The 2021 HCI-SI conference is the sixth installment of the Human-Computer Interaction Slovenia (HCI SI) conference series and was held at the University of Primorska in Koper, Slovenia on 8 November, 2021. The conference was held live. There were two keynote speakers, Peter Knees from the Vienna University of Technology and Gregor Geršak from the University of Ljubljana. The authors presented eight research papers and two posters.
The conference opened with the first keynote speaker, Gregor Geršak from the University of Ljubljana who presented the talk Gadgets in psychophysiology.
It was followed by a session of four presentations: from their Online Behaviour • Patrik Kocjančič, Kljun Matjaž and Klen Čopič Pucihar – Comparison of Text Entry on Diferent Keyboard Layouts in Virtual Reality (Primerjava Vnosa Besedila v Virtualnem Okolju na Različnih Postavitvah Tipkovnice) • Maheshya Weerasinghe, Klen Čopič Pucihar and Matjaž Kljun – Playing with the Artworks: A Personalised Artwork Experience In the afternoon session there were four more presentations: • Anže Kristan, Daniel Pellarini and Veljko Pejović – Not Deep Enough: Autoencoders for
Automatic Feature Extraction in Wireless Cognitive Load Inference • Andraž Krašovec and Veljko Pejovic – Investigating Sensor Modality Informativeness and Stability for Behavioural Authentication • Sead Hrustanović, Branko Kavšek and Marko Tkalčič – Recognition of Eudaemonic and
Hedonic Qualities from Song Lyrics • Jose Maria Iii Santiago, Giselle Nodalo, Jolene Valenzuela and Jordan Aiko Deja – Explore, Edit, Guess: Understanding Novice Programmers’ Use of CodeBlocks for Regression Experiments Furthermore, there were two poster presentations of the works: • Amadej Jankovič, Tine Kolenik and Veljko Pejović – The Role of Personality-Tailored
Notifications in Mobile-Based Behavior Change Intervention • Ervin Huskanović and Bojan Blažica – E-invoices: Reasons for Use and Their Usability The conference ended with the last keynote speaker, Peter Knees from the Vienna University of Technology entitled An Overview of Music Retrieval and Recommendation: From Describing Sound to Asking What is Fair.
Gregor Geršak received the PhD degree from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, University of Ljubljana. His research interests include the theory of measurements, precision measurement of magnetic flux density, and pressure and thermometry. His focus is on metrology of biomedical instrumentation with emphasis on devices for non-invasive blood pressure measurement and psychophysiological measurements.
Peter Knees is an Associate Professor at the Vienna University of Technology, Faculty of Informatics. He is an active member of the Music Information Retrieval research community, reaching out to the related fields of multimedia and text information retrieval, recommender systems, and the digital arts. His research activities centre on music search engines and interfaces as well as music recommender systems, and more recently, on smart(er) tools for music creation. He co-authored the book “Music Similarity and Retrieval: An Introduction” and is a contributor to the Digital Humanism initiative.
• Matjaž Kljun, University of Primorska; Faculty of Information Sciences, Novo mesto • Klen Čopič Pucihar, University of Primorska; Faculty of Information Sciences, Novo mesto
• Marko Tkalčič, University of Primorska • Veljko Pejović, University of Ljubljana
• Cuauhtli Campos Mijangos, University of Primorska • Nuwan Attygalle, University of Primorska
Local Student Volunteers • Inga Raič • Mihail Filipovski • Nadeen Al Hawamdeh • Nevena Stojnić • Nina Đukić • Pavle Mihailovski Program Committee • Elham Motamedi, University of Primorska • Maheshya Weerasinghe, University of Primorska • Jordan Deja, University of Primorska • Nuwan Attygalle, University of Primorska • Ciril Bohak, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; University of Ljubljana • Cuauhtli Campos Mijangos, University of Primorska • Luka Čehovin, University of Ljubljana • Klen Čopič Pucihar, University of Primorska; Faculty of Information Sciecnes, Novo mesto • Jordan Aiko Deja, University of Primorska; De La Salle University • Vida Groznik, University of Primorska; University of Ljubljana • Jože Guna, University of Ljubljana • Zdravko Kačič, University of Maribor • Branko Kavšek, University of Primorska • Matjaž Kljun, University of Primorska; Faculty of Information Sciecnes, Novo mesto • Simon Kolmanič, University of Maribor • Ines Kožuh, University of Maribor • Niko Lukač, University of Maribor • Alina Machidon, University of Ljubljana • Octavian Machidon, University of Ljubljana • Elham Motamedi, University of Primorska • Matevž Pesek, University of Ljubljana • Maheshya Weerasinghe, University of Primorska • Marina Santo Zarnik, Jožef Stefan Institute • Jure Žabkar, University of Ljubljana