**************************************************************************** * * IxAP 2016: Second CALL FOR PARTICIPATION * Submission Deadlines: * July 20, 2016: Full papers * September 1, 2016: Posters * * IxAP 2016 * International Symposium on Interactive Technology and Ageing Populations * http://itap2016.xrenlab.com/ * * Kochi, Japan * October 20 - 22, 2016 * ***************************************************************************** IxAP 2016 focuses on coordinating efforts and raise awareness on interactive technology for ageing populations. We will invite 100 world class researchers to attend in order to present research findings, discuss their work, foster collaborations and develop underlying methodological frameworks, to drive HCI field forward. It is the meeting place for researchers, designers, practitioners, and educators from senior-centred technology and research communities from all around the world. IMPORTANT DATES FULL PAPERS AND POSTERS Deadline for Full Papers: 20 July 2016 (11:59pm JST) Notification to Authors: 20 August 2016 (11:59pm JST) Deadline for Posters: 1 September 2016 (11:59pm JST) Camera-ready deadline: 5 September 2016 (11:59pm JST) Notification of Posters to Authors: 20 September 2016 (11:59pm JST) SUBMISSIONS As organized In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI, IxAP will consider submissions related to interactive technology and ageing populations. We encourage submissions on novel and innovative theory, application and interactions. We welcome submissions from all topics in ageing populations research that are relevant to human-computer interaction, including but not limited to the following: - Understanding people: This topic is suitable for papers whose primary contribution is improved understanding of older people or interactional contexts, derived from quantitative or qualitative empirical research. Core contributions typically take the form of insightful findings, evolved theories, models, concepts, or methods, such as games improving well-being of older adults, TV gesture to improve TV watching experience etc. - Specific application areas: This topic will include papers that extend the design and understanding of applications for older adult user group. Example of application areas can be health, home, accessibility, gerontology, sustainability, ICT4D, data visualization, social computing and computer-supported collaborative work, and visual analytics. - Human factors: This topic will focus on papers on practice of designing products, systems, or processes to take proper account of the interaction between interactive systems and the old people who use them. - Input and Interactions: This topic focuses on new interaction techniques, technologies, and devices for input and output. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: sensing, actuation, unconventional UIs, touch and multi-touch, 3D interaction, augmented/mixed/virtual reality, mobile interaction, novel displays, and devices of different sizes and configurations. - Usability and user experience: This topic is suitable for works that extend the knowledge, practices, methods, components, and tools that make technology more useful, usable, and desirable. It expects significant works on the basis of their demonstrable potential for effective reuse and applicability across a range of application domains or across a range of design, research, and older user communities. Although we are interested in papers on the effects of various theories, technologies, software, or algorithms on ageing population interaction experience, technical contributions without clear indications of the impact on aged people are not within the scope of IxAP. SUBMISSION TYPES We encourage the following research submission types: PAPERS Full Papers are intended to report stable and completed research. Papers will be 4-10 pages and will undergo a peer review process. Submitted full papers should follow the ACM CHI paper. Accepted papers, after presented to the symposium, will be published in ACM Digital Library. The authors of selected oral presentations will be invited to a special issue of the International SCI- or EI- indexed Journal after further revision. Please note that there is no requirement to anonymize paper submissions and at least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the symposium. We have selected a program committee of experts in human-computer interaction and ageing people to lead the formal review process. Once your paper is submitted, it will undergo a double-blind peer review process. Each paper will be reviewed by three program committee members. If review scores fall below a threshold, the paper will be rejected. Authors of accepted paper will then be recommended to make certain changes before the camera-ready submission and acceptance might be tentative until those changes are included. POSTERS This is a juried submission track that allows attendees to showcase early, relatively speculative or not yet completed work so that others can know what they are doing. Authors are required to submit a 1-page poster paper including author information and a description of the study. Note that: 1. The poster size should be A0 (84.1 x 118.4cm, 33.11 x 46.61 inches). 2. A small desk can be provided on request. 3. There is no AC power supply for poster presenters. Please also note that there is no requirement to anonymize poster submissions and at least one author of each accepted paper needs to register for the symposium. CONFERENCE COMMITTEE General Chairs Antti Oulasvirta, Aalto University Xiangshi Ren, Kochi University of Technology General Co-Chairs Chaklam Silpasuwanchai, Kochi University of Technology Jinglong Wu, Okayama University Sayan Sarcar, Kochi University of Technology Program Chairs Cosmin Munteanu, University of Toronto Mississauga Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore Shinichi Yoshida, Kochi University of Technology Program Co-Chairs Effie Lai-Chong Law, University of Leicester Jussi Jokinen, Aalto University Zhenxin Wang, Kochi University of Technology Publication Chairs Hiroaki Shigemasu, Kochi University of Technology Kavous Salehzadeh Niksirat, Kochi University of Technology Publicity Chairs Hao Xu, Jilin University Xiaojuan Ma, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Shiwei Cheng, Zhejiang University of Technology -- Shiwei Cheng PhD HCI Group, College of Computer Science and Technology ,Zhejiang University of Technology Hangzhou 310023, China