Books in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.

The three-volume set LNCS 12181, 12182, and 12183 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Human Computer Interaction thematic area of the 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.*A total of 1439 papers and 238 posters have been accepted for publication in the HCII 2020 proceedings from a total of 6326 submissions.The 145 papers included in these HCI 2020 proceedings were organized in topical sections as follows:Part I: design theory, methods and practice in HCI; understanding users; usability, user experience and quality; and images, visualization and aesthetics in HCI.Part II: gesture-based interaction; speech, voice, conversation and emotions; multimodal interaction; and human robot interaction.Part III: HCI for well-being and Eudaimonia; learning, culture and creativity; human values, ethics, transparency and trust; and HCI in complex environments.*The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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

Design Theory, Methods and Practice in HCI.- Applying Designing Lines to Develop Audiovisual Systems.- "Boundaries do not sit still." From Interaction to Agential Intra-action in HCI.- Contextual research - why we need to research in context to deliver great products.- Development of an Assessment Model for the Human Centered Design Processes specified in ISO.- Modeling and Runtime Generation of Situation-aware Adaptations.- Ethnographic Practice and the Problem of Context in Interaction Design Education.- Design Interface and Modeling Technique.- Spreading awareness about quality in interaction and UX to young generations.- Ask Me No Questions: Increasing Empirical Evidence for a Qualitative Approach to Technology Acceptance.- Anthropomorphic Design for Everyday Objects.- UX in IxD - User Experience in Interaction Design.- Human Computer Interfaces Reconsidered: A Conceptual Model for Understanding User Interfaces.- Wizardry in Distributed Participatory Design: from design to implementation.- Research on Information Interface Interaction Design Based on Unconscious Cognition.- Understanding Users.- Player Needs First: Understanding Player Needs before Designing a K-pop Themed Mobile Game.- Yayy! You have a new notification: Co-designing Multi-device Locative Media Experiences with Young People.- Observations and Categorisations of Art Practices associated with AI.- DICT and seniors: How can research experience help us map digital skills?.- A Successful Transformation of Work? An Exploratory Analysis on Requirements and Evaluation Criteria.- Insights into the work of Editors of Digital Scholarly Editions for Correspondences.- The Behaviour Observations of Using Rearview Mirror with Distance Indicator.- Research on method of acquiring and screening of personalized functional requirements of smart watches for the elderly based on Kano model.- Human Factors Engineering Development Process in Civil Aircraft Flight Deck Design and Integration.- Documentation tasks with tablet or smartphone in the workplace: A study with respect to OSH.- Research on the Design of Interactive Waiting Interface based on the Elderly User Experience.- Usability, User Experience and Quality.- Evaluating the Usability and the Accessibility of Saudi E-government Websites.- Research on Evaluation Index System of Artificial Intelligence Design Based on User Experience.- Ecological Momentary Assessment Tools: Lessons Learned from an HCI Perspective.- Research on Interactive Usability Evaluation of Mobile Map Navigation Based on User Behavior Pattern.- The Problems with Usability Testing.- Proposal of Quality in Use in Software quality.- Accuracy Assessment of ARKit 2 Based Gaze Estimation.- Usability of Software-Intensive Systems from Developers'' Point of View - Current Status and Future Perspectives of International Standardization of Usability Evaluation.- An Experimental Study of Typography using EEG Signal Parameters.- Research on Evaluation of Perceptual Experience Quality of Web-based Panoramic Navigation System Based on Cognitive Mechanism.- User Loyalty Analysis of Knowledge Payment Platform.- A Quantitative Method to Measure Noticeability of Animation in Mobile Interfaces.- Using Reinforcement Learning Agents to Analyze Player Experience.- Images, Visualization and Aesthetics in HCI.- Generating Graphic Representations of Spoken Interactions Revisited: The Tension Factor and Information Not Uttered in Journalistic Data.- Reflections on Data Visualization Design by Professionals in the Tourism Field.- The Image of Presence and the Presence of the Image.- Applying Holo360 Video and Image Super-Resolution Generative Adversarial Networks to Virtual Reality Immersion.- Single Image Contrast Enhancement by Training the HDR Camera data.- Baguamarsh: An Immersive Narrative Visualization for Conveying Subjective Experience.- Information Visualization-Based Study on Interactive Design of Elderly Health Management Application.- A Ha

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 34th Annual IFIP WG 11.3 Conference on Data and Applications Security and Privacy, DBSec 2020, held in Regensburg, Germany, in June 2020.*The 14 full papers and 8 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 39 submissions.

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

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 31st International Workshop on Combinatorial Algorithms which was planned to take place in Bordeaux, France, during June 8-10, 2020. They focus on algorithms design for the myriad of combinatorial problems that underlie computer applications in science, engineering and business.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Modelling and Simulation for Autonomous Systems, MESAS 2019, held in Palermo, Italy, in October 2019. The 22 full papers and 13 short papers included in the volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics, EPCE 2020, held as part of the 22nd International Conference, HCI International 2020, which took place in Copenhagen, Denmark, in July 2020.

This open access book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th Asian Supercomputing Conference, SCFA 2020, which was planned to be held in February 2020, but unfortunately, the physical conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 8 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition, MCPR 2020, which was due to be held in Morelia, Mexico, in June 2020. They were organized in the following topical sections: pattern recognition techniques; industrial and medical applications of pattern recognition;

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the workshops held at 25th International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Euro-Par 2019, which took place in Goettingen, Germany, in August 2019.

This Festschrift is published in honor of Yuri Gurevich's 80th birthday. An associated conference, YuriFest 2020, was planned for May 18-20 in Fontainebleau, France, in combination with the 39th Journees sur les Arithmetiques Faibles also celebrating Yuri's 80th birthday.

The papers present current developments in language theory, formal languages, automata theory and related areas, such as algorithmic, combinatorial, and algebraic properties of words and languages, cellular automata, algorithms on words, etc.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 17th International Workshop on Algorithms and Models for the Web Graph, WAW 2020, held in Warsaw, Poland, in September 2020.

The conference was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.The 12 full papers and 9 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. They are presented in this volume together with 2 invited papers, 6 PhD-Symposium-contributions, as well as the case study and 6 accepted papers outlining solutions to it.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management Applications, CISIM 2020, held in Bialystok, Poland, in October 2020.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2019, held in Allahabad, India, in December 2019. The 25 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 73 submissions.

The three volume proceedings LNAI 11906 - 11908 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2019, held in Wurzburg, Germany, in September 2019.The total of 130 regular papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 733 submissions;

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, ICCABS 2019, held in Miami, Florida, USA in November 2019.The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. biomedical image analysis;

The three volume proceedings LNAI 11906 - 11908 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2019, held in Wurzburg, Germany, in September 2019.The total of 130 regular papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 733 submissions;

The three volume proceedings LNAI 11906 - 11908 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Knowledge Discovery in Databases, ECML PKDD 2019, held in Wurzburg, Germany, in September 2019.The total of 130 regular papers presented in these volumes was carefully reviewed and selected from 733 submissions;

The three volume-set LNCS 12105, 12106, and 12107 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2020, which was due to be held in Zagreb, Croatia, in May 2020.

The three volume-set LNCS 12105, 12106, and 12107 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2020, which was due to be held in Zagreb, Croatia, in May 2020.

The three volume-set LNCS 12105, 12106, and 12107 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 39th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2020, which was due to be held in Zagreb, Croatia, in May 2020.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed revised selected papers of the 20th International Symposium on Trends in Functional Programming, TFP 2019, held in Vancouver, Canada, in June 2019.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics, BSB 2019, held in Fortaleza, Brazil in October 2019. The 9 revised full papers and 3 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 22 submissions.