Qiaohong Zu - Human Centered Computing: 6th International Conference, HCC 2020, Virtual Event, December 14–15, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

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This volume presents the proceedings of the 14th Human-Centered Computing (HCC) conference, which was held online from 1415 December 2020. Throughout the extraordinary year of 2020, we witnessed many extraordinary and far-reaching events unfolding in front of us. In the midst of the unforeseen turmoil, human-centred computing became a term that attracted an unprecedented level of attentionwhile we were restricted physically, technologies played an important role in closing the gaps between people, drew closer societies separated by geographic boundaries and political disagreements and demonstrated the power of unity through virtual communities.

In 2020, as members of the HCC family, we experienced how human communities adapted to and thrived in the new norm; we proudly participated in the technology provisioning that enables hundreds of thousands of people to receive better health and civic services; we accelerated the adaption of technologies that bridge ever-growing digital divides which had become more prominent during the COVID-19 pandemic; and we advocated the shift of paradigms to promote resilience and technology reach. We are 11 months into the pandemic and quite likely we have only just seen the tip of the iceberg of many socio-technological changes that this unfortunate event will triggerit will also give raise to, hopefully, new HCC discussion topics and research directions.

At the end of 2020, we successfully reunited albeit virtually to look back on this extraordinary year and exchanged what we had achieved on various fronts of HCC research directions. HCC2020 brought together a wide range of state-of-the-art research from different disciplines. In total, HCC2020 received 113 full paper submissions. All submissions went through a very strict reviewing process (at least two peer reviews and one meta-review by senior programme committee members). In the end, the programme committee accepted 28 long papers and 20 short papers to be included in the HCC2020 post-conference proceedings. The quality of HCC2020 was ensured by the arduous efforts of the programme committee members and invited reviewers, to whom we owe our highest gratitude and appreciation.

Since its inception, the HCC conference faced the gravest challenges in 2020 and the community emerged with increased strength. Here, we owe our deepest gratitude to the conference authors who happily adapted to the new conferencing paradigm. We are also grateful to all members of the Technical Programme Committee and conference Organisation Committee, without whom we would not have enjoyed another year of fruitful discussion. The most significant task fell upon their experienced shoulders. This year, we had to invite extra reviewers, who did a great job under enormous pressureswe thank them for their contributions and persistence. Last but not least, our special thanks go to Springers editorial staff for their hard work in publishing these post-conference proceedings in the LNCS series.