HCI In Brazil: The research and the people

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HCI In Brazil The research and the people

• Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza
• Professor of Human-Computer Interaction
• Departamento de Informática
• PUC-Rio

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HCI In BrazilConference History

• 1998, 1st IHC
• Jonathan Grudin Tom Carey
• 1999, 2nd IHC
• Lucy Suchman Mark Gross
• 2000, 3rd IHC
• Don Norman Allen Cypher
• 2001, 4th IHC
• Ben Shneiderman Jenny Preece
• 2002, 5th IHC
• Philippe Palanque Jean Vanderdonckt

• 2003, 1st CLIHC
• Terry Winograd John Carroll
• 2004, 6th IHC
• Henry Lieberman Liam Bannon
• 2005, 2nd CLIHC
• Clarisse de Souza Paul Dourish
• 2006, 7th IHC
• Bonnie Nardi Alan Dix (invited)
• 2007 Interact 2007

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HCI In BrazilGeography
PUC-Rio PUC-RS UEM UFMG UFPE UFPR UFRGS UFRN UFSC
UFSCar Unicamp Unifor USP-Poli
Unifor
UFRN
UFPE
UFMG
UFSCar
serg
USP-POLI
Unicamp
UEM
UFPR
UFSC
UFRGS
PUCRS
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Main Topics Of Research In HCI

• Usability Engineering
• HCI Evaluation
• HCI in Distance Education
• HCI for Web-Based Systems
• Accessibility and Universal Design
• HCI for Mobile Devices
• HCI for Digital TV
• HCI for e-Government
• Semiotic Approaches to HCI
• Semiotic Engineering Organizational Semiotics

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The Semiotic Engineering Research Group
(SERG/PUC-Rio)

• 15 years building a semiotic theoryof HCI
• 15 graduated PhDs(8 PhD students)
• Clarisse de Souza and Simone Barbosa

The semiotic engineering ofhuman-computer
interaction(The MIT Press, 2005)
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Most Recent Projects _at_ SERG

• Ink-a-Sketch Simone Barbosa
• Why
• How can Tablet PCs contribute to HCI education
• Support
• Microsoft Research
• Goals
• Building structured interaction diagrams compared
  with ink-based sketching withTablet PCs

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Most Recent Projects _at_ SERG

• ICDL-BR Clarisse de Souza
• Why
• 75 of the Brazilian population is functionally
  illiterate most of the Internet is text
• Partners
• ICDL Project (University of Maryland)
• UNESCO Chair of Reading (PUC-Rio)
• Goals
• General Motivate Brazilian kids to read and
  write about what theyve read (communicate with
  others online ? writing)
• Specific Culturally localize ICDL for Brazilian
  kids and more...

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Challenge For ICDL-BR go live!
The currentcollectionof books inPortuguese
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The currentcollectionof books inSpanish
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Opportunities At PUC-Rio ICDL-BR Projeto
Portinari
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Thank you

• clarisse_at_inf.puc-rio.br

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