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HCI International News, Number 89, May 2018

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HCII 2018: Important Deadlines

Register to attend the conference with the Regular rate until 15 May 2018.
http://2018.hci.international/registration
Book by the 31st of May 2018 to attend one or both of the PhD student mentoring sessions on offer.
http://2018.hci.international/mentoring-sessions
Book your accommodation at Caesars Palace (the Conference venue) with special significantly reduced rates.
Limited number of rooms available until 13 June 2018.
http://2018.hci.international/accommodation

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HCII 2018: Late Breaking Results

Present your late-breaking scientific results or professional news or your work in progress, by submitting, until 31 May 2018, a POSTER for oral presentation.
Poster presentations will take place during the three (3) main conference days, from July 18 to July 20.
Your proposal (300 word abstract in DOC or PDF format) should be submitted through the Conference Management System (CMS, https://cms.hci.international/2018/).

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HCII 2018: Advance Program

The HCII 2018 Conference Advance Program, including paper and poster presentations, is now available on-line at: http://2018.hci.international/program

The conference program is also available in the popular iCal format (.ICS) for using it with your own calendar applications, like Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, Mozilla Lighting and Google Calendar and mobile devices running iOS, Android or Windows Phone. The appearance and functionality of the Calendar depends on your application or device. Please use this URL to connect to the iCal feed.

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HCII 2018: General Information

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

Information for presenters: The Conference website includes now information for paper and poster presenters
http://2018.hci.international/information-for-presenters

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

Student Design Competition: Three awards (GOLD, SILVER and BRONZE) will be also presented. Each awardee will receive a prize, a plaque and a certificate.
http://2018.hci.international/student-design-competition

Proceedings: The Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in a 30-volume set. 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 the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.
http://2018.hci.international/proceedings

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

Demonstrations: Demonstrations are a new, alternative form of presenting ideas and results to the international audience of the HCII conference, and they are governed by the same conference registration policy applicable for the submissions of papers and posters. Demonstrations will take place in the Exhibition area, will be configured to facilitate free and continuous access by the conference participants and will be bound by the rules of conduct applicable to Exhibitors. For more information, please visit: http://2018.hci.international/demonstrations

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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: Accommodation

Caesars Palace is the conference venue and the official HCII2018 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, based on availability. Book your accommodation with the special rates, before the cut-off date of 13 June 2018 http://2018.hci.international/accommodation

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HCII 2018: Exhibition

You are cordially invited to exhibit at the HCI International 2018 exhibition. The HCI International Conference is an ideal opportunity to exhibit your products and services to an international audience of about 2000 researchers, academics, professionals and users in the field of HCI. Detailed information is available at: http://2018.hci.international/exhibition

List of Exhibitors registered so far:

Information about the previous years' exhibition at HCII2017 in Vancouver, Canada, including photos and exhibitors are available in HCII News Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/HCI-International-News-and-Conferences-151661138193927/

and also the conference web site:

http://2017.hci.international/exhibition

http://2017.hci.international/photos

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HCII 2018: Sponsorship

Sponsorship in the context of HCI International 2018 is the ideal opportunity to expose your organization to an international audience of over 2000 researchers, professionals and users in the field of HCI. Sponsorship is not limited to financial support, and thus can also take the form of material and service provision. If you are interested in contributing to this international event as a sponsor or simply wish to receive more information contact: administration@hcii2018.org

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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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We welcome your contribution to the HCI International News. Please send to us interesting news, short articles, interesting websites, etc. We will consider your comments and contributions for upcoming issues. Please send your contribution to the Editor, Dr.Abbas Moallem.

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