Call for Papers for the Second Submission Round of

EICS 2024: The 16th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive

Computing Systems, June 24-28, 2024 - Cagliari, Italy

Submission deadline for the 2nd Round of PACM EICS 2024 for Full Papers and
Technical Notes: October 26, 2023

EICS 2024 is the sixteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers all stages of the engineering life-cycle of interactive systems -inception, requirements, design, specification, coding, data analytics, validation and verification, deployment, and maintenance. EICS has the longest tradition of bringing together researchers who contribute to better ways of creating interactive computing systems, stemming from the conference on command languages in the seventies. The conference is best known for rigorously contributing and disseminating research results that hold the midst in between user interface design, software engineering, and computational interaction.

EICS focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques, and tools that support designing, developing, validating, and verifying interactive systems. The conference brings together people who study or practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from design, HCI, software engineering, requirements engineering, software development, modeling, and programming.

Submissions advance the state of the art of the engineering of interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to:

Modeling, specification, and analysis of interaction and interactive systems
Model-based development of interactive software
Requirements engineering for interactive systems
Methods, processes, principles and/or tools for building interactive systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, verification and validation, testing)
Software architectures for interactive systems
Formal methods within interactive systems engineering
Certification issues of methods, tools, and processes to create interactive systems
Frameworks, toolkits, domain-specific languages, and APIs for interactive systems
Languages and notations for describing user interfaces and interactions
Integrating engineering issues in the design process of interactive systems
Engineering design tools
Engineering evaluation tools
Supporting design in interactive development processes
Computational-Interaction Systems and Techniques
Interactive data-driven systems
Engineering interactive applications with emerging technologies (e.g., adaptive, context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch and multitouch input, voice, gestures, EEG, multimodal input, mobile and wearable systems, AI, (augmented, mixed, virtual) realities...)
Engineering hardware/software integration in interactive systems (e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, cyber-physical systems…)
Engineering interactive systems for various user categories (e.g., children, elderly, people with disabilities…)
Engineering interactive systems for various application domains (e.g., health, home, entertainment, desktop, avionics, space, nuclear, civil protection, law enforcement, emergency services, and calamity management...)
Engineering interactive systems for specific properties (user experience, usability, safety, security, dependability, …)
Engineering smart interactive systems (e.g., recommending, adaptive, intelligent)
Building Human-centred AI systems (integrating explainable AI, intelligible design, human-in-the-loop, adaptive and context-aware, interactive agents…)

A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300960

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FULL PAPERS and TECHNICAL NOTES SUBMISSIONS

EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes are published as articles in the Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM HCI - EICS series). There are three submission deadlines per year, and authors can choose when to submit. Papers follow the traditional journal model of reviewing: papers may be accepted after submission and review, or may be recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations.

Submissions for the journal of this venue should present original and mature research work within the scope of the conference. Note that accepted journal papers can be either regular research papers, or technical notes. Technical Notes are shorter, more focused contributions that focus specifically on system contributions and technical work. Elucidating technical details of complex interactive systems, preferably ensuring the work can be reproduced or put to practice, is a primary objective of a Technical Note. Tech Notes require an illustrative example of the system, and they can, but do not need to, be validated by formal user evaluations or user studies. Validation can also be done through, e.g., simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive systems concerns.

There are no length restrictions on Full Papers and Technical Notes, nor any limit to the number of references that may be included. We advise authors to ensure the length of their papers is in function of the contributions. Concise and clear is often to be preferred over lengthy and verbose.

Full Papers and Technical Notes should be written in the ACM format; see

https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions

The PACMHCI-EICS deadline for the Second Round of Full Papers and Technical Notes submissions is 26 October 2023.

Papers are submitted using
https://new.precisionconference.com

EICS’24 Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs

Carmen Santoro and Anke Dittmar