Introduction and Topics, Deadlines and Program Committee

1. Introduction and Topics

Communicability is the cornerstone for the success of the interaction among human beings and the technological (r)evolution in scientfic visualization, hypermedia online, virtual reality, augmented reality, etc., devices in which a huge part of humankind is immersed. In these devices there is a convergence and intersection of disciplines deriving from the formal and factual sciences. The main goal is to improve the interaction process with the new technologies on a daily basis.

Since its origins computer graphics has always been involved in the global village foreseen by McLuhan and has accompanied all the stages of the technological (r)evolution in the professional computer sector and telecommunications.

Many conferences are focussed on specific aspects of human-computer interaction, multimedia, computer science, computer art, 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 2D, 3D Modeling and Reconstruction, Advances in Software and Hardware for Audio-Visual, CAD, Communicability, Computer Animation, Computer Graphics, Computer Vision, Creativity and Original Design, Education, Face and Gesture Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction, Industrial Design, Imaging, Intelligent User Interface, Interactive Systems Engineering, Internet of Things, iTV, Low-level Vision and Image Processing, Medical Image Processing, Modelling, Quality Content in New Media, Rendering, Scientific Visualization, Smart City, Ubiquitous Computing, UX, Video Games, Virtual Archeology, Virtual Agents, Vision for Robotics, etc. are welcomed. Last year’s symposia, 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.

Today the variegated devices of massive consumption of microcomputers, deriving mainly from the educational and entertainment sectors, have already entered the era of three-dimensional vision without using additional peripherals such as specialized glasses or virtual reality helmets. Evidently a new horizon is opening for on-line and off-line interactive systems, contents, virtual and mixed reality navigation, biocomputing, etc.

In others words, in the current space of the 8th International Symposium on CCGIDIS 2018, we intend to set up a context of exchange of experiences, projects in their way of development and reflexion about theoretical aspects with the purpose of drawing guidelines for the future in the middle and long run. Consequently, the discussion will be focused on – but not limited to – the following main issues (alphabetical order):

:: 3D Computer Vision
:: Artificial Life
:: Audio-Visual Communication
:: Augmented Reality
:: Behaviour Computer Animation
:: Biomedical Image Analysis
:: CAD / CAM / CAE
:: Cinema 3D
:: Cloud Computing and Multimedia Content Distribution
:: Communicability
:: Computational Geometry
:: Computational Photography
:: Computer Animation
:: Computer Art
:: Computer Graphics and Security
:: Computer Graphics for Users with Physical Disabilities
:: Database and Compression Methods of the Graphic Information
:: Design Categories for Interactive Systems: Evaluation Techniques
:: Digital Cartography
:: Digital Sound
:: Eco-design
:: Efficiency and Complexity Issues in Graphics Algorithms
:: Finite Element Methods in Graphics
:: Fractals and Chaos: Theory and Experiments
:: Human-Computer Interaction
:: Illumination Techniques
:: Image Restoration for Cultural Heritage
:: Industrial Design and Ergonomics
:: Interactive Geometric Processing
:: Internet of Things
:: Medical Image Processing
:: Mixed Reality
:: Modeling Non-rigid Objects
:: Models of Design for Interactive Systems
:: Molecular Graphics
:: Motion Capture
:: Natural Phenomena and Computer Graphics Emulation
:: Optimization Methods
:: Perceptual Quality in Image
:: Printing Technologies
:: Progress and Challenges in Computer Graphics for Scientific Visualization
:: Quality Attributes for Communicability Assessment
:: Radiosity
:: Ray Tracing
:: Rendering
:: Robot Vision
:: Smart City
:: Shape Analysis
:: Social Impact of Visual Emerging Technologies for Education
:: Software Engineering
:: Special Effects
:: Speech and Natural Language Interfaces
:: Surface: Appearance, Formation, Enhancement and Light Interactions
:: Telecommunications
:: Texture Mapping
:: User-Centered Design
:: Video Games
:: Virtual Archaeology
:: Virtual Museums and E-tourism
:: Virtual Tutors and Education
:: Visualizing Multivariate Data
:: Web 2.0 and 3.0
:: Wireless and Multimedia Mobile Phone

All contributions should be of high originality, quality, clarity, significance and impact. Papers, demos and doctoral consortium related to Communicability, Human-Computer Communication and Interaction, Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Quality Design, Computer Vision, Game Theory, Genetic Algorithms, Emerging Technologies for Medical Image Processing, Modelling, New Interactive Systems, Rendering, Imaging, Ubiquitous Computing, Internet of Things and other computational areas.

