HCI International 2014

Indicative topics/keywords of the broad spectrum of issues to be addressed:

• Adaptivity
• Aesthetics issues in smart and intelligent environments
• Affective computing
• Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
• Ambient and pervasive games
• Ambient and pervasive displays
• Ambient Persuasive Technology
• Architectures for Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions
• Awareness in distributed, ambient and pervasive environments
• Cognitive demands in Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions
• Context–awareness in smart and intelligent environments
• Collective ambient intelligence
• Crowd and swarm-based interaction
• Design principles and guidelines for Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions
• Development methods and tools for Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions
• Embodied interaction
• Evaluation methods and techniques for Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions
• Field studies and deployments of Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Systems
• Groupware for distributed, ambient and pervasive environments
• Human activity modelling and support
• Implicit vs. explicit interaction
• Interaction in hybrid environments
• Interactive matter and physical computing
• Internet of Things
• Methods and Tools for the design of Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions
• Multimodal / multisensory interaction
• Multiuser Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions
• Natural Interaction
• Privacy issues in sensor-polluted environments
• Sensor-augmented environments
• Self-organization in socially aware ambient systems
• Simulation environments
• Social aspects of interaction in smart and intelligent environments
• Smart artifacts and smart environments
• Smart landscapes
• Smart and hybrid cities
• Space-time dispersed interaction
• Spatial and embodied smartness
• Symmetric interaction in real and virtual worlds
• Tangible interaction
• User experience of privacy and trust in pervasive ambient environments
• User requirements for Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions

Program Chairs:
Norbert Streitz
Smart Future Initiative, Germany


Panos Markopoulos
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands

Board Members:

• Juan Carlos Augusto, United Kingdom
• Jose Bravo, Spain
• Adrian Cheok, United Kingdom
• Boris de Ruyter, Netherlands
• Anind Dey, United States
• Dimitris Grammenos, Greece
• Nuno Guimaraes, Portugal
• Achilles Kameas, Greece
• Javed Vassilis Khan, Netherlands
• Shin’ichi Konomi, Japan
• Carsten Magerkurth, Switzerland
• Ingrid Mulder, Netherlands
• Anton Nijholt, Netherlands
• Fabio Paternó, Italy
• Carsten Röcker, Germany
• Teresa Romao, Portugal
• Albert Ali Salah, Turkey
• Manfred Tscheligi, Austria
• Reiner Wichert, Germany
• Woontack Woo, Korea
• Xenophon Zabulis, Greece