Introduction and Topics, Deadlines and Program Committee

1. Introduction and Topics

The user interface is the environment par excellence where the latest breakthroughs in the formal and factual sciences converge. In the design of the current and future interactive systems, the presentation of the content on the screen is the key to the success of the rest of the components which make up an avant-garde computer science structure.

The year 2010 opens an interesting decade in which to consolidate communicability, especially with the constant (r)evolution of the interfaces of the interactive systems. Right now we are starting to see the first results of the intersection of scientific knowledge to increase the quality of telecommunications in the daily life of millions of users. However, the interactive systems will keep on programming from the point of view of design of the interfaces, using the last advances in the software and the constant progress of the hardware. A democratization of the future models in human-computer interaction will ease the interaction in the environments of immersive multimedia oriented towards education, health, work and leisure time.

The current era of interactive communication makes us reflect and work daily to meet the needs of the societies to which we belong, and tends to improve the quality of life of each one of its members. In this environment the new technologies can and must be within reach of everyone. A state of the art will be the starting point of the works until reaching the future technological tendencies born from the interaction between the human being, the constant technological (r)evolution and the environment. This is a place where the intersection of knowledge deriving from the formal and factual sciences can enrich in a masterful way each one of the research projects presented and related to the last generation interactive systems online and off-line.

The (r)evolution of the net must allow the human being to take a steady flight towards new horizons where the technological breakthroughs are shared by the base of the pyramid –the general public, in the least possible time. Important steps have been taken in that direction in the last years thanks to the globalization of telecommunications and social networks. However, the costs stemming from the free access to digital information and/or the legislations in force, prevent even today that flight in many societies to millions of potential users of multimedia interactive systems. In the current scientific environment we intend to build a bridge of solutions to eradicate problems, suggesting innovating solutions and future guidelines of action thanks to the lessons learned with the research works we have made or that are currently in progress.

Many conferences are focussed on specific aspects of computer science, multimedia, education, artificial intelligence, computer vision, 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, for instance. The conferences, workshops, symposiums, courses, etc., are not a very big scale and aim to promote dialogue between established professors and graduate students working on new directions. Hence topics from the whole range of human-computer interaction, multimedia, software, design, etc. are welcomed. Last year’s symposiums, 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 (see below, we have only some main areas).

All contributions –papers, workshops, demos, research-in-progress, posters and doctoral consortium, should be of high quality, originality, clarity, significance and impact. In the current international conference it is demonstrated how with a correct integration among professionals of formal and factual sciences interesting research lines in the following subjects Advances in New Technologies, Interactive Interfaces and Communicability and other computational main areas are solicited on, but not limited to (alphabetical order):

:: Communicability and Design

• Aesthetic and Creative Design
• Auditory Contents for Interactive Systems
• Cognitive Modeling
• Communicability in Multimedia and Hypermedia Systems Online and Off-line
• Interactive Design and Semiotics
• Practices and Aproaches of Visualization Design
• User Experience Design

:: E-commerce

• Benchmarking
• Customer Centricity and E-branding
• Globalization and New e-Business and e-Marketing Strategies
• m-Commerce and Pervasive Computing
• Security Models for m-Payment Systems
• Virtual Community and Business Development

:: E-learning

• Collaborative Learning
• Dynamics and Statics Media for Education
• Innovative Uses of Technology for Learning and Teaching
• Intelligent Agents and Multiagent Models
• Pedagogical Tools for Supporting Learning Environments
• Mobile Learning Environments and Applications
• Video Games for Learning

:: E-health

• Bioengineering
• Experimental Services in Specialist Care, Telerehabilitation and Remote Surgery
• Image Processing and Computer and/or Robot Vision
• Medical Informatics and Wearable Devices
• Scientific Visualization
• Stereoscopic and Digital Photography
• Telenursing and Health Monitoring

:: E-tourism

• Augmented/Mixed Reality for New Media Art
• Communications Strategies for Increase the Tourism Market
• Cultural Heritage and Eco-Museum
• Effective Models and Technologies for Virtual Tours
• Emerging Visitor Attractions and Innovations Trends in ICT
• Resarch and Development for Tourism and Virtual Museum
• Travel Technology and Multimedia Mobile Systems

:: Interactive Interfaces

• Advances in Human-Computer Interface
• Brain-Computer Interface
• Computer Graphics and Computer Animation
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Interfaces and Languages
• Mobile Augmented Reality Applications
• Novel Tangible User Interfaces

:: Digital Information and New Media

• Architecture Documentation
• Digital Cartography, Geo-Spatial Visualization and GIS Aplications
• Digital Sound
• Future Challenges for Information Retrieval
• Journalism On-line: Discursive Analysis
• Media, Information and Documentation
• Veracity and Credibility in Interactive Information

:: Software and Systems Engineering

• Open Source Software and Applications
• Programming Languages and Techniques
• Security Management of Emerging Networks and Services
• Social and Human Factors in Software and Systems Engineeriing
• Software Quality: Measurement and Metrics
• Telecommunications and Information Privacity
• Usability and Heuristic Assessment

:: Web 2.0 and Web 3.0

• Big Data
• Cloud Computing
• Databases Technologies for Data Mining
• E-entertainment
• E-government
• E-job
• Smart Cities
• Ubiquitous Web

All submitted research works 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, Doris Edison and Luisa Varela (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, S. 15 (7) - 24121 (Bergamo) Italy :: c/ Angel Baixeras, 5 - AP 1638 - 08080 (Barcelona), Spain. Email: info@alaipo.com :: info@ainci.com

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2. The events have the following extended deadlines

Works submissions: Open. 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 conference, visa requirements, should plan travel well in advance, etc. In other words, it is not necessary to wait until the deadline to send them for the evaluation process. 

