CHItaly 2021
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Frontiers of HCI
11-13 July, Bozen-Bolzano (Italy) and online (www)
The theme for the 14th Edition of the Biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter was defined in summer 2019 as “Frontiers of HCI”. At that time, we were thinking about disciplinary and national boundaries. Little did we know of the many frontiers this hybrid conference would have to overcome to create a safe space for HCI related discussions. To overcome this challenge, CHItaly combines physical and digital events while providing synchronous and asynchronous spaces for dialogue.
So far, CHItaly has physically hosted HCI scholars working in the Mediterranean and other European countries. The aim of CHItaly 2021 is to connect research and geographical areas, so as to explore frontiers and cross-fertilise HCI research in practice. From this perspective, a hybrid conference can become an incredible experimentation space which you are all invited to shape.
To reach its aims, the conference
- solicits contributions from diverse research communities relevant to HCI, such as Science and Technology Studies, Technology Enhanced Learning, Interaction Design and Digital Fabrication, Design and the Arts, besides traditional fields such as computer science, engineering and psychology
- opens its physical and digital doors to industry, civic societies and citizens.
Program Outline
| Day | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| SUNDAY 11th JULY | 14:00 - 18:30 | Registration desk |
| 14:30 - 18:30 |
Workshops W2: Virtual Reality, Inclusion and special language needs (VR Island) W3: Speculative Design for Transurban Futures (TransUrban) W4: Critical Tools for Machine Learning: Figuring, fabulating, situating, diffracting machine learning systems design (CritML) |
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| 15:30 - 18:30 | Interactive Experiences (free entrance) | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | Welcome aperitif | |
| MONDAY 12th JULY | 8:00 - 18:00 | Registration desk |
| 8:30 - 12:30 |
Workshops W6: The Role of Digitalization in Improving the Quality of Live in Rural (Industrialized) Regions W7+W9: Joint workshop on Game-Human Interaction (GHITALY 2019) and Multi-party Interaction in eXtended Reality (MIXR) W8: Designing for/with/around Nature: Exploring new frontiers of outdoors-related HCI (NatureHCI) |
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| 8:30 - 12:30 | Doctoral Consortium | |
| 10:00 - 13:00 | Interactive Experiences | |
| 12:30 - 14:00 | Lunch and SIGCHI Italy townhall meeting | |
| 14:00 - 14:30 | Opening | |
| 14:30 - 15:30 | Opening Keynote by Prof. Albrecht Schmidt | |
| 15:30 - 16:05 | Session 1: Game & Play | |
| 16:05 - 16:35 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:35 - 18:00 | Session 2: Learning & Education | |
| 20:00 - 23:00 | Social dinner | |
| TUESDAY 13th JULY | 9:00 - 10:30 | Session 3: Methods & Tools |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:00 - 12:15 | Session 4: Care & Share | |
| 12:15 - 13:00 | Hybrid Poster session (from conference Sessions 1, 2 and 3) | |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:00 | Session 5: Mind & Body | |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Session 6: Spaces & Places | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Coffee Break & Hybrid Poster Session (from conference Sessions 4, 5 and 6) | |
| 17:00 - 18:00 |
Closing Keynote by Prof. Paola Bertola |
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| 18:00 - 18:45 | Collective reflection on the past and futures of CHItaly | |
| 19:00 - 20:30 | Good-bye aperitif and music event, a tribute to A. Piazzolla |
Highlights
June 23 2021
We regret to inform you that due to legal requirements related to COVID’19, we have to close the physical registration in Bolzano.
We went well above expected success, and we thank all the people who trusted us and wanted to join this extraordinary experience.
Virtual registration will stay open until June 30 and we are working hard to provide the best hybrid experience as possible.
June 10 2021
The preliminary program is available! Have a look here.
May 19 2021
Registration is open! Click here to register.
May 15 2021
Opening and closing keynotes by Prof. Albrecht Schmidt and Prof. Paola Bertola.
April 28 2021
The call for workshop contributions is active and we are looking forward to your participation.
For more information see here.
April 23 2021
The review process is over, and 35 papers were accepted or conditionally accepted, out of 83 submitted! Congrats to all.
April 4 2021
At the end of October 2021, authors of accepted top-quality research papers at CHItaly 2021 will be invited,
through an open call, to submit an extended version of their papers to the special issue
'New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI' of the
Multimedia Tools and Applications Springer Journal.
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