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HCI International News, Number 127, September 2024

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HCII 2025: Call for Participation

HCI International 2025, the 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, under the auspices of 21 distinguished international boards, to be held under one management and one registration, will take place at the Gothia Towers Hotel and Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden, 22-27 June. HCII 2025 will run as a 'hybrid' Conference.

HCII 2025 invites you to participate and contribute to the international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on generic, theoretical and applied areas of HCI. The first three days of the Conference (22 - 24 June) will comprise ‘virtual only’ parallel sessions for paper presentations (with remote only participation), 'in-person' and 'virtual' Courses and ‘hybrid’ Workshops (allowing both 'in-person' and remote participation options for participants). The Opening Plenary Session (evening of the 24th of June) and the parallel sessions that will take place 25 - 27 June will run as 'hybrid' events (i.e., allowing both 'in-person' and remote participation options for presenters and participants).

Mark in your calendar the following important deadlines:

You may wish to download the Call for Participation in PDF format.

Conference papers are scientific articles presenting concepts and structures, models, research results, or findings showing how the demands of particular application areas shape the way generic research is translated into practical innovation. Present your scientific work to a large audience of HCI academics, researchers and professionals through a 20-minute presentation, in the context of a 2-hour thematic parallel session.

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 best contributions will be awarded! The best paper of each of the HCII 2025 Thematic Areas / Affiliated Conferences will be given an award. The best poster extended abstract (in the form of a short research paper) will also receive an award.

Workshops, to be organized as hybrid events, are intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas on hot topics in the broader field of HCI. Proposals for creative formats are encouraged, where the benefits for workshop participants would need to be indicated. Workshop participation is complimentary for all registered Conference participants.

The Student Design Competition gives College and University students of all grades an opportunity to present their design idea, by submitting an abstract and a video clip (up to 5-minutes). Three designs will be selected by an international jury to be awarded prizes (GOLD - $1,000; SILVER - $500; and BRONZE - $250).

The Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set. Papers will appear in the LNCS and LNAI series, while poster extended abstracts will be published in the CCIS series. All volumes will be available on-line through the SpringerLink Digital Library, readily accessible by subscribing libraries, and indexed by a number of services, including: CPCI, part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science; Scopus; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; Google Scholar; DBLP, etc.

Exhibiting at the Conference is an ideal opportunity to display your products and services to an international audience of academics, researchers, professionals and users in the field of HCI. Detailed information about the HCII 2025 Exhibition will soon be announced through the Conference website. The HCII News Facebook page provides information about the previous year's exhibition, including pictures and exhibitors.

The HCII 2025 Program for Student Volunteers will soon become available through the Conference website. Full-time College and University students from around the world will have the opportunity to attend, contribute and benefit from actively participating in one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of computing and HCI.

The HCII 2025 Design Café, to be coordinated by Christine Riedmann-Streitz, will provide an opportunity for discussion and rethinking of important topics of global interest. Further information will become available, in due course, through the Conference website.

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HCII 2025: Courses are replacing Tutorials (NEW)

Courses are offered complimentary to all registered Conference participants and are replacing Tutorials that were offered until HCII2024 upon an additional registration fee. They will be run either ‘in-person’ or ‘on-line’ between 22-24 June. Each course will run for 4 hours including a 30-minute break. Courses will be offered at introductory, intermediate or advanced level covering topics from the spectrum of the various areas of the Conference.

No advance enrollment is required for attending a Course. Entrance in the ‘in-person’ Courses’ meeting rooms will be on a first-come-first-served basis.

All Courses will be recorded. The recordings along with the Courses' handouts (in PDF format) will be available to all Conference participants for one month after the Conference. Course material should not contain sensitive, private, or proprietary information that should not be disclosed.

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HCII 2025: Susan Dumais will be the recipient of the 2025 HCI Medal for Societal Impact and the Keynote Speaker

The 'HCI MEDAL FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT' was established in 2022 to be awarded to distinguished HCI academics, researchers, or professionals in recognition of the impact of their work in the field of HCI to society. The idea of the medal is to inspire younger generations towards accomplishments that leave a major footprint on society and foster well-being and eudaimonia. The nomination originates from an international committee and the Medal is conferred during the Conference Opening Plenary Session.

