ACM CHI 2008, the most important HCI conference in 2008, will take place in Florence, Italy, 5-10 April. Read the program here and don't miss the opportunity to attend this important event.

The Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2008) conference will take place in Naples, Italy, on May 28-30, 2008. AVI 2008 welcomes submissions on several aspects of visual and perceptual interfaces (see the conference site). Sigchi Italy is among the co-sponsors of the initiative and several members of Sigchi are involved in the organization.

The Fifth Symposium of ACM SIGCHI Italy concludes successfully with record numbers: 230 participants over the 3 days, 60 presentations, 10 posters, 10 tutorials, 4 prestigious invited speakers, 10 demos and an exhibition. This is a clear indication of the continuous growth of the Italian HCI community.

The Fifth Symposium of ACM SIGCHI Italy will take place in Padova, in the Psychology Department, from 28 to 30 June. The deadline for submissions is May 15th. The program of the event will be extremely rich, with tutorials, invited speakers and satellite workshops. Read all the details on the symposium site.

The national event on Virtual and Mobile Guides concluded successfully with 80 participants and 19 presentations. The proceedings are on-line and you can find them here.

SIGCHI Italy organizes a national event on Virtual and Mobile Guides in the context of Virtuality 2006. Information on submission and registration are available at this site.

ACM SIGCHI Bulletin has published an interview with Luca Chittaro, chair of SIGCHI Italy. You can read it here.

Interfacce06 is a 2-day event that will take place at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata" on October 10-11, 2006 to present, contrast and discuss future concepts for user interfaces. Read the call for contributions on the Interfacce06 site for a full list of keywords. If you are a young designer, you can also freely participate in the INTERFACCE::VETRINE competition and win prizes.

A SIGCHI Italy meeting was held in Venice in conjunction with AVI 2006.

The new edition (2005/2006) of the 1-year master on Advanced Technologies in Interactive Communication will start at the University of Rome - Tor Vergata on November. The didactic goals strongly emphasize the importance of HCI. For more information: info@mifav.uniroma2.it.

The Sound and Music Computing (SMC 2005) conference will take place in Salerno, Italy on November 24-26, 2005. User interfaces (graphical, gestural, visual, tactile, audible,...) are one of the topics on which this international event welcomes submissions.

The fourth Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction (HCItaly 2005) will take place in Rome on September 12-13, 2005, in conjunction with the international conference INTERACT 2005. Deadline for submission of papers: February 12th, 2005.

A SIGCHI Italy event on Web3D Technologies in Learning, Education and Training took place in Udine. For more information, visit the LET-Web3D website.

A 1-year master on Advanced Technologies in Interactive Communication is started at the University of Rome - Tor Vergata. The didactic goals strongly emphasize the importance of HCI. For more information: info@mifav.uniroma2.it.

A SIGCHI Italy meeting was held in Gallipoli (LE) in conjunction with AVI2004.

The HCItaly 2003 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction took place in Torino. For more information, visit the HCItaly 2003.

A SIGCHI Italy meeting was held in Udine in conjunction with Mobile HCI 2003.

A SIGCHI Itally event on Usability and Accessibility in Web Sites took place in Pisa.

A SIGCHI Italy meeting on Usability in Practice was held in Milano.

A SIGCHI Italy meeting was held in Pisa in conjunction with Mobile HCI 2002.

A SIGCHI Italy meeting was held in Trento in conjunction with the Advanced Visual Interfaces conference.

A SIGCHI Italy meeting was held in Ivrea at the Interaction Design Institute.

A SIGCHI-Italy meeting was held in Firenze.

A SIGCHI-Italy meeting was held in Firenze, at Villa Montalto, after the human-computer session of the SIE conference.

We were co-organizers of the SIE Conference. In conjunction with this conference we organised HCItaly 2001, the second Italian Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction.

A SIGCHI-Italy meeting was held in Trento.

A SIGCHI-Italy meeting was held in in Torino at the Fiat Research Center.