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HCI In Brazil: The research and the people

HCI In Brazil: The research and the people. Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Departamento de Informática PUC-Rio. 1998, 1 st IHC Jonathan Grudin & Tom Carey 1999, 2 nd IHC Lucy Suchman & Mark Gross 2000, 3 rd IHC Don Norman & Allen Cypher

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HCI In Brazil: The research and the people

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  1. HCI In Brazil:The research and the people Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza Professor of Human-Computer Interaction Departamento de Informática PUC-Rio

  2. 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 HCI In Brazil:Conference History

  3. HCI In Brazil:Geography 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

  4. 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

  5. 15+ years building a semiotic theoryof HCI 15 graduated PhD’s(+8 PhD students) Clarisse de Souza and Simone Barbosa The Semiotic Engineering Research Group (SERG/PUC-Rio) The semiotic engineering ofhuman-computer interaction(The MIT Press, 2005)

  6. Most Recent Projects @ 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

  7. Most Recent Projects @ 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 they’ve read (communicate with others online → writing) • Specific: Culturally localize ICDL for Brazilian kids and more...

  8. Challenge For ICDL-BR: go live! The currentcollectionof books inPortuguese

  9. The currentcollectionof books inSpanish

  10. Opportunities At PUC-RioICDL-BR + Projeto Portinari

  11. Thank you clarisse@inf.puc-rio.br

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