HCI International News, Number 90, July 2018
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HCII 2018 HIGHLIGHTS
- See you soon in Las Vegas!
- Program
- Tutorials’ Program
- Exhibition
- Keynote Speech by Mary Czerwinski
- Best Paper & Best Poster Awards
- Student Design Competition
- Proceedings
- Mentoring Sessions
- Practical Information
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS
- Previous HCII Proceedings published by Springer freely available
- Recent News and Articles
- About HCI International NEWS
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HCII 2018: See you soon in Las Vegas!
We look forward to seeing you next week in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Las Vegas is an ever-changing fantasy-land of a city that has seen unbelievable expansion since it emerged from the desert just over 100 years ago.
The conference and exhibition will be held 15-20 July at the Caesars Palace, the official HCII 2018 hotel. An impressive number of about 1700 participants from 74 countries are attending this truly international in scope event, where the work of the world’s foremost leaders in the field is presented.
Information about Las Vegas
https://www.visitlasvegas.com/
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HCII 2018: Program
The Conference Final Program (including paper and poster presentations) is available in the following alternative ways:
- Through the conference website
- In the popular iCal format (.ICS) for using it with your own calendar applications through this iCal feed.
- As a downloadable PDF file.
- As a mobile application.
The web, iCal and mobile application versions of the program will be updated regularly before and during the conference.
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HCII 2018: Tutorials’ Program
21 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
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
- 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
- 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: Exhibition
You are cordially invited to visit the HCI International 2018 exhibition (Room: Octavius Ballroom). The following companies are participating in this year’s conference. You are cordially invited to visit their booths and review their products and demos.
List of Exhibitors:
- g.tec neurotechnology USA, Inc.
- BIOPAC Systems Inc.
- ERGONEERS
- SMART EYE AB
- SR RESEARCH LTD
- WEARABLE SENSING
- 3dMD
- BROADLEAF CO.,LTD.
- Springer
- Taylor & Francis Group - Journals
- ICS-FORTH HCI Laboratory
- ICS-FORTH AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE PROGRAMME
- HCII 2018 STUDENT DESIGN COMPETITION PRESENTATIONS
- HCI INTERNATIONAL 2019 Conference
Detailed information is available at: http://2018.hci.international/exhibition
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HCII 2018: 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
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HCII 2018: Best Paper & Best Poster 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. Each awardee will receive a plaque and a certificate.
http://2018.hci.international/awards
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HCII 2018: Student Design Competition
In the context of the HCII2018 Student Design Competition, nineteen (19) video submissions have been accepted for presentation at the conference:
- Wednesday, 18 July, 08:00 - 10:00 (room: Milano IV)
- Wednesday, 18 July - Friday, 20 July, Booth 403, Exhibition Area (Room: Octavius Ballroom)
The awards will be announced and conferred during the Plenary Session of the conference, on Tuesday 17 July 2018, 18:00 – 19:30. 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.
http://2018.hci.international/student-design-competition-video-presentations
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HCII 2018: Proceedings
The Conference Proceedings are published by Springer in a 30-volume set. Papers appear in volumes of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Poster Extended Abstracts are published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.
All volumes of the Proceedings in PDF format are included in a USB Drive provided in the registration bag of conference participants.
Free online access to the Conference proceedings through SpringerLink is available to conference participants during the conference.
http://2018.hci.international/proceedings
They will also be available for sale from Springer in soft cover print format.
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HCII 2018: 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
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HCII 2018: Practical information
Paper and poster presenters can find practical information about their presentations at the HCII 2018 website
http://2018.hci.international/information-for-presenters
Our website also includes information about the Conference Registration - Secretariat, the Conference Reception, the Exhibition, Coffee and Lunch Breaks, as well as other information that may be Conference participants might find useful at:
http://2018.hci.international/general-information
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Previous HCII Proceedings published by Springer freely available
On the occasion of the 20th edition of the HCI International Conference, Springer is providing to Conference participants, for a period of 4 weeks, free online access through SpringerLink to all previous HCII proceedings published with them.
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Recent News and Articles
- "Homeless People May Get Help From Blockchain", The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2018.
- "China Extends Lead as Most Prolific Supercomputer Maker", The New York Times, June 25, 2018.
- "How Deep Learning Is Making Computers Better at Guessing Your Passwords", Tripwire, June 17, 2018.
- "Is There a Smarter Path to Artificial Intelligence? Some Experts Hope So", The New York Times, June 20, 2018.
- "Computer Algorithms Can Test the Dodginess of Published Results", The Economist, June 14, 2018.
- "Cybersecurity Mistake Meant Macs Could Have Hosted Nasty Files", CNet, June 13, 2018.
- "Move Over, China: U.S. Is Again Home to World's Speediest Supercomputer", The New York Times, June 8, 2018.
- "A Classical Math Problem Gets Pulled Into Self-Driving Cars", Wired May 27, 2018.
- "Planned Supercomputer Would Be 10 Times Faster Than Today's No. 1", China Daily, May 10, 2018
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