This category will focus on papers that make a contribution to the design, development and research for virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality. It will cover a broad range of reality technology including: VR/AR/MR content, application, software, hardware, new display headset, new input method, blended interface on how to improve the computer-human interaction experience for this new frontier of reality technology. It will also cover the process we can use and things we’ve learned in the day to day experience of designing, prototyping and testing the UI/UX for VR, AR & MR audiences.

This category will focus on papers that extend the design and understanding of applications for specific application areas or domains of interest to the HCI community. Example user groups: older adults, children, families, people in developing countries, and people with perceptual, cognitive, learning, or motor impairments. Example application areas: education, health, home, accessibility, sustainability, ICT4D, security, privacy, creativity, software development tools, crowdsourcing, data visualization, and visual analytics.

This category will focus on papers that extend the design and understanding of applications for specific application areas or domains of interest to the HCI community. Example user groups: older adults, children, families, people in developing countries, and people with perceptual, cognitive, learning, or motor impairments. Example application areas: education, health, home, accessibility, sustainability, ICT4D, security, privacy, creativity, software development tools, crowdsourcing, data visualization, and visual analytics.

This category is suitable for papers that contribute to our understanding of collaborative technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Successful submissions will advance knowledge, theories, and insights from the social, psychological, behavioral, and organizational dynamics that arise from technology use in various contexts.

This category will focus on papers whose primary contribution are relevant to interactive game research. Successful papers will present results, practical approaches, tools, technologies, and research methods that demonstrably advance our understanding, design, and evaluation of user experience and/or usability in player-computer interaction. Example topics: game interaction, novel game control, neurogaming, gamification, persuasive games, ubiquitous games, game analytics, virtual and augmented reality games, psychology of players and games.

This category will focus on papers that make a contribution to the design of interactive products, services, or systems; or that advance knowledge of the human activity of design as it relates to HCI. It will cover a broad range of design approaches: participatory, user-centered, experience, and service. It will also cover a range of design practices: interaction, industrial, experience, information, architecture, visual communication, and sensorial. Finally, it will focus on design research issues such as aesthetics, values, effects (such as emotion), methods, practices, critique, and theory.

This category is suitable for papers whose primary contribution is improved understanding of people or interactional contexts. This understanding may be derived from quantitative or qualitative empirical research, or it may be conceptual in nature. Core contributions typically take the form of insightful findings, evolved theories, models, concepts, or methods. Contributions will be judged in part by their rigor, significance, validity, and practical or theoretical impact.

This category will focus on technology, systems, and engineering contributions that enable, improve, or advance interaction. This will include software and hardware technologies that enable and demonstrate novel interactive capabilities, as well as languages, methods, and tools for construction and engineering of interactive systems. Engineering contributions should clearly demonstrate how they address interactive systems concerns. They can be targeted at end users, offering novel interaction capabilities or supporting simplified interactions. They can also be targeted at developers, facilitating the construction of innovative interactive systems.

This category will focus on advances in interaction that use capabilities, modalities, or technologies that have not yet been fully exploited in standard approaches to interaction. These contributions will be judged in part by their novelty and their ability to extend user capabilities in powerful new ways or to new contexts. Example areas include, but are not limited to: multimodal user interfaces, tactile and tangible interfaces, speech I/O, auditory I/O, physiological computing, on-body and brain-computer interfaces, perception and vision-based systems, and augmented reality.

This category focuses on new interaction techniques, technologies, and devices for input and output. Contributions will be judged in part based on their novelty or on their demonstrated improvements of existing interaction types. 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.

We invite the submission of bold, compelling, critical, and innovative works that challenge or re-imagine human computer interaction research and design. Alternative CHI is methodologically inclusive and accepts reports, analyses, designs, and systematic inquiries – whether quantitative, qualitative, or both.