Introduction and Topics, Deadlines and Program Committee

1. Introduction and Topics

In the last years, a myriad of notions stemming from the sciences have been used in an incorrect way for mercantilist purposes. We have an example in the wide context of the user experience design, human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, human-computer communication, human-computer interfaces, HCI and welfare (individual / group), information retrieval, and so on, with the notion of interdisciplinarity when in fact there are cases in which we should speak of transdisciplinarity or multidisciplinarity. Evidently three notions which are not synonymous between themselves. However, where the economic factor prevails over the scientific knowledge, all of this is possible.

This vision and/or modus operandi which is lax, consents or tolerates a set of errors in the factual, formal and natural sciences which may seriously affect the future of computer science, robotics, interfaces and the users of the future interactive systems and emerging hardware. This is one of the reasons why we have decided to carry out this conference on a yearly basis. It is a meeting for the exchange of knowledge and experiences tending to draw reliable lines of research and of constant work for the immediate future, as well as in the mid and long term.

The changes in the economically developed societies, allow to see how at a vertiginous speed the sector of emerging technologies, particularly where computer science, electronics, mechanics, telecommunications and artificial intelligence converge, are generating new professions for the current and future workers of that working environment. Now that working place (r)evolution will entail that many professions in the sector of services of those new technologies are going to disappear. Others will go into a continuous process of transformation or metamorphosis.

This process will give rise to the need to count on new professionals for the following areas: drones which will work in the field of the audio-visual, entertainment, environmental monitoring, humanitarian aid, agriculture and commerce; the computer, electronics and robotics experts for the creation and maintenance, whether of humanoid automats, and/or intelligent machinery; telemarketers online for long distance education or healthcare; analysts in communicability to determine the degree of reliability / quality / veracity of the online information / data for the private corporations and industries, government bodies, etc.; designers, programmers and software implementers oriented at the Apps, tablets, smartphones, 3D printers, computer graphics, computer animation, scientific computing, drones, and so forth. They are new professions, where the digital aspect of information will totally prevail over the analogue.

In the face of this new process of great current and coming changes, where will be produced not only unions and intersections of knowledge, to give rise to new areas of knowledge, it is necessary to reflect on the philosophy of science, computer science and all its derivations, artificial intelligence, robotics, software quality, communicability, avant-garde design, creativity, art, beauty, innovation in materials and nanotechnology, quantum computers, etc. Next are shown the main groups into which the acceptance of research works in their diverse formats is divided, without excluding other issues, which the authors will consider fit to introduce in the current conference.

All contributions –papers, demos, research-in-progress, posters, doctoral consortium, parallel sessions, and workshops 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 and other main areas are solicited on, but not limited to (alphabetical order):

:: Imaging

• Computational Creativity and Algorithm Art
• Infographics
• Machine Vision
• Perceptual Psychology
• Stereo Imaging

:: Industrial Design

• 3D Printing
• Computer Graphics
• Digital Techniques 
• Ergonomics
• Philosophy of the Design

:: Nanotechnology

• Ethics of Nanotechnologies
• Nanoelectronic Devices
• Nanomaterials 
• Nanomedicine Applications
• Quantum Computing

:: Hardware and Computing Engineering

• Electrical Engineering and Multimedia Mobile Systems
• Programming Languages and Components Innovative for Human Behavior in Robotics
• New Devices for Acquiring, Processing, Analyzing, and Understanding Images
• Supercomputing 
• Testing High-performance Computing Applications

:: Research and Development

• Cloud Computing
• Human-Computer/Robotics Communicability
• Mechatronics
• Philosophy of Science
• Scientific Visualization

:: Robotics

• Computer-Integrated Manufacturing
• Education and Training in Autonomous Robotics
• Evolutionary and Simulator Robotics
• Human-Robot Interaction 
• Open-Source Robotics

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

Best 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, 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 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: 09.20.2025 – 23:59 local time in Hawaiian Islands.
:: Authors Notification: Some days after the submission/s
:: Camera-ready, full papers: October, 7th 2025

Conference: October, 13 - 15  

3. Program Committee:

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

Demo Session, Poster Session, Workshop Session, Parallel Session, Research in Progress and Doctoral Consortium: Alan Radley. Perspective Research Centre and University College London (UK), Giulia Mancini. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy), and Miguel C. Ficarra. AInCI, ALAIPO and FMF (Italy & Spain).

Honorary Committee:

:: Claudio Germak. Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy)
:: Franco Casali. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Jaap van Till. Delft University and HAN Polytechnic (the Netherlands) 
:: Kaoru Sumi. Future University Hakodate (Japan)

Scientific 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 of Venice (Italy)
:: Andrea Torsello. Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
:: Anna Parodi. University of Genova (Italy)
:: Ariel Goobar. Stockholm University (Sweden)
:: Aymen Elkhlifi. Paris Sorbonne University (France)
:: 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)
:: Diego González. IMM - National Research Council (Italy)
:: Farshad Fotauhi. Wayne State University (USA)
:: Filippo Bergamasco. Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
:: Francesca Bocchi. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Franco Casali. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Georges Győry. Birkbeck University of London (UK)
:: Georgios Styliaras. University of Ioannina (Greece)
:: Gerrit van der Veer. Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands)
:: Giulia Mancini. University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
:: Hugo Scolnik. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Inmaculada López Vilchez. University of Granada (Spain)
:: Jaap van Till. Delft University and HAN Polytechnic (the Netherlands)
:: José Hamkalo. University of Buenos Aires (Argentina)
:: Juan Silva Salmerón. University of Ottawa (Canada)
:: 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)
:: Luca Cosme. Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Italy)
:: Marc Dubois. Free University of Brussels (Belgium)
:: María Carranza. University of Molise (Italy)
:: Maria Pia Morigi. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: María Teresa Dalmasso. National University of Córdoba (Argentina)
:: Marko Mladineo. University of Split (Croatia)
:: Miguel Cipolla-Ficarra. Alaipo, Ainci and FMF (Italy & Spain)
:: Ming-Chien Hung. Nanhua University (Taiwan)
:: Mohamed Hamada. University of Aizu (Japan)
:: Nela Načinović. University of Rijeka (Croatia)
:: Onur Demirors. Middle East Technical University (Turkey)
:: Pablo Marrero Negrón. University of Puerto Rico (Puerto Rico)
:: Peter Stanchev. Kettering University (USA)
:: Reiko Hishiyama. Waseda University (Japan)
:: Rodolfo Sanchéz. Balseiro Institute. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Rosa Smurra. University of Bologna (Italy)
:: Ruly Darmawan. Institute of Technology Bandung (Indonesia)
:: Sergio Salinas. National University of Cuyo (Argentina)
:: Terry Ruas. University of Göttingen (Germany)
:: Tetsuo Tamai. University of Tokio (Japan)
:: Timothy Read. National University of Distance Education (Spain)
:: Tom Murphy. University College Dublin (Ireland)
:: Vasileios Paliktzoglou. University of Eastern Finland (Finland)
:: Vigneswara Ilavarasan. Indian Institute of Management Rohtak (India)
:: Virginia Guarinos Galán. University of Sevilla (Spain)
:: Wen-Yuan Jen. National United University (Taiwan)