The call for papers is open for EISEAIT 2026, the 4th Workshop on Engineering Interactive Systems Embedding AI Technologies. The workshop takes place on June 30, 2026 at EICS 2026, with hybrid participation planned. I am co-organizing this edition together with colleagues from across Europe. Submit via EasyChair — deadline is May 8, 2026.
I’m excited to announce my involvement in two upcoming EICS conferences: I’m co-chairing the EICS 2026 Doctoral Consortium together with Fabio Paternò from CNR-ISTI, Italy, and Nikos Avouris, and I will be a general co-chair together with Célia Martinie for EICS 2027.
This year marks 20 years since I co-organized the Workshop on User Interface Description Languages (UIDLs) during the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, held in Gallipoli, Italy (May 25–28, 2004). Together with Marc Abrams, Jean Vanderdonckt, and Quentin Limbourg, we created an event that surpassed all expectations in terms of attendance, engagement, and the quality of contributions.
The early 2000s were a transformative period for the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Researchers and practitioners alike were grappling with the challenge of building flexible, reusable, and context-aware user interfaces (UIs) that could adapt to the growing variety of devices and use cases. XML, with its ability to structure and abstract information, became the language of choice for UIDLs.
Together with Carmen Santoro I edited the PACMHCI EICS issue, with papers presented at EICS 2023.