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The purpose of the International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications (CHIRA) is to bring together professionals, academics and students who are interested in the advancement of research and practical applications of interaction design & human-computer interaction. Five parallel tracks will be held, covering different aspects of Computer-Human Interaction, including Interaction Design, Human Factors, Entertainment, Cognition, Perception, User-Friendly Software and Systems, Pervasive Technologies and Interactive Devices.

Papers describing original work on advanced methods, prototypes, systems, tools and techniques as well as general survey papers indicating future directions are encouraged. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference by one of the authors and published in the Proceedings of CHIRA, which will be placed on at least one Digital Library and sent for indexation by the major international indexes.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. HUMAN FACTORS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS
2. INTERACTIVE DEVICES
3. INTERACTION DESIGN
4. ADAPTIVE AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

AREA 1: HUMAN FACTORS AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS

• User Preferences and Customization
• Security and Privacy
• Ergonomics
• User Behaviour Analysis
• Modelling Human Factors
• User Experience Evaluation
• Computing with Social Trust
• Semiotics
• Decision Support Systems
• Collaborative Systems
• Interaction Data and Process Mining
• Healthcare Applications
• Usability
• Entertainment
• Social Computing
• Accessibility

AREA 2: INTERACTIVE DEVICES

• Ubiquitous Computing
• Modelling Interactive Devices
• Haptic and Tangible Devices
• Conversational Speech Interfaces
• 3D Interaction
• Virtual and Augmented Reality
• Interactive Surfaces
• Wearable Sensors
• Sensor Networks
• Mobile Devices and Services
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Brain-Computer Interfaces
• Gesture-Based Interaction
• EEG Signal Processing
• Neuroimaging Interfaces

AREA 3: INTERACTION DESIGN

• New Visualization-Techniques
• User Experience Design
• Web Design and Accessibility
• Accessible and Adaptive Interaction
• Design and Evaluation
• Interaction Design Modelling
• Collaboration and Interaction Design
• Service Science and Interaction Design
• Mobile Computer-Human Interaction
• User-Centered Interaction Design Patterns
• Situated Interaction
• Cognitive Interaction
• Design and Creativity Support Software
• Affective Computing
• Multimedia and Multimodal Interaction

AREA 4: ADAPTIVE AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

• Visualization Tools
• Natural Language Processing
• Recommendation Systems
• Information Retrieval
• Computational Intelligence
• Modelling Adaptive and Intelligent Systems
• Context-Aware Systems
• Intelligent User Interfaces
• Cognition, Communication and Interaction
• Learning in Virtual Worlds
• Machine Learning
• Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
• Deep Learning Applications
• Affective Systems

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
Ann Blandford, UCLIC, University College London, United Kingdom

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity. 

Only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarismthoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. 

Authors can submit their work in the form of a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas. All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail. 

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support. 
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). 
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (CPCI/ISI), DBLP, EI (Elsevier Engineering Village Index), Scopus, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar and Microsoft Academic.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 5 - 6 November, 2020 

Regular Papers

Paper Submission: May 19, 2020 
Authors Notification: July 17, 2020 
Camera Ready and Registration: July 31, 2020 

Position Papers

Paper Submission: July 24, 2020 
Authors Notification: September 2, 2020 
Camera Ready and Registration: September 16, 2020

Workshops

Workshop Proposal: June 9, 2020
Paper Submission: September 2, 2020
Authors Notification: September 17, 2020
Camera Ready and Registration: September 25, 2020

Doctoral Consortium

Paper Submission: September 8, 2020
Authors Notification: September 22, 2020
Camera Ready and Registration: September 30, 2020

Special Sessions

Special Session Proposal: June 9, 2020

Tutorials

Tutorial Proposal: September 22, 2020

Demos

Demo Proposal: September 22, 2020

Panels

Panel Proposal: September 22, 2020

Open Communications

Paper Submission: September 8, 2020

Authors Notification: September 22, 2020

Camera Ready and Registration: September 30, 2020

SECRETARIAT

CHIRA Secretariat 
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C 
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal 
Tel.: +351 265 520 184 
Fax: +351 265 520 186 
e-mail: chira.secretariat@insticc.org 
Web: http://www.chira.scitevents.org

VENUE

Available soon.

