11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction to Take Place Along With 5th National Conference on Human Computer Interaction India HCI 2013

BANGALORE, September 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ --

The 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction (APCHI 2013) is all set to roll out this September in Bangalore during 24-27 September 2013. Bangalore - well-known as the research hub for Indian IT industry - is a habitat of approximately 25000 usability and HCI professional, ranging from service industry like Infosys, TCS, Wipro to the product development companies like Google, Microsoft, and Adobe etc. and therefore offers a natural venue for HCI conference in order to gain the threshold in this effort.

APCHI 2013 brings together researchers from academia and industry and provides an excellent opportunity to exchange ideas and information on human-computer interaction and related areas in computer and communication technologies and human and social sciences.

As Asia Pacific region is well-known for wide diversity of cultures and languages, and since this year for the first time, the conference moves to India, a land of intercultural spirit, it rightly deserves the theme, "Interaction Diversity". The theme represents the multidisciplinary, multilingual and multi-socio-economic aspects of research in human-computer interaction (HCI). Diversities bring a lot of technical and social challenges in designing the interactions for users with different levels of literacy, different cultures and languages, different levels of expertise and capabilities, and different needs. We solicit high quality contributions in terms of research, practices, new solutions and emerging technologies in broad area of HCI to tackle such challenges.

The APCHI 2013 conference welcomes researchers, professionals, practitioners and designer's representing research societies, industry and academia from and across the globe. All submitted papers will be subject to a double-blind review process. Accepted papers will be published in conference proceedings. Like previous year conference, the authors of selected long talks will be invited to have their papers published in a special issue of the International Journal of Innovative Computing, Information and Control (indexed by SCI) after further revision. Authors of selected short talks will be invited to have their papers published at a special issue of ICIC Express Letters (indexed by EI) or a special issue of HCD-Net journal.

APCHI 2013 has the following three categories of conference awards:

1) Best Paper Award

2) Best Student Paper Award

3) Best Poster/Demonstration Award

The winner of the award will receive a certificate and/or prizes sponsored by our industrial partners.

For more information, visit http://www.apchi2013.org

Keynote Speakers

International Program Committee - APCHI 2013 is pleased to announce keynote speakers for the 11th installment of Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction being held at Bangalore, India on September, 24-27.

Prof. Jun Rekimoto, Dr. Sci., Director, Interaction Laboratory, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc.

Jun Rekimoto received the B.A.Sc., the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. in Information Science from Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1984, 1986, and 1996, respectively. From 1986 to 1994, he worked for the Software Laboratory of NEC. During 1992-1993, he was staying the Computer Graphics Laboratory at the University of Alberta, Canada, as a visiting scientist. Since 1994, he worked for Sony Computer Science Laboratories, and since 1999 he formed and has been directing the Interaction Laboratory within Sony CSL.

At Sony CSL, he has initiated and led the "Real-World User Interfaces" project since 1994. This project produced several research accomplishments including NaviCam (a situationally-aware mobile assistant), Pick-and-Drop (a direct-manipulation technique for inter-appliance computing), Multiple-Device Digital Whiteboard, Augmented Surfaces, and TimeScape (time-machine user interface environment). Some of these results are being commercialized on Sony's personal computer series called "VAIO".

His research interest includes computer augmented environments, mobile/wearable computing, virtual reality, and information visualization. He has authored dozens of refereed publications in the area of human-computer interactions, including ACM CHI and UIST. One of his work was recognized as the 30th commemorative papers award of Information Processing Society Japan (IPSJ) in 1992. He also received the Multi Media Grand Prix Technology Award from the Multi-media Contents Association Japan in 1998, and Yamashita Memorial Research Award from IPSJ in 1999.

For more details about Jun, kindly visit http://www.sonycsl.co.jp/person/rekimoto.html 

Prof. Alan Dix, HCI Centre, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, UK

Alan Dix is a British author and university professor, specialising in human-computer interaction. He is one of the four co-authors of the university level textbook Human-Computer Interaction. He was previously a professor at Lancaster University.

For more details about Alan, Kindly visit http://alandix.com/academic/

Prof. Ravi Poovaiah, Professor, Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay

Professor Ravi Poovaiah is senior faculty member at the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay.

He has backgrounds in Mechanical Engineering, Product Design and Graphic Arts Education having studied respectively at Indian Institutes of Technology at Madras and Bombay (IIT Madras and IIT Bombay) and at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, USA.

His current pedagogic as well as research and design interests are in fields related to interaction design, new media design, visual design and product design and his research interests are in areas related to visual language, information visualisation, visual narratives, way finding systems, interaction devices, collaborative social and learning environments and designing for children.

For more details about Ravi, kindly visit http://www.idc.iitb.ac.in/ravi/index.html

Looking forward to welcome you at Bangalore:

Anirudha Joshi and Sanjay Tripathi

Conference General Chair, APCHI 2013, Bangalore, India

Ed Cutrell, Microsoft Research, India

Shengdong Zhao, National University Singapore, Singapore,

Technical Program Chairs APCHI 2013 on behalf of APCHI Steering Committee

Masaaki Kurosu, The Open University of Japan, Japan

Kee Yong Lim, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Cecile Paris, CSIRO ICT Center, Australia

Linmi Tao, Tsinghua University, China

Hardianto Iridiastadi, ITB Bandung, Indonasia

Kentaro Go, Yamanashi University, Japan

Seongil Lee, Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea

About CIMGlobal

CIMGlobal is the professional conference organiser for APCHI 2013. Apart from its services of conference and exhibition management, CIMGlobal aims to bring quality education for the industry professionals and work out beneficial collaborations for the clients and industry.

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