IFIP TC13

Representatives' Annual Report
Brazil

Date of last update to page: <19-01-2005>

Name: (homepage) (email)	Cecilia Baranauskas http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~cecilia cecilia@ic.unicamp.br
Regular Mail Address Phone and Fax Numbers:	Institute of Computing State University of Campinas UNICAMP Av. Albert Einstein 1241 13083970 Campinas, SP BRAZIL Tel. +55 19 3788 5870 Fax. +55 19 3788 5847
Represented Organisation: (homepage)	Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) http://www.sbc.org.br/
Country:	Brazil
Major HCI conference(s) in the country:	IHC - Simpósio de Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais
Other HCI Conferences in the Country:	CLIHC Congresso Latino-americano de Interação Humano-Computador
Dates of Upcoming HCI Conferences in the Country:	1. CLIHC 2005 Congresso Latino-americano de Interação Humano-Computador , Cuernavaca, Mexico Dates: 23-26 October 2005 URL : http://www.clihc2005.org Contact : Oscar Mayora (omayora@create-net.it) Cecilia Baranauskas (cecilia@ic.unicamp.br) 2. IHC 2006  ”VII Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems”, Natal, RGN, Brazil URL: Contact: Jair Leite, Conference Chair Raquel Prates, Program Committee Chair
Links of Interest for TC13:	· Brazilian ACM/SIGCHI Local Chapter http://www.sbc.org.br/ihc/brchi.php · Brazilian Computing Society Special Committee on HCI (CEIHC) http://www.sbc.org.br/ihc/index.php
Existing International Cooperation Programs and/or Funding Agencies:	· ·Cooperação Internacional (CAPES/MEC)International Cooperation Programs of the Brazilian Ministry of Education · · Cooperação Internacional (CNPq/MCT)International Cooperation Programs of the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology

Main Activities of the HCI Community in Brazil in 2004

The Brazilian HCI community has grown up along its six years of IHC’s Conferences held in association with the other main Brazilian Conferences on Software Engineering, Computer Graphics, Multimedia, Hypermedia and Virtual Reality, to discuss and present results of research work.

The IHC 2004 - VI Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems was held in Curitiba, Paraná State, south region of Brazil, on October 17-20, 2004 (http://www.inf.ufpr.br/ihc2004/), in conjunction with the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing (SIBGRAPI). Following the communities’ prior efforts and aspirations, the 2004 edition targeted two fronts: the disciplinary and the institutional. The disciplinary front intended to nurture a more in depth integration with other disciplines, supporting the participation of well-known researchers and professionals in the community. The institutional front intended to nurture a closer collaboration of academia, industry, and other social segments. In consonance with these two fronts, the invited speakers of the IHC 2004 were Henry Lieberman (Computer Science), and Liam Bannon (Cognitive Science and Interaction Design), whose research themes include topics beyond the traditional boundaries of HCI.

The IHC’s forum was expanded last year with the First Latin American Conference in HCI, the CLIHC2003. This Conference was held in Rio de Janeiro (RJ State), on August, 17-20, 2003. The main goal of the conference was to foster communication and collaboration among HCI researchers and professionals from countries in Latin America and to consolidate the presence of the Latin American HCI community abroad. CLIHC 2003 was organized by BR-CHI, CHI-Mexico and CHI-Chile (ACM SIGCHI Local SIGs). Complete Report on CLIHC event, which took place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil is available at http://www.serg.inf.puc-rio.br/clihc2003/clihc2003_report_eng.pdf .

Continuing the efforts of CLIHC2003, this year the Second Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, CLIHC 2005, will take place in Cuernavaca, México on October 23-26, 2005. The theme of the Conference this year - Interaction for Inclusion – inspires not only the search for technology that can be used and appreciated by the widest range of people, but also for means to promote inter-cultural exchange and cross-fertilization among people with diverse backgrounds and needs. The Conference is being co-Chaired by Oscar Mayora Ibarra from ITESM, Mexico and by myself. Preliminary information about this edition of the Conference can be found at http://www.clihc2005.org

An important contribution from one of the founders of the HCI Community in Brazil is the forthcoming book of Clarisse de Souza, the author of The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction. The book will appear in the Acting with Technology series at The MIT Press early this year. The book proposes an account of HCI that draws on concepts from semiotics and computer science to investigate the relationship between user and designer. It presents a theoretical overview of the semiotic engineering account of HCI and how this approach can be applied specifically to HCI evaluation and design of systems. More information about the book can be found in http://www.serg.inf.puc-rio.br/news.php?id=11 .