pillai and the co-chair will be Khyati Priya (contacts below). They will assign the reviewers and manage the review process.

Stage	Deadline
Submission to supervisor	Mar 18, 2024
Submission in CMT Portal (see instructions below)	Mar 19 - 22, 2024
Review of submissions	Apr 3 - 19, 2024
Notification to authors	Apr 25, 2024
Final paper submission (Camera-ready)	May 1, 2024
DRS grade submission	May 5, 2024

Instructions for Authors

Preparing the submission: Authors should prepare the submission using this DRS2024 Paper Template. The submission should include the name of the student and the name of the supervisor.
Page limit: The page limit for the paper submission from Abstract to Conclusion is 5 to 10 pages including images and tables. Submissions with less than 5 pages and more than 10 pages will be desk-rejected without a review. Authors can add up to another 10 pages for references, annexures and appendices.
Additonal submission materials: Any additional material (such as media files including large images, large collections of images, videos, transcripts, audio files etc.) should be uploaded online and the link(s) to these should be included as references in the submission.
Submission format: Convert your submission and appendices into a single PDF file. Before uploading, please make sure that your PDF file size is less than 20MB.
Uploading the file: Upload your submission (only the PDF of your submission, i.e. not the media files) in the Microsoft CMT portal before the deadline. If you do not already have a CMT account, you will have to create one first. You can update the submission any number of times before the deadline. You will not be able to change the submission after the deadline.
After the deadline: Please note that your reviewers will start reviewing your submission any time after the deadline. As we would like all reviewers to see the same version of the media files (additional materials submitted), and as reviewers may review your work on different days during the review period, you should not update them after the deadline. As the reviewers will be anonymous, you will not be able to inform them either.

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Review Process

The review process will be single-blind. This means that while the reviewers will know the authors of a submission, authors will not know who the reviewers were. The reviewers will provide comments and suggestions for improvement, which will be notified to the authors. The authors will get a chance to submit the final camera-ready version after the review process. Final decision on grades will be made based on the reviews and the ratings. The chairs will manage the discussions between reviewers and make decisions when there are conflicting ratings.

Design Research Seminar 2024

IDC School of Design, IIT Bombay

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