HCI International News, Number 110, November 2021

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HCII 2022 HIGHLIGHTS

• Important Deadlines - extended deadline for paper proposals!
• Conference Details
• Keynote speech by Ben Shneiderman
• Registration
• 11 November 2021: World Usability Day - Design Challenge Awards sponsored by HCII2022

OTHER HIGHLIGHTS

• Review by Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
  "Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics", 5th edition (Wiley, 2021)
  edited by Gavriel Salvendy and Waldemar Karwowski
• Recent News and Articles
• About HCI International NEWS

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HCII 2022: Important Deadlines - extended deadline for paper proposals!

Due to multiple requests, the submission deadline for the regular paper proposals (extended abstracts of 800 words), has been extended for a few more days, until Wednesday, 10 November 2021. All consequent deadlines for regular papers remain unaffected.

• Paper proposal submission: 10 November 2021 (extended deadline) - an abstract of 800 words is required
• Review Outcome for papers: 10 December 2021
• Poster proposal submission: 21 January 2022 - an abstract of 300 words is required

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HCII 2022: Conference Details

HCI International 2022, jointly with its Thematic Areas and Affiliated Conferences, held under one management and one registration, invites you to participate and contribute, through papers, posters, tutorials, and a Student Design Competition to this major international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical and applied areas of HCI. Past HCII Conferences were attended by about 2,000 participants from more than 70 countries.

HCII 2022 will be held under the auspices of 21 distinguished international boards. Please visit the Conference website for the list of topics of each Thematic Area / Affiliated Conference.

The Conference will be held as a rich virtual event with the advanced interactive features of the award winning Whova event platform.

Additionally, the Conference has a long established tradition of inviting distinguished scientists and professionals in the broader HCI field to organize parallel sessions. Prospective authors should submit their proposal upon invitation from a session organizer. The process is open until 11 February 2022 (extended deadline) under the guidance of Parallel Session Organizers.

An award will be presented to the Best Paper of each of the HCII 2022 Thematic Areas / Affiliated Conferences and the Best Poster extended abstract.

The Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set. Papers will appear in volumes of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. Poster Extended Abstracts in the form of short research papers will be published in the Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS) series.

Student Design Competition: Students are invited to submit an up to 5-minute video clip and an abstract summarizing their design idea. The deadline for Video and Abstract Submission is 14 March 2022.

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Keynote speech by Ben Shneiderman

Ben Shneiderman (Emeritus Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Founding Director of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory at the University of Maryland) will give the Keynote Speech during the Opening Plenary Session on Sunday 26 June 2022.

"Human-Centered AI: A New Synthesis"

Abstract: A new synthesis is emerging that integrates AI technologies with HCI approaches to produce Human-Centered AI (HCAI). Advocates of this new synthesis seek to amplify, augment, and enhance human abilities, so as to empower people, build their self-efficacy, support creativity, recognize responsibility, and promote social connections.
Educators, designers, software engineers, product managers, evaluators, and government agency staffers can build on AI-driven technologies to design products and services that make life better for the users. These human-centered products and services will enable people to better care for each other, build sustainable communities, and restore the environment. The passionate advocates of HCAI are devoted to furthering human values, rights, justice, and dignity, by building reliable, safe, and trustworthy systems.
The talk will include examples, references to further work, and discussion time for questions. These ideas are drawn from Ben Shneiderman’s latest book (Oxford University Press, January 2022). Further information is available.

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HCII 2022: Registration

HCII 2022 is organized and will be run as a virtual conference and all fees are offered at 50% of the 'in-person' fees.

Detailed information about the registration fees is available through the Conference website.

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11 November 2021: World Usability Day - Design Challenge Awards sponsored by HCII2022

The 2021 World Usability Initiative (WUI) Design Challenge with theme "Design of our Online World: Trust, Ethics, and Integrity." award winners will be announcement on World Usability Day, 11 November 2021.

