This 17-volume set LNCS 4550-4566 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2007, and of all the associated symposia and conferences during the event in Beijing, China, in July 2007.

The 1695 revised papers presented in the 17 volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of over 3400 submissions. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of Human-Computer Interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The conference objective is to provide an international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical, generic and applied areas of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), Universal Access, Engineering Psychology, Cognitive Ergonomics, Virtual Reality, Usability, Internationalization, Online Communities, Social Computing, Augmented Cognition and Digital Human Modeling.

Springer also produced, for exclusive distribution to conference participants, a DVD version of the HCII 2007 proceedings. This DVD was released with ISBN 978-3-540-73738-4 and included, in addition to the proceedings papers, the extended abstracts of the posters presented during the HCII 2007 conference. The DVD is not available for purchase.