HCI International 2009 San Diego, CA, USA, July 19-24, 2009

Article Type: Special announcements From: Kybernetes, Volume 38, Issue 3/4

The 13th International Conference on Human-computer Interaction is held jointly with:

• Symposium on Human Interface (Japan) 2009.

• 8th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics.

• 5th International Conference on Universal Access in Human-computer Interaction.

• 3rd International Conference on Virtual and Mixed Reality.

• 3rd International Conference on Internationalization, Design and Global Development.

• 3rd International Conference on Online Communities and Social Computing.

• 5th International Conference on Augmented Cognition.

• 2nd International Conference on Digital Human Modeling.

• 1st International Conference on Human Centered Design.

HCI International 2009, jointly with the affiliated conferences, which are held under one management and one registration. Invite you to San Diego, CA,USA, to participate and contribute to the international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical,generic and applied areas of HCI through the following modes of communication:plenary/keynote presentation(s), parallel sessions, poster sessions, tutorials and exhibition. The conference will start with three days of tutorials parallel sessions, poster sessions arid the exhibition will be held during the last three days of the conference. The conference focuses on the following major thematic areas:

• ergonomics and health aspects of work with computers;

• human interface and the management of information;

• human-computer interaction;

• engineering psychology and cognitive ergonomics;

• universal access in human-computer interaction;

• virtual and mixed reality;

• internationalization, design and global development;

• online communities and social computing;

• augmented cognition;

• digital human modeling; and

• human centered design.

Proposals for participation

All submitted abstracts will be peer-reviewed by three independent referees from the International Program Boards.

Calls for papers was made in October 2008

The HCI International 2009 Conference Proceedings, comprising the papers to be presented at the conference, will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science and Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence series.

For more information: www hcii2009.org