HCI International News, Number 94, March 2019

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HCII 2019 HIGHLIGHTS

• Important Deadlines
• *NEW* Submission for 'Late Breaking News'
• General Information
• The 1st International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport and Automotive Systems (MobiTAS)
• Advance Program - now available
• Tutorials' Program
• Accommodation
• Exhibition
• Sponsorship

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• Recent News and Articles
• About HCI International NEWS

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HCII 2019: Important Deadlines

• "Late Breaking News" - Paper proposals: submission is open   ***NEW
• "Late Breaking News" - Poster proposals: submission is open   *** NEW
• Student Designs: 12 April 2019
• Demonstration Proposals: submission open until 30 April 2019
• Participation: Register to attend with the Regular rate until 15 May 2019
• Accommodation Reservation:  Cut-off date for reservations Friday, June 28, 2019

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*NEW* HCII 2019: Submission for "Late Breaking News"

You still have the opportunity to present the latest results of your work to an international audience, by submitting a proposal for a Paper or a Poster presentation.

Submit "Late Breaking News" - PAPER proposals: Prospective authors should submit extended abstracts (800 words) corresponding to one of the Conference Thematic Areas. Following a fast-track peer-review process by at least two reviewers, a decision is communicated to the authors. If accepted, the authors, apart from having the opportunity for oral presentation during the Conference, depending on the time of submission of their proposal, may also have the opportunity of including their full paper in the "HCII 2019 Late Breaking News - Papers" LNCS Volume of the Proceedings - to be published just after the conference, according to the below timetable:

• Deadline for abstract submission: Submission open until 24 May 2019
• Notification of review outcome: 1 week after submission
• Deadline for camera-ready submission and registration: 14 June 2019

Submit "Late Breaking News" - POSTER proposals: Prospective authors should submit abstracts (300 words). Following a fast-track peer-review process, a decision is communicated to the authors. If accepted, the authors, apart from having the opportunity to present their work during the Conference, depending on the time of submitting their proposal, may also have the opportunity of including an extended poster abstract in the form of a short research paper in the "HCII 2019 Late Breaking News - Poster Extended Abstracts" CCIS Volume of the Proceedings - to be published just after the conference, according to the below timetable:

•  Deadline for abstract submission: Submission open until 24 May 2019
• Notification of review outcome: 1 week after submission
• Deadline for camera-ready submission and registration: 14 June 2019

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HCII 2019: General Information

Awards: An award will be presented to the best paper of each of the HCII 2019 Thematic Areas / Affiliated Conferences and the best poster extended abstract.

Proceedings: The Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set and will be available to registered conference participants for download from the conference website just before the commencement of the conference. Papers will appear in Volumes of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Poster Extended Abstracts will be published in Volumes of the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.

*NEW* In addition to the LNCS/LNAI and CCIS Volumes of the conference proceedings, edited by the Thematic Areas / Affiliated Conferences Program Chairs, two new Volumes will be published just after the conference:
(i) the "HCII 2019 Late Breaking News - Papers" LNCS Proceedings Volume, and

(ii) the "HCII 2019 Late Breaking News - Poster Extended Abstracts" CCIS Proceedings Volume.

Mentoring Sessions: Gavriel Salvendy and Paul Fu have cordially accepted the conference invitation to hold mentoring sessions for PhD students, each with two important topics.

The Mentoring Session of Paul Fu will be offered on Monday 29 July 2019, 4:00pm to 6:00pm 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. Paul Fu is Senior Director of user experience and design in major internet companies.

The Mentoring Session of Gavriel Salvendy will be offered on Tuesday 30 July 2019, 4:00pm to 6:00pm and will be addressing the topics of Development of a high impact PhD Dissertation and its effective dissemination (in Part #1), and Transition from a PhD student to successful Faculty (in Part #2). Professor Gavriel Salvendy has been Major Professor to 67 PhD students.

Seminar: Abbas Moallem, San Jose State University, USA, will offer a seminar on “Cybersecurity Awareness of College Students and Faculties”. The seminar will be held on Wednesday, 31 July 2019, from 10:30am to 12:30pm.

The main objective of this seminar is to discuss the cyber security awareness of people and how they protect themselves against cyber-attacks, show trends and discuss possible solutions. The first part of this seminar will review the main results of the surveys administered in 2018 among students and faculty. In the second part, participants will discuss what needs to be done to improve awareness of the general population to protect themselves in cyberspace.

Keynote speech: Richard H. R. Harper, Co-director, Institute for Social Futures and Professor, School of Computing and Communications at Lancaster University, United Kingdom, will give the Keynote Speech during the Opening Plenary Session on Sunday, 28 July 2019, 18:00 hrs. The title of his speech will be "Understanding AI, Understanding Interaction: the Future of HCI".

