The 8th International Conference on "Human-Computer Interaction, High Education, Augmented Reality and Technologies" (HCIHEART 2025) carries implicitly an innovating and revolutionary vision in the domain of the college education of the present and the future, excluding all those little groups or castes that prevent the harmonious evolution of scientific knowledge, the use of the new technologies and the growth of the common wealth in the local and global village.

This is an annual event that is aimed at four domains that interrelate with each other in a bidirectional way such as human-computer interaction, high education, augmented / mixed / virtual reality, and information and communication technologies. In this scientific space new original proposals are admitted that are in a stage of elaboration or with already reached final results. Briefly, it is a kind of heart of different converging disciplines, tending to set up bridges between users and professionals of the new technologies. Allowing to all of them a greater ability to look towards the future in the short, middle and long term, with a much sharper accuracy and sharpness in their daily activities.

We do not tend to the large numbers of participants (thousands) but rather to the qualitative factor of human communication, where the students, professors, researchers, businessmen, among others, have the chance of interacting positively to offer new horizons to the research and development works. In other words, the qualitative element of the group prevails over the quantitative aspect, as it happens in many other conferences, where students, for example, are not considered, and many of their works in the continuous research stage are only sidelined to the poster / demo or similars sections, with only 5 – 10 minutes for the presentation. Besides, we are working with zero “G factor” (G = Garduña) into our international events.

In short, it is a new field of debate for the streamlining of the sciences and education focusing on human-computer interaction, augmented / mixed / virtual reality and new technologies that boost the learning process, the communicability between interactive media, professors and students, the supervision of the evolution of the research projects, the technology transfer between the university and the industry / business, and vice versa, educational quality, and a long etcetera. Leaving the possibility open of including other potential contexts and new information and communication technologies where the human being is the center of the educational process.

In addition, many conferences are focussed on only one specific aspects of computer science, programming, education, virtual learning scenarios, serious games, final users, advanced visual interface, ergonomics, new visual technologies, data management, and so forth, and bring together leading experts in a particular field or sometimes on a specific technology.

Last year’s symposiums, workshops, conferences, etc., organized by AInCI and ALAIPO, for instance, included papers, demos, research-in-progress, doctoral consortium, posters, etc., on the topics (see below the alphabetical order). An extensive listing connotes and reflects the requirement and also skill necessary to find intersection zones of the disciplines among the different domains, fields, and specialities; which at the same time potentially boosts and merges the formerly different scientific views. In other words, we focus on the following main and secondary subjects, which do not exclude others of great current or future interest, alphabetically listed in the following way:

:: Human-Computer Interaction

- Collaborative Systems
- Computational Thinking
- Gestural Interaction
- Human/Robot-Computer Communicability
- Information Visualization
- Intelligent Interfaces
- Innovative Interface Design and Assessment of Interactive Systems
- Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing
- User Experience with AI Systems

:: High Education

- Computer Science and Engineering
- Culture Systems
- Digital Libraries
- e-Learning / m-Learning
- Detection and Erradication of Gardunia Factor
- Pedagogy for AI, ML and DL
- Social Sciences
- Video Games and Education
- Virtual Agents and Virtual Education
- Virtual Classroom and Virtual University

:: Augmented / Mixed / Virtual Reality

- Architecture of AR, MR, VR Systems
- Computer Graphics and Computer Vision
- Digital Literacy
- Emerging Software and Hardware for Multimodal Displays
- Haptic Rendering
- Interaction and Output Modalities
- Multi/Tras media Design and Spatial Experience
- New Content for Static and Dynamics Media
- Software Programming for Complex Systems

:: Technologies

- Expanded Reality Hardware
- Educational Technology
- Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
- Mobile Devices and Sensors for AI
- Networking and Security
- New Display Technologies
- Research and Innovative Technologies
- Tracking Technology
- User Interface Design for Sustainability Technologies

The conferences, workshops, symposiums, etc., organized by ALAIPO and AInCI promote dialogue between established professors, research experts, pedagogues, and so on, and students, programmers, mobile designers, machine learning engineers, and so forth; working on new directions. Hence topics from the whole range of human-computer interaction; dynamics and static media; 3D computer graphics; apps programming; software quality; communicability; design, assessment and auditory of interactive systems; innovative tools, methodologies, and techniques for HCI; online learning in higher education; educational video games; virtual agents; e-learning authoring tools; display technologies; extended reality; information architecture for AI; creative content for social networking, big data analysis; human behaviour and ethics in ICT, and so on, are welcomed.