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Markus Helfert, Maynooth University, Ireland
Larry Constantine, Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute, Portugal

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Andreas Holzinger, Medical University Graz, Austria
Hugo Plácido Silva, IT- Institute of Telecommunications, Portugal

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Iyad Abu Doush, American University of Kuwait, Kuwait 
Alessandra Agostini, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy 
Ahmad Taher Azar, Prince Sultan University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia 
Tamara Babaian, Bentley University, United States 
Dana Balas-Timar, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Romania 
Nizar Banu P K, Christ University, India 
Mathias Bauer, KPMG AG, Germany 
Juan-Manuel Belda-Lois, Instituto de Biomecánica de Valência, Spain 
Karen Blackmore, The University of Newcastle, Australia 
Josep Blat, Interactive Tecnologies Group, Spain 
Nathalie Bonnardel, Aix Marseille University, France 
Monica Bordegoni, Politecnico di Milano, Italy 
Yang Cai, Carnegie Mellon University, United States 
Juan Calleros, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico 
Yongcan Cao, University of Texas San Antonio, United States 
George Caridakis, University Aegean, Greece 
Luis Castro, Instituto Tecnologico de Sonora, Mexico 
Bongsug Chae, Kansas State University, United States 
Debashish Chakravarty, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India 
Christine Chan, university of regina, Canada 
Christine Chauvin, Université de Bretagne Sud, France 
Ahyoung Choi, Gachon University, Korea, Republic of 
Yang-Wai Chow, University of Wollongong, Australia 
Cesar Collazos, Universidad del Cauca, Colombia 
Lizette de Wet, University of the Free State, South Africa 
Said Easa, Ryerson University, Canada 
Vania Estrela, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil 
Ronak Etemadpour, City College, CUNY, United States 
Jesus Favela, Cicese, Mexico 
Peter Forbrig, University of Rostock, Germany 
Silas Formunyuy Verkijika, University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa 
Carla Freitas, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 
Diego Gachet, European University of Madrid, Spain 
Valentina Gatteschi, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 
Toni Granollers, University of Lleida, Spain 
Karin Harbusch, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany 
Beat Hirsbrunner, University of Fribourg, Switzerland 
Martin Hitz, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria 
Sylwia Hyniewska, World Hearing Centre, Poland 
Victor Kaptelinin, Umeå University, Sweden 
David Kaufman, Simon Fraser University, Canada 
Gerard Kim, Korea University, Korea, Republic of 
Gerhard Leitner, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Austria 
Yunji Liang, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China 
Youquan Liu, Chang'an University, China 
Eurico Lopes, Escola Superior de Tecnologia (EST), Instituto Politécnico de Castelo Branco (IPCB), Portugal 
Arminda Lopes, Interactive Technologies Institute (ITI/LARSyS) & Instituto Politecnico de Castelo Branco, Portugal 
Daphne Lopez, VIT University, India 
Diego López De Ipiña, University of Deusto, Spain 
Lorenzo Magnani, University of Pavia, Italy 
Federico Manuri, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 
Frédéric Mérienne, Arts et Metiers, France 
Daniel Mestre, Aix-Marseille University / CNRS, France 
Lia Morra, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 
Max Mulder, TU Delft, Netherlands 
Jaime Muñoz-Arteaga, Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes (UAA), Mexico 
S. Musse, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil 
Max M. North, Kennesaw State University, United States 
Tal Oron-Gilad, Ben Gurion University, Israel 
Charles Owen, Michigan State University, United States 
Sobah Abbas Petersen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway 
Helen Petrie, University of York, United Kingdom 
Claudio Pinhanez, IBM Research, Brazil 
Prashan Premaratne, University of Wollongong, Australia 
Nitendra Rajput, IBM Research, New Delhi, India 
Steve Reames, Angelo State University, United States 
Laura Ripamonti, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy 
Andrea Sanna, Politecnico di Torino, Italy 
Nilanjan Sarkar, Vanderbilt University, United States 
Jean Vanderdonckt, Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium 
Frédéric Vanderhaegen, University of Valenciennes, France 
Spyros Vosinakis, University of the Aegean, Greece 
Marcus Winter, University of Brighton, United Kingdom 
Diego Zapata-Rivera, Educational Testing Service, United States 
Gokmen Zararsiz, Erciyes University, Turkey 
Juergen Ziegler, University of Duisburg Essen, Germany 
Floriano Zini, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy