posted by system || 1533 views || tracked by 3 users: [display]

IHC 2008 : VIII Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems

FacebookTwitterLinkedInGoogle

Link: http://www.inf.pucrs.br/ihc2008/
 
When Oct 21, 2008 - Oct 24, 2008
Where Porto Alegre, Brazil
Submission Deadline Jun 22, 2008
Notification Due Aug 4, 2008
Categories    HCI
 

Call For Papers

The Brazilian Symposium of Human Factors on Computer Systems (IHC) is the main forum of the Brazilian Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community. This symposium brings together researchers, industry professionals, educators and students of various HCI-related disciplines, such as Computer Science, Psychology, Ergonomics and Graphic Design, among others.

We celebrate in 2008 the 10th anniversary of HCI events in Brazil. This has been a time for great progress: an entire generation of researchers has been produced spreading HCI knowledge countrywide. Usability and accessibility subjects have been integrated into governmental technological policies; industry is now fully aware of the importance of user-centered design practices. The event itself has solidified and expanded, giving birth to the Latin-American Conference in Human-Computer Interaction (CLIHC). Brazilian research has been acknowledged internationally and one of the major international conferences, the IFIP TC13 INTERACT has been hosted in Brazil in 2007.

During these past 10 years, we have reflected about the nature of Interaction. We managed to understand our users. We mastered the WWW and created solutions with emerging interaction technologies. Today, the relationship between humans and computers is an established and irrevocable fact. Interaction is now part of daily life: we are already living within ubiquitous computing; we are working on overcoming access barriers and on inclusion of disadvantaged populations. We are promoting society integration and disseminating the digital culture. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are intensely used by Brazilian population.

This scenario poses a challenge for researchers �?? thinking of users no more as individuals but as interconnected communities. Even the concept of interaction quality has to be broadened to encompass the diversity of interactive systems usage, like in entertainment, security in information exchange and broadcast, participation in social and democratic processes as well as applications in critical areas like health and environment.

Human Computer Interaction impregnates modern life. HCI today is structural for systems design. HCI is already permanent in human life. Each day, HCI is more and more natural.

Within the challenges to be addressed in the next decade, as proposed by the Brazilian Society for Computing �?? SBC - there are also challenges for the HCI community. We invite you to discuss HCI for today and for the next 10 years. In particular we welcome contributions related to aging and User eXperience (UX) which discusses the many roles played by interactive systems at the different phases of human life, including users who learned to use the computer before learning to read, users who employ computer in the daily life as a mean to gain productivity, for entertainment and/or to socialize, and those seniors users who are learning the new technologies to improve their quality of life.

Related Resources

VSI-HFCS 2024   Computer Standards & Interfaces Special Issue 2024 - Human Factors in Cyber Security
MuC 2024   Mensch und Computer
PCDS 2024   The 1st International Symposium on Parallel Computing and Distributed Systems
BCS HCI 2024   BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference
Sensors journal 2024   Special Issue on Energy-Efficient Communication Networks and Systems: 2nd Eition
AICCC 2024   ACM--2024 7th Artificial Intelligence and Cloud Computing Conference (AICCC 2024)
LAJC 2024   Latin-American Journal of Computing
CompAuto--EI 2024   2024 4th International Conference on Computers and Automation (CompAuto 2024)
UIC 2024   The 21st IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing
UIC 2024   The 21st IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing