Call for Papers: Irish HCI 2014

This year the Insight Centre for Data Analytics will be hosting the 8th Annual Irish Human Computer Interaction (iHCI) conference in the Helix, Dublin City University on the 1st and 2nd September 2014.  iHCI is Ireland’s leading forum for work in all areas of Human Computer Interaction bringing together practitioners, academics, researchers and students from a wide variety of disciplines including user experience designers, information architects, software engineers, human factors experts, information systems analysts, social scientists and managers. We also welcome perspectives from design, architecture engineering, planning, social science and creative industries among other disciplines.

The iHCI website has now launched:  http://ihci2014.dcu.ie/

TOPICS

The conference theme is “Shaping our Digital Lives” which reflects how technology influences our home, work, play, and life, and the challenges in designing and deploying innovative and collaborative technologies which shape our lives.

We are interested both in research contributions on all topics related to Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) including practical, technical, methodological, empirical and theoretical aspects, including (but are not limited to) the following:

• Mobile, Ambient, Augmented or Tangible HCI
• Usability, Accessibility & User experience
• User-centred design
• Wearable computing, smart clothes, new devices and sensors
• Social and collaboration technologies
• Ethnographical and field studies
• Evaluation methods and frameworks
• Human-centred design practices, tools and methods
• Information visualization and presentation techniques
• Novel user interfaces, interaction techniques and technologies
• Multimodal interaction and interfaces
• Ubiquitous, pervasive, and mobile interaction
• Human factors in health and wellness applications and health care informatics
• HCI theory and practice
• HCI in games and entertainment
• HCI in health and welfare
• HCI in education
• User interaction issues with the use of ICT in expanding cultural contexts and in all aspects of home, work, play and life
• Designing for specific groups (e.g. children, older adults, collaborators)

Selected papers may be considered for extension and further publication in the International Journal of Mobile HCI special issue.

Format

All papers should be formatted to the ACM standard, see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates, and will appear in a printed volume with an ISBN and made available online through the conference website.

Categories & Page Lengths

Long Papers:  max 8 pages
Short papers:  max 4 pages
Posters/Demos Showcase:  maximum 2 page poster or demo overview

Submissions

Submissions should be made through the EasyChair system. All submissions must be submitted in electronic format (PDF) and conform to the appropriate formatting and style and to the page lengths as outlined above. Papers exceeding the page limits will risk rejection without review.

Submissions should be blinded for review and should not contain any identifying information about the author(s) or their affiliated organisation(s). Submissions should: – not contain the author(s) names or affiliation(s) at the beginning of the paper; – anonymise references to identifiable organisations, citations to prior work, etc; – not contain identifiable acknowledgements / funding sources.

Paper Submission Deadlines

Short/Full Papers Due:  23rd May, 2014
Notification to Authors:  18th July, 2014
Final Papers Due:  1st August, 2014

The Irish HCI Conference is a local chapter activity of SIGCHI Ireland.

If you have any questions related to the conference please email ihci2014@computing.dcu.ie

Kind regards,

Dr Niamh Caprani & Dr Rami Albatal