Long and Short Research Papers

The review process of the research track of the conference is managed via Easychair.

The research track of the conference will be hybrid, blending digital and physical frontiers. Contributions to the research track are in the form of either long or short research papers.

Long papers present original and substantially new research in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and at the frontiers of HCI. They clearly indicate innovative aspects. Research procedures or technical aspects are presented in sufficient detail to ensure scrutiny and reproducibility. Results are communicated according to scholarly standards, and implications of the contributions/findings for HCI have to be explicitly discussed.

Short papers present original and provocative research or novel applications in HCI. Merit will be assessed in terms of originality and importance for HCI rather than maturity, extensive technical validation, or research studies.

Both types of papers are archival publications of original research in the field of HCI, and related to the conference theme and topics.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following ones, divided into traditional topics for HCI and frontier topics, at the intersection with other fields, for the advancement of HCI.

Traditional HCI: Theories, Methods, Studies

HCI theories
HCI design and evaluation methods
HCI studies
Interaction processes and models
Collaborative and social computing and HCI
Affective computing and HCI
Accessibility and inclusive HCI

Arts, Humanities, Education, Society and HCI

Design & arts and HCI
Humanities and HCI
Cultures, culture production and HCI
Education and HCI
Technology enhanced learning and HCI
Learning analytics and HCI
Values, ethics and HCI
Society and HCI

Physical, Digital or Hybrid HCI

Game and gamification-based solutions and HCI
Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and HCI
Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and HCI
Internet of Things (IoT) and HCI
Physical computing, making or digital fabrication and HCI
Cyber-physical systems, embedded systems and HCI
Tangible design, industrial design or product design and HCI
Mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing and HCI
Human-robot interaction and HCI
Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and HCI

Artificial Intelligence and HCI

AI theories, technologies or tools and HCI
Human-in-the-loop machine/deep learning and HCI
Agent-based systems or multi-agent systems and HCI
Formal methods and HCI
Data analysis, modelling or visualisation and HCI
Process analysis, modelling or visualisation and HCI
Natural language processing and HCI
Recommendation, personalisation or adaptation and HCI

Paper Format and Submission Guidelines

All paper manuscripts must be in English. All manuscripts must be anonymous, avoiding to include information (authorship, acknowledgements, name of application or software or project) suggestive of the identity of the authors; it will be added later, to the camera ready versions, in case of acceptance. Please, read more on how to anonymise below.

All manuscripts are subject to a double-blind review process by members of the Program Committee.

All authors must submit manuscripts for review using the ACM single column submission template. The recommended lengths are:

at most 10 pages for long research papers (with maximum 2 additional pages for references)
at most 6 pages for short papers (with maximum 2 additional pages for references).

ACM single-column submission templates are available for Word and LaTeX.

Word template. Download and use the most recent Submission Template from the ACM website.

LaTeX template. There are two alternatives.

Download the Master Article Template - LaTeX folder from the ACM website. Then choose "sample-sigconf" from the "sample" subfolder. For the one-column format, comment "\documentclass[sigconf,authordraft]{acmart}" and uncomment "\documentclass[manuscript,screen,review]{acmart})".
Go to Overleaf and use ACM Conference Proceedings "Master" Template. For the one-column format, comment "\documentclass[sigconf,authordraft]{acmart}" and uncomment "\documentclass[manuscript,screen,review]{acmart})".

For further specifications concerning the ACM format for manuscripts, please, refer to the ACM website.

Manuscripts, in PDF format, must be uploaded via Easy Chair.

Proceedings and Journals

Accepted manuscripts will be invited for inclusion in the electronic ACM International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS), published in the ACM Digital Library, indexed in Scopus. Therefore, authors of the accepted papers will be invited to submit a camera-ready version for proceedings before the conference via the ACM TAPS system. Authors are recommended to follow the camera-ready instructions to the letter. Inclusion in the proceedings is conditional upon submission of the revised manuscript and registration of at least one presenter within the recommended deadlines.

After the conference, authors of accepted top-quality papers will be invited, through an open call, to submit extended versions of their papers in the special issue entitled 'New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI' of the Multimedia Tools and Applications Springer Journal (forthcoming late October 2021).

Important Dates

Please, notice that deadlines are strict due to COVID-19-related organisational constraints and different events taking place in summer 2021.

February 28, 2021 - Submission deadline
April 16, 2021 - Notification to authors
April 30, 2021 - Updates of conditionally accepted papers only
May 10, 2021 - Initial camera-ready submission to TAPS
May 24, 2021 - Final camera-ready submission addressing any TAPS issues
(Deadlines are meant till 11.59 pm CET)

Anonymity, Transparency and Ethics

Research transparency is very important in a CHItaly paper. It allows reviewers to understand and assess submitted work, and it allows members of the research community to continue a research line. As such, transparency is taken into account very seriously in the review process.