The design challenge awards are sponsored by HCII2022 Conference and will be conferred during the opening plenary session. The Gold, Silver and Bronze award recipients will be invited, with complimentary registration, to present their work in a special session during the conference.

Mark your calendars:  11 November 2021, World Usability Day
World Usability Day is single day of events occurring around the world that brings together communities of  professional, industrial, educational, citizen, and government groups for our common objective: to ensure that the services and products  important to life are easier to access and simpler to use.

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Review by Ben Shneiderman, University of Maryland
"Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics", 5th edition (Wiley, 2021)
edited by Gavriel Salvendy and Waldemar Karwowski

https://www.wiley.com/en-us/Handbook+of+Human+Factors+and+Ergonomics%2C+5th+Edition-p-9781119636083

A bountiful buffet of brilliant reviews! This monster book of 1500+ double-columned pages present broad coverage of human factors, ergonomics, human-computer interaction, and related topics with applications to medicine, aviation, website design, and much more. Gavriel Salvendy and Waldemar Karwowski have gathered legendary chefs and younger stars to cook up this healthy diet that will have readers snacking for many months as they digest the morsels of wisdom and ample portions of meaningful history, comprehensive overviews, well-crafted diagrams, and abundant references. The 57 monographs justify the high price, since you will return to this hefty handbook regularly and show it to your colleagues to demonstrate the remarkable breadth and astonishing impact that human factors and related topics have had on our civilization. This handbook also lays the foundation for future work, enabling readers to see how ideas have been interpreted across applications and what design decisions made the difference between failure and success. Eager students and experienced professionals will find plenty of perceptual, psychological, and social theory, complemented by in-depth coverage of business-driven user-oriented design, workplace safety, and training. Another theme that I was pleased to find covered was management aspects of cybersecurity, accident investigation, system audits, and cost/benefit analysis. Finally, my pleasure was complete when I found thoughtful reviews of data visualization and human-centered AI. 

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Recent News and Articles

• "A Hospital Hit by Hackers, a Baby in Distress: The Case of the First, Alleged Ransomware Death", Wall Street Journal, September 30, 2021.
• "In the Face of Neurotechnology Advances, Chile Passes 'Neuro Rights' Law", Agence France-Presse, September 30, 2021.
• "Google, DeepMind Face Lawsuit Over Deal with Britain's National Health Service", CNBC, October 1, 2021.
• "Widely Used Bitcoin ATMs Have Major Security Flaws", Gizmodo September 30, 2021.
• "China's Data-Driven Dream to Overhaul Healthcare", Nature, October 6, 2021.
• "Uber Faces Legal Action Over 'Racially Discriminatory' Facial Recognition ID Checks", Tech Crunch, October 5, 2021.
• "Singapore Inks Pact with Finland to Mutually Recognize IoT Security Labels", ZDNet, October 6, 2021.
• "Smart Robots Do All the Work at Nissan's 'Intelligent' Plant", Associated Press, October 8, 2021.
• "Professional Footballers Threaten Data Firms with GDPR Legal Action", BBC News, October 21, 2021.
• "The Rise of the Robo-Voices", The Wall Street Journal, October 7, 2021.
• "Neighbor Wins Privacy Row Over Smart Doorbell, Cameras", BBC News, October 14, 2021.
• "AI Brings Hidden Picasso Nude to Life", CNN October 11, 2021.
• "Google Analyzed 80 Million Ransomware Samples: Here's What It Found", ZDNet, October 13, 2021.
• "Walgreens Testing Drone Deliveries in Texas", The Hill, October 20, 2021.
• "Twitter Admits Bias in Algorithm for Rightwing Politicians, News Outlets", The Guardian October 22, 2021.
• "Thinking' Robot with Neurons Grown from Living Brain Cells is Taught to Steer Around Obstacles", Daily Mail (U.K.), November 26, 2021.
• "How to Map a Fly Brain in 20 Million Easy Steps", The New York Times, October 26, 2021.
• "Pandemic Pushes Chinese Tech Giants to Roll Out More Courier Robots", Reuter, September 28, 2021.

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