The town hall meeting of the SIGCHI-Italy will be held in conjunction with CHItaly, on September the 18th at 18:00.

The deadline for submitting a demo or a poster contribution to CHItaly has been extended to July the 20th.

Don’t miss the opportunity to submit a paper!

We are happy to announce that SIGCHI-Italy is an Educational Partner of the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF), which kindly offers two professional memberships to be awarded to the best papers at CHItaly 2017, valued 156 USD each.

The committee will award the best paper in the long papers track and the best student paper in the Doctoral Consortium.

Stay tuned!

We are glad to inform participants that the authors of the best papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to be considered for publication in a special issue of the Springer journal Multimedia Tools and Applications (I.F. 1.530) with title “Selected Topics from CHItaly 2017”.

The deadline for submitting Doctoral Consortium papers has been extended to July 16th.

Please find additional information at following URL http://sites.unica.it/chitaly2017/doctoral-consortium/

We are very happy to announce that we received 77 submissions (49 long and 28 short).

Thank you very much to all people that worked hard for submitting to CHItaly 2017!

The final list of the accepted workshops at CHItaly 2017 is available at the following URL:

http://sites.unica.it/chitaly2017/workshops/

The social dinner will be hosted at the “Convento di San Giuseppe”, a medieval church adapted as a monastery in the 17th century and now a beautiful location where it is possible to taste traditional and innovative dishes of the Sardinian cuisine.

You can find more information at the dedicated page http://sites.unica.it/chitaly2017/social-event/

Due to all requests we received, the deadline for submitting long, short and Doctoral Consortium papers has been extended. The new deadlines are the following:

• June 11: long and short papers
• June 15: Doctoral Consortium papers

Please don’t miss them!

We are honoured to announce that  Michel Beaudouin-Lafon will give a keynote speech at CHItaly 2017, entitled Towards Unified Principles of Interaction.

Please find more information at the following URL: