HCI 2009

First International Conference on Human Computer Interaction (http://hci.iiita.ac.in/hci2009/) HCI2009 20-23 January 2009 Allahabad, India --- We are pleased to invite contribution and participation in the first International Conference on Human Computer Interaction 2009(HCI 2009)in India. HCI 2009 is a multi-track conference covering various facets of HCI (see below). The conference will consist of keynote lectures, oral and poster presentations on all aspects of HCI. The conference aims to provide an excellent opportunity for the dissemination of interesting new research, discussion about them and the generation of new ideas in these areas. Contributions are invited from prospective authors with interests in the indicated conference topics and related areas of application. All contributions should be high quality, original and not published elsewhere or submitted for publication during the review period. Every submission must identify the Track which best relates to the contents of the paper. Papers will be peer reviewed by the International Program Committee, and may be accepted for oral or poster presentation. Topics of interest The topics in HCI 2009 include but are not confined to the following areas

Natural language and vision-based interfaces multi-modal interfaces user state detection (emotional, cognitive, motivational) Affective User-centered analysis, design and evaluation Affective Interfaces/ Systems/ Application/ Interaction Object/Target Detection/Tracking/Recognition/Classification Threat/Event recognition Combining visible & non-visible signals Multimodal Facial Recognition Information Retrieval/ Extraction/filtering Cognitive modeling Interaction design Text mining and summarization Adversarial IR (e.g., email spam filtering, index spam, etc) User modeling for IR Citation analysis for IR User Modeling & Personalization Cognitive models for web design Information fusion from disparate sensors Game Engine Design and game environment creation Web Games, Multiplayer online Games Real-Time motion Synthesis Motion Capture Techniques Facial animation Rendering visualization methods and techniques user interface development environments

Important DEADLINES: Workshop/Tutorial Proposals : 15th July, 2008 Submission of full papers: 25th Aug, 2008 Notification of Acceptance: 25th Sep, 2008 Camera Ready Submission of full papers: 15h Oct, 2008

General Chair: Mriganka Sur,Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences,Cambridge, MA, USA

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Alexander Gelbukh, Mexico Alexander Pasko, UK Amanda Spink, Australia Arvind Joshi, USA Dominik Heckmann, Germany Eyas-Al-Qawasmeh, Jordan Francisco J. Serón, Spain Gabriella Pasi, Italy Geehyuk Lee, South Korea Hyo-Sung Ahn, South Korea Iryna Gurevych, Germany James F. Peters, Canada Keith Cheverst, UK M. M. Sufyan Beg, India Manuel Montes, Mexico Pawan Sinha, USA Pushpak Bhattacharya, India R M K Sinha, India Rada Mihalcea, USA Richard Chebir, France S K Tripathi, USA* Vaclav Snasel, Czech Republic Youakim Badr, France

For other details, please see http://hci.iiita.ac.in/hci2009/ This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP