The article is devoted to the XVI international conference HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION (HCII)-2014, which took place in Heraklion (Crete, Greece), 22 – 27 June. It gives the idea about the thematic variety of papers presented at the conference, and geographic cultural, and institutional diversity of the contributing participants. Some organizational peculiarities of the HCII are considered with more attention being paid to the first International Conference on Learning and Collaboration Technologies. Papers conferred the award of the best conference papers and papers presented by participants from Russia are briefly described.