The current era of interactive communication leads us to reflect and work daily to satisfy the needs of our communities, with the purpose of improving the quality of life for each one of its members. In this environment new technologies can and must be within everyone’s reach.

This association is aimed at those people who seek the wellbeing of people in the face of progress stemming from the expansion and use of interactive computer systems, especially those known as hypermedia systems.

An HCI Lab. located in the Eastern coast of the Iberian peninsula (1997) has served to demonstrate how with the correct integration among professionals of telecommunications, electronics, computers, and those hailing especially from the social sciences, excellent results can be achieved in social communication in short periods of time.

Therefore, in AInCI we focus on social communication professionals, with the purpose of improving content and accessibility to all new technology users. Here is a short listing of the main areas in the association:

- Applied linguistics
- Audio-visual communication
- Auditory contents of multimedia
- Cinema 3D
- Cognitive modeling
- Communicability
- Communication theory
- Computer aided education and teleducation
- Computer arts
- E-health
- E-tourism
- Human factors and software
- Information architecture
- Interaction in VR and MR
- Interactive design
- Interfaces and languages
- International and national users
- Management of communications in hypermedia systems
- Legislation for new technologies
- Local and global business
- Methodologies for the quality evaluation of communication
- Models of design for interactive systems of communication
- Online museum
- Podcasting
- Networks and information security
- Semiology
- Synthetic characters and behaviour computer animation
- Telecommunications
- Travel technology
- Veracity and credibility in interactive information
- Videogames
- Virtual societies and communities
- Wireless and mobile computer science

Lastly, an open invitation to all those students, professionals and people interested in interactive communications who wish to widen, improve and exchange their experiences. To all of them we want to express our deepest gratitude for their valuable cooperation in the association.

Francisco V. C. Ficarra, Ph.D. (coordinator)