Call for papers

MexIHC 2021 will be Virtual!

Call for Submissions
Deadline for paper submission: August 13th August 23rd, 2021 EXTENDED
Conference website: http://mexihc.org/2021

MexIHC 2021 is the eighth Mexican Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to present advances in this field. The Mexican ACM SIGCHI chapter (CHI-México) and the Mexican Association on Human-Computer Interaction (AMexIHC) are the proud organizers of this biennial conference. MexIHC 2021 aims to researchers, practitioners, faculty, students, institutions, and interest groups gather to network, discuss ideas, outline collaborative projects, and contribute to the consolidation and visibility of HCI in Mexico and Latin America.

Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, this year, the conference will be held virtually. We hope that the virtual conference captures some of our habitual format’s activities and experiences and allows new ones.

We invite original contributions on relevant topics in Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design. Papers will be blind peer-reviewed by members of the MexIHC 2021 Program Committee. Submissions will be evaluated based on their originality, significance of the contribution to the field, technical correctness, and presentation.

Types of submissions

Full papers (Up to 8 pages)

Full papers should describe original work that has not previously been published and provide significant scientific research results. Full papers may expand upon previously published work-in-progress papers and posters, but must present novel and significantly extended content, and should cite any previous abstracts for posters or working-progress papers. Full papers should be written in English ONLY.

Short Papers or Notes (Up to 4 pages)

Short papers should describe innovative work in progress, without significant results yet, that contribute to well-founded research. Short papers could be written in English or Spanish.

At least one author of accepted submissions must register as the presenter by the early registration deadline.

Other tracks such as Graduate Consortium, Posters, and Student Design Competition will be announced soon. Please check back for more information at a later time.

Submission details

Submissions for full and short papers written in English should use the ACM Template (See section 2 and select the desired template in Microsoft Word or LaTeX).

The correct template for submission is single-column Microsoft Word Submission Template and single-column LaTeX (using “manuscript” style available in the template).

The length of full papers is eight pages, and the length of short papers is four pages; references do not count towards these pages limits. However, as we will be using The ACM Publication System (TAPS) process to generate final multi-format representations of accepted papers (waiting for ACM ICPS approval), the TAPS template and post-processing steps of pages in the final PDF may differ from the submitted source file. We recommend that authors prepare a manuscript of ~7,000-10,000 words to equate to the prior 8-page limit.

Submissions for short papers written in Spanish should use the AmexIHC Journal “Avances en Interacción Humano-Computadora” Template.

Submit your paper using the Easychair account for MexIHC 2021. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mexihc2021

Anonymous Submissions

MexIHC 2021 will utilize a fully-anonymous review process for Full and Short Papers, in which the authors must anonymize their paper submissions. We will follow the standard of SIGCHI in which all author names, affiliations, and contact information are to be removed. You should not anonymize references to your prior work (these are needed as part of the review process). Rather, you should refer to all prior work in the third person. While it may not be possible to remove all clues to who the authors are, we expect authors to do their best.

Publication

A selection of accepted full and short papers written in English, as per the TPC suggestion, will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The rest will be published in the AMexIHC publication “Avances en Interacción Humano-Computadora”.

Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue in the Interacting with Computers Journal (JCR IF: 1.036).

Important dates

Friday, August 13th Monday, August 23rd, 2021 EXTENDED – Deadline for submissions
Monday, September 20, 2021 – Notification of acceptance
Frayday, October 15, 2021 – Camera-ready final submissions

Topics of interest

MexIHC 2021 seeks paper contributions on (but not limited to) the following key areas:

• Evaluation of Interactive Applications
  • New methods and methodologies
  • Tools for evaluation
  • Case studies
  • Accessibility evaluation
  • Theoretical aspects of HCI
• Theories for HCI
  • Theoretical discussions or challenges to current theories
  • Formal modeling
• Design
  • New methods and methodologies
  • Case studies
  • Tools for designing
  • Information visualization
  • Adaptive interfaces
• User Evaluation
  • New methods and methodologies
  • Tools for evaluations
  • Case studies
  • Evaluation of user experience
  • Evaluation of disabled users
  • Human error and cognitive studies
  • Contextual evaluation and ethno-methodologies
  • Games user research
• Education in HCI
  • Case studies of education in HCI
  • HCI to improve the teaching/learning
• Topics related to HCI
  • Usability
  • Ergonomics
  • Computer Graphics
  • Virtual Reality
  • Augmented Reality
  • Multi-modal Interaction
  • Social Networks
  • Mobile Devices
  • HCI in the Medical Context
  • Video Games
  • Ludic and Aesthetic Applications
  • Cultural aspects in the design
  • Brain-Computer Interaction
  • e-Government
• Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
  • Technical advances in HRI
  • HRI user studies
  • HRI design

Committee

General Chairs

• Victoria Meza, UABC, Mexico
• Oscar Mayora, FBK Center for Health and Wellbeing, Italy

Technical Program Committee Chairs

• Karina Caro, UABC, Mexico
• Dagoberto Cruz-Sandoval, University of California San Diego, USA