ACHI 2012

Topics
INTER: Interfaces

• Graphical user interfaces
• Intelligent user interfaces
• Adaptive user interfaces
• Multi-modal user interfaces
• Context-based interfaces
• Virtual reality and 3D interfaces
• Speech and natural language interfaces
• Interfaces for collaborative systems
• Interfaces for restricted environments
• Internationalization and reflections of culture on interface design
• Interfaces for disadvantaged users
• Interface specification and design
• Interface prototyping
• Interface testing
• Interface evaluation
• Interface generators and other tools for developing interfaces
• Data visualization
• Visualization techniques
• Interactive visualization

OUI: Organic user interfaces

• Interface-oriented materials and devices
• Physical and digital representation
• Sensing and display technologies
• Rollable and foldable displays with tactile properties
• Skin-based input
• Analog input interaction design
• Flexible display technologies
• Functional-based display forms
• Flexible-computing and curve computer interactions
• 3D continuous display interfaces

HAPTIC: Haptic interfaces

• Fundamental of haptic interactions
• Tangible user interfaces
• Bidirectional information flow
• Haptography
• Haptic feedback and control
• Bodyware (embedded sensors; flexible structures, associative memories, actuation and power systems)
• Magnetic levitation haptic interfaces
• Kinetic motion-based interaction
• Kinetic motion and haptic design
• Mindware (learning, adaptation, head-hand coordination, bimanual coordination; discovering affordance, interaction and imitation)
• Language of motion / Gesture annotation
• Interfaces with kinetic properties
• Sensor actuator design, development and evaluation
• Linear haptic display
• Fingertip haptic display
• Pen based force display
• High bandwidth force display
• Quality of experience model for haptic interactions
• Haptics rendering

SYSTEMS: Interactive systems

• Highly interactive systems
• Intelligent agents and systems
• Adaptive systems
• Context-aware systems
• Multi-user multi-interface systems
• Collaborative systems
• Computer-supported cooperative work
• Distributed information spaces
• Communicators and advisory systems
• Interaction through wireless communication networks

DEVICES: Interaction devices

• General input and output devices
• Virtual reality input and output devices
• Interaction devices for immersive environments
• Shareable devices and services
• Mobile devices and services
• Pervasive devices and services
• Small displays
• Very large displays
• Tangible user interfaces
• Wearable computing
• Interaction devices for disadvantaged users
• Interaction devices for computer games

DESIGN & EVAL: Interaction & interface design & evaluation

• Interface metaphors
• Interaction styles
• Interaction paradigms
• Requirements specification methods and tools
• Analysis methods and tools
• Design methods and tools
• Evaluation paradigms
• Evaluation methods and tools
• Evaluation frameworks
• Scenarios
• Task analysis
• Conceptual design
• Physical design
• Information architecture
• Information design for websites
• Guidelines and heuristics
• Experience design
• Environmental design
• Ethnography
• Contextual design
• Service design

MODELS: Principles, theories, and models

• Cognitive models
• Conceptual models
• Mental models
• Frameworks for cognition
• Model-based design of interactive systems
• Formal methods in human-computer interaction

USER: User modeling and user focus

• Usability and user experience goals
• User testing
• User modeling
• User profiling
• Predictive models (e.g., for user delay prediction)
• Human perceptible thresholds
• User support systems
• Psychological foundations for designing interactive system
• Human information processing
• Digital human modeling
• Engineering psychology
• Ergonomics
• Hearing and haptics
• Affective computing

PARADIGMS: Traditional and emerging paradigms

• Interaction paradigms
• Mobile computing
• Wearable computing
• Location-aware computing
• Context-aware computing
• Ubiquitous computing
• Pervasive computing
• Transparent computing
• Attentive environments
• Virtual reality
• Augmented reality and tangible bits
• Immersive environments
• Human-based computation
• Visual languages and environments  
• End-user programming
• Hypermedia advances and applications
• New visions of human-computer interaction

ACCESS: Usability and universal accessibility

• Interaction and interface design for people with disabilities
• Interaction and interface design for the young and the elderly
• Universal access and usability
• Usability engineering
• Usability testing and evaluation
• Usability and internationalization

HUM-ROBOTS: Human-robot interaction

• Fundamentals of human-robot cooperation
• Cognitive models of human-robot interaction
• Adaptable autonomy and knowledge exchange
• Autonomy and trust
• Awareness and monitoring of humans
• Task allocation and coordination
• Human guided robot learning
• User evaluations of robot performance
• Metrics for human-robot interaction
• Long-term interaction robotics
• Health and personal care robotics
• Social Robotics
• Multi-modal human-robot communication
• Robot intermediaries
• Experiments and applications

HUM- AGENTS: Agents and human interaction

• Principles of agent-to-human interaction
• Models for human-agent interaction
• Social persuasion in human-agent interaction
• Designing for human-agent interaction
• Socially intelligent agents and the human in the loop
• Agents for human-human interaction
• Agent-based human-computer-interaction
• Human cooperation and agent-based interaction
• Human interaction with autonomous agents
• Agent-based human-robot interaction
• Human and artificial agents emotional interaction

SOCIAL: Social aspects of human-computer interaction

• Societal implications of human-computer interactions
• Social computing and software
• Online communities
• Weblogs and other community building tools
• Online support for discovery and creativity
• Tool support for discovery and innovation
• Expressive and attentive interfaces and environments
• Affective aspects of human-computer interaction
• Emotional design

GAMES: Computer games and gaming

• Computer game technology
• Computer game engineering
• Foundations of computer game design and development
• Development processes and supporting tools
• Management aspects of computer game development
• Architectures and frameworks for computer games
• Game-based training and simulation
• Serious games
• Multi-user games
• Online games
• Online gaming
• Game theories
• Audio, video and text in digital games
• New computer games and case studies
• Performance improvements in computer games
• Social impact of games and gaming

EDUCATION: Human-computer interaction in education and training

• Interactive systems for education and training
• Online and communications support for education and training
• Interfaces, interactions and systems for distance education
• Software tools for courseware development and delivery
• Collaborative systems for teaching, studying and learning
• Handheld mobile devices for education and training
• Advisory and recommendation systems
• Techniques and tools for information localization, retrieval & storage
• Web annotation systems
• Case studies and applications

MED APPS: Applications in medicine

• Interactive systems for medical applications
• Interactive systems for telemedicine
• Interactive systems for telehealth
• Interactive systems for telepathology
• Interactive systems for telecardiology
• Interactive systems for telesurgery
• Interactive personal medical devices
• Digital imagery and visualization frameworks
• Role of colors and color imaging in medicine
• Multidimensional projections with application to medicine
• Data mining and image retrieval techniques for medical applications
• Imaging interfaces and navigation
• Internet imaging localization, retrieval and archiving
• Video techniques for medical images
• Internet support for remote medicine
• Computer-controlled communications for medical applications
• Medical informatics
• Software and devices for patient monitoring
• Interactive software for therapy and recovery

TELECONF:  Teleconferencing

• Fundamentals for teleconferencing
• Platforms for teleconferencing
• Devices for teleconferencing
• Videoconferencing, Web Conferencing
• Performance in teleconference applications
• Real-time aspects in teleconferencing
• Privacy and security in teleconference applications
• QoS/SLA for teleconferencing applications
• Teleconferencing services
• Business models for teleconferencing

APPLICATIONS: Other domain applications

• Interactive interfaces and systems for scientific applications
• Interactive interfaces and systems for engineering applications
• Interactive interfaces and systems for business applications
• Interactive interfaces and systems for activities in arts & humanities
• Interactive interfaces and systems for scientific research
• Other applications of interactive interfaces and systems