Introduction and Topics, Deadlines and Program Committee

1. Introduction and Topics

The new technologies offer us a series of instruments to develop the potential of human beings with the goal of increasing the quality of life of millions of users of interactive systems in our global village. The relation of the triad computer science, quality design and communicability has proven very productive in the new millennium.

In the current era of qualitative communication, the present space is intended to be a meeting point of all those who freely wish to boost and perfect the set of strategies and techniques to improve the human-computer interaction, tourism and cultural heritage. The main goal is to facilitate communicability and make the fruition of the new technologies more pleasant.

Our effort focuses on finding the common denominator between the human-computer interaction, cultural heritage, tourism and the global village. That is, we address all those who are currently working to increase the quality of life of the human beings through the new technologies and all their derivations, wanting to know the last advances in the factual, formal and natural sciences and that this "14th International Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism and Cultural Heritage (HCITOCH 2025): Strategies for a Creative Future with Computer Science, Quality Design and Communicability" can serve as a meeting point to boost the current and future lines of research of the investigators belonging to the university, governmental bodies and the enterprises and industries of the private sector.

Papers, short papers, demos, research-in-progress, posters, doctoral consortiums, didactic sessions, related to Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, Tourism, Cultural and Natural Heritage, Interactive Design, Communicability, Educational Quality, Collaborative Environments for Natural and Cultural Heritage, Digitization for Conservation, Archaeological Archives with New Technologies, Motion Graphics and Animation, Creative and Original Contents for Extended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and other Computational and Arts topics and/or sub-topics solicited on, but not limited to:

• Archaeological Computing
• Computer Art
• Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
• Computer Graphics
• Computer Animation and Motion Graphics
• Cross-Cultural and Internationalization of Design
• Cultural Heritage and Social Networking
• Development of Research and Education in Heritage Conservation
• Digital Literacy Trainings
• Digitization for Preservation
• Drones for Conservating and Protecting Cultural and Natural Heritage
• e-Book
• e-Culture
• Eco-design
• Embedded Computing
• Emerging Technologies
• Emotional Design
• Ergonomics
• Future Challenges of Visualization Methods
• Gardunia Factor in Education and Research
• Human and Social Factors in Computer Sciences
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Human-Robot Interaction
• Image Processing: Color Correction, Image Warping, Morphing and Painting
• Immersive Multimedia and Extended Reality
• Information Technology and Communication for Regional Development
• Integration of Artificial Intelligence with other Technologies for the Tourism and Cultural / Natural Heritage
• Intelligent and Adaptable Systems
• Interactive Systems for Cultural and Ecological Heritage
• Internet of Things
• Knowledge-Based Simulation
• Methodologies for Heuristic Evaluation of the Quality
• Microinformatics for Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage
• Mobile Network Security
• Online Museum
• Open Source Software
• Photography and Illustration Digital
• Publishing and Digital Libraries
• Preservation and Image Restoration of Digital Culture
• Quality Attributes and Metrics for Interactive Systems
• Quality Oriented to Software Architecture and Database
• Reusability of the Current Digital Archiving Solutions
• Robotics for Tourism and Cultural Heritage
• Role of Local Community and ICTs in Cultural Heritage Management
• Semiotics for Interactive Design
• Social Networking
• Software Engineering
• Speech and Natural Language Interfaces
• Storytelling and Extended Reality
• Tangible User Interfaces
• Techniques and Methodologies for Creative Cross-media Content
• Technological and Economical Valuation of Natural and Cultural Heritage Resources
• Telecommunications and Marketing Models in the Museum as Distributed Network
• Tourism Enterprise Information Systems and Intelligent Agents
• Tourism Technology Management
• Usability Engineering and User Experience
• User Interfaces for e-Culture and e-Tourism
• Video Games and Cultural Heritage
• Virtual Campus and Distance Education
• Virtual Simulation and Quality in Heritage and Historic Environments
• Visitor and ICTs Impact Management for World Heritage Sites
• Visual Effects and Cinema Digital
• Visualization Tools and Systems for Simulation and Modeling

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.

All contributions –papers, short papers, demos, posters, research-in-progress and doctoral consortium, should be of high quality, originality, clarity, and significance. Furthermore, all submitted research works 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 workshop. Authors of accepted contributions who registered in the workshop can have access to the evaluations and possible feedback provided by the reviewers who recommended the acceptance of their cotributions, so they can accordingly improve the final version of their papers, short papers, posters, demos, research-in-progress, and so on.

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

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 Pascoli, 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 event 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: 07.31.2025 – 23:59 local time in Hawaiian Islands.
:: Authors Notification: Some days after the submission/s
:: Camera-ready, full papers: August, 20th 2025

3. Program Committee:

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

Demo Session, Poster Session, Workshop Session, and Doctoral Consortium:

:: Alan Radley. Perspective Research Centre and University College London (UK), Anna Parodi. University of Genoa (Italy), Miguel C. Ficarra: AInCI, ALAIPO and FMF (Spain and Italy), Work-in-progress ...

Honorary Committee:

:: Alan Radley. Perspective Research Centre and University College London (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)
:: Ana Pérez. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Andrea Albarelli. Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
:: Andrea Bernardoni. University of L'Aquila (Italy)
:: Andrea Torsello. Ca' Foscari University of Venice (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)
:: Armanda Rivera. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Carlos García Garino. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: 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)
:: Diego González. National Research Council (Italy)
:: Farshad Fotauhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Florencia Lee. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Francesca Bocchi. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Franco Casalli. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Franz Nahrada. Globally Integrated Village Environment (Austria)
:: Gavriel Salvendy. Tsinghua University (China)
:: Georges Gyory. Birkbeck University of London (UK)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Gerrit van der Veer. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
:: Héctor Montes. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Hsu Ming. Yuan Ze University (Taiwan)
:: Hugo Scolnik. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Jeff Williams. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Jorge Fonseca. Complutense University of Madrid (Spain)
:: José Hamkalo. University of Buenos Aires (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)
:: Marc Dubois. Université Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium)
:: María Luisa Carranza. University of Molise (Italy)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Marilú Lebrón Vázquez. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Miguel Cipolla Ficarra. AInCI, ALAIPO and FMF (Spain and Italy)
:: Mohamed Hamada. University of Aizu (Japan)
:: Nenad Mladineo. University of Split (Croatia)
:: Onur Demirors. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Peter Stanchev. Kettering University (USA)
:: Philip Bonanno. University of Malta (Malta)
:: Pivovarova Liudmila. Moscow State University (Russia)
:: Reiko Hishiyama. Waseda University (Japan)
:: Rosa Smurra. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Silvia Poncio. Interamerican Open University (Argentina)
:: Timothy Read. National University of Distance Education (Spain)
:: Tom Murphy. University College Dublin (Ireland)
:: Tomás García Salgado. National Autonomous University of Mexico (Mexico)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (India)
:: Wang Kong Lam. The Chinese University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)
:: Yeonseung Ryu. Myongji University (South Korea)