AVI 2012 Advanced Visual Interfaces International Working Conference
Hotel La Palma, Capri Island (Naples),
Italy May 22-26, 2012

http://www.avi2012.it

In cooperation with: ACM-SIGCHI (pending), ACM-SIGMM, SIGCHI Italy


PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS

The 11th International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
(AVI2012) will be held in the island
of Capri (Naples), Italy, May 22-26, 2012. Started in 1992 in Roma, and
held every two years in different Italian
towns, the Conference traditionally brings together experts in different
areas of computer science who have a
common interest in the conception, design and implementation of visual
and, more generally, perceptual interfaces.
Through the years, the Conference has witnessed the growing interest
within the community for mobile devices such
as smartphones, palmtops and PDAs, in the framework of both traditional
and emerging environments, such as
ubiquitous and pervasive computer applications. Both formal methods and
concrete applications well fit into
the framework of the conference, whose program also includes invited
talks, given by leaders in the field.
Submissions are solicited under, but not limited to, the following
specific topics:

TOPICS
Accessibility and Usability
Adaptive Interfaces
Animated Interfaces
Cognitive blending
Cognitive Models of the User
Context Aware Interaction
Controlled Studies and Usability Testing
End-User Development
HCI and Web 2.0
Information Visualization
Interactive and Collaborative Interfaces
Interface Evaluation
Interfaces for Art, Cultural Heritage and Tourism
Interface Metaphors
Interfaces for Public Participation
Map-based Interaction
Mobile Interaction Design
Multimodal Interfaces
Participatory Design
Perceptual Interfaces
Virtual and Augmented Reality
Visual Analytics Interfaces
Visual Data Mining
Visual Databases
Visual Interface Design
Web-Based Social Interaction

SUBMISSIONS
We strongly encourage submissions that address research and development on
the above and other related topics,
or that propose new approaches suitable for fulfilling the demands
characterizing advanced interfaces of the next
generation.

Four kinds of contribution are solicited:

Research papers, describing original and unpublished work about the above
or closely related topics. Papers should
not exceed 8 pages in the ACM SIG Proceedings format
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html).

Short papers, describing promising work in progress. Short papers should
not exceed 4 pages in the ACM SIG
Proceedings format.

Interactive posters including late-breaking and preliminary results,
smaller results not suitable for a full or
short paper, innovative ideas not yet validated through user studies,
early PhD student research, and other research
best presented in an interactive forum. Submissions should include an
extended abstract no longer than 4 pages,
including all figures and references.

System papers (DEMO), including demonstrations of prototypes, up to 2
pages in the ACM conference format. System papers
will be accompanied by a demonstration of the software prototype, and
should include a description of the hw/sw
requirements on a separate sheet.
Papers will be submitted electronically. Detailed information on
electronic submission will be provided at the AVI 2012
web site: http://www.avi2012.it
At least one author is required to attend the conference in order to
present the paper. Papers and Demo descriptions
presented at the Conference will be included in the Proceedings published
by ACM Press (approval pending).

IMPORTANT DATES
Paper abstract submission deadline December 14, 2011
Paper submission deadline December 19, 2011
Panel/tutorial/workshop proposal submission deadline December 19, 2011
Tutorial Notification of acceptance January 10, 2012
Paper Notification of acceptance February 18, 2012
Paper camera-ready due March 19, 2012
System Paper/Interactive Poster submission deadline February 28, 2012
System Paper/Interactive Poster notification of acceptance March 31, 2012
System Paper/Interactive Poster camera-ready paper due April 16, 2012
Demo software due April 23, 2012


Conference and Progran Co-chairs
Stefano Levialdi, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
Genny Tortora, Università di Salerno, Italy

Publicity Co-chairs
Maria De Marsico, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy,
Rita Francese Università di Salerno, Italy

European Liaison
Alessio Malizia, Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

American Liaison Chair
Stuart K. Card, PARC, USA (pending)

African Liaison Chair
Janet Wesson, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, South Africa

Asia-Pacific Liaison Chair
Athula Ginige, University of Western Sydney, Australia

Industry Liaison Chairs
Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy,
Maurizio Tucci, Univ. di Salerno, Italy

Poster Chair
Augusto Celentano, Univ. Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy

Local Arrangements Co-chairs
Gabriella Sanniti, CNR, Napoli, Italy
Michele Nappi, Univ. di Salerno, Italy

Workshop Co-chairs
Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy,
Giuliana Vitiello, Univ. di Salerno, Italy

Tutorial Chair
Andrea F. Abate, Univ. di Salerno, Italy

Treasurer
Monica Sebillo, Univ. di Salerno, Italy

Steering Committe
Paolo Bottoni, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy,
Augusto Celentano, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia
Stefano Levialdi, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy
Giuseppe Santucci, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Italy

Program Committee
Carmelo Ardito, Università di Bari, Italy
Margherita Antona, ICS-FORTH, Greece
Nadia Bianchi Berthouze, University College London, United Kingdom
Enrico Bertini, University of Konstanz, Germany
Bongshin Lee, Microsoft Research, USA
Margaret Burnett, Oregon State University, USA
Tiziana Catarci, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Gilbert Cockton, School of Design at Northumbria University, United Kingdom
Maria Francesca Costabile, Università di Bari, Italy
Philip T. Cox, Dalhousie University, Canada
Mary Czerwinskj, Microsoft Research, USA
Antonella De Angeli, Università di Trento, Italy
Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma De Madrid, Spain
Boris De Ruyter, Philips Research, The Netherlands
Jean Daniel Fekete, INRIA, France
Paloma Diáz, Univ. Carlos III, Madrid, Spain
Alan Dix, Lancaster University, UK
Cody Dunne, University of Maryland, USA
Gamberini Luciano, Università di Padova, Italy
Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Elisa Giaccardi, University of Colorado, USA
Vlado Glavinic, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Helwig Hauser, University of Bergen, Norway
Harry Hochheiser University of Pittsburgh, USA
John Hosking, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Juan Hourcade, University of Iowa, USA
Ramesh Jain, University of California, Irvine, USA
Stephen Kimani, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation, Australia
Rosa Lanzilotti, University of Bari, Italy
Kresimir Matkovic, VRVis Research Center, Austria
Mark T. Maybury, MITRE Corporation, USA
Gloria Mark, University of California, Irvine, USA
Patrizia Marti, Università di Siena, Italy
Carlo Maria Medaglia, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Nikolay Mehandjiev, University of Manchester, UK
Gerrit Meixner, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany
Mark Minas, Universität Der Bundeswehr München, Germany
Laurence Nigay, CLIPS-IMAG, France
Kai Olsen, University of Bergen, Norway
Noritaka Osawa, Chiba University, Japan
Philippe Palanque, Université Paul Sabatier – Toulouse III, France
Cesare Pautasso, University of Lugano, Switzerland
Emanuele Panizzi, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy
Peter Pirolli, Xerox, USA (pending)
Fabio Pittarello, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia, Italy
Andreas Pleuss, University of Limerick, Ireland
Margit Pohl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Roberto Polillo, Universita' di Milano Bicocca, Italy
Natalie Riche, Microsoft Research, USA
Robert Spence, Imperial College, London, UK
Mary Beth Rosson, Penn State University, USA (pending)
Mike Sips, Stanford University, USA (pending)
Steve Tanimoto, University of Washington, USA
Constantine Stephanidis, University of Crete, Greece
Kent Wittenburg, Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA
Kang Zhang, University of Texas at Dallas, USA