Paper Formatting Instructions

Assistive Technology
Spring 2002
Prof. Jen Mankoff
GSI: Hesham Kamel

Your paper must have a title, followed by an unnumbered section entitled “Abstract”, which summaries the main idea of your paper. The Abstract should be no more than 5 or 6 sentences. Number the sections of your paper, for example, Section 1, Section 2, Section 3. Section 1 is your introduction. The last paragraph of your introduction should be an outline of the rest of your paper. You may organize Section 2 onward as you wish. The last section before the references should be your Conclusion. The conclusion should be no more than 10 sentences long.

Define any acronym that you use before you use it. For example, “Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) have become increasingly popular in the last 10 years.”

Provide your references in the following format:
Within your paper, refer to the articles and/or books from which you’ve gotten information using a number in square brackets (for example, [1]) that corresponds to the number you give the bibliographic reference in your “References” section. Put the number in square brackets at the end of the first sentence that uses that information. For example:

“Simply transforming a visual medium into a non-visual format is not a feasible method for assisting visually impaired users to communicate graphical information [1].”

Example of the corresponding properly-formatted reference to a paper appearing in the proceedings of a conference:

References
[1] Kamel, H.M. and J.A. Landay, A Study of Blind Drawing Practice: Creating Graphical Information Without the Visual Channel, in Proceedings of Assets 2000, pp. 34-41.