Introduction and Topics, Deadlines and Program Committee

1. Introduction and Topics

Communicability is the cornerstone for the success of the interaction among human beings and the technological (r)evolution in scientfic visualization, hypermedia online, virtual reality, augmented reality, etc., devices in which a huge part of humankind is immersed. In these devices there is a convergence and intersection of disciplines deriving from the formal and factual sciences. The main goal is to improve the interaction process with the new technologies on a daily basis.

Since its origins computer graphics has always been involved in the global village foreseen by McLuhan and has accompanied all the stages of the technological (r)evolution in the professional computer sector and telecommunications.

Many conferences are focussed on specific aspects of human-computer interaction, multimedia, computer science, computer art, 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. The conferences, workshops, symposiums, etc., are not a 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 symposia, 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.

Today the variegated devices of massive consumption of microcomputers, deriving mainly from the educational and entertainment sectors, have already entered the era of tridimensional vision without using additional peripherals such as specialized glasses or virtual reality helmets. Evidently a new horizon is opening for on-line and off-line hypermedia systems contents, virtual and mixed reality navigation, biocomputing, etc.

In others words, in the current space of the 4th International Symposium on CCGIDIS 2014, we intend to set up a context of exchange of experiences, projects in their way of development and reflexion about theoretical aspects with the purpose of drawing guidelines for the future in the middle and long run. Consequently, the discussion will be focused on – but not limited to – the following main issues (alphabetical order):

:: Artificial Life
:: Audio-Visual Communication
:: Auditory Contents of Interactive Systems
:: Augmented Realities
:: Changes and Challenges in Computer Graphics for Education
:: Cinema 3D
:: Cloud Computing and Multimedia Content Distribution
:: Cognitive Modeling
:: Coherence in Ray Tracing
:: Communicability
:: Computational Geometry
:: Computational Photography
:: Computer Animation
:: Computer Art
:: Computer Graphics for Biometric Authentication
:: Computer Graphics for Users with Physical Disabilities
:: Computer-Aided Design
:: Computer-Aided Engineering
:: Computer-Aided Manufacturing
:: Cultural and Social Impact of Mobile Multimedia Systems for Education
:: Database and Compression Methods of the Graphic Information
:: Digital Cartography
:: Digital Divide and e-Inclusion
:: Digital Sound
:: Eco-design
:: Educational and Computer Graphics Innovation through Knowledge Transfer
:: Efficiency and Complexity Issues in Graphics Algorithms
:: Ergonomics
:: Evolutionary Procedural Modeling
:: Finite Element Methods in Graphics
:: Flow Visualization
:: Forward Ray Tracing
:: Fractals and Chaos: Theory and Experiments
:: Game Artificial Intelligence
:: Genetic Algorithms
:: Graphics Languages
:: Human Factors in Applications for Computer Graphics
:: Human Perception and Graphics
:: Human Technology Interaction
:: Illumination Techniques
:: Image Restoration for Cultural and Ecological Heritage
:: Industrial Design and Simulation
:: Integration of Hypermedia Systems and Virtual Reality in Educational Contents
:: Intelligent Graphics
:: Interactions in Virtual Reality
:: Interactive Design
:: Interactive Geometric Processing
:: Local and Global Interactive Design for E-learning
:: Medical Image Processing
:: Mesh Processing
:: Methods for Heuristic Evaluation of Multimedia Systems
:: Mixed Reality
:: Modeling Natural Phenomena
:: Modeling Non-rigid Objects
:: Models of Design for Interactive Systems of Communication
:: Molecular Graphics
:: Morphing
:: Motion Capture
:: Multimedia Immersive Networked Environments
:: Natural Phenomena and Computer Graphics Emulation
:: Networks and Information Security
:: New Digital Media and Computer Animation Used in Preschool
:: Non-Photorealistic Rendering
:: Object-Oriented Graphics
:: Open-Source Software
:: Particle Systems
:: Perceptual Quality in Image
:: Printing Technologies for 2D and 3D
:: Procedural Modelling
:: Quality Attributes for Communicability
:: Radiosity
:: Real-World Deployment Experience of Multimedia Distribution Platforms
:: Robot Vision
:: Semiotics and the Assessment of the Statics and Dynamics Images
:: Shape Analysis
:: Social Impact of Visual Emerging Technologies for Education
:: Social Networking, CAD and Teleworking
:: Software Engineering
:: Special Effects
:: Speech and Natural Language Interfaces
:: Surface and Light Interactions
:: Surface Appearance, Formation and Enhancement
:: Techniques for the Quality Evaluation of Communication
:: Technology-Enhanced Learning
:: Telecommunications
:: Texture Mapping
:: Three-dimensional Reconstruction for Education
:: TV Interactive
:: Usability Engineering
:: User-Centered Design
:: Video Games for Learning
:: Virtual Classroom and Virtual Campus Applications
:: Virtual Museums and E-tourism for New Educational Systems
:: Virtual Tutor
:: Visualizing Multivariate Data
:: Volume Visualization
:: Web 2.0
:: Web 3.0
:: Wireless and Mobile Computer Science