Therefore, meanwhile guaranteeing anonymity, we expect authors to leave citations to their previous work in line with CHI 2021 guidelines.

Last but not least, all authors are expected to conform to the ACM ethics code.

Long Papers Chairs

Rosella Gennari, Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (gennari@inf.unibz.it)
Maria De Marsico, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy (demarsico@di.uniroma1.it)

Short Papers Chairs

Alessandra Melonio, SMART Data Factory, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy (alessandra.melonio@unibz.it)
Cristina Gena, University of Torino, Italy (cristina.gena@unito.it)

Program Committee

Ignacio Aedo, University Carlos III of Madrid
Margherita Antona, ICS-FORTH
Barbara Rita Barricelli, University of Brescia
Andreas Bollin, University of Klagenfurt
Letizia Bollini, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Elizabeth Bonsignore, University of Maryland
Yuri Borgianni, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Stefano Burigat, University of Udine
Marina Buzzi, IIT-CNR
Maria Claudia Buzzi, IIT-CNR
Federica Caruso, University of l'Aquila
Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza University of Rome
Federica Cena, University of Torino
Luca Chittaro, University of Udine
César Alberto Collazos, University of Cauca
Maria Francesca Costabile, University of Bari
Daniela D'Auria, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Berardina Nadja De Carolis, University of Bari
Fernando De La Prieta Pintado, University of Salamanca
Maria De Marsico, Sapienza University of Rome
Luigi De Russis, Polytechnic University of Turin
Giuseppe Desolda, University of Bari
Tania Di Mascio, University of l'Aquila
Paloma Díaz, UC3M
Monica Divitini, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Gabriella Dodero, ASLERD
Emmanuel Dubois, IRIT- Elipse - University of Toulouse
Mehdi Elahi, University of Bergen
Daniela Fogli, University of Brescia
Rita Francese, University of Salerno
Cristina Gena, University of Torino
Rosella Gennari, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Walter Gerbino, University of Trieste
Michail Giannakos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Carina Soledad González González, University of La Laguna
Eelco Herder, Radboud University
Netta Iivari, University of Oulu
Mladjan Jovanovic, Singidunum University, Belgrade
Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa
Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari
Chiara Leonardi, Bruno Kessler Foundation
Barbara Leporini, ISTI - CNR
Angela Locoro, Carlo Cattaneo University
Marco Manca, ISTI - CNR
Maurizio Mancini, Sapienza University of Rome
Ivana Marenzi, L3S Research Center
Raul Masu, Nova University of Lisbon
Maristella Matera, Polytechnic University of Milan
Alessandra Melonio, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Eleonora Mencarini, University of Trento
Marcelo Milrad, Linnaeus University
Giulio Mori, ISTI - CNR
Fabio Morreale, University of Auckland
Elena Not, Bruno Kessler Foundation
Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza University of Rome
Fabio Paternó, CNR-ISTI
Maria Angela Pellegrino, University of Salerno
Fabio Pittarello, Ca' Foscari University of Venice
Elvira Popescu, University of Craiova
Marco Porta, University of Pavia
Catia Prandi, University of Bologna
Amon Rapp, University of Torino
Daniele Riboni, University of Cagliari
Francesco Ricci, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Laura Anna Ripamonti, University of Milan
Mehdi Rizvi, Polytechnic University of Milan
Eftychia Roumelioti, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Giuseppe Sansonetti, Roma Tre University
Carmen Santoro, ISTI-CNR
Riccardo Scateni, University of Cagliari
Gianluca Schiavo, University of Trento
Jennifer Schubert, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Alessandro Soro, Queensland University of Technology
Anna Spagnolli, University of Padova
Lucio Davide Spano, University of Cagliari
Laura Tarantino, University of l'Aquila
Marco Temperini, Sapienza University of Rome
Marko Tkalcic, University of Primorska
Ilaria Torre, University of Genova
Genny Tortora, University of Salerno
Seçil Uğur Yavuz, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano
Stefano Valtolina, University of Milan
Fabiana Vernero, University of Torino
Giuliana Vitiello, University of Salerno
Pierpaolo Vittorini, University of L'Aquila
Gualtiero Volpe, InfoMus-DIST-University of Genoa
Max Willis, University of Trento
Massimo Zancanaro, University of Trento
Floriano Zini, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano