HCI International News, Number 104, November 2020

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HCII 2021 HIGHLIGHTS

• A virtual event
• Important Deadlines - extended deadline for paper proposals!
• Conference Details
• Keynote speech by Michitaka Hirose
• Registration

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

• Book Review: TECH STRESS How Technology Is Hijacking Our Lives, Strategies for Coping, and Pragmatic Ergonomics
• Recent News and Articles
• About HCI International NEWS

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HCII 2021: A virtual event

With everyone's health and safety in mind as a top priority, HCII2021 will be organized and run as a virtual conference.

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HCII 2021: Important Deadlines - extended deadline for paper proposals!

Due to multiple requests from prospective authors, the deadline for paper submissions has been extended!

• Paper proposal submission: 10 November 2020 (extended deadline) - an abstract of 800 words is required
• Review Outcome for papers: 8 December 2020 (new date)
• Poster proposal submission: 29 January 2021 - an abstract of 300 words is required

Detailed information about proposal submissions is available through the Conference website.

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HCII 2021: Conference Details

HCI International 2021, jointly with its Thematic Areas and Affiliated Conferences, held under one management and one registration, invites you to participate and contribute, through papers, posters, or tutorials, to this major international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical and applied areas of HCI. Past HCII Conferences were attended by about 2,000 participants from more than 70 countries.

HCII 2021 will be held under the auspices of 21 distinguished international boards. Please visit the Conference website for the list of topics of each Thematic Area / Affiliated Conference.

Additionally, the Conference has a long established tradition of inviting distinguished scientists and professionals in the broader HCI field to organize parallel sessions. Prospective authors should submit their proposal upon invitation from a session organizer. The process is open until 29 January 2021 (under the guidance of Parallel Session Organizers).

An award will be presented to the Best Paper of each of the HCII 2021 Thematic Areas / Affiliated Conferences and the Best Poster extended abstract.

The Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set. Papers will appear in volumes of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Poster Extended Abstracts in the form of short research papers will be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.

The Conference Program is adapted to suit the needs of the virtual format. Parallel sessions and tutorials will run concurrently over the six-day period (24-29 July 2021). In this way, the daily load of the conference is four hours (two sessions, two-hours each, with a half-hour break in-between).

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HCII 2021: Keynote speech by Michitaka Hirose

Prof. Michitaka Hirose (University of Tokyo, Japan) will give the Keynote Speech during the Opening Plenary Session Saturday, 24 July 2021, 08:00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time Washington DC, USA). Detailed information will become available soon through the Conference website.

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HCII 2021: Registration

HCII 2021 is organized and will be run as a virtual conference and all fees are offered with a 50% discount of the 'in-person' fees.

Detailed information about the registration fees is available through the Conference website.

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Book Review: TECH STRESS How Technology Is Hijacking Our Lives, Strategies for Coping, and Pragmatic Ergonomics

The Covid 19 pandemic has caused people to stay home, work from home, socialize from home, shop groceries, and food from home, all through their computer screens. The equipment, chairs, tables, computer keyboards, and so on at home are not necessarily optimized for such long hours of usage. In addition, the stress related to working from home with children, without any social activities, and sometimes fear of losing jobs, adds tremendous stress and anxiety to people that leads to increased work-related injuries.

"TECH STRESS" is excellent reading for all people who are in this situation. It provides readers ample information on how to deal with it and informs them about the ergonomics aspects of their working conditions and particularly the role of stress.  "TECH STRESS" is written in a very easy and accessible language and is understandable to all readers. It includes plenty of illustrations, examples, and advice that will undoubtedly help people improve and manage their working conditions.

If you are working from home, I recommend reading “TECH STRESS" and recommending it to people around you who also help to improve their working conditions. 

Abbas Moallem

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TECH STRESS: How Technology Is Hijacking Our Lives, Strategies for Coping, and Pragmatic Ergonomics, ERIK PEPER, Ph.D., BCB | RICHARD HARVEY, Ph.D. with NANCY FAASS, MSW, MPH, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, California, 2020

ISBN: 9781583947685 (trade paperback) | ISBN 9781583947821 (ebook)

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Recent News and Articles

• "Hacker Releases Information on Las Vegas-Area Students After Officials Don't Pay Ransom", The Wall Street Journal, September 28, 2020.
• "Critical Flaws Discovered in Popular Industrial Remote Access Systems", The Hacker News, October 1, 2020.
• "Researchers Fingerprint Exploit Developers Who Help Several Malware Authors", The Hacker News, October. 2, 2020.
• "Insights Into Dreams and What They Say About Us", The Wall Street Journal, September 14, 2020.
• "Millions of WordPress Sites Are Being Probed, Attacked With Recent Plugin Bug", ZDNet, September 6, 2020.
• "Japan Post Delivery Robot Debuts in Tokyo", The Japan Times, October 7, 2020.
• "Waymo Begins Fully Driverless Rides for All Arizona Customers", Bloomberg, October 8, 2020.
• "Split-Second 'Phantom' Images Can Fool Tesla's Autopilot", Wired, October 11, 2020.
• "German Car Industry Musters for New Tech Battle", The Wall Street Journal, October 9, 2020.
• "In Singapore, Facial Recognition Getting Woven Into Everyday Life", NBC News, October 12, 2020.
• "Is Everybody Doing ... OK? Let's Ask Social Media", The New York Times, October 15, 2020.
• "NHS Using Drones to Deliver Coronavirus Kits Between Hospitals", The Guardian (U.K.), October 17, 2020.
• "Australian, New Zealand Scientists Use AI to Predict Heart Disease Risk", ZDNet, October 13, 2020.
• "The Police Can Probably Break Into Your Phone", The New York Times, October 21, 2020.
• "Scientists Create Synthetic Human Tongue Using 3D Printing", Daily Mail (U.K.), October 27, 2020.

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About HCI International NEWS

The HCI International NEWS is a newsletter that contains information about the HCI International Conference, book reviews, news from the field of HCI, as well as links to interesting articles and conferences. If you have any questions or comments, or if you would like to make a contribution, please contact the Editor, Dr. Abbas Moallem. The opinions that are expressed in this Newsletter are the sole responsibility of its authors and do not represent any institution or company.

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