HCI International News, Number 122, November 2023
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HCII 2024: HIGHLIGHTS
- Call for Participation and Conference details
- Modes of operation
- Registration
- Accommodation
- Exhibition
- About Washington D.C., the capital of United States of America
- World Usability Initiative 2023 Design Challenge Winners: Awards sponsored by HCII2024
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HCII 2024: Call for Participation and Conference details
HCI International 2024, the 26th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, under the auspices of 21 distinguished international boards, to be held under one management and one registration, will take place at the Washington Hilton Hotel, Washington DC, USA, 29 June - 4 July 2024.
You are invited to participate and contribute, through papers, posters, workshops and student designs to this major international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical and applied areas of HCI.
Additionally, the Conference has a long-established tradition of inviting distinguished scientists and professionals in the broader HCI field to organize parallel sessions. Prospective authors should submit their proposal upon invitation from a session organizer. The process is open until 2 February 2024 (under the guidance of Parallel Session Organizers).
Mark in your calendar the following important deadlines:
- 1 December 2023: workshops proposals
- 19 January 2024: poster proposals
- 15 March 2024: student designs
The recipient of the 'HCI MEDAL FOR SOCIETAL IMPACT' for 2024 and Keynote Speaker , in the evening of Monday, 01 July 2024, will be Vicki Hanson (past President of ACM and current ACM’s Chief Executive Officer).
The best contributions will be awarded! The best paper of each of the HCII 2024 Thematic Areas / Affiliated Conferences will be given an award. The best poster extended abstract (in the form of a short research paper) will also receive an award.
Workshops, to be organized as hybrid events, are intended to foster discussion and exchange of ideas on hot topics in the broader field of HCI. Proposals for creative formats are encouraged, where the benefits for workshop participants would need to be indicated. Workshop participation is complimentary for all registered Conference participants. Detailed information about the organization of Workshops are available through the Conference website.
The Student Design Competition gives to College and University students of all grades an opportunity to present their design idea, by submitting an abstract and a video clip (up to 5-minutes). Three awards will be selected by an international jury (GOLD - $1,000; SILVER - $500; and BRONZE - $250). HCII2023 will offer for the first time this year, in a timely fashion, a virtual training session to students aspiring to prepare quality video submissions. Further information will become available, in due course, through the Conference website.
The Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set. Papers will appear in the LNCS and LNAI series, while poster extended abstracts will be published in the CCIS series. All volumes will be available on-line through the SpringerLink Digital Library, readily accessible by subscribing libraries, and indexed by a number of services, including: CPCI, part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science; Scopus; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; Google Scholar; DBLP, etc.
The HCII 2024 Program for Student Volunteers will soon become available through the Conference website. Full-time College and University students from around the world will have the opportunity to attend, contribute and benefit from actively participating to one of the most prestigious conferences in the field of computing and HCI.
The HCII 2024 Design Café, to be coordinated by Christine Riedmann-Streitz, will provide space for discussion and rethinking of important topics of global interest. Further information will become available, in due course, through the Conference website.
4th of July 2024, US Independence Day. As the last day of the conference (4th of July 2024) coincides with the US Independence Day, a traditional BBQ and appropriate festivities will be organized and additional details will be announced on the HCII2024 website and through email closer to the date.
HCII 2024: Modes of operation
HCII2024 will run as a 'hybrid' conference. The first three days of the conference (29 June -1 July) will comprise ‘virtual only’ parallel sessions for paper presentations with remote only participation and ‘hybrid’ Tutorials and Workshops. The Opening Plenary Session (1 July) and the parallel sessions that will take place 2-4 July will run as ‘hybrid’ events (i.e. allowing both 'in-person' and remote participation options for presenters and participants).
Detailed information about the mode of operation for each part of the conference is available through the Program Overview at the Conference website.
