Late-breaking is news that occurs at the very end of a regular reporting period. It may be a breaking story, or an item of urgent importance that would not normally be reported within the context of standard broadcasting procedures. In North America, until the advent of 24-hour news networks, television and radio stations used to interrupt their programming only for very urgent breaking news stories such as landfalling hurricanes or a presidential assassination. Instead, “cut-ins” or alert crawls (on lower thirds) were used to relay important but not immediately time-critical information.
MDS’s Late-Breaking Abstract program recognizes novel, critically important research that is relevant to the CHI community but which was completed after the regular abstract submission deadline. Accepted Late-Breaking Abstracts will be presented in a special session during the International Congress and will be included as a semi-archival publication. The selection process for these abstracts strictly adheres to the criteria outlined in the guidelines. The selection committee will not consider studies that are suited to the main e-poster sessions or which involve clinical/scientific issues that are generally well reported in other venues, such as case reports, qualitative surveys, reviews of existing treatments, rating scale validation, small confirmatory studies, or research proposals.