Introduction and Topics, Deadlines and Program Committee

1. Introduction and Topics

The user interface is the environment par excellence where the latest breakthroughs in the formal and factual sciences converge. In the design of the current and future interactive systems, the presentation of the content on the screen is the key to the success of the rest of the components which make up an avant-garde computer science structure.

The year 2010 opens an interesting decade in which to consolidate communicability, especially with the constant (r)evolution of the interfaces of the interactive systems. Right now we are starting to see the first results of the intersection of scientific knowledge to increase the quality of telecommunications in the daily life of millions of users. However, the interactive systems will keep on programming from the point of view of design of the interfaces, using the last advances in the software and the constant progress of the hardware. A democratization of the future models in human-computer interaction will ease the interaction in the environments of immersive multimedia oriented towards education, health, work and leisure time.

The current era of interactive communication makes us reflect and work daily to meet the needs of the societies to which we belong, and tends to improve the quality of life of each one of its members. In this environment the new technologies can and must be within reach of everyone. A state of the art will be the starting point of the works until reaching the future technological tendencies born from the interaction between the human being, the constant technological (r)evolution and the environment. This is a place where the intersection of knowledge deriving from the formal and factual sciences can enrich in a masterful way each one of the research projects presented and related to the last generation interactive systems online and off-line.

The (r)evolution of the net must allow the human being to take a steady flight towards new horizons where the technological breakthroughs are shared by the base of the pyramid –the general public, in the least possible time. Important steps have been taken in that direction in the last years thanks to the globalization of telecommunications and social networks. However, the costs stemming from the free access to digital information and/or the legislations in force, prevent even today that flight in many societies to millions of potential users of multimedia interactive systems. In the current scientific environment we intend to build a bridge of solutions to eradicate problems, suggesting innovating solutions and future guidelines of action thanks to the lessons learned with the research works we have made or that are currently in progress.

Many conferences are focussed on specific aspects of computer science, multimedia, education, artificial intelligence, computer vision, etc., and bring together leading experts in a particular field or sometimes on a specific technology. At such large conferences students are often marginalized or relegated to poster sessions. The conferences, workshops, symposiums, etc., are not a big scale and aim to promote dialogue between established professors and graduate students working on new directions. Hence topics from the whole range of human-computer interaction, multimedia, software, design, etc. are welcomed. Last year’s symposiums, workshops, conferences, etc., organized by ALAIPO and AInCI, for instance, included papers on the topics (see below the alphabetical order). An extensive listing connotes and reflects the requirement and also skill necessary to find intersection zones of the disciplines among the different domains, fields, and specialities; which at the same time potentially boosts and merges the formerly different scientific views.

All contributions –papers, workshops, demos and doctoral consortium, should be of high quality, originality, clarity, significance and impact. In the current international conference it is demonstrated how with a correct integration among professionals of formal and factual sciences interesting research lines in the following subjects Advances in New Technologies, Interactive Interfaces and Communicability and other computational areas are solicited on, but not limited to (alphabetical order):

• Advances in Human-Computer Interface
• Aesthetic and Creative Design
• Architecture Documentation
• Auditory Contents for Interactive Systems
• Autonomous Mobile Robots
• Big Data
• Biometrics Techniques and Privacy
• Cloud Computing
• Cognitive Modeling
• Collaborative Learning
• Communicability in Hypertext, Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems
• Community and Security Management of Emerging Networks and Services
• Computational Linguistics
• Computer Animation: 2D, 3D, and N-D Animation Systems
• Computer Methodologies
• Customer Centricity and E-branding
• Database: Design, Security and Authorization
• Databases Technologies for Data Mining
• Design Innovation
• Digital Cartography
• Digital Sound and Multimedia Systems
• E-commerce
• E-entertainment
• E-government
• E-health
• E-inclusion
• E-job
• E-journal
• E-learning
• E-tourism
• Eco-Museum and New Media Art
• Eye Tracking
• Federated Management of Heterogeneous Networks and Databases
• Future Challenges for Information Retrieval
• Geo-Spatial Visualization
• GIS Applications
• Industrial Design and Simulation
• Information Architecture
• Intelligent Agents and Human-Robots Interaction
• Interactive Design and Semiotics
• Interfaces and Languages
• Interfaces for Tourism: Communications Strategies
• Journalism On-line: Discursive Analysis
• Logic Programming
• Management of Communications in Hypermedia Systems
• Media, Information and Documentation
• Medical Informatics
• Mobile Solutions: M-Commerce, M-Entertainment and M-Learning
• Multiagent Model
• Novel Tangible User Interfaces
• Open Source Software and Applications
• Practices and Aproaches of Visualization Design
• Podcasting and New Media
• Programming Languages and Techniques
• Reengineering Tourism
• Scientific Computing
• Search Engine Development for Tourism
• Semantic Web Technologies
• Software and Web Engineering
• Software Evolution
• Software Measurement and Metrics
• Software Reuse
• Software Testing
• Software, Human Factors and Management People
• Stereoscopic and Digital Photography
• Telecommunications, Networks and Information Security
• Travel Technology
• Ubiquitous Web
• Usability and Heuristic Assessment
• User-Centered Design
• Veracity and Credibility in Interactive Information
• Videoconferencing and Tele-presence
• Virtual Community and Business Development
• Virtual Museum and Mixed Reality
• Virtual Tours
• Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
• Web Location Based Services

All submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the international conference.  Authors of accepted papers who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their papers, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers.

Best regards, 

Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (Chair - coordinator)
&
Pamela Fulton, Doris Edison and Luisa Varela (International Secretariat)

ALAIPO: Asociación Latina Interacción Persona-Ordenador –Latin Association of HCI (www.alaipo.com) and AINCI: Asociación Internacional de la Comunicación Interactiva –International Association of Interactive Communication (www.ainci.com). Address: Via Pascoli, S. 15 (7) - 24121 (Bergamo) Italy :: c/ Angel Baixeras, 5 - AP 1638 - 08080 (Barcelona), Spain. Email: info@alaipo.com :: info@ainci.com

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2. The events have the following deadlines

Papers Submissions: Closed
Authors Notification: Closed
Camera-ready, full papers: November, 1st

3. Program Committee:

:: Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (chair - coordinator)

Demo Session, Poster Session, Workshop Session, and Doctoral Consortium:

:: :: Miguel C. Ficarra. AInCI and ALAIPO, Héctor Montes. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina), Alan Radley. University College London (UK), Mohamed Hamada. University of Aizu (Japan), and Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)

Honorary Committee:

:: Gavriel Salvendy. Purdue University (USA) and Tsinghua University (China)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Kim H. Veltman. Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (The Netherlands)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)

Scientific Committee:

:: Adriana Olleta. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy (Argentina)
:: Alan Radley. University College London (UK)
:: Andreas Kratky. University of Southern California (USA)
:: Anna Parodi. Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy)
:: Arturo Colorado. Universidad Complutense (Spain)
:: Augusto Bernuy Alva. Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería (Peru)
:: Chih-Fang Huang. Kainan University (Taiwan)
:: Elena Durán. Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (Argentina)
:: Domen Verber. University of Maribor (Slovenia)
:: Farshad Fotauhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Florian Kammüller. Middlesex University London (UK)
:: Gavriel Salvendy. Tsinghua University (China)
:: Georges Győry. Birkbeck University of London (UK)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Graciela Vidal. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (Argentina)
:: Hsu Ming. Yuan Ze University (Taiwan)
:: Héctor Montes. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Hugo Scolnik. Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Inmaculada Vilches López. Universidad de Granada (Spain)
:: Isidro Moreno. Universidad Complutense (Spain)
:: Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada)
:: Jurek Kirakowski. University College Cork (Ireland)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Kim Veltman. Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (The Netherlands)
:: Klementina Možina. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Lastenia Bonilla. Universidad de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Liliana Māţă. "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacău (Romania)
:: Ljubica Marjanoviè Umek. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Lorenzo García Aretio. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
:: Maarten Weyn. Artesis University College Antwerp (Belgium)
:: Manuel Garrido Lora. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
:: Marek Wyleżoł. Politechnika Slaska (Poland)
:: Maria del Mar Ramirez Alvarado. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Marilú Lebrón Vázquez. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Mario Fidelibus. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional (Argentina)
:: Miguel Cipolla Ficarra. Alaipo & Ainci (Italy & Spain)
:: Mirta Echevarria. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Mohamed Hamada. University of Aizu (Japan)
:: Nilda Pérez Otero. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy (Argentina)
:: Onur Demirors. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Peter Stanchev. Kettering University (USA)
:: Philip Bonanno. University of Malta (Malta)
:: Pivovarova Liudmila. Moscow State University (Russia)
:: Rosanna Costaguta. Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (Argentina)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Sandra Casas. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (Argentina)
:: Stafford Griffith. University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
:: Stefano Albertini. New York University (USA)
:: Steve Anderson. University of Southern California (USA)
:: Timothy Read. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
:: Urška Fekonja Peklaj. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (India)
:: Virginia Guarinos Galán. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)
:: Yeonseung Ryu. Myongji University (South Korea)
:: William Grosky. University of Michigan-Dearborn (USA)