- Visual analytics techniques to integrate HCI, data mining, and computer graphics for urban informatics, social network analysis, and MOOCs (Huamin Qu)
- Data-Driven Techniques to Assist Design of Perceptually Effective Visual Displays for Healthcare Communication: exploiting crowdsourcing and sensing technologies to empower adaptive communication systems (Xiaojuan Ma)
- User interaction with multi-touch screens for mobile apps (Chiew-Lan Tai)
- Affective Speech / Music Human-Machine Interface: enabling rich interaction via speech and music between human and computers / robots (Pascale Fung)
- Mobile Augmented Reality to mix real and virtual worlds (Pan Hui)
- Understanding User Behavior in Online Social Networks: facilitating personalized services such as recommendation (James She)