Interact Programme Committee Sub-Committees

Accessibility and assistive technologies
Example topics: accessibility of mainstream technologies; HCI for an aging population;  accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities; accessibility of virtual and augmented reality systems; implementing the EU Web Accessibility Directive; digital companions for older people.

Design for business and safety/critical interactive systems
Example topics: automation; critical interactive systems; healthcare; human error; human work interaction design; safety; training; transportation; usable security.

Design of interactive entertainment systems
Example topics: educational games; edutainment applications; games and gameful design; playful interactions; serious games and toys; TVx.

HCI Education and Curriculum
Example topics: Building an HCI curriculum in a continuously changing technology and application landscape; innovative methods for teaching HCI; approaches to life-long learning; ; continuous development for HCI practitioners and researchers; the impact of culture and cognitive style of HCI teaching and learning.

Human-AI Interaction
Example topics: Human-centred design of intelligent systems; personalization; interactive recommender systems; human control of intelligent systems; user trust; controls in automation; ethical aspects of intelligent systems; user-centric explainable AI; human-robot interaction.

Information visualization
Example topics: data representations and interaction techniques; evaluation methods for information visualization techniques; methods for elicitation of user constraints; priorities & processes for visualizing data; methods for describing user interaction with visualization tools; visual analytics including human discourse and knowledge; visualization techniques and tools.

Interaction design for culture and development
Example topics: cultural differences in interaction design; interaction design in developing countries; cross- cultural interactive systems for cultural heritage; sustainability and HCI;

Interactive Systems Technologies and Engineering
Example topics: 3D interaction and human architecture for interactive systems; interactive technologies; model-based approaches for engineering interactive systems; multimodality; robot development (building and designing robots); wearable interaction.

Methodologies for HCI
Example topics: user-centred design; participatory design; design and development processes methods, techniques and tools for evaluating interactive systems,; methods for identifying end-user requirements for interactive systems,; design rationale and traceability of design choices; requirements and needs analysis; task analysis and task modelling; usability; methods for studying user experience.

Social and Ubiquitous Interaction
Example topics: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work; HCI for mobile interactions; interaction on the move; social media; social aspects of HCI, mobility.

HCI for Justice and Equality
Example topics: HCI to support sustainable development; HCI to support reduction in food waste, water and energy use; HCI to support freedom of expression; Consideration of gender, sexuality and ethnic diversity in HCI; HCI and the digital divide; HCI and inclusion of disabled and older people; HCI countering adversity.

Understanding users and human behaviour
Example topics: affective HCI and emotion; ethnographic studies; field reports and user studies; human perception; cognition and behaviour; interaction design and children.