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You can select topics according to your interests from the proceedings of recent conferences or use proposed topic below:

• MobileHCI ’16: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
  Florence, Italy — September 06 – 09, 2016
• MobileHCI ’15 : Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services Copenhagen, Denmark — August 24 – 27, 2015
• NordiCHI ’16: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Gothenburg, Sweden — October 23 – 27, 2016
• CHI ’15: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Seoul, Republic of Korea — April 18 – 23, 2015
• CHI ’16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, San Jose, CA, USA — May 07 – 12, 2016
• CSCW ’16: Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work & Social Computing, San Francisco, California, USA — February 27 – March 02, 2016
• Automotive’UI 16: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
• DIS’16: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, Brisbane, QLD, Australia — June 04 – 08, 2016

Journals

• IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics ( Volume: 23, Issue: 1, Jan. 2017 )
• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

Examples of seminar topics:

1. Interaction with maps and search using mobile devices (MobileHCI’15)
   SAMMI: A Spatially-Aware Multi-Mobile Interface for Analytic Map Navigation Tasks
   StripeMaps: Improving Map-based Pedestrian Navigation for Smartwatches
   
2. Beyond Clicks – Touch and Gesture Interaction (NordiCHI’16)
   Designing for Tangible Affective Interaction
   Loaded Dice: Exploring the Design Space of Connected Devices with Blind and Visually Impaired People
   Exploring Design Factors for Transforming Passive Vibration Signals into Smartwear Interactions
   
3. Augmented AR and VR Experiences (CHi’16) – Mantas Giedrimas (Feb 27)
   Augmenting the Field-of-View of Head-Mounted Displays with Sparse Peripheral Displays
   SnapToReality: Aligning Augmented Reality to the Real World
   
4. Interaction in 3D Space (CHI’15) – Aivaras Šilalė (Mar 27)
   THING: Introducing a Tablet-based Interaction Technique for Controlling 3D Hand Models
   The Roly-Poly Mouse: Designing a Rolling Input Device Unifying 2D and 3D Interaction
5. Collaborative meeting environments (CSCW’16) – Tomas Orvidas (Apr 3)
   Room2Room: Enabling Life-Size Telepresence in a Projected Augmented Reality Environment
   Taking Notes or Playing Games?: Understanding Multitasking in Video Communication
6. Collaborative Fabrication – Making Much of Machines (HCI’16)
   RetroFab: A Design Tool for Retrofitting Physical Interfaces using Actuators, Sensors and 3D Printing
   HotFlex: Post-print Customization of 3D Prints Using Embedded State Change
7. In-Air Gesture (HCI’16) – Pavol Ulbrich
   M.Gesture: An Acceleration-Based Gesture Authoring System on Multiple Handheld and Wearable Devices
   EMPress: Practical Hand Gesture Classification with Wrist-Mounted EMG and Pressure Sensing
   Do That, There: An Interaction Technique for Addressing In-Air Gesture Systems
8. Input techniques for mobiles (MobileHCI’16) – Arnas Bastys (Mar 13)
   Bitey: an exploration of tooth click gestures for hands-free user interface control
   Investigating the effects of splitting detailed views in Overview+Detail interfaces
   Understanding back-to-front pinching for eyes-free mobile touch input
9. Touch interaction (CHI’16) – Žygimantas Skrolis (Apr 27)
   Expressy: Using a Wrist-worn Inertial Measurement Unit to Add Expressiveness to Touch-based Interactions
   Partially-indirect Bimanual Input with Gaze, Pen, and Touch for Pan, Zoom, and Ink Interaction
10. Games & Learning (CHI’16, MobileHCI’16)
    Revising Learner Misconceptions Without Feedback: Prompting for Reflection on Anomalies
    It’s not how you stand, it’s how you move: F-formations and collaboration dynamics in a mobile learning game
    Virtual.Cultural.Collaboration: mobile phones, video technology, and cross-cultural learning
11. Wearables (MobileHCI’16) – Martynas Lyčius (Feb 27) 
    Wearable ESM: differences in the experience sampling method across wearable devices
    Digital vibrons: understanding users’ perceptions of interacting with invisible, zero-weight matter
    
12. Wrist and hand interaction I (MobileHCI’16)
    ScatterWatch: subtle notifications via indirect illumination scattered in the skin
    Exploring tilt for no-touch, wrist-only interactions on smartwatches
13. Wayfinding ((MobileHCI’16) – Justas Palumickas  (May 15)
    NaviLight: investigating ambient light displays for turn-by-turn navigation in cars
    Where are we?: evaluating the current rendering fidelity of mobile audio augmented reality systems
14. Wrist and hand interaction II (MobileHCI’16) – Patricijus Cvizonas
    Bringing mobile into meetings: enhancing distributed meeting participation on smartwatches and mobile phones
    Let your body move: a prototyping toolkit for wearable force feedback with electrical muscle stimulation
15. Visualisation of geographical information (IEEE Trans. on Vis. & CG) – Antanas Bareikis (Mar 20)
    Quantifying the Visual Impact of Classification Boundaries in Choropleth Maps
    Map LineUps: Effects of spatial structure on graphical inference
16. Interaction in visualization (IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, vol. 23, is. 1)
    HindSight: Encouraging Exploration through Direct Encoding of Personal Interaction History View Document
    PowerSet: A Comprehensive Visualization of Set Intersections
17. Big Data and Local Society (HCI’16, Automotive’UI 16) – Tomas Martinkėnas (Apr 3)
    Why and How Traffic Safety Cultures Matter when Designing Advisory Traffic Information Systems
    An Eye-tracking Evaluation of Driver Distraction and Unfamiliar Road Signs
18. HCI in aviation safety – Viktos Ševaldin (Feb 20)
    Passive and active navigation of virtual environments vs. traditional printed evacuation maps: A comparative evaluation in the aviation domain
    Designing Serious Games for Safety Education: “Learn to Brace” vs. Traditional Pictorials for Aircraft Passengers
19. Video on mobile devices (MobileHCI’16) – Andi Breshanai (May 8)
    MobileVideoTiles: video display on multiple mobile devices
    Watching movies on netflix: investigating the effect of screen size on viewer immersion
20. Brain measurement for usability testing – Edgaras Karka (May 22)
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21. Social computing – Aurimas Smoliakas (Mar 27)
    The anatomy of a large-scale social search engine. Damon Horowitz and Sepandar D. Kamvar. WWW 2010.
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