ConfShare: A Unified Conference Calendar for Researchers

We propose a web-based academic conference information sharing system that is named “ConfShare”. There are some web services for sharing academic conference information. Researchers are not familiar with the services well. We consider that a major reason is a user interface. A primary user interface for retrieving a conference information in such systems is a keyword search. It is difficult for researchers to find and get conference information stored in the systems. We develop a novel user interface that users can browse and retrieve conference information interactively. The information in an academic conference consists of some attribute information such as a location, an acronym name, submission deadline and notification dates and so on. ConfShare enables users to browse their information and use them for an interactive filtering of conference information. The user interface makes it possible to find and get a conference even if a user has vague demands. Author Keywords Information sharing, Conference calendar, User interface.