Books in the Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI series

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Workshops held at the ICWL 2013 International Conference on Web Based Learning in Kenting, Taiwan, in October 2013. 2013 International Workshop on Smart Living and Learning, IWSLL 2013; 2013 International Workshop on Cloud Computing for Web-Based Learning, IWCL 2013;

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2017, held as part of the 19th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2017, held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, in July 2017.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2017, held in Cape Town, South Africa, in September 2017. The 13 revised full papers presented together with 9 short papers and 3 poster papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2017, held in Evry, France, in December 2017. The 15 papers presented together with three invited papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Big Data Analytics, BDA 2017, held in Hyderabad, India, in December 2017.

The two-volume set LNCS 10704 and 10705 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, MMM 2018, held in Bangkok, Thailand, in February 2018. Of the 185 full papers submitted, 46 were selected for oral presentation and 28 for poster presentation;

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2017, held in Rome, Italy, , in October 2017. The 33 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 38 submissions.

The two-volume set LNCS 10735 and 10736 constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 18th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, PCM 2017, held in Harbin, China, in September 2017. The 184 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 264 submissions. Multimedia Signal Reconstruction and Recovery;

This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 21st Annual Simulation Technology and Training Conference, SimTecT 2016, and the 47th International Simulation and Gaming Association Conference, ISAGA 2016, Held as Part of the First Australasian Simulation Congress, ASC 2016, held in Melbourne, VIC, Australia, in September 2016. The 28 revised full papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 55 submissions. They are organized in the following topical sections: Making the grade; Come to think of it; From here to fidelity; The name of the game; and Ahead of the game.

Social information access is defined as a stream of research that explores methods for organizing the past interactions of users in a community in order to provide future users with better access to information.

This two-volume set LNCS 10924 and 10925 constitute the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies, LCT 2018, held as part of the 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2018, in Las Vegas, NV, USA in July 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Cognitive Computing, ICCC 2018, held as part of SCF 2018, in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the International Conference on Edge Computing, EDGE 2018, held in Seattle, WA, USA, in June 2018. The 9 full papers and 3 short paper presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 29 submissions. and Short Paper Track.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Smart Homes and Health Telematics, ICOST 2018, held in Singapore, Singapore, in July 2018.

The papers focus on emerging models, paradigms, technologies and novel applications related to Internet-based distributed systems, including Internet of Things, cyber-physical systems, wireless sensor networks, next-generation collaborative systems, extreme-scale networked systems, and cloud-based big data systems.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Satellite Events of the 15th Extended Semantic Web Conference, ESWC 2018, held in Heraklion, Crete, Greece, in June 2018.The volume contains 41 poster and demonstration papers, 11 invited workshop papers, and 9 full papers, selected out of a total of 70 submissions.

This book constitutes the revised selected papers from the 13th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, CRiSIS 2018, held in Arcachon, France, in October 2018. The 12 full papers and 6 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions.

This book constitutes the workshop proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2019, held in Chiang Mai, Thailand, in April 2019.The 14 full papers presented were carefully selected and reviewed from 26 submissions to the three following workshops: the 6th International Workshop on Big Data Management and Service, BDMS 2019; the 4th International Workshop on Big Data Quality Management, BDQM 2019; and the Third International Workshop on Graph Data Management and Analysis, GDMA 2019. This volume also includes the short papers, demo papers, and tutorial papers of the main conference DASFAA 2019.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the First International Conference on HCI for Cybersecurity, Privacy and Trust, HCI-CPT 2019, which was held as part of the 21st HCI International Conference, HCII 2019, in Orlando, FL, USA, in July 2019.The total of 1275 papers and 209 posters included in the 35 HCII 2019 proceedings volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 5029 submissions. HCI-CPT 2019 includes a total of 32 papers; they were organized in topical sections named: Authentication; cybersecurity awareness and behavior; security and usability; and privacy and trust.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 37th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, in March/April 2015. The 44 full papers, 41 poster papers and 7 demonstrations presented together with 3 keynotes in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 305 submissions. The focus of the papers were on following topics: aggregated search and diversity, classification, cross-lingual and discourse, efficiency, evaluation, event mining and summarisation, information extraction, recommender systems, semantic and graph-based models, sentiment and opinion, social media, specific search tasks, temporal models and features, topic and document models, user behavior and reproducible IR.

This two-volume set, LNCS 11641 and 11642, constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the Third International Joint Conference, APWeb-WAIM 2019, held in Chengdu, China, in August 2019. The 42 full papers presented together with 17 short papers, and 6 demonstration papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 180 submissions.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Conference, CRIWG+CollabTech 2019, held in Kyoto, Japan in September 2019. The 12 full papers presented in this book together with 8 work-in-progress papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions, and the program also included an invited talk. This year presented a merger of the CRIWG and CollabTech conferences after having been jointly held since 2014. The papers published in this proceedings focus on innovative collaboration technologies and social computing.