HCII 2024: Registration
All registered conference participants are entitled to:
- conference proceedings in electronic format
- access the hybrid Opening Plenary Session and Keynote Speech
- participation in all ‘virtual only’ as well as ‘hybrid’ parallel sessions
- access to the ‘virtual’ posters and exhibition
- participation in all advertised open ‘hybrid’ sessions
- register for one or more ‘hybrid’ Tutorials (an additional fee per Tutorial is required)
- register for one or more ‘hybrid’ Workshops (free of charge)
During the on-line registration process, participants will be required to select their preferred attendance method (‘in-person’ or ‘virtual’).
Participants that select to attend ‘in-person’ will also have the opportunity to:
- enter the conference reception (evening of July 1st)
- enter all refreshment breaks between hybrid sessions
(2 per day, mid-morning and mid-afternoon, between July 2nd and July 4th) - enter the 4th of July, US Independence Day, traditional BBQ and festivities (advance reservation is required)
- register for the Design Café (an additional small fee is required)
- enter the students' networking social event and reception (for student participants only)
Detailed information about registration is available through the Conference website.
HCII 2024: Accommodation
The Washington Hilton Hotel will be the conference venue and the official HCII2024 hotel.
Situated in the epicenter of DC's best neighborhoods with easy access to all of the city's top attractions, Washington Hilton offers a contemporary urban retreat in the heart of Dupont Circle, Georgetown and Embassy Row. Visitors are able to experience museums, dinning hotspots, and an eclectic mix of boutique shops, all within walking distance from the hotel.
A number of rooms have been reserved to be allocated on a first-come-first-served basis with significantly reduced rates, 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.
Detailed information about accommodation is available through the Conference website.
HCII 2024: Exhibition
You are invited to exhibit at the HCI International 2024 exhibition. The HCI International Conference is an ideal opportunity to exhibit your products and services to an international audience of more than 2000 researchers, academics, professionals and users in the field of HCI.
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.
HCII 2024: About Washington D.C., the capital of United States of America
Washington, D.C., founded in 1790, was carefully planned and designed to be the federal capital of the United States of America. With a population of more than 6 million in the wider metropolitan area, is a world-class city with iconic monuments and memorials, incredible and free-to-enter museums, political prowess, foreign embassies, historic neighborhoods and revered universities and colleges.
Washington DC is rich in historical buildings and sights, like The White House, the official residence of the president of the United States, the Capitol Building, housing the Congress and the Library of Congress, the largest library complex in the world with a collection of more than 147 million books, manuscripts, and other materials. Nearby there is the National Mall, a large open park including the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial, and the World War II Memorial.
The Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum, education, and research complex, maintains 17 free-to-enter museums in the area including the National Museum of Natural History, the National Air and Space Museum, the National Museum of African Art and the National Museum of American History.
Prepare your trip with information available through the Official Visitors Guide of Destination DC, the tourism organization of the city, and their YouTube channel.
World Usability Initiative 2023 Design Challenge Winners: Awards sponsored by HCII2024
The 2023 World Usability Initiative (WUI) Design Challenge theme was "Collaboration and Cooperation". Submissions were reviewed by an international jury consisting of 9 members, chaired by Gilbert Cockton, Emeritus Professor of Design (Northumbria University) and Computer Science (University of Sunderland). Award winners were announced on World Usability Day, 9 November 2023.
- Gold: Live.Lingo, Athena Vo (Boston College, USA)
- Silver: MCCD Form, Nomeshwari Reddy Thummala (National Institute of Design, Bengaluru, India)
In lieu of a BRONZE award, an Honorable Mention is presented
- Honorable Mention: Optimens, Federica Masci (KU Leuven, Belgium)
HCI International 2024 congratulates the winners and sponsors the three awards (Gold $1,250; Silver $1,000; and Honorable Mention $750) that will be conferred during the Opening Plenary Session in the evening of the 1st of July 2024.
The three award winners are also cordially invited, with complimentary registration, to present their work in a special hybrid session of the conference (2nd of July 2024).
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