The recipient of the 'HCI MEDAL FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT' for 2025 and Keynote Speaker will be Susan Dumais, Technical Fellow and Director of the Microsoft Research Labs in New England and New York City, USA, and in Montréal, QC, Canada, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Washington, USA. The award ceremony, to be followed by her Keynote speech,  titled “Information Seeking and Sensemaking from Libraries, the Web, and Beyond”, will take place in the evening of 24 June 2025.

Abstract: In just a few decades, search has gone from being an arcane skill to something that is a core fabric of everyday life.  Today people use search to find a wide variety of information, monitor news and social media, understand medical conditions, learn new skills, buy things, etc.  Thus, it is increasingly important to provide an interdisciplinary and user-centered perspective on information systems that both enables people to articulate their information needs and make sense of results, and develops new interaction techniques and algorithms to support this. The keynote will summarize previous research and systems that mitigate the discrepancy between the vocabulary that authors use and how searchers express their information needs, illustrate the importance of representing context to improve search success, and look forward to new types of information systems that use richer natural language dialogs and proactively anticipate information needs.

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HCII 2025: Accommodation

The Gothia Towers Hotel and Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre is the Conference venue and the Gothia Towers Hotel is the official HCII 2025 hotel.

Located in central Gothenburg, right in the thick of things on Korsvägen, Gothia Towers is just a couple of blocks from the restaurants and nightclubs on fashionable Avenyn, close to the city center with excellent transport links, right next to Scandinavia’s biggest amusement park Liseberg, Universeum, Scandinavium and everything the entertainment district has to offer.

Together with the Swedish Exhibition & Congress Center it is one of Europe's largest fully integrated meeting places, and one of Nordic region's most attractive meeting places, by offering large experience areas, a first class hotel and many popular entertainment options.

A number of rooms has been reserved to be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis with significantly reduced rates. The special guest room rates will be valid for all Conference participants for the duration of the Conference, as well as for 2 additional days, before and / or after the Conference (subject to availability of rooms at the time of the reservation).

Special guest room rates have been agreed for conference participants (rates include breakfast, internet access and  taxes).

Further information about accommodation is available through the Conference website.

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HCII 2025: About Gothenburg, the world's most sustainable destination

Gothenburg, founded in 1621, is the second largest city in Sweden and the largest port in Nordic countries. With a population of more than 1 million in the wider metropolitan area, it is the world’s most sustainable destination, seven years in a row (2016-2023), according to the Global Destination Sustainability Index. And in 2021, Lonely Planet added an additional sustainability award to this list when it unveiled its Best in Travel 2021 list, naming Gothenburg the world’s Best Sustainable City Stay.  95 percent of the city’s hotel rooms are environmentally certified and almost all public transport runs on renewable electricity!

Gothenburg, despite its northerly latitude, temperatures are quite mild throughout the year and warmer than places at a similar latitude, because of the moderating influence of the Gulf Stream. During the summer, daylight extends to 18 hours.

Step inside one of Gothenburg's many museums and learn more about everything from arts and culture to nature, automotive and maritime history. Pick and choose between impressive collections or plunge into exciting guest performances by international stars.

Gothenburg is also home to many students, as the city includes the University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology, and headquarters of leading industries like Volvo, which was founded here in 1927, SKF also founded here in 1907 and AstraZeneca.

Links:
Access the Official Visitor's Guide to Gothenburg
Explore Sweden's official website for tourism and travel information

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World Usability Initiative 2024 Design Challenge: deadline for submissions 16 September 2024

The World Usability Initiative (WUI) Design Challenge for 2024 under the theme ‘Designing for a Better World’ is open for submissions until 16 September 2024. Winners will be announced on World Usability Day, 14 November 2024. Three awards sponsored by HCII 2025 will be conferred during the Opening Plenary Session: GOLD ($1250), SILVER ($1000) and BRONZE ($750).

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International Journal of Human Computer Interaction (IJHCI)

The journal has a five-year 4.5 impact factor. It was started nearly 40 years ago by Gavriel Salvendy, the founder of the HCI International (HCII) Conference, and it is now co-edited with Constantine Stephanidis, the General Chair of HCII. You are cordially invited to submit your contributions, including insightful review and appraisal papers, to IJHCI. Proposals  for Special Issues on emerging and high-impact topics should be sent to the Journal Editors.

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