[AISWorld] ACM CHIGreece 2021: Fourth Call For Papers

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*** FOURTH CALL FOR PAPERS - ACM CHIGreece 2021 ***

The 1st International ACM Conference of the Greek SIGCHI Chapter (ACM 
CHIGreece 2021), ONLINE from Athens, Hellas, 25-27 November 2021.
Theme: "Connecting the Community"

Full details are available online: https://chigreece.gr/2021/


# FORTHCOMING DATES

Abstracts due: 16 July 2021 (mandatory)
Full papers due: 23 July 2021


# MOTIVATION AND GOALS

In CHIGreece 2021 we are excited to invite the Greek research community 
and other researchers, residing in various institutions in Greece, 
Cyprus and abroad, to come together, present and disseminate their 
research and innovations. The event will host plenary sessions with 
keynote speakers, papers presentations, exhibition and interactive 
experiences and a track dedicated to young researchers. In addition, a 
panel of experts will exchange on this year’s topic of World Usability 
Day on “Design of our Online World: Trust, Ethics and Integrity”.

CHIGreece 2021 is expected to offer a vibrant venue of engagement and 
collaboration for researchers and practitioners in the field of 
human-computer interaction (HCI) to showcase their work and share their 
experiences and new ideas for long-term sustainable HCI.


# THEMATIC AREAS

Papers are expected to address challenging and innovative topics in 
Human-Computer Interaction theory, methodology and practice, including 
but are not limited to:

- HCI and education
- HCI and digital heritage
- HCI in Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality
- Mobile HCI
- HCI and Adaptation & Personalization
- HCI and Accessibility & Assistive Technologies
- HCI in the Pandemic
- HCI in Business
- HCI and design
- HCI and games
- Natural HCI
- HCI and Social Media & Networks
- HCI and Interactive Entertainment
- Human-AI Interaction and Explainability
- Understanding users and human behaviour
- HCI and Privacy & Security
- HCI and Trust & Fairness
- Methodologies for HCI
- Evaluation of usability, accessibility and user experience (UX)


# TYPES OF PAPERS

We encourage original and relevant contributions focusing on experiences 
and lessons learned from real-life applications, current 
state-of-the-art methodologies, challenges tackled and solutions 
adopted, tools, algorithms, and services in the academic, public or 
private sector, studies, theories, techniques, and evaluation procedures 
that could support HCI aspects in various levels of interactive 
environments.

All conference papers must contain original, previously unpublished, 
research work adhering the four publication types:

- Full research papers: 10 pages + references, proposing original 
reports of new research techniques, findings, and applications clearly 
indicating its innovative aspects. Research procedures and technical 
methods should be presented in sufficient detail to ensure 
reproducibility, and results should be clearly communicated with the 
respective implications and impact.
- Short research papers: 7 pages + references. of references, proposing 
original and highly promising research or applications. Merit will be 
assessed in terms of originality and importance rather than maturity, 
extensive technical validation, and user studies.
- Exhibition & interactive experiences: Initially an extended abstract 
of 500 words for review from individuals and research groups also in 
industrial organizations, spin-offs, corporations, government 
institutions and public administration active in the broad field of HCI 
eager to share ideas, results, demonstrations, functional prototypes, 
installations with other HCI researchers, professionals, and 
stakeholders. It is a track dedicated to industry and academia, and it 
seeks to showcase their innovations and promote collaborations among 
them (upon acceptance further guidelines will be provided for the 
camera-ready version)
- Young Researchers: Initially an extended abstract of 800 words for 
review from young researchers, i.e., early doctoral students, BSc, MSc 
students, that want to discuss their research goals, methods, and 
results at an early stage in their research and receive invaluable 
feedback. They should highlight the following, or similar, aspects like 
research problem, related work, research questions, proposed approach 
and expected innovation, current progress and future work. In the first 
page, they should include their research title, name, name(s) of their 
supervisors and university (upon acceptance further guidelines will be 
provided for the camera-ready version)

Manuscripts should be formatted using the new workflow for ACM 
publications – as single-column paper submissions. Instructions and 
templates are available here: 
https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow.


# SUBMISSION & PUBLICATION

All papers will undergo a peer review process by at least three expert 
reviewers to ensure a high standard of quality, considering originality, 
significance, technical soundness, clarity of exposition, and relevance 
to the conferences thematic areas. CHIGreece 2021 uses:

- Double blind review process for Full and Short papers. Authors must 
omit their names and affiliations from submissions, and avoid obvious 
identifying statements. Papers should be submitted electronically as a 
single PDF file through the EasyChair submission system by selecting the 
respective paper category: 
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chigreece2021
- Single blind (curated) review process for Exhibition & interactive 
experiences and Young Researchers papers. Authors do not need to be 
anonymized before submission. Extended abstracts should be submitted 
electronically as a single PDF file to chigreece2021eie at greekchi.acm.org 
(Exhibition & interactive experiences) and 
chigreece2021yr at greekchi.acm.org (Young Researchers).

Accepted Full and Short papers will be published in CHIGreece 2021 
proceedings by ACM and will be available via the ACM Digital Library. 
Exhibition & Interactive Experiences and Young Researchers papers will 
be available on the conference Web-site.


# IMPORTANT DATES

+++ Full and Short research papers +++
Abstracts: July 16, 2021 (mandatory)
Submissions deadline: July 23, 2021
Review notification: September 10, 2021 (tentative)
Submission of camera-ready: September 20, 2021 (tentative)

+++ Exhibition & Interactive Experiences +++
Extended abstracts: September 10, 2021 (tentative)
Review notification: September 30, 2021 (tentative)
Submission of Camera-ready: October 11, 2021 (tentative)

+++ Young Researchers +++
Extended abstracts: September 10, 2021 (tentative)
Review notification: September 30, 2021 (tentative)
Submission of Camera-ready: October 11, 2021 (tentative)

Note: The submissions times are 11:59pm AoE time (Anywhere on Earth)


# ORGANIZERS

General chairs
Constantinos Mourlas, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
Panagiotis Germanakos, SAP SE

Program chairs
Maria Roussou, National & Kapodistrian University of Athens
George Caridakis, University of the Aegean / Athena RC