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HCII 2019: The 1st International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport and Automotive Systems (MobiTAS)

The 1st International Conference on HCI in Mobility, Transport and Automotive Systems (MobiTAS) provides a scientific forum bringing together diverse, scattered and multi-layered HCI activities in the field of mobility.

The future of mobility is inter-modal, i.e. travelers may move in different travel chains using different means of transport in a single journey.

Additionally, innovative means of transport are being developed, such as electric vehicles and autonomous vehicles. In the context of these systems, new challenges arise towards increasing acceptance and improving the user experience of travellers. The MobiTAS conference addresses design and evaluation principles, methods and tools for a better mobility experience.

The Program Board comprises 20 international experts from the heterogeneous mobility sector.

In the context of MobiTAS 2019, academic, researchers and stakeholders in the field will meet for the first time to present their research in a holistic way.

We look forward to welcoming you!

Heidi Krömker, Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany

Program Chair

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HCII 2019: Advance Program – now available

The HCII 2019 Conference Advance Program, including paper presentations, is now available on-line. It should be noted that the Advance Program is subject to change.

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HCII 2019: Tutorials' Program

Twenty-three half-day tutorials will run from Friday 26 to Sunday 28 July 2019. The description of each tutorial is available through the Conference website.

For the special deals which are available, please have a look at the Registration webpage.

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HCII 2019: Accommodation

The Walt Disney World Dolphin of the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort will be the conference venue and official HCII2019 hotel.

A number of rooms have been reserved to be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis, while significantly reduced rates have been agreed with the hotel, 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. Please note that Friday, June 28, 2019 is the cut-off date for reservations. Any requests after that date will be accepted at the Hotel's prevailing rate based on availability.

Detailed information about accommodation is available through the Conference website.

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HCII 2019: Exhibition

You are invited to exhibit at the HCI International 2019 exhibition. The HCI International Conference is an ideal opportunity to exhibit your products and services to an international audience of around 2000 researchers, academics, professionals and users in the field of HCI.

List of current Exhibitors registered so far:

• BIOPAC Systems Inc.
• SR Research Ltd
• g.tec neurotechnology GmbH
• Smart Eye AB
• Springer
• Taylor & Francis Group
• HCI International Conference
• ICS-FORTH

Information about the previous years’ exhibition, including photos of the exhibition hall and exhibitors, are available in HCII News Facebook page and the conference web site.

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HCII 2019: Sponsorship

Sponsorship in the context of HCI International 2019 is the ideal opportunity to expose your organization to an international audience of around 2,000 academics, researchers and professionals in the field of HCI. Sponsorship is not limited to financial support but can also take the form of material and service provision. If you are interested in sponsoring this international event or simply wish to receive more information, please contact Conference Administration.

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Recent News and Articles

• "Your Bionic Hand Is Now at Risk From Hackers", ZDNet February 26, 2019.
• "Google Looks to Leave Passwords Behind for a Billion Android Devices", CNet, February 25, 2019.
• "You Give Apps Sensitive Personal Information. Then They Tell Facebook", The Wall Street Journal, February 22, 2019.
• "The Auto Show of the Future is Already Here", The New York Times, February 21, 2019.
• "New Technology Shows Promise Reducing Skyrocketing Pedestrian Fatalities", CNBC, February 24, 2019.
• "The Instant, Custom, Connected Future of Medical Devices", The New York Times, February 14, 2019
• "Is That a Robot? Dr. Bear Bot Helps Care for Kids at Local Hospital", The Washington Post, February 14, 2019.
• "The AI That Can Write Fake News Stories From Handful of Words", Bloomberg, February 14, 2019.
• "Parkland School Turns to Experimental Surveillance Software That Can Flag Students as Threats", The Washington Post, February 13, 2019.
• "Software Pirates Use Apple Tech to Put Hacked Apps on iPhones", Reuters, February 13, 2019.
• "Software Reads Cardiac Data, Can Predict Risk of Heart Disease", The Economic Times, February 14, 2019.
• "Apple's Deal With VA Is Big Step Toward Giving Patients Control Over Their Health Information", CNBC, February 11, 2019.
• "Apple Exerts Power as Privacy Protector", The Wall Street Journal, January 31, 2019.
• "Researchers Take Step Closer to Creating Tech That Can Read Minds", Financial Times, January 29, 2019

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About HCI International NEWS

The HCI International NEWS is a newsletter that contains information about the HCI International Conference, book reviews, news from the field of HCI, as well as links to interesting articles and conferences. If you have any questions or comments, or if you would like to make a contribution, please contact the Editor, Dr. Abbas Moallem. The opinions that are expressed in this Newsletter are the sole responsibility of its authors and do not represent any institution or company.

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