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<span style="font-weight:700; font-size:14px"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:14pt; line-height:normal">Special Issue on New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI </span></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700; font-style:italic; font-size:14px"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Multimedia Tools and Applications</span></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">This special issue considers research in the area of multimedia-based and multimodal systems for advanced human-computer interaction (HCI). It aims at exploring and expanding on its
frontiers. Therefore, it especially seeks high-quality contributions from research areas at the frontiers of multimedia HCI, such as arts and humanities, education, cyber-physical systems, artificial intelligence.</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">The special issue will also host the extended versions of selected best papers presented at the 2021 Edition of CHItaly, the biannual Conference of the Italian SIGCHI Chapter, held from 11
to 13 July 2021 in Bolzano, Italy. Such papers will undergo a regular review process as detailed in the Submission Guidelines below.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Topics of Interest</span></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI: Theories, Concepts and Models</span></font></span></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Multimodal interaction technologies</span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Collaborative and social computing and HCI</span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Accessibility and inclusive multimedia</span></font></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Frontiers of Arts, Humanities, Education, Society for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI</span></font></span></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Design & arts and multimedia-based HCI</span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Humanities and multimedia-based HCI</span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Learning, education and multimedia-based HCI</span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Values, ethics, society and multimedia-based HCI</span></font></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Frontiers of Physical, Digital or Hybrid Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI</span></font></span></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Game- and gamification-based multimedia-based HCI and multimodal systems</span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Augmented, virtual or mixed reality and multimedia-based HCI in multimodal
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Smart things, smart ambients or smart cities and multimodal HCI</span></font></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Tangible design, industrial design or product design and multimedia-based
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Beyond cobots: assistive or proactive robots and multimedia-based HCI</span></font></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Frontiers of Artificial Intelligence for Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI</span></font></span></div>
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<font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">· </span><span><span class="x_x_x_Apple-tab-span"></span></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Data or process analysis, modelling or visualisation and multimedia-based
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<span style="font-weight:700"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Guest Editors:</span></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Dr. Alessandra Melonio (Lead Guest Editor)</span></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:alessandra.melonio@unibz.it"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">alessandra.melonio@unibz.it</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></font></div>
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<span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Dr. Maria De Marsico</span></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><a href="mailto:demarsico@di.uniroma1.it"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">demarsico@di.uniroma1.it</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></font></div>
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<span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Dr. Cristina Gena</span></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Department of Computer Science, University of Torino, Italy</span></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Dr. Rosella Gennari</span></font></span></div>
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<span><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy</span></font></span></div>
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<span><a href="mailto:gennari@inf.unibz.it"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">gennari@inf.unibz.it</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span></font></p>
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<font face="Calibri" style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal;">Submission deadline:
<b>January 10, 2022</b> (<b>EXTENDED</b>)</span></font></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Final manuscript due: August 30, 2022 </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight:700"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Submission Guidelines</span></font></span></div>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Instructions for Authors available from the Multimedia Tools and Applications</span><a href="https://springer.com/11042" style="font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255); text-decoration:underline; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">website</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">.
Authors should submit through the online submission site at</span><a href="https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx" style="font-family:Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255); text-decoration:underline; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">https://www.editorialmanager.com/mtap/default.aspx</span></a><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> and
select “</span><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-weight:700; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">SI 1224 - New Frontiers in Multimedia-based and Multimodal HCI</span><span style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">” when they reach
the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Submitted papers should present original, unpublished work, relevant to one of the topics of the special issue. All submitted papers will be evaluated on the basis of relevance, significance of contribution,
technical quality, scholarship, and quality of presentation, by at least three independent reviewers. It is the policy of the journal that no submission, or substantially overlapping submission, be published or be under review at another journal or conference
at any time during the review process. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.38; text-align: justify; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Please note that
the authors of papers presented at CHItaly 2021 are invited to submit an extended version of their contributions by taking into consideration both the reviewers’ comments on their conference paper, and the feedback received during presentation at the conference.
</span><span style="font-weight:700; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">It is worth clarifying that that the extended version is expected to present a significant contribution beyond the conference paper, and contain at least 30% original scientific contribution,
e.g., in the form of new algorithms, experiments or qualitative/quantitative comparisons. Neither verbatim transfer of large parts of the conference paper nor reproduction of already published figures will be tolerated.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> </span><span style="font-weight:700; font-size:12pt; line-height:normal">Authors
must explain in the introduction to the paper the new contribution to the field made by the submission, and the original conference publication should be cited in the text.</span><span style="font-size:12pt; line-height:normal"> The extended versions of CHItaly
papers will undergo the ordinary review process, and be accepted only if well-suited to the topic of this special issue and meeting the scientific level of the journal.</span></font></span><br>
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