Recognizing the significance of the School’s topic within the Mediterranean HCI research community, Human-IIT is promoted by MedCHI, the newly established ACM-SIGCHI committee in the Mediterranean area, whose mission is to strengthen and disseminate globally the values and contribution of the Human-Computer Interaction discipline in the Mediterranean region.

The organizers of the school are MedCHI chairs and members:   

• George Caridakis, University of the Aegean, Greece (MedCHI member)
• Houda El Mimouni, Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada (MedCHI member)
• Joel Lanir, University of Haifa, Israel (MedCHI member)
• Maristella Matera, Politecnico di Milano, Italy (MedCHI chair)
• Valentina Nisi, Istituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisboa, Portugal (MedCHI vice-chair)
• Giuliana Vitiello, Università di Salerno, Italy (MedCHI member)