Introduction and Topics, Deadlines and Program Committee

1. Introduction and Topics

One of the key elements in the evolution of human kind has been creativity. Creativity is a term that is associated with the originality of solutions in the face of some given problems, which have led the scientific community to accumulate a series of discoveries and inventions along time which have revolutionized the daily coexistence of human beings.

The new technologies offer us a series of instruments to develop the potential of human beings with the goal of increasing the quality of life of millions of users of interactive systems in our global village. The relation of the triad computer science, quality design and communicability has proven very productive in the new millennium.

In the current era of qualitative communication, the present virtual space is intended to be a meeting point of all those who freely wish to boost and perfect the set of strategies and techniques to improve the human-computer interaction, tourism and cultural heritage. The main goal is to facilitate communicability and make the fruition of the new technologies more pleasant.

Our effort focuses on finding the common denominator between the human-computer interaction, cultural heritage and the global village. That is, we address all those who are currently working to increase the quality of life of the human beings through the new technologies and all their derivations, wanting to know the last advances in the factual and formal sciences and that this international workshop can serve as a meeting point to boost the current and future lines of research of the investigators belonging to the university, governmental bodies and the enterprises and industries of the private sector. All contributions should be of high originality, quality, clarity, significance and impact. Papers, demos and doctoral consortium related to Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism, Cultural Heritage, Quality Design, Communicability, Ubiquitous Computing and other Computational Areas are solicited on, but not limited to:

:: Advances in Hypermedia Systems
:: Audio-visual Communication and Multimedia
:: Blended Learning
:: Character for Guided Tour and Behaviour Computer Animation
:: Cognitive Models and Critical Design
:: Communicability
:: Computer Graphics and Computer Animation
:: Computer Aided Education (CAE)
:: Computer Arts
:: Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
:: Cross-Cultural and Internationalization of Design
:: Database Application Development
:: Development of Research and Education in Heritage Conservation
:: Digital Divide
:: Distributed Computing and Networking
:: E-book
:: E-commerce
:: E-culture
:: E-government
:: Eco-design
:: Electronic Presentation, Publishing, and Digital Libraries
:: Embedded Computing
:: Emerging Technologies
:: Emotional Design
:: Ergonomics
:: Human Factors and Computer Science
:: Human-Computer Interaction
:: Image Processing: Color Correction, Image Warping, Morphing and Painting
:: Immersive Multimedia, Mixed Reality and Virtual Reality
:: Indexing and Search Technique for Hypermedia Databases
:: Information Technology and Communication for Regional Development
:: Integration of Artificial Intelligence with other Technologies for the Tourism
:: Interactive Systems for Cultural and Ecological Heritage
:: Journalism On-line: Discursive Analysis
:: Knowledge-Based Simulation
:: Marketing, Tourism and Geospatial Information Systems
:: Methodologies for Heuristic Evaluation of the Quality
:: Microinformatics for Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage
:: Mobile Network Security
:: Multimedia for Assessing Tourist Demand in World Heritage Sites
:: Online Museum
:: Open Source Software
:: Photography and Illustration Digital
:: Preservation and Image Restoration of Digital Culture
:: Quality Attributes and Metrics for Interactive Systems
:: Reusability of the Current Digital Archiving Solutions
:: Role of Local Community and ICTs in Cultural Heritage Management
:: Semiotics for Interactive Design
:: Software Engineering
:: Software Testing, Evaluation and Analysis Technologies
:: Speech and Natural Language Interfaces
:: Storytelling and Augmented Realities
:: Technological and Economical Valuation of Natural and Cultural Heritage Resources
:: Telecommunications and Marketing Models in the Museum as Distributed Network
:: Teleworking
:: Tourism Technology Management
:: Ubiquitous Computing
:: Usability Engineering
:: Video games
:: Virtual Architecture and Hypergraphics
:: Virtual Campus and Distance Education
:: Virtual Travel Agencies
:: Visitor and ICTs Impact Management for World Heritage Sites
:: Visual Effects and Cinema Digital
:: Visualization Tools and Systems for Simulation and Modeling
:: Web 2.0 and Web 3.0
:: Web TV, 3D TV and Stereo Visualization
:: Wireless and Mobile Computer Science

Best regards, 

Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (Chair - coordinator)
&
Mary Brie 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 Pascoli, 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: Closed.