All contributions –papers, workshops, demos, posters, research-in-progress, doctoral consortium, etc. should be of high quality, originality, clarity, and significance. Furthermore, all submitted papers will be reviewed by a double-blind (at least three reviewers), non-blind, and participative peer review. These three kinds of review will support the selection process of those that will be accepted for their presentation at the international conference. Authors of accepted contributions who registered in the conference can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their works, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers, demos, research-in-progress, and so forth.

This is an international conference “100% in-person.”

Kind regards,

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

P.S. If you wish to be removed from this mailing list, please send an email to info@ainci.com or info@alaipo.com with "remove" in the subject line. Thanks.     

2. The events 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, 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: 06.30.2025 – 23:59 local time in Hawaiian Islands.
:: Authors Notification: Some days after the submission/s
:: Camera-ready, full papers: July, 18th 2025

3. Program Committee:

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

Honorary Committee:

:: Alejandro Frangi. University of Manchester (UK)
:: Jaap van Till. Delft University and HAN Polytechnic (the Netherlands)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)

Scientific, Steering and Technical Committees

:: Alan Radley. Perspective Research Centre and University College London (UK)
:: Alejandro Frangi. University of Manchester (UK)
:: Amanda Rivera. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Ana Martínez. Complutense University (Spain)
:: Ana Pérez. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Andrea Albarelli. Ca' Foscari University (Italy)
:: Andrea Bernardoni. University of Aquila (Italy)
:: Andreas Kratky. University of Southern California (USA)
:: Andres Frederic. National Institute of Informatics (Japan)
:: Anna Parodi. University of Genoa (Italy)
:: Carlos García Garino. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Carmen García. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Chia-Wen Tsai. Ming Chuan University (Taiwan)
:: Claudia Rébola. University of Cincinnati (USA)
:: Claudio Germak. Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy)
:: Daniel Barrantes. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Farshad Fotauhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Franz Nahrada. Globally Integrated Village Environment (Austria)
:: Gavriel Salvendy. Purdue University (USA) and Tsinghua University (China)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Gerrit van der Veer. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
:: Giulia Mancini. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
:: Héctor Montes. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Hugo Scolnik. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Oriol Camacho. University of Granada (Spain)
:: Jaap van Till. Delft University and HAN Polytechnic (the Netherlands)
:: Jeff Williams. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada)
:: Jurek Kirakowski. University College Cork (Ireland)
:: Juri Hwang. University of Southern California (USA)
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)
:: Klementina Možina. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Lastenia Bonilla. University of Costa Rica (Costa Rica)
:: Laurence Bender. National University of Tres de Febrero (Argentina)
:: Liliana Māţă. "Vasile Alecsandri" University of Bacău (Romania)
:: Ljubica Marjanoviè Umek. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Lorenzo García Aretio. National University of Distance Education (Spain)
:: Marc Dubois. Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
:: Maria Pia Morigi. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Marilú Lebrón Vázquez. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Marko Mladineo. University of Split (Croatia)
:: Miguel Cipolla Ficarra. Alaipo, Ainci & FMF (Italy & Spain)
:: Ming-Chien Hung. Nanhua University (Taiwan)
:: Nela Načinović. University of Rijeka (Croatia)
:: Peter Stanchev. Kettering University (USA)
:: Philip Bonanno. University of Malta (Malta)
:: Pivovarova Liudmila. Moscow State University (Russia)
:: Reiko Hishiyama. Waseda University (Japan)
:: Roberto von Sprecher. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Rosa Smurra. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Sebastián Gabo. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Tetsuo Tamai. University of Tokio (Japan)
:: Tom Murphy. University College Dublin (Ireland)
:: Tomás García Salgado. National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico)
:: Urška Fekonja Peklaj. University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)
:: Vasileios Paliktzoglou. University of Eastern Finland (Finland)
:: Veysi Isler. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (India)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)
:: William Hudson. Open University (UK)
:: Yeonseung Ryu. Myongji University (South Korea)