Within the EICS 2024 –the 16th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, the first workshop on Radar-Based Human-Computer Interaction Beyond Radar Waves, will take place on 25 June in Cagliari, Italy.
The organizer of the workshop is Assoc. Prof. Dr. Klen Čopič Pucihar from the Department of Information Sciences and Technologies UP FAMNIT, and one of the leaders of the Laboratory for Human-Computer Interaction at the University of Primorska – HICUP, along with experienced researchers in the field of artificial intelligence and machine learning. (Beyond Radar Waves: The First Workshop on Radar-Based Human-Computer Interaction (upr.si).
Radar technology, traditionally employed in surveillance and object detection, has been recently used by HCI researchers for creating novel user experiences, including gesture-based interaction through radar sensing, material recognition, and enabling interactions through fabrics and surfaces. The participants in this workshop will explore fundamental, practical, and experimental challenges posed by radar-based interaction in numerous application domains, such as gaming, virtual and augmented reality, healthcare, emergency response systems, and smart environments.
The workshop targets the emerging area of radar-based interaction with scientific explorations in Engineering Interactive Computer Systems. The target audience of this workshop consists of researchers and practitioners interested in RBI with a focus on engineering interactions and user interface.
Important dates:
- Paper submission deadline: May 10th, 2024
- Decision notification: May 31st, 2024
- Deadline for registration to the workshop: June 7th, 2024
- Final program of the workshop: June 15th, 2024
- Workshop (full-day): June 25th, 2024
- Chapter proposal for an RBI book: June 30th, 2024. Authors should provide a provisional title, the list of authors, and the abstract. This information will be used to submit a book proposal to the Springer HCI series.
- Submission of the book proposal by the workshop organizers to the Springer HCI series: July 7th, 2024.
- Decision notification: August 1st, 2024
- Post-workshop chapter submission: August 23rd, 2024
- Book enters production: September 2024
After the Workshop: The results of the the workshop, structured according to the three dimensions (descriptive, comparative, and generative) will constitute the basis for a common paper and a potential submission to a journal. Furthermore, a book proposal to Springer HCI series is envisaged depending on the accepted papers. Other workshop results, such as videos and presentations, will be made available through the workshop website.
Authors should prepare their submission according to Springer’s guidelines available > HERE
Authors are strongly encouraged to consider submitting work related to evaluation, comparison and benchmarking of existing and novel radar-based interactive systems (where possible, including the datasets). This will form the core of joint journal publication. For other topics see call for paper.
EICS 2024 is the sixteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user experience, reliability, security, etc.