Finally, 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 and Doris Edison (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 Tabajani 1, S. 15 (7) - 24121 (Bergamo) Italy :: c/ Angel Baixeras, 5 - AP 1638 - 08080 (Barcelona), Spain. Email: info@alaipo.com :: info@ainci.com

P.S. If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to info@ainci.com or info@alaipo.com with "remove" in the subject line. Thanks.     

2. The events have the following deadlines

Works Submissions: Closed. Consequently, as they are received, they will be evaluated. It is a way to speed up the process to make up the final program of the international Symposium. In other words, it is not necessary to wait until the deadline to send them for the evaluation process.

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

International Symposium: May, 21 - 23, 2018  

3. Program Committee:

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

Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan), Timothy Read. National University of Distance Education (Spain), Miguel C. Ficarra. AInCI and ALAIPO (Spain and Italy), Marcos Requena. CEO - Serena Digital (Spain and UAE), Lorenzo García Aretio. National University of Distance Education (Spain), Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada), and Andreas Kratky. University of Southern California (USA).

Honorary Committee:

:: Alejandro Frangi. University of Sheffield (UK)
:: Gavriel Salvendy. Tsinghua University (China)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Kim H. Veltman. Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (The Netherlands)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)

Scientific Committee:

:: Andreas Kratky. University of Southern California (USA)
:: Anna Parodi. University of Genoa (Italy)
:: Annamaria Poli. University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
:: Carlos Garcia Garino. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Daniela Tamburini. Sperimenta Centro Studi Cinema e Formazione di Milano (Italy)
:: David Monge. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Derrick de Kerchove. University of Toronto (Canada)
:: Farshad Fotauhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Francesca Bocchi. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Gavriel Salvendy. Tsinghua University (China)
:: Georges Gyory. Birkbeck University of London (UK)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Gloria Quispe. National University of Jujuy (Argentina)
:: Héctor Montes. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Hugo Scolnik. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Inmaculada Gordillo. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Inmaculada López Vílchez. University of Granada (Spain)
:: José Hamkalo. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Jorge Fonseca. Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
:: Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada)
:: Jurek Kirakowski. University College Cork (Ireland)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Karen Woodman. Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
:: Kim Veltman. Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (The Netherlands)
:: Klementina Možina. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Koen van Turnhout. Hogeschool van Arnhem (The Netherlands)
:: Laurence Bender. National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina)
:: Lastenia Bonilla. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Liliana Mata. "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacau (Romania)
:: Ljubica Marjanoviè Umek. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Lorenzo García Aretio. National University of Distance Education (Spain)
:: Marek Wylezol. Politechnika Slaska (Poland)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. Nacional University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Marilú Lebrón Vázquez. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Miguel Cipolla Ficarra. Alaipo & Ainci (Italy & Spain)
:: Ming-Chien Hung. Nanhua University (Taiwan)
:: Mohamed Hamada. University of Aizu (Japan)
:: Onur Demirors. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Pablo Dorta González. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain)
:: Pablo Marrero Negrón. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Peter Stanchev. Kettering University (USA)
:: Philip Bonanno. University of Malta (Malta)
:: Pivovarova Liudmila. Moscow State University (Russia)
:: Raimonda Riccini. University Iuav di Venezia (Italy)
:: Reiko Hishiyama. Waseda University (Japan)
:: Rosa Smurra. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Sandra Casas. National University of the Patagonia Austral (Argentina)
:: Stafford Griffith. University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
:: Stefano Albertini. New York University (USA)
:: Tetsuo Tamai. University of Tokio (Japan)
:: Timothy Read. National University of Distance Education (Spain)
:: Urška Fekonja Peklaj. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Vasileios Paliktzoglou. University of Joensuu (Finland)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (India)
:: Wang Kong Lam. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)
:: William Grosky. University of Michigan-Dearborn (USA)
:: Yeonseung Ryu. Myongji University (South Korea)