Recent Advances and Perspectives in Human-Computer Interaction

Dear Colleagues,

Over recent decades, research has been carried out in the field of human–computer interaction (HCI) to better and fully understand the development of information technologies in a user-oriented way. Thanks to the accumulated knowledge, specialists have been able to build increasingly more software applications and hardware devices easily used by users.

The human–computer interaction is a complex field concerning the intersection between computer and behavioural sciences, and includes knowledge formed in the fields of computer, social and engineering sciences, as well as psychology. The HCI field aims to minimize the barriers between people's mental models regarding the fulfilment of their goals and the technological provision of user tasks. In the user-centred design paradigm, products are designed according to the expectations of their potential users, i.e., designed to be usable. With the development of technologies, the field of human–computer interaction research has continued to expand to also include interactions with mobile devices, artificial intelligence, brain–computer technologies, robots, etc.

The development of user-oriented technologies is related to better understanding how people think and behave as well. The study of cognitive abilities and ways of forming complex information-processing skills has great importance in the field of HCI. People learn, remember and use information, coming to decisions in different ways. The development of usable technologies is mainly based on taking into account the individual characteristics of users as individuals from a given target audience.

There are various models in the field of information processing, developed with the aim of forming knowledge about human nature and supporting the development of user-oriented technologies. One of the main tasks of this Special Issue is to offer a scientific forum for information processing research to contribute to the development of theories in the field of the human–computer interaction.

This Special Issue aims to highlight novel opportunities and challenges faced in the research of multidimensional aspects from the human–computer interaction perspective, especially targeting its cognitive part. Our aspiration is to form a dedicated Special Issue to bring together research on potential topics such as:

• HCI for people with special needs and for elderly users;
• Study of user behaviour through means of machine learning, artificial intelligence and data mining;
• Information processing methods;
• Multidimensional aspects of information design;
• HCI for advanced technologies;
• Ethical aspects of user behaviour research;
• Secure information retrieval in HCI;
• Cognitive and behavioural research in HCI;
• Problems with standardization in the field of HCI.

Dr. Radka Nacheva
Dr. Maxim Bakaev
Guest Editors

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