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CHItaly 2021 - Frontiers of HCI

CALL FOR LONG AND SHORT RESEARCH PAPERS

The International Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter

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11–13 July 2021

https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html

Location: From Bozen-Bolzano through the Internet to the World

In cooperation with SIGCHI Italy and ACM-SIGCHI

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THEME

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The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference (https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it) of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter (http://sigchitaly.eu/en/general-info/) was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue. 

So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape. 

To reach its aims, the conference 

1.     solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology 

2.     opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens. 

Join CHItaly either virtually or physically to expand the frontiers of HCI. 

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RESEARCH PAPERS AND TOPICS

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The research track of the conference will be hybrid, blending digital and physical frontiers. Contributions to the research track are in the form of either long or short research papers. 

Long papers present original and substantially new research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and at the frontiers of HCI. They clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures or technical aspects are presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results are communicated according to scholarly standards, and implications of the contributions/findings for HCI have to be explicitly discussed.

Short papers present original and provocative research or novel applications in HCI. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance for HCI rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, or research studies. Examples of contributions might include but are not limited to: early-stage frontier research, techniques, technologies or prototypes with or without an in-depth evaluation; a self-contained innovative qualitative study for HCI; the design of novel systems, services or demos for hands-on interaction.

Both types of papers are archival publications of original research in the field of HCI, and related to the conference theme and topics.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following ones, divided into traditional topics for HCI and frontier topics, at the intersection with other fields, for the advancement of HCI.

Traditional HCI: Theories, Methods, Studies

Arts, Humanities, Education, Society and HCI

Physical, Digital or Hybrid HCI

Artificial Intelligence and HCI

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PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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All paper manuscripts must be in English. All manuscripts must be anonymous, avoiding to include information (authorship, acknowledgements, name of application or software or project) suggestive of the identity of the authors; it will be added later, to the camera ready versions, in case of acceptance.

All manuscripts are subject to a double-blind review process by members of the Program Committee.

All authors must submit manuscripts for review using the ACM single column submission template. The recommended lengths are:

  1. at most 10 pages for long research papers (with maximum 2 additional pages for references) 

  2. at most 6 pages for short papers (with maximum 2 additional pages for references).

ACM single-column submission templates are available for Word and LaTeX at <https://chitaly2021.inf.unibz.it/cfp.html>.

Manuscripts, in PDF format, must be uploaded via Easy Chair. The Easy Chair submission system will be opened in February 2021.

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PROCEEDINGS AND JOURNALS

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Accepted manuscripts will be invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS), published in the ACM Digital Library. Therefore, authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit a camera-ready version in a suitable ACM format for proceedings before the conference. Inclusion in the proceedings is conditional upon submission of the revised manuscript and registration of at least one presenter within the recommended deadlines. 

After the conference, authors of accepted top-quality papers will be invited, through an open call, to submit extended versions of their papers to special issues in highly ranked international journals.

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IMPORTANT DATES

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February 28, 2021 - Submission deadline

April 16, 2021 - Notification to authors

May 3, 2021 - Camera ready version

July 11th-13th, 2021 - Conference

(Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET)

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LONG PAPER CHAIRS

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Rosella Gennari, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (gennari@inf.unibz.it)

Maria de Marsico, Università La Sapienza di Roma, Italy (demarsico@di.uniroma1.it)

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SHORT PAPER CHAIRS

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Alessandra Melonio, Informatica, Libera Università di Bolzano, Italy (alessandra.melonio@unibz.it)

Cristina Gena, Università di Torino, Italy (cristina.gena@unito.it)

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CHITALY 2021 TRACKS

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This year, CHItaly 2021 has several tracks, besides the track for long and short research papers: