Call for Papers

is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The purpose of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA) is to bring together professionals, academics and students who are interested in the advancement of research and practical applications of interaction design & human-computer interaction. Four parallel tracks will be held, covering different aspects of Computer-Human Interaction, including Interaction Design, Human Factors, Entertainment, Cognition, Perception, User-Friendly Software and Systems, Pervasive Technologies and Interactive Devices.

Papers describing original work on advanced methods, prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general survey papers indicating future directions are encouraged. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the Proceedings of CHIRA, which will be placed on at least one Digital Library and sent for indexation by the major international indexes.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. HUMAN FACTORS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
2. INTERACTIVE DEVICES
3. INTERACTION DESIGN
4. ADAPTIVE AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

AREA 1: HUMAN FACTORS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

User Preferences and Customization
Security and Privacy
Ergonomics
User Behaviour Analysis
Modelling Human Factors
User Experience Evaluation
Computing with Social Trust
Decision Support Systems
Collaborative Systems
Interaction Data and Process Mining
Healthcare Applications
Usability
Entertainment
Social Computing
Accessibility

AREA 2: INTERACTIVE DEVICES

Ubiquitous Computing
Modelling Interactive Devices
Haptic and Tangible Devices
Conversational Speech Interfaces
3D Interaction
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Interactive Surfaces
Wearable Sensors
Mobile Devices and Services
Human-Robot Interaction
Brain-Computer Interfaces
Gesture-Based Interaction
EEG Signal Processing

AREA 3: INTERACTION DESIGN

User Experience Design
Web Design and Accessibility
Accessible and Adaptive Interaction
Design and Evaluation
Interaction Design Modelling
Collaboration and Interaction Design
Service Science and Interaction Design
Mobile Computer-Human Interaction
User-Centered Interaction Design Patterns
Situated Interaction
Cognitive Interaction
Design and Creativity Support Software
Affective Computing
Multimedia and Multimodal Interaction
User-Friendly Software

AREA 4: ADAPTIVE AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

Visualization Tools
Natural Language Processing
Recommendation Systems
Information Retrieval
Computational Intelligence
Modelling Adaptive and Intelligent Systems
Context-Aware Systems
Intelligent User Interfaces
Cognition, Communication and Interaction
Learning in Virtual Worlds
Machine Learning
Deep Learning Applications
Affective Systems

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Albrecht Schmidt, Ludwig-Maximilians Universutät München (LMU), Germany, Germany
Pattie Maes, MIT, United States, United States
Anton Nijholt, University of Twente, Netherlands, Netherlands

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations and an excessive number of co-authors.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

SECRETARIAT

CHIRA Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 184
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: chira.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://chira.scitevents.org

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Larry Constantine, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal
Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria

PROGRAM CHAIR

Hugo Plácido da Silva, IT- Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Iyad Abu Doush, American University of Kuwait, Kuwait
Christopher Kumar Anand, Mcmaster University, Canada
Nizar Banu P. K., Christ University, India
John Brooke, Independent Researcher, United Kingdom
Eric Castelli, LIG Grenoble, France
Christine Chauvin, Université de Bretagne Sud, France
Jun Dong Cho, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea, Republic of
Ahyoung Choi, Gachon University, Korea, Republic of
Yang-Wai Chow, University of Wollongong, Australia
Cesar Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia
Arzu Coltekin, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland, Switzerland
Lizette de Wet, University of the Free State, South Africa
Joerg Doerr, Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany
Andrew Duchowski, Clemson University, United States
Achim Ebert, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Vania V. Estrela, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil
Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany
Diego Gachet, European University of Madrid, Spain
Valentina Gatteschi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Gheorghita Ghinea, Brunel University London, United Kingdom
Toni Granollers, University of Lleida, Spain
Martin Hitz, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Sadanori Ito, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan
M.-Carmen Juan, Instituto Ai2, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Adi Katz, SCE - Shamoon College of Engineering, Israel
Gerard Jounghyun Kim, Korea University, Korea, Republic of
Josef F. Krems, Chemnitz University of Technology, Cognitive and Engineering Psychology, Germany
Gerhard Leitner, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Wen-Chieh Lin, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Eurico Ribeiro Lopes, Escola Superior de Tecnologia (EST), Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (IPCB), Portugal
Michael Lyons, Ritsumeikan University, Japan
Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia, Italy
Federico Manuri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Frédéric Mérienne, Arts et Metiers, France
Daniel Mestre, Aix-Marseille University / CNRS, France
Neema Moraveji, Stanford University, United States
Giulio Mori, Institute Information Science Technologies, Italy
Lia Morra, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Max Mulder, TU Delft, Netherlands
Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico
Max North, Kennesaw State University, United States
Francisco Rebelo, ITI/LARSys and CIAUD, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Andrea Resmini, Halmstad University, Sweden
Laura Anna Ripamonti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy
Carsten Röcker, Fraunhofer IOSB-INA, Germany
Andrea Sanna, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Frédéric Vanderhaegen, University of Valenciennes, France
Gualtiero Volpe, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy
Kanliang Wang, Renmin University of China, China
Marcus Winter, University of Brighton, United Kingdom
Diego Zapata-Rivera, Educational Testing Service, United States
Juergen Ziegler, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany
Floriano Zini, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy

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