Extended Deadlines Works Submissions: October, 31th – local time in Hawaiian Islands
Authors Notification: Some days after the submission/s
Camera-ready, full papers: November, 7th 

Conference: November, 13 – 16.

3. Program Committee:

:: Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (chair - coordinator)

Demo Session, Poster Session, Workshop Session, Parallel Session, Research in Progress, Courses and Doctoral Consortium: José Hamkalo. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina); Silvia Poncio. Interamerican Open University (Argentina); Rodolfo Sanchéz. Balseiro Institute. National University of Cuyo (Argentina); Anna Parodi. University of Genova (Italy), Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan); Alejandro Frangi. University of Leeds (UK), and Miguel C. Ficarra (Spain & Italy).

Honorary Committee:

:: Gavriel Salvendy. Purdue University (USA) and Tsinghua University (China)
:: Héctor Montes. Universidad Nacional de Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: William Grosky. University of Michigan-Dearborn (USA)

Scientific Committee:

:: Alejandra Frasch. Karolinska Institute (Sweden)
:: Alejandro Frangi. University of Leeds (UK)
:: Ana Pérez. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Andrea Albarelli. Ca' Foscari University (Italy)
:: Andrea Torsello. Ca' Foscari University (Italy)
:: Andreas Kratky. University of Southern California (USA)
:: Anna Parodi. University of Genoa (Italy)
:: Annamaria Poli. University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
:: Bruno Cernuschi Frías. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Carlos García Garino. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Carlos Mendoza. National University of Salta (Argentina)
:: Chia-Wen Tsai. Ming Chuan University (Taiwan)
:: Claudia Rébola. University of Cincinnati (USA)
:: Claudio Germak. Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy)
:: Constantine Stephanidis. University of Crete (Greece)
:: Daniela Tamburini. Sperimenta Centro Studi Cinema e Formazione di Milano (Italy)
:: Danny Barrantes. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Derrick de Kerchove. University of Toronto (Canada)
:: Diego González. IMM - National Research Council (Italy)
:: Enrico Bianchi (University of Milan, Italy)
:: Farshad Fotauhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Filippo Bergamasco. Ca' Foscari University (Italy)
:: Francesca Bocchi. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Franco Casali. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Gavriel Salvendy. Purdue University (USA) and Tsinghua University (China)
:: Georges Győry. Birkbeck University of London (UK)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Gustavo Hirchoren. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Héctor Montes. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Hugo Scolnik. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Inmaculada Gordillo. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Jeff Williams. National Univeristy of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Jorge Fonseca. Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
:: José Hamkalo. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada)
:: Jurek Kirakowski. University College Cork (Ireland)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Kim Yeltman. Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (The Netherlands)
:: Klementina Možina. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Koen van Turnhout. Hogeschool van Arnhem (The Netherlands)
:: Lastenia Bonilla. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Laura Gaytán. University of Colima (Mexico)
:: Laurence Bender. National University of 3 de Febrero (Argentina)
:: Liliana Māţă. "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacău (Romania)
:: Ljubica Marjanoviè Umek. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Lorenzo García Aretio. National University of Distance Education (Spain)
:: Marc Dubois. Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
:: Marek Wyleżoł. Politechnika Slaska (Poland)
:: María Laura Carranza. University of Molise (Italy)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Marilú Lebrón Vázquez. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Marjolein Jacobs. Hogeschool van Arnhem (The Netherlands)
:: Miguel Cipolla Ficarra. Alaipo & Ainci (Italy & Spain)
:: Ming-Chien Hung. Nanhua University (Taiwan)
:: Mohamed Hamada. University of Aizu (Japan)
:: Nenad Mladineo. University of Split (Croatia)
:: Nilda Pérez Otero. National University of Jujuy (Argentina)
:: Onur Demirors. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: 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)
:: Reiko Hishiyama. Waseda University (Japan)
:: Rodolfo Sanchéz. Balseiro Institute. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Roberto von Sprecher. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Sandra Casas. National University of Patagonia Austral (Argentina)
:: Sebastián Gabo. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Sergio Salinas. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Silvia Poncio. Interamerican Open University (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)
:: Tom Murphy. University College Dublin (Ireland)
:: Urška Fekonja Peklaj. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Vasileios Paliktzoglou. University of Eastern Finland (Finland)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (India)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)
:: William Grosky. University of Michigan-Dearborn (USA)
:: Yeonseung Ryu. Myongji University (South Korea)