HCI community in Brazil---sweet 16!

Proceedings of the INTERACT

In this article we report the state-of-the-art of the HCI field in Brazil. We start with a brief history of the access of institutions and individuals to technology. After that we present some of the efforts done in academia in the 90's to establish the HCI field and to organize the HCI community. We briefly describe the personal profile of the participants of this community and how the field stands in relation to the Brazilian industry and government. Finally we expose our view on how to pursue our goals in the near future. The information here presented reflects mainly the work and experiences done by the participants of a recently established HCI group of interest, whose main interactive medium is the internet. This group has emerged in the academic millieu and has strong links with computer science departments.

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This paper presents the results of a in-depth study to investigate if Brazilian HCI (Human Computer Interaction) community is addressing cultural issues. In this paper, the results emerge from a study of fifteen years paper production in Brazilian HCI conference. After this first analysis, this work explored each Brazilian’ researcher curriculum from the previous result, aiming to understand how research field is evolving.

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Over the last 20 years, the Latin American Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community has been working to shed light on how the diverse populations in the region are adopting, using, and making sense of computational technologies. Latin America's tense socio-political context, plurality of languages, collectivist culture, and historical relationship with the Global North make it a unique and rich space for HCI research. Considering the growing number of studies about Latin American communities and the emergent efforts to contribute to the HCI literature, we propose to host a SIG meeting at the 2020 ACM CHI conference. Our goal is to consolidate these efforts to better promote HCI research in, by, and for Latin America, by (1) bringing together researchers, practitioners, and students who are interested in engaging with Latin America through their research and practice, (2) envisioning a shared research agenda, and (3) identifying strategies for making its contributions more visible and impactful in the international community.

This special interest group probes potential problems between HCI researchers and the practitioners who are consumers of research, to explore the extent of the problems and propose possible solutions. It will start with the results of the CHI 2010 workshop on the same topic, articulating factors that may render some of the research literature inaccessible or irrelevant to practitioners. When should HCI researchers be concerned about the relevance of their work to practitioners? How should practitioners communicate their needs for research? Participants will discuss these topics and others that both groups can use to help bridge the gap between research and practice in HCI.

Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction changing roles - NordiCHI '06, 2006

The focus of the research in human-computer interaction (HCI) continues to expand. One example of this is the growing interest in national and ethnic culture as a research topic. In this review, we examine the emerging field of cultural HCI by systematically analysing culture-related literature from five major HCI forums and past sixteen years. We focus on research methodology, technologies and cultures covered, theoretical underpinnings and referencing practices. We also discuss problems found on the basis of the review and provide perspectives on the future research into cultural issues.

XVI Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais, 2017

This paper presents a preliminary discussion about the Three Waves of HCI in consonance with the theory of the sociologist Bruno Latour to point out the tension and approximation between Social Sciences and HCI field of Computer Sciences. To inform our discussion, we presented Latour's theory along with some major names to Social Sciences field as Umberto Eco, Clifford Geertz, Michel Foucault, Gayatri Spivak, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari. With this reflection, we aim to start a path towards a transdisciplinary approach for inquiries on technology design and use in HCI.

Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction Extending Boundaries - NordiCHI '10, 2010

This panel will analyze the research activities (including objectives, theoretical foundations, developments, synergy, and differences) of three research centers: • Center for Research on Activity, Development, and Learning (CRADLE), University of Helsinki, with a research focus on "expansive learning"; • Center for LifeLong Learning and Design (L3D). University of Colorado, with a research focus on "cultures of participation"; • InterMedia, Center for Communication, Design and Learning, University of Oslo, with a research focus on "interfaces supporting learning".

Five panelists provide an interesting set of contrasting points of view of the HCI field from four distinct disciplines: Business, Computer Science, Information Science, and Psychology. Panelists are asked to respond to six questions in their presentations that address what their particular field offers that is unique, what seems to be quite similar, the effects of the overlaps, and advice for the future. Many of the panelists represent multiple fields, providing a unique opportunity to address the issues of overlap.

When looking out across the intellectual landscape of HCI, how do we make sense of it? More impor- tantly, how do we evaluate what constitutes legitimate investigation? As an interdisciplinary field, HCI faces challenges in incorporating sometimes conflicting intellectual approaches. While new approaches enrich our view of interaction, they can also lead to conflicting notions of methodology and validity, whose resolution remains murky without explicit discussion of their underlying epistemological commit- ments. Informal histories of HCI commonly identify two major intellectual waves that have formed the field: the first orienting from engineering and human factors with its focus on optimizing man-machine fit, and the second stemming from cognitive science, with an increased emphasis on theory and on what is happening not only in the computer but, simultaneously, in the human mind. HCI also draws on a wide variety of apparently disparate approaches, such as participatory design, si...

Since invention of the first barn-sized computing giant (one hesitates in calling them computers) until this very day, humans have had to engage in some sort of interaction with them, one way or another. However, shapes and means to this interaction have changed dramatically overtime and keeps changing by month. This relationship has faced many twists and turns in its path, yet always seems to be observed, analyzed and addressed by scientists from different disciplines. During the past decades, many hardworking visionary people have contributed to the formation of the field we know as human-computer Interaction. Thanks to their hard work and continuous research, HCI has always moved hand in hand, if not ahead, with technology and humanity passing through major (and sometimes minor) shifts and leaps. These tectonic changes in visions and understandings can be considered as waves. In this essay I try to outline these waves through the history of human and computer relations and make some semi-wild anticipations of what is to come next.