The Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC) is an event held by the Brazilian Computing Society (SBC) since 1998. The IHC Proceedings are published annually, bringing the articles selected for the additional tracks of each edition of the event.

Topics of Interest

IHC topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

             HCI in Society

    • Accessibility
    • Ethical and legal aspects in HCI
    • Social aspects in HCI
    • HCI professional in Industry
    • Culture and HCI
    • HCI research and education
    • Gender and minorities
    • Citizenship and electronic Government
    • Digital literacy

            Specific Application Areas

    • Smart cities and environments
    • Children interaction design
    • Game design and evaluation
    • Ecodesign
    • Digital entertainment
    • Health and well-being
    • Digital legacy
    • Social systems: online communities, social networks, social software, MOOCs

            Interaction techniques and styles

    • New displays interaction
    • 3D Interfaces
    • Intelligente, adaptive and adaptable Interfaces
    • Natural User Interfaces (NUI)
    • Tangible User Interfaces (TUI)
    • Multimodal Interfaces
    • Context sensitive interaction
    • HCI for mobile devices
    • New interaction paradigms
    • Information visualization

            Interaction between areas

    • Ubiquituous computing and HCI
    • Education and HCI
    • Software Engineering and HCI
    • Ergonomics and HCI
    • Computational thinking and IHC
    • Internet of things
    • Virtual or augmented reality
    • Collaborative systems and social media
    • Sustainability and HCI

            Design and evaluation of interactive systems

    • Domain, task and user analysis
    • Affective computing and emotional aspects in HCI
    • Participatory design
    • Empirical studies about user experience or technology impact
    • Help and tutorials in HCI
    • Communication and collaboration models for social software
    • Models, methods, formalisms, techiques and tools for interface evaluation
    • Models, methods, formalisms, techiques and tools for interface design
    • End user programming
    • Human values

           HCI Theories and theoretical approaches

    • Semiotic Engineering
    • Organizational Semiotics
    • Semiotic approaches
    • Cognitve Engineering and Distributed Cognition
    • Cognitive approaches
    • Activity theory
    • Communication and collaboration theories
    • Other theoretical approaches

           GranDIHC-BR: grand research challenges in HCI in Brazil

    • Challenge 1: The Future, Smart Cities and Sustainability
    • Challenge 2: Accessibility and Digital Inclusion
    • Challenge 3: Ubiquity, Multiple Devices and Tangibility
    • Challenge 4: Human Values
    • Challenge 5: HCI Education and the Market

Additional information

For more information about IHC, visit the event's homepage in CE-IHC's website.