3. Program Committee:

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

- Miguel Cipolla Ficarra (ALAIPO & AInCI)
- Huang Chih-Fang. Yuan Ze University (Taiwan)
- Andreas Kratky. University of Southern California (USA)

Honorary Committee:

- Gavriel Salvendy. Purdue University (USA) and Tsinghua University (China)
- Kim H. Veltman. Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (The Netherlands)
- María Teresa Dalmasso. University National of Córdoba (Argentina)

Scientific Committee:

:: Abdulmotaleb El Sadik. University of Ottawa (Canada)
:: Alicia Mon. Universidad Nacional de La Matanza (Argentina)
:: Annie Lau. University of New South Wales (Australia)
:: Arturo Colorado Castellary. Universidad Complutense (Spain)
:: Beatriz Sainz de Abajo. Universidad de Valladolid (Spain)
:: Carina González. Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)
:: Claudia Marcos. Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Bs. As. (Argentina)
:: Daniel Pargman. Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
:: Evelyn Torres Gallardo. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Farshad Fotouhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Francis C. M. Lau. Hong Kong University (China)
:: Gavriel Salvendy. Tsinghua University (China)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Gerrit van der Veer. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
:: Giulio Mori. IIT - National Research Council (Italy)
:: Graciela Hadad. Universidad Nacional de La Matanza (Argentina)
:: Graciela Vidal. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (Argentina)
:: Hugo Scolnik. Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Inmaculada Gordillo. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
:: Inmaculada Vilches López. Universidad de Granada (Spain)
:: Jean Vanderdonckt. University of Leuven (Belgium)
:: Joaquim Jorge. Technical University of Lisbon (Portugal)
:: John Karat. IBM Research (USA)
:: Juan Hourcade. University of Iowa (USA)
:: Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada)
:: Jurek Kirakowski. University College Cork (Ireland)
:: Juri Hwang. Alaipo & Ainci (USA)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Kim Veltman. Virtual Maastricht McLuhan Institute (The Netherlands)
:: Kürşat Çağıltay. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Ljubica Marjanoviè Umek. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Maarten Weyn. Artesis University College Antwerp (Belgium)
:: Manuel Garrido Lora. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
:: Manuel Imaz. Napier University (United Kingdom)
:: Marco Winkler. University Paul Sabatier (France)
:: Maria Claudia Bossi. IIT - National Research Council (Italy)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Maribel Sánchez Bonilla. Universidad de La Laguna (Spain)
:: Marilú Lebrón Vázquez. Universidad de Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Marina Bossi. IIT - National Research Council (Italy)
:: Mary Czerwinski. Microsoft Research (USA)
:: Miguel Cipolla Ficarra. Alaipo & Ainci (Italy & Spain)
:: Mirta Echevarria. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Monica Landoni. University of Lugano (Switzerland)
:: Onur Demirors. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Peter Stanchev. Kettering University (USA)
:: Philip Bonanno. University of Malta (Malta)
:: Philippe Palanque. Université Paul Sabatier de Toulouse (France)
:: Pivovarova Liudmila. Moscow State University (Russia)
:: Regina Bernhaupt. University of Salzburg (Austria)
:: Rodrigo Bonacin. DSSD - CTI, Ministério da Ciência e Tecnologia (Brazil)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Sandra Casas. Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia Austral (Argentina)
:: 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)
:: Veysi Isler. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (India)
:: Virginia Guarinos Galán. Universidad de Sevilla (Spain)
:: Virpi Roto. Nokia Research Center (Finland)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)
:: William Grosky. University of Michigan-Dearborn (USA)
:: Yeonseung Ryu. Myongji University (South Korea)