Overview on Women's Participation in the IHC conference series

• Êrica Peters do Carmo UDESC
• Ediana da Silva de Souza UDESC
• Arthur Felipe Herdt Schuelter UDESC
• Milene Selbach Silveira PUCRS
• Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa PUC-Rio
• Rebeca Schroeder UDESC
• Isabela Gasparini UDESC

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/wit.2021.15851

Abstract

Studies indicate low participation of women in Computing, causing entities to promote specific actions to try to modify this scenario. Specifically, concerning the Human-Computer Interaction community, which, among its fronts, discusses aspects of interdisciplinarity and diversity related to the construction of computational artifacts, it is important to analyze, in a more rigorous way, the panorama of the participation of women. Thus, this paper presents research about the presence of women in this community, based on the publications of the Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems. As a result, we can see a balance in the number of authors in the publications, especially in the last 5 years. However, when looking specifically at issues such as the genre of the first author and the Brazilian states in which the author works, it is possible to observe differences in this distribution.

Keywords: panorama, women's participation, human-computer interaction

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