Topics, Deadlines and Program Committee

1. Topics

New spaces are emerging for constructive reflection in the context of social and technological research fostered by the rise of the democratization of access to online information in the process of convergence of the different disciplines of human knowledge. The present conference is one example of them.

In this event we pay special attention to interactive systems / extended reality / multimedia mobile communication that has made the possibility available to millions of users to instantly access information related to tourism and its main components, such as the natural and cultural heritage, economic growth with an avant-garde tourism (i.e., sustainable / smart / health / wellness / sport / recreational / hospitality, among others original and ingenious attributes and/or components), of thousands of places, scattered far and wide, of our planet.

In addition, the uninterrupted progress of the new technologies and the tourism industry require intercultural content that intelligently adapts to the potential recipients and generators of positive trends in social networks.

In this creative stage, education has a priority role, as it continues to be one of the mainstays of culturally developed communities, as evidenced by recent history, together with the evolution of civilizations, regardless of temporal and spatial space.

In our days, educational creativity finds in gamification a learning technique that continues with the precepts formulated in the 20th century with learning by playing. In this sense, gamification, understood as a mechanics of games in the educational-professional field, opens new fields for study and research to achieve better results, together with the requirements of users of intelligent interactive systems in the new millennium.

Therefore, this is an ideal environment for all people who want to present the results obtained in the application of software and hardware, in a thriving and progressive triad, such as the tourism industry, gamification applied to education, and the design of interactive contents for end users of the latest generation of multimedia systems, intelligent or not. The main areas of the conference are listed below.

The main topics that have been listed do not mean a limitation to present other topics, which can enrich and enhance the current vision. As well as the possible new horizons that can be opened for the future in the short, medium and long term. Besides, many conferences are focussed on specific aspects of tourism, gamification, learning, ecosystems, computer science, web engineering, interfaces, user experiences, embodied / full-body interaction, artificial intelligence, information retrieval, gender studies, UCD, STEAM and so forth, and bring together leading experts in a particular field or sometimes on a specific technology. At such large conferences students are often marginalized or relegated to poster sessions or similars, with short time for the la presentation (5 - 10 minutes, for instance).

Our workshops, symposia, conferences, parallel sessions, demos, and so on, are aim to promote dialogue between established professors and graduate students working on new directions, besides, we work with zero Gardunia factor. Hence topics from the whole range of artificial intelligence, big data, communicability, computer science, cultural heritage attraction, database and business intelligence, deep learning, ecotourism, gamification design, human-computer interaction, information retrieval and data mining, learning analytics, ludification, machine learning, marine and coastal areas tourism, mobile computing, new technologies, serious games, software quality, tourism industry, and so forth are welcomed. Last year’s workshops, symposia, and so forth, organized by ALAIPO and AInCI, for instance, included papers, research-in-progress, demos, parallel sessions, etc., on the topics (see below the alphabetical order).

All contributions –papers, research-in-progress, workshops, demos, posters and doctoral consortium, should be of high quality, originality, clarity, and significance. In the current international conference it is demonstrated how with a correct integration among professionals of factual, formal and natural sciences interesting research lines in the following subjects: AR, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Gamification, City Tourism, Communicablity, Computer Graphics, Design, Educational Quality, Entertainment Computing and Edutainment, Expanded Reality, Game-Based Learning, HCI, HRI, Human Factors, ICT, Interfaces, Methodologies and Tools for Evaluation, Multimedia Systems, Preservation of Cultural Heritage, Rural Tourism, Software Engineering, STEAM / STREAM, Tourism and Emerging Technologies, User Studies, UCD, UX, VR, and other computational / human / robotics areas are solicited on, but not limited to (alphabetical order):

Computer Science and Tourism

• Climate Change and Tourism Impact
• Computer Science for Cultural and Natural Heritage, Travel and Tourism
• Data Science, Analysis and Computational Thinking
• Database and Business Development
• Digital Content, Intelligent Systems and Social Market for Real and Virtual Tourists
• Ecotourism
• e-Tourism
• Industrial Tourism: Management and ICT Inclusion
• Informatics for the Preservation of Cultural and Natural Heritage
• Tourism Education and Training
• Web Design: Tourism Strategies for AI

Intelligent Gamification

• Games and Motion Graphics
• Gamification in the Cloud
• Intelligent Systems and Gamification as a Service
• Interactive Narrative and Digital Storytelling
• New Media and Games
• Pedagogical Principles of Gamification with zero Gardunia Factor
• Pervasive/Ubiquitous Gaming
• Player Behavior Modelling
• Serious Games User Assessment
• Video Game Design and Development

User Interaction

• Assessing Personal Abilities through Mobile Multimedia Systems and Expanded Reality
• Design for Multimodal Interaction
• Emotions and Affective Interaction
• Human-Computer Interaction: History, Technologies and Trends
• Immersiveness, Multimedia and Virtual User Experiences
• Interaction in Extended Reality and Internet of Things
• Interactive Narrative and Digital Storytelling
• Natural and Adaptive User Interfaces
• Social Computing and User Behaviour
• UX and Educational Interactive Systems: Entertainment and Realism

Best regards, 

Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (Chair - coordinator)
&
Pamela Fulton and Doris Edison (International Secretariat)

ALAIPO: Asociación Latina Interacción Persona-Ordenador –Latin Association of HCI (www.alaipo.com) and AINCI: Asociación Internacional de la Comunicación Interactiva –International Association of Interactive Communication (www.ainci.com). Address: Via Tabajani 1, S. 15 (7) - 24121 (Bergamo) Italy :: c/ Angel Baixeras, 5 - AP 1638 - 08080 (Barcelona), Spain. Email: info@alaipo.com :: info@ainci.com

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2. The conference have the following deadlines

:: Works Submissions: Open. Consequently, as they are received, they will be evaluated. It is a way to speed up the process to make up the final program of the international conference. It is a way to speed up the process to make up the final program of the international Symposium, visa requirements, should plan travel well in advance, etc. In other words, it is not necessary to wait until the deadline to send them for the evaluation process.

:: Deadline Works Submissions: May, 10th –local time in Hawaiian Islands  
:: Authors Notification: Some days after submission/s 
:: Camera-ready, full papers: May, 29th

3. Program Committee:

:: Francisco V. Cipolla Ficarra (chair - coordinator)

Demo Session, Poster Session, Workshop Session, Parallel Session, Research in Progress and Doctoral Consortium:

:: Dušan Peterc. University of Ljubljana and Arahne (Slovenia), Giulia Mancini. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy), Miguel C. Ficarra. AInCI, ALAIPO and FMF (Italy & Spain), work-in-progress ...

Honorary Committee

:: Alan Radley. Perspective Research Centre and University College London (UK)
:: Dušan Peterc. University of Ljubljana and Arahne (Slovenia)
:: Jaap van Till. Delft University and HAN Polytechnic (the Netherlands)

Scientific, Steering and Technical Committees

:: Alan Radley. Perspective Research Centre and University College London (UK)
:: Alejandro Frangi. University of Manchester (UK)
:: Ana Martínez. Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
:: Ana Pérez. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Andrea Torsello. Ca' Foscari University (Italy)
:: Andreas Kratky. University of Southern California (USA)
:: Andres Frederic. National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
:: Anna Parodi. University of Genoa (Italy)
:: Annamaria Poli. University of Milano Bicocca (Italy)
:: Aymen Elkhlifi. Paris Sorbonne University (France)
:: Chia-Wen Tsai. Ming Chuan University (Taiwan)
:: Claudia Rébola. University of Cincinnati (USA)
:: Claudio Germak. Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy)
:: Daniela Tamburini. Sperimenta Centro Studi Cinema e Formazione di Milano (Italy)
:: Danny Barrantes. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Derrick de Kerchove. University of Toronto (Canada)
:: Dušan Peterc. University of Ljubljana and Arahne (Slovenia)
:: Farshad Fotauhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Filippo Bergamasco. Ca' Foscari University (Italy)
:: Franco Casali. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Franz Nahrada. Globally Integrated Village Environment (Austria)
:: Georges Győry. Birkbeck University of London (UK)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Giulia Mancini. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
:: Gloria Quispe. National University of Jujuy (Argentina)
:: Gustavo Hirchoren. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Hugo Scolnik. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Jaap van Till. Delft University and HAN Polytechnic (the Netherlands)
:: Jeff Williams. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: José Hamkalo. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Jurek Kirakowski. University College Cork (Ireland)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Klementina Možina. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Koen van Turnhout. Hogeschool van Arnhem (The Netherlands)
:: Lastenia Bonilla. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Laura Gaytán. University of Colima (Mexico)
:: Ljubica Marjanoviè Umek. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Luca Cosmo. Ca' Foscari University (Italy)
:: Marc Dubois. Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
:: Miguel Cipolla Ficarra. Alaipo, Ainci and FMF (Italy & Spain)
:: Ming-Chien Hung. Nanhua University (Taiwan)
:: Mohamed Hamada. University of Aizu (Japan)
:: Nenad Mladineo. University of Split (Croatia)
:: Pablo Godoy. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Pablo Marrero Negrón. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Peter Stanchev. Kettering University (USA)
:: Raimonda Riccini. Iuav University of Venice (Italy)
:: Reiko Hishiyama. Waseda University (Japan)
:: Roberto von Sprecher. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Sergio Salinas. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Stafford Griffith. University of the West Indies (Jamaica)
:: Terry Ruas. University of Göttingen (Germany)
:: Tetsuo Tamai. University of Tokio (Japan)
:: Tom Murphy. Dublin Institute of Technology (Ireland)
:: Tomás García Salgado. National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico)
:: Veysi Isler. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (India)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)
:: Yeonseung Ryu. Myongji University (South Korea)