HCI-Europe 2018

History
The HCI-Europe conferences have its roots in the WSCG conferences (http://www.wscg.eu) held since 1992 in Plzen, Czech Republic every year, with special HCI sessions oriented to Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision. Due to growing demand in Human Computer Interfaces, it was decided to initiate HCI-Europe conferences as independent conferences.

Aim of the HCI-Europe
HCI-Europe events are a unique forum of researchers, practitioners, developers, academia experts and students from different disciplines to discuss new approaches and methods related to Human Computer Interaction.

HCI-Europe conferences bring new impulses to related fields of computer science, especially in development of new approaches and algorithms and will stimulate interdisciplinary research and application activities.

HCI-Europe informal atmosphere of the event stimulates scientific discussions between researchers and practitioners. It will lead to further international research collaborations and initiating of common project proposals as well.

Due to the growing demand in interdisciplinary aspects of Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision with Human related interactions, it was decided to initiate HCI-Europe conferences as independent conferences. Recently held conferences were in 2016 and 2017 in Plzen, Czech Republic.

Informal atmosphere of the HCI-Europe stimulates scientific discussions between researchers and practitioners, which will lead to further research international collaborations and project proposals as well.

Important Dates
Workshop or special session proposal December 20, 2017 January 10, 2018 (exceptionally) Paper submission March 20, 2018 21:00 GMT(London, U.K.) Acceptance decision April 20, 2018 Final version April 30, 2018 - NO EXTENSION !! Venue (expected) May 28 - June 1, 2018 HCI-Europe submissions are expected in all areas of Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors, Usability, Interaction Design in general.

Publication
Drafts of all papers presented papers will be available on-line at the HCI-Europe site with no access restriction. Final papers will be published in proceedings after the conference. Selected papers will be published in the Journal of WSCG or others

Accepted and presented full & short papers and posters will be published in the HCI-Europe proceedings as a part of the Computer Science Research Notes ISSN 2464-4617 in an electronic form after the conference.

Printed version will be made for indexing purposes only.

The best selected papers will be published in the regular Journal of WSCG, ISSN 1213-6972 (see http://www.WSCG.eu => Digital Repository).

Topics

 * Information visualization
 * Virtual reality and haptic applications
 * Novel presentation techniques
 * Collaborative HCI applications
 * Novel user interfaces (guesture, sound etc.)
 * Interaction techniques and technologies
 * Wearable computing and interaction
 * Haptic systems interaction
 * New devices and sensors
 * Usability, Accessibility & User experience
 * User-centred design
 * Evaluation methods and frameworks
 * Human-centred design practices and methods
 * Do It Yourself and tools
 * Multimodal interaction and interfaces
 * Ubiquitous, pervasive, and mobile interaction
 * HCI theory and practice
 * Mathematical and computational aspects of HCI
 * HCI applications in physical sciences
 * Mobile, Ambient, Augmented or Tangible HCI
 * User interaction issues with the use of ICT in expanding cultural contexts and
 * in all aspects of home, work, play and life
 * HCI in education
 * HCI in games and entertainment
 * HCI in health and welfare
 * HCI in wellness applications
 * HCI informatics in health care
 * Social and collaboration technologies
 * Designing and application of HCI for specific groups
 * (disabled, older adults, children)
 * and other related research, applications, experience

Supporting organizations

 * NVIDIA Czech Republic
 * University of West Bohemia Plzen, Czech Republic
 * Center of Computer Graphics and Visualization, Univ. of West Bohemia

Conference venue

 * Primavera Hotel & Congress Centrum

Organiser
Prof. Vaclav Skala c/o University of West Bohemia Faculty of Applied Sciences Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univerzitni 8, CZ 306 14 Plzen, Czech Republic http://www.VaclavSkala.eu

PAY
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