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HCI International News, Number 63, January 2014

HCII 2014 Conference Highlights

Important Deadlines
Tutorials' Program
Poster proposals submission
Keynote speech by James R. (Jim) Lewis
Exhibition
Sponsorship
Organized Tours

Recent News and Articles
Upcoming Conferences and Events
About HCI International NEWS

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HCII 2014: Important Deadlines

Invited papers: process open until 7 February 2014
Regular papers: submission of final, camera-ready version by Friday, 7 February 2014
Poster proposals submission: (300 words abstract) by Friday, 7 February 2014
Tutorial Handouts submission: 16 May 2014
Conference Early Registration ends 10 January 2014

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HCII 2014: Tutorials' Program

The following Full and Half Day Tutorials will run from Sunday 22 to Tuesday 24 June 2014:

Sunday, 22 June 2014, 09:00 - 12:30

T01 "Introduction to Web Survey Usability Design and Testing"
Jennifer Romano Bergstrom
T02 "Mobile UX Design and Mobile UX Trends"
Aaron Marcus
T03 "Whole Body Interaction (WBI) design"
Vangelis Lympouridis, Xin Wei Sha, Adrian Freed, John MacCallum, Kurosh Valanejad

Sunday, 22 June 2014, 14:00 - 17:30

T04 "Indoor Home Activity Monitoring using Kinect"
Dipti Prasad Mukherjee, Tanushyam Chattopadhyay, Kingshuk Chakravarty
T05 "Cross-Cultural User-Experience Design"
Aaron Marcus
T06 "Designing for Universal Access in real-world contexts"
Simon Keates
T07 "Research driven think-aloud protocols in usability testing"
Erica Olmsted-Hawala

Monday, 23 June 2014, 09:00 - 17:30

T08 "Adaptive Tutoring for Self-Regulated Learning (SRL)"
Robert Sottilare, Anne Sinatra

Monday, 23 June 2014, 09:00 - 12:30

T09 "Mobile Persuasion Design: Combining Information Design and Persuasion Design in Mobile Apps to Change People’s Behavior"
Aaron Marcus
T10 "Human Aspects of Security: Creating Culture and Taming Technology"
Steven Furnell
T11 "Growing an Internet Community that Lasts"
Jurek Kirakowski, Tharon Howard
T12 "HCI Design for Immersive Systems and 3D Environments"
Amy Banic, Bill Sherman

Monday, 23 June 2014, 14:00 - 17:30

T13 "Computational Affective Modeling and Affective User Modeling"
Eva Hudlicka
T14 "User Interface Design and Adaptation for Multi-Device Environments"
Fabio Paternó
T15 "Research Methods for Eye Tracking in User Experience Design"
Andrew Schall, Jennifer Romano Bergstrom

Tuesday, 24 June 2014, 08:30 - 12:00

T16 "The Past 100 Years of the Future: HCI in Sci-Fi Movies and Television"
Aaron Marcus
T17 "Qualitative Research Methods for Interaction Design"
Panos Markopoulos
T18 "Structuring user interfaces"
Martin Maguire
T19 "Advances in non/invasive Brain-Machine Computer Interfaces"
Günter Edlinger, Christoph Guger, Max Bruckner

Tuesday, 24 June 2014, 13:30 - 17:00

T20 "Augmented Cognition: Achieving Human Computer Symbiosis with 21st century Human Factors Tools"
Dylan Schmorrow
T21 "Cybercitizenship: Educating the Youth"
Kerry-Lynn Thomson, Johan van Niekerk
T22 "Mobile User Experience Design and how it differs from Desktop Design"
Everett McKay
T23 "Harvesting crowdsourcing for user & design research"
Javed Vassilis Khan

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HCII 2014: Poster proposals submission

Poster sessions will accommodate the presentation of late-breaking scientific and professional news or work in progress. For the review process, an abstract of 300 words should be submitted by Friday 7 February 2014, including the essence of the planned presentation.

All extended abstracts of accepted for presentation posters will be published by Springer as part of the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series. Volumes published as part of the Springer CCIS series are indexed by the following services: ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index, EI Engineering Index, Scopus.

The poster session will take place during the 3 main conference days (25-27 June) and will accommodate the poster presentations using standard poster boards. Authors have also the option not to publish their extended poster abstracts but only present their posters during this session.

For more information about the submission of posters proposals, please visit: http://hcii2014.org/submissions

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HCII 2014: Keynote speech by James R. (Jim) Lewis

James R. (Jim) Lewis (Senior Human Factors Engineer, IBM Software Group) will give the Keynote Speech during the Opening Plenary Session of HCII 2014.

The title of his speech is "Usability: Lessons Learned ... and Yet to Be Learned"

Details about the keynote address are posted in the conference website:
http://www.hcii2014.org/keynote-speech

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HCII 2014: Exhibition

You are invited to exhibit at the HCI International 2014 exhibition. The HCI International Conference is an ideal opportunity to exhibit your products and services to an international audience of over 2,000 researchers, academics, professionals and users in the field of HCI.

For more information about the HCII 2014 exhibition, please visit the Conference website: http://www.hcii2014.org/exhibition

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HCII 2014: Sponsorship

Sponsorship in the context of HCI International 2014 is a great opportunity to expose your organization to an international audience of about 2,000 researchers, professionals and users in the field of HCI.
Sponsorship is not limited to financial support, and thus can also take the form of material and service provision.

If you are interested in contributing to this international event as a sponsor or simply wish to receive more information, visit the Conference website: http://www.hcii2014.org/sponsorship

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HCII 2014: Organized Tours

A number of tours will be offered to the conference participants and accompanying persons (at an additional cost), giving the opportunity to visit some of the most interesting places on Crete or near Crete:

Knossos - Heraklion
Knossos - Aquarium
Spinalonga
Samaria gorge
Arkadi - Chania - Rethymno
Santorini Island

For more information, please visit the Conference website:
http://www.hcii2014.org/tours

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Upcoming Conferences and Events

January 2014

7 - 9 January: PhyCS 2014 - International Conference on Physiological Computing System, Lisbon, Portugal.

February 2014

15 - 19 February: Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW 2014), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
16 - 19 February: Eight International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI'14), Munich, Germany
24 - 27 February: International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI '14), Haifa, Israel
23 - 26 February: HAPTICS - 2014 IEEE Haptics Symposium, Houston, TX, United States
26 - 28 February: REV - 2014 11th International Conference on Remote Engineering and Virtual Instrumentation, Porto, Portugal

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About HCI International NEWS

The HCI International NEWS is a newsletter that contains information about the HCI International 2014 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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We welcome your contribution to the HCI International News. Please send to us interesting news, short articles, interesting websites, etc. We will consider your comments and contributions for upcoming issues. Please send your contribution to the Editor, Dr. Abbas Moallem.
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