HCOMP 2016

The Fourth AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2016) will be held October 30 - November 3, 2016 in Austin, TX, USA.


•  October 17: Industry Panels announced
•  October 6: Accepted Works-in-Progress, Demonstrations, and Doctoral Consortium papers posted
•  October 4: Remembering David B. Martin: HCOMP 2016 invites all who knew David to join us in celebrating his life & work
•  October 1: Offsite Reception on on 6th Street announced (sponsored by Spare5)
•  September 9: Invited & Accepted Encore Papers announced
•  August 26: Registration opened; Accepted Full Papers and Keynote Speakers announced
•  June 22: Join our crowd-hcomp email list for posting and receiving news announcements
•  May 30: New partnership between HCOMP and JAIR's Award-Winning Papers Track announced
•  May 25: Review Criteria posted

  • Welcome to HCOMP 2016!

The 4th AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP 2016) will be held October 30 - November 3 in Austin, TX (USA) at the AT&T Executive Conference Center, on campus at the University of Texas at Austin.

HCOMP is the premier venue for disseminating the latest research findings on crowdsourcing and human computation. While artificial intelligence (AI) and human-computer interaction (HCI) represent traditional mainstays of the conference, HCOMP believes strongly in inviting, fostering, and promoting broad, interdisciplinary research. This field is particularly unique in the diversity of disciplines it draws upon, and contributes to, ranging from human-centered qualitative studies and HCI design, to computer science and artificial intelligence, economics and the social sciences, all the way to digital humanities, policy, and ethics. We promote the exchange of advances in human computation and crowdsourcing not only among researchers, but also engineers and practitioners, to encourage dialogue across disciplines and communities of practice.

HCOMP 2016 builds on a successful history of past meetings: three HCOMP conferences (2013-2015) and four earlier workshops, held at the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (2011-2012), and the ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (2009-2010). Past proceedings are available online, as well as a list of winners of past paper awards, and pictures from HCOMP 2013.

  • Important Dates

  • June 7, 2016: Full Papers due
  • August 1-10, 2016: Workshop papers due
  • August 15, 2016
  • August 19, 2016: Doctoral Consortium applications due
  • September 9, 2016: Discount Early Registration deadline
  • October 7, 2016: Discount Late Registration deadline (Regular onsite registration still open)
  • October 30, 2016: Tutorial & Doctoral Consortium
  • October 31-November 2, 2016: Main Conference
  • November 3, 2016: Workshops
  • Join our Community Email List

Join our crowd-hcomp Google Group (email list) for posting and receiving email announcements (e.g., calls-for-papers, job openings, etc.) related to crowdsourcing and human computation. Anyone is welcome to post, and posts will be moderated to prevent spam. We'll also post updates here about the conference. To subscribe via email, send an email to crowd-hcomp+subscribe@googlegroups.com. You can also view an archive of past posts and subscribe on the Google Group webpage.

  • Interested in NLP?

EMNLP 2016, the 2016 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing will also be held in Austin, TX. The dates shifted late to November 1-5, with main conference November 2-4, tutorials November 1, and workshops November 1 and 5. This one day shift from the original schedule was due to an issue with their venue.

  • Example Project Videos

Have a cool, short, non-commercial YouTube video showing off your crowdsourcing or human computation project? Tweet a link to @hcomp_conf and our moderator will review it for inclusion in our playlist!


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Facebook Group: humancomputation
Email List: crowd-hcomp