Dear Colleagues,

Human-computer interaction (HCI) as a topic is fundamentally simple. There is a person of some sort who wants to do some task. What makes the activity HCI is inserting a mediating computer. In principle, our person could have done the task without the computer. Such cases are not quite HCI. They do use intermediary tools or machines, and the process of their design and the facts of their use bear resemblance to those of HCI. In fact, they fit into HCI’s unique discipline of human factors. However, it is the computer, and the process of contingent interaction the computer renders possible, that makes HCI distinctive.

HCI-related development is entering a new era, which demands new technologies to support the rapid development of Augmented Reality (AR), Virtual Reality (VR), Mixed Reality (MR) applications. Current cutting edge technologies, which include brain-computer interface (BCI), image and vision computing, artificial intelligence, etc., have made an impact on HCI applications. Challenges exist in conception and technology, but also new methods and tools have to be thought up, for example, in participatory design.

This Special Issue aims to gather experts and scholars from related fields to present and share their recent research on HCI and brain informatics related applications. The purpose of this Special Issue is to provide a forum for discussion and interaction among researchers with interests in the cutting edge techniques of HCI and artificial intelligence applications, in particular, the rapid growth of AR/VR/AI applications. Participants are invited to submit papers in all areas of AI- and knowledge-based approaches, particularly in the area of brain informatics.

Topics of Interest

In the proposed Special Issue, research topics of interest include, but not limited to:

• Artificial Intelligence;
• AR/VR and its applications;
• Big Data analysis for HCI;
• Brain informatics;
• Cloud computing for city brain;
• Cloud-based health informatics;
• Data mining and analytics;
• EEG/MRI technologies for brain informatics;
• Knowledge representation and reasoning;
• Methods and tools for human-centered design methods for AR/VR or AI-based systems;
• Online data analysis;
• Pattern recognition and computer vision;
• Virtual reality for education.

Prof. Dr. César A. Collazos
Prof. Dr. Stefan Geisler
Prof. Dr. Sabrina C. Eimler
Prof. Dr. Uwe Handmann
Guest Editors

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