The two-volume set of LNCS 11778 and 11779 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2019, held in Auckland, New Zealand, in October 2019. The conference is organized in three tracks: for the Research Track 42 full papers were selected from 194 submissions;

This two-volume set of LNCS 11871 and 11872 constitutes the thoroughly refereed conference proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Data Engineering and Automated Learning, IDEAL 2019, held in Manchester, UK, in November 2019. The 94 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Internet Science held in Perpignan, France, in December 2019. The papers detail a multidisciplinary understanding of the development of the Internet as a societal and technological artefact which increasingly evolves with human societies.

This book contains revised selected papers presented at 3 workshops held at the 17th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2019, which was held in September 2019 in Paphos, Cyprus. The workshops are: - Beyond Computers: Wearables, Humans, And Things - WHAT!- User Experiences and Wellbeing at Work (UX@Work) - Workshop on Handling Security, Usability, User Experience and Reliability in User-Centered Development Processes.The 12 papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. They show advances in the field of HCI dealing with topics such as wearables, user experience and wellbeing at work, security, usability, user experience and reliability in user-centered development processes.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social Informatics, SocInfo 2019, held in Doha, Qatar, in November 2019.

The papers were submitted to three tracks: the research track, the resource track and the in-use track.

Gesture-based Interaction.- A Human-centered Approach to Designing Gestures for Natural User Interfaces.- Comparing a Mouse and a Free Hand Gesture Interaction Technique for 3D Object Manipulation.- Research on Gesture Interaction Design for Home Control Intelligent Terminals.- A Comparative Study of Hand Gesture Recognition Devices for Games.- The Social Acceptability of Peripheral Interaction with 3D Gestures in a Simulated Setting.- Research of Interactive Gesture Usability of Navigation Application Based on Intuitive Interaction.- Gesture-based interaction: Visual gesture mapping.- The Potential of Gesture-Based Interaction.- Detecting Gestures through a Gesture-Based Interface to Teach Introductory Programming Concepts.- A Mouth Gesture Interface Featuring a Mutual-Capacitance Sensor Embedded in a Surgical Mask.- Speech, Voice, Conversation and Emotions.- The Effects of Body Gestures and Gender on Viewer''s Perception of Animated Pedagogical Agent''s Emotions.- Integrating Language and Emotion Features for Multilingual Speech Emotion Recognition.- A new approach to measure user experience with voice-controlled intelligent assistants: A pilot study.- Comparing the user preferences towards emotional voice interaction applied on different devices: An empirical study.- Research on Interaction Design of Artificial Intelligence Mock Interview Application Based on Goal-directed Design Theory.- The Effect of Personal Pronouns on Users'' Emotional Experience in Voice Interaction.- The Effect of Naturalness of Voice and Empathic Responses on Enjoyment, Attitudes and Motivation for Interacting with a Voice User Interface.- Impression Detection and Management Using an Embodied Conversational Agent.- Expectation and Reaction as Intention for Conversation System.- Augmented Tension Detection in Communication: Insights from Prosodic and Content Features.- How to Design the Expression Ways of Conversational Agents Based on Affective Experience.- Deep Learning-based Emotion Recognition from Real-Time Videos.- Multimodal Interaction.- Designing An AI-Companion to Support the Driver in Highly Autonomous Cars.- SilverCodes: Thin, Flexible, and Single-Line Connected Identifiers Inputted by Swiping with a Finger.- A Defocus Based Novel Keyboard Design.- Affective Haptics and Multimodal Experiments Research.- Recent Multimodal Communication Methodologies in Phonology, Vision, and Touch.- A Framework of Input Devices to Support Designing Composite Wearable Computers.- Introducing Mobile Device-Based Interactions to Users: An Investigation of Onboarding Tutorials.- Multimodal Analysis of Preschool Children''s Embodied Interaction with a Tangible Programming Environment.- Identification Method of Digits for Expanding Touchpad Input-. FingerTalkie: Designing A Low-cost Finger-worn Device for Interactive Audio Labeling of Tactile Diagrams.- A Virtual Mouse Interface for Supporting Multi-User Interactions.- Floating Hierarchical Menus for Swipe-based Navigation on Touchscreen Mobile Devices.- Touch Position Detection on the Front of Face Using Passive High-functional RFID Tag with Magnetic Sensor.- Human Robot Interaction.- One-hand Controller for Human-Drone Interaction - a Human-centered Prototype Development.- Sexual Robots: the Social-Relational Approach and the Concept of Subjective Reference.- Theses on the Future Design of Human-Robot Collaboration.- Trust on Service Robots: A Pilot Study on the Influence of Eyes in Humanoid Robots during a VR Emergency Egress.- Modelling the Collaboration of a Patient and an Assisting Humanoid Robot during Training Tasks.- Multi-Human Management of Robotic Swarms.- The Current Status and Challenges in Augmented-Reality Navigation System for Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy.- Database Semantics for Talking Autonomous Robots.- Emotion Synchronization Method for Robot Facial Expression.- Human-Robot Interaction in Health Care: Focus on Human Factors.- Evaluating a Mouse

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Design, User Experience, and Usability, DUXU 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.