This work presents an overview of how HCI turned into an organised community in Brazil, the main activities that contributed to it, and the principal challenges we now face as an organised community.

In this paper, we describe the experience of starting the first HCI master in Spanish language for the wide Spanish speaking context held in the University of Lleida (Catalonia). It combines the semi-distance educational paradigm with the Project-Based Learning educational methodology. The paper also describes how this first experience has reached from previous HCI teaching experiences and how ...

The Development Oriented Triangulation (DOT) framework in this paper can spark and focus the debate about mixed-method approaches in HCI. The framework can be used to classify HCI methods, create mixed-method designs, and to align research activities in multidisciplinary projects. The framework is generic enough to capture the diversity of research within the HCI community, while being specific...

We present a methodological framework aiming at the support of HCI practitioners and researchers in selecting and applying the most appropriate combination of HCI methods for particular problems. We highlight the need for a clear and effective overview of methods and provide further discussion on possible extensions that can support recent trends and needs, such as the focus on specific applica...

In this paper we investigate the problems and potential solutions to the effective establishment of HCI and usability in India and China. Our discussion is motivated by five years of collaboration with relevant bodies in both countries through EU-funded projects encouraging the development of a usability culture in academic and industrial sectors. In order to contribute to socially-responsible ...

The Brazilian HCI community first started organizing itself in 1997 and after 10 years has grown and consolidated itself nationally and internationally.

Current evaluation methods are inappropriate for emerging HCI applications. In this paper, we give three examples of such applications and show that traditional evaluation methods fail. We identify trends in HCI development and discuss the issues that arise with evaluation. We aim at achieving increased awareness that evaluation also has to evolve in order to support the emerging trends in HCI ...