All contributions should be of high originality, quality, clarity, significance and impact. Papers, demos and doctoral consortium related to Communicability, Human-Computer Communication and Interaction, Computer Graphics, Computer Animation, Quality Design, Computer Vision, Game Theory, Genetic Algorithms, Emerging Technologies for Medical Image Processing, Modelling, New Interactive Systems On-line and Off-line, Rendering, Imaging, Ubiquitous Computing, and other computational areas.

Finally, all submitted papers 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 and Doris Edison (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 1, 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 deadlines

Papers Submissions: Closed    
Authors Notification: Closed
Camera-ready, full papers: May, 19  

3. Program Committee:

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

Demo Session, Poster Session, Workshop Session, and Doctoral Consortium:

Chih-Fang Huang. Kainan University - Taiwan, Alan Radley. University College London - UK, Andrea Torsello: Università Ca' Foscari - Italy, Andrea Albarelli: Università Ca' Foscari - Italy, Georges Győry. Birkbeck University of London - UK, and Miguel C. Ficarra: AInCI and ALAIPO

Honorary Committee:

:: Gavriel Salvendy. Tsinghua University (China)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Kim H. Veltman. Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (The Netherlands)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)

Scientific Committee:

:: Alan Chamberlain. University of Nottingham (UK)
:: Alan Radley. University College London (UK)
:: Andrea Albarelli. Università Ca' Foscari (Italy)
:: Andrea Torsello. Università Ca' Foscari (Italy)
:: Andreas Kratky. University of Southern California (USA)
:: Anna Parodi. Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy)
:: Arturo Colorado. Universidad Complutense (Spain)
:: Bojan Novak. University of Maribor (Slovenia)
:: Chih-Fang Huang. Kainan University (Taiwan)
:: Claudia Rébola. Georgia Institute of Technology (USA)
:: Domen Verber. University of Maribor (Slovenia)
:: Elena Durán. Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (Argentina)
:: Farshad Fotauhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Filippo Bergamasco. Università Ca' Foscari (Italy)
:: Gavriel Salvendy. Tsinghua University (China)
:: Georges Győry. Birkbeck University of London (UK)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Gerrit van der Veer. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
:: Hugo Scolnik. Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Inmaculada Gordillo. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
:: Inmaculada Vilches López. Universidad de Granada (Spain)
:: Isidro Moreno. Universidad Complutense (Spain)
:: Jean Vanderdonckt. University of Leuven (Belgium)
:: Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada)
:: Jurek Kirakowski. University College Cork (Ireland)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Karen Woodman. Queensland University of Technology (Australia)
:: Kim Veltman. Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (The Netherlands)
:: Klementina Možina. University of Zagreb (Croatia)
:: Lastenia Bonilla. Universidad de Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Lee Chih-Wei. Yuan Ze University (Taiwan)
:: Liliana Māţă. "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacău (Romania)
:: Ljubica Marjanoviè Umek. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Lorenzo García Aretio. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
:: Marek Wyleżoł. Politechnika Slaska (Poland)
:: Manuel Garrido Lora. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
:: Manuel Imaz. Napier University (United Kingdom)
:: Maria del Mar Ramirez Alvarado. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Marilú Lebrón Vázquez. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Miguel Cipolla Ficarra. Alaipo & Ainci (Italy & Spain)
:: Mohamed Hamada. University of Aizu (Japan)
:: Nilda Pérez Otero. Universidad Nacional de Jujuy (Argentina)
:: Onur Demirors. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Pablo Marrero Negrón. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Peter Stanchev. Kettering University (USA)
:: Philip Bonanno. University of Malta (Malta)
:: Pivovarova Liudmila. Moscow State University (Russia)
:: Rodrigo Bonacin. DSSD - CTI, Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (Brazil)
:: Rosanna Costaguta. Universidad Nacional de Santiago del Estero (Argentina)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Stafford Griffith. University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
:: Steve Anderson. University of Southern California (USA)
:: Tetsuo Tamai. University of Tokio (Japan)
:: Timothy Read. Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (Spain)
:: Urška Fekonja Peklaj. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (India)
:: Virginia Guarinos Galán. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)
:: William Grosky. University of Michigan-Dearborn (USA)