Important notice

Due to COVID-19 pandemic, we acknowledge the difficulties that scholars and researchers are experiencing right now and there is an obligation to ensure people safety and wellbeing. For this reason, conference organizers in agreement with the EACE Executive Committee have decided to postpone the conference to the 26-29 April 2020.

ECCE 2021 is the 32nd annual conference of the European Association of Cognitive Ergonomics (EACE). This leading conference in human-media interaction and cognitive engineering provides an opportunity for both researchers and practitioners to exchange new ideas and practical experiences from a variety of domains. 

The special theme for ECCE conference in 2021 is: "Designing virtual and physical interactive systems".ECCE 2020 seeks to encourage an interdisciplinary dialogue and discussion among participants related to general topics of cognitive ergonomics as well as this year’s special theme. We invite various types of contributions from researchers and practitioners which address the broad spectrum of cognitive ergonomics challenges in the analysis, design, and evaluation of virtual and physical interactive systems.   

For more information about the conference, visit the web site: www.congressi.unisi.it/ecce2021

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. All submissions should be written in English and authors should anonymise their papers. All submissions fulfilling the submission requirements will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.

The following paper categories are welcome:

• Full papers (max 10 pages*)
• Short papers (max 6 pages*)

* including all sections, references, and possible appendices.

List of Topics

We invite contributions addressing ECCE 2021 theme "Designing virtual and physical interactive systems". This includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• Affective/emotional aspects of human interaction with IT artefacts
• Cognitive processes in design
• Collaborative creativity and experience
• Collaboration in design teams
• Collaboration in end-users and design teams
• Decision aiding, information presentation and visualization
• Design methods, tools, and methodologies for designing physical and virtual interactive systems
• User experience design
• Ecological approaches to human cognition and human-technology interaction
• Human error and reliability
• Human Factors and simulation
• Human-technology interaction in the Internet of Things era
• Motivational/emotional aspects of human interaction with IT artefacts
• Motivation, engagement, goal sharing
• Innovative interactive paradigms with physical and virtual system (e.g. haptic, embodied interaction)
• Rapid prototyping and digital fabrication
• Resilience and diversity
• Trust and control in complex systems
• Situation awareness
• User research concepts, methods, and empirical studies
• Human Computer Interaction
• Virtual and augmented reality
• Conversational user interfaces
• Advanced user interfaces
• Cognitively-orientated human factors
• Ethical issues in AI and virtual environments

Committees

Organizing Committee

• General Chair: Prof. Patrizia Marti, University of Siena
• General Chair: Prof. Oronzo Parlangeli, University of Siena
• Program Chair: Dr. Annamaria Recupero, University of Siena
• Volunteer Chair: Dr. Flavio Lampus

Local organizing committee at the University of Siena: Matteo Sirizzotti, Simone Guercio, Flavio Lampus, Enrica Marchigiani, Massimiliano Tiberio.

Programme committee

Venue

The conference will take place at the Santa Chiara Lab – University of Siena.

Via Val di Montone 1 53100 Siena, Italy

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the Program Chair Annamaria Recupero (annamaria.recupero@unisi.it)