HCI International News, Number 88, March 2018
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HCII 2018 HIGHLIGHTS
- Important Deadlines
- Tutorials’ program
- General Information
- Student Design Competition
- Accommodation
- Exhibition
- Sponsorship
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
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HCII 2018: Important Deadlines
- Camera-ready extended poster abstract submission - deadline: 16 March 2018
guidelines for final, camera-ready extended poster abstract preparation:
http://2018.hci.international/guidelines-for-final-camera-ready-extended-poster-abstract - Register to attend with the Regular rate until 15 May 2018
http://2018.hci.international/registration - Book your accommodation at Caesars Palace (the Conference venue) with special rates, limited rooms available until 13 June 2018
http://2018.hci.international/accommodation - New poster proposals submission: still open
Poster sessions will accommodate the presentation of late-breaking scientific and professional news or work in progress. The submission of poster proposals is still open for the Conference. Any proposals received by 1 June 2018, following a peer–review process, will be considered for interactive presentation during the conference.
However, these accepted posters cannot be included in the Conference Proceedings.
http://2018.hci.international/submissions
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HCII 2018: Tutorials’ program
23 half-day tutorials, listed below, will run from Sunday 15 to Tuesday 17 July 2018. For the description of each tutorial, please visit: http://2018.hci.international/tutorials
The Conference Advance Program will become available early in April though the Conference website at:
http://2018.hci.international/program
Sunday, 15 July 2018, 08:30 – 12:30
- T01 Supersmart Storyselling: How Best to Inform and Persuade in Short "Elevator Pitch" Presentations? - By Aaron Marcus
- T02 Speech-based Interaction: Myths, Challenges and Opportunities – By Gerald Penn, Cosmin Munteanu
- T03 Conversational UX Design – By Robert J. Moore
Sunday, 15 July 2018, 13:30 – 17:30
- T04 HCI/UX in Science-Fiction Movies/TV: What can We Learn from the Past 100 Years of the Future? - By Aaron Marcus
- T05 Overview of Human Information Processing for HCI – By Kim-Phuong Vu, Robert Proctor
- T06 Interactive Visual Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery – By Boris Kovalerchuk
- T07 Human Computer Interaction and Cyber-Security – By Abbas Moallem
Monday, 16 July 2018, 08:30 – 12:30
- T08 How to Design User-Friendly Dashboards – By Abbas Moallem
- T09 Usability and UX: An integrated approach to design and evaluation – By Nigel Bevan
- T10 User interaction with intelligent systems – By Martin Maguire
- T11 Brain neural computer interfaces and novel medical applications – By Günter Edlinger, Brendan Allison
Monday, 16 July 2018, 13:30 – 17:30
- T12 Design for Social Change – By Panayiotis Zaphiris, Andreas Papallas
- T13 IBM Design Thinking Workshop – By kevin l. schultz, Camillo Sassano
- T14 Principles for Designing Interfaces Compatible with Human Cognition – By Robert Proctor, Kim-Phuong Vu
- T15 Effective Design Reviews: How to give and receive meaningful, actionable design feedback – By Everett McKay
Tuesday, 17 July 2018, 08:30 – 12:30
- T16 Introduction to Usability Testing – By James Lewis
- T17 3DUX: HCI User Experience Design for Immersive Systems and 3D Environments – By Amy Banic
- T18 Identifying Product Features that Optimize the User Experience – By Nigel Bevan
- T19 Designing new technologies for Universal Access – By Simeon Keates
Tuesday, 17 July 2018, 13:30 – 17:30
- T20 Using the System Usability Scale By James Lewis
- T21 Organizing an effective Design Sprint – By Panayiotis Zaphiris, Andreas Papallas
- T22 Theory and Practice of Digital Storytelling – By David Kaufman, Simone Hausknecht
- T23 Social Media Analysis for the Masses: Extracting and Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, and Co. – By Margeret Hall
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HCII 2018: General Information
Keynote Speech by Mary Czerwinski: Mary Czerwinski, Principal Researcher and Research Manager at the Visualization and Interaction (VIBE) Research Group, Microsoft Research, USA, will give the Keynote Speech during the Opening Plenary Session on Tuesday, 17 July 2018, 18:00 hrs. The title of her speech is "Technology in Support of Healthy Habits". For more information, please check the Conference website
http://2018.hci.international/keynote-speech
Awards: The best paper of each of the HCII 2018 Thematic Areas / Affiliated Conferences will be presented with an award during the conference. The best poster extended abstract will also receive an award
http://2018.hci.international/awards
Proceedings: 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 will be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series
http://2018.hci.international/proceedings
Mentoring Sessions: James Lewis and Gavriel Salvendy have cordially accepted the conference invitation to hold mentoring sessions for PhD students, each with two important topics.
The Mentoring Session of James Lewis will be offered on Wednesday 18 July 2018, from 10:30am to 12:30pm and will be addressing the topics of HCI career trends - past, present and future (in Part #1), and Transition from a PhD student to an industry professional (in Part #2). Dr James Lewis < https://www.jimlewisux.com/ > is IBM Master Inventor with 91 patents issued to date by the US Patent Office.
The Mentoring Session of Gavriel Salvendy will be offered on Wednesday 18 July 2018, from 4pm to 6pm and will be addressing the topics of Development of a PhD Thesis and its dissemination (in Part #1), and Transition from a PhD student to Faculty (in Part #2). Professor Gavriel Salvendy < http://www.iems.ucf.edu/salvendy/ > has been Major Professor to 67 PhD students.
For more information, please visit: http://2018.hci.international/mentoring-sessions
Demonstrations: Demonstrations are a new, alternative form of presenting ideas and results to the international audience of the HCII conference, and they are governed by the same conference registration policy applicable for the submissions of papers and posters. Demonstrations will take place in the Exhibition area, will be configured to facilitate free and continuous access by the conference participants and will be bound by the rules of conduct applicable to Exhibitors. For more information, please visit: http://2018.hci.international/demonstrations
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HCII2018: Student Design Competition
Students (undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral) are invited to submit, through the Conference Management System (CMS), an up to 5-minute video clip in MP4 format that presents their design idea, including statements and elaboration of the objective, method, innovation and outcome.
All video clip submissions accepted for the Student Design Competition will be presented during the conference. Three awards will be presented. Each awardee will receive a plaque and a certificate. The GOLD student design awardee will also receive the prize of $1000 USD, the SILVER $500 USD and the BRONZE $250 USD. The awards will be conferred during the opening plenary session of the conference.
The deadline for submissions to the Student Design Competition has been extended to the 1st of April 2018.
Students who have already submitted their work to the conference (e.g., as a paper or as a poster) are cordially invited also to participate in the Student Design Competition.
Further information is available through the conference website: http://2018.hci.international/student-design-competition
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HCII 2018: Accommodation
Caesars Palace will be the conference venue and the official HCII2018 hotel. A number of rooms have been reserved to be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, while significantly reduced rates have been agreed with the hotel, valid for all Conference participants for the duration of the Conference as well as for 2 additional days, before and / or after the Conference, based on availability. For detailed information, please have a look at: http://2018.hci.international/accommodation
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HCII 2018: Exhibition
You are cordially invited to exhibit at the HCI International 2018 exhibition. The HCI International Conference is an ideal opportunity to exhibit your products and services to an international audience of about 2000 researchers, academics, professionals and users in the field of HCI. Detailed information is available at: http://2018.hci.international/exhibition
List of Exhibitors registered so far:
- g.tec neurotechnology USA, Inc.
- BIOPAC Systems Inc.
- Springer
- CRC Press / Taylor & Francis
- HCI International Conference
- ICS-FORTH
Information about the previous years' exhibition at HCII2017 in Vancouver, Canada, including photos and exhibitors are available in HCII News Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HCI-International-News-and-Conferences-151661138193927/
and also the conference web site:
http://2017.hci.international/exhibition
http://2017.hci.international/photos
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HCII 2018: Sponsorship
Sponsorship in the context of HCI International 2018 is the ideal opportunity to expose your organization to an international audience of over 2000 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 contact: administration@hcii2018.org
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Recent News and Articles
- "It’s True: False News Spreads Faster and Wider. And Humans Are to Blame", New York Times, March 8, 2018.
- "Researchers Have Finally Created a Tool to Spot Duplicated Images Across Thousands of Papers", Nature, February 23, 2018
- "Google Hopes AI Can Predict Heart Disease by Looking at Retinas", USA Today, February 19, 2018
- "AI Just Learned How to Boost the Brain's Memory", Wired, February 6, 2018
- "Brain-Implanted Devices Could Lead to UW Medical Breakthroughs", The Seattle Times, February 6, 2018
- "China's Plan to Use Artificial Intelligence to Boost the Thinking Skills of Nuclear Submarine Commanders", South China Morning Post, February 4 2018
- "Neural Networks Allow Us to 'Read Faces' in a New Way", Financial Times, February 4, 2018
- "Google: Using Your Health Records to Predict Whether You'll Live or Die", The Mercury News, January 30, 2018
- "MIT Enlisting Hundreds of Scientists in Effort to Make Computers Think More Like People", The Boston Globe, February 1, 2018
- "Brainy Little UT Robot May Hold Key to Smart, Unmanned Drones and Vehicles", Associated Press, January 23, 2018
- "Trust Me, I'm a Robot", PC Magazine, January 22, 2018
- "A Clever Radio Trick Can Tell If a Drone Is Watching You", Wired, January 12, 2018
- "Japanese Scientists Just Used AI to Read Minds and It's Amazing", CNBC, January 8, 2018
- "Deep Learning Sharpens Views of Cells and Genes", Scientific American, January 4, 2018
- "Sometimes, Computer Programs Seem Too Human for Their Own Good", The Economist, January 4, 2018
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Upcoming Conferences and Events
RoCHI 2018 – International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 3-4 September
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