Human-Computer Interaction in Mexico

(and Latin America)J. Alfredo Sánchez

Universidad de las Américas Puebla

ITAM, Mexico City, March 8, 2016

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HCI in the academia• Mid 1990s• HCI as an elective course in a few Mexican universities • HCI becomes a component of the National Undergraduate Examination (EGEL-Ceneval)

• 1997• First “Human-Machine Interaction” Workshop

in the context of ENC, the National Computer Science Conference

• 1999• CHI-Mexico, a local chapter of SIGCHI• http://chimex.acm.org/

HCI Mexico and Latin America• 2001 – Development Consortium, in the context of CHI 2001, Seattle

http://ict.udlap.mx/imc/chi2001/ • Co-chairs: Cleotilde González, Alfredo Sánchez• 12+ participants from

Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, USA

CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference• First Latin American Conference on HCI – CLIHC 2003, Rio de Janeiro

• Keynote speaker: Jack Carroll

• General Co-Chairs: Clarisse de Souza (Brazil), Alfredo Sánchez (Mexico)

• Program Co-Chairs:Cleotilde González (Mexico)Simone Barbosa (Brazil)

CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference• CLIHC 2005 – Cuernavaca, Mexico (bi-annual, to alternate with local

HCI events)• Keynote speaker:

Clarisse de SouzaCo-Chairs: Oscar Mayora (Mexico),Cecilia Baranauskas (Brazil)

MexIHC, The Mexican HCI Conference• 2006: First refereed Mexican Workshop on HCI• UDLAP, Cholula • Keynote speaker: Bonnie Nardi• http://ict.udlap.mx/mexihc/

CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference• CLIHC 2007 – Rio de Janeiro

• Co-chairs: Victor González (Mexico / UK)Christian Sturm (Mexico / Spain)

• In the context of Interact 2007

• Proceedings at http://www.clihc.org/2007/

MexIHC, The Mexican HCI Conference• MexIHC 2008, Mexicali• Keynote speaker: Laura Haas, IBM Almaden

CLIHC, The Latin AmericanHCI Conference• CLIHC 2009• Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico• Co-chairs:

Elizabeth Furtado (Brazil)Alberto Morán (Mexico)

• Jointly with LA-Web 2009

• Proceedings at

MexIHC, The Mexican HCI Conference• MexIHC 2010, San Luis Potosí• Keynote speakers: • Phillip Corriveu (Intel)• Lidia Oshlayansky (Google)• Bo Begole (PARC)

CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference• CLIHC 2011• Porto de Galinhas, Brazil• Keynote speakers:

• Alexander Reppening, U Colorado• Jesús Favela, CICESE, Mexico

• Program Co-Chairs:• Clarisse de Souza (Brazil)• Alfredo Sánchez (Mexico)

• Jointly with IHC 2011 Brazil

AMexIHC – The Mexican HCI Association• Established on December, 2011• Aimed at promoting research and development in HCI in Mexico• Responsible for organizing the MexIHC Conference

HCI Latin America• SIGCHI Latin America Workshop • Belo Horizonte, Brazil

• SIGCHI Request for proposals

• Key outcome:• SIGCHI Latin American Community• http://www.sigchi.org/communities/laihc• Officers: • Alfredo Sánchez (México),

Elizabeth Furtado (Brazil, research), Natalia Vivas (Colombia, practitioners)

MexIHC, The Mexican HCI Conference• MexIHC 2012, Mexico City• Jointly (virtually) with the Spanish “Interacción” conference • Keynote speakers: Danyel Fischer, Mario Moreno, Marco Winckler,

Raúl Rojas, Luis Francisco-Revilla

CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference• CLIHC 2013• Guanacaste, Costa Rica• Keynote speaker:

Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft)• Program Co-Chairs:

Cristian Rusu (Chile)César Collazos (Colombia)

• Jointly with UcAmI 2013 (Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence Conference)

• Proceedigs published by

MexIHC, The Mexican HCI Conference• MexIHC 2014, Oaxaca• Keynote speaker: Susan Dray

CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference• CLIHC 2015, Córdoba, Argentina• Keynote speakers:• Steve Feiner, Columbia University• Juan Pablo Hourcade, U Iowa

• Program Co-ChairsLuis-Felipe Rodríguez (Mexico)Renata Fortes (Brazil)

• In the context of ISA 2015

The CUDI (Internet 2) HCI Community• Established 2012• Holds hands-on workshops,

discussion panels, webinars• Now promoting an

Open Networked UX Laboratory

HCI in Mexico textbookhttp://ict.udlap.mx/libroihcmex/ -- A book by the community for the community

Human-Computer Interaction in Mexico

(and Latin America)J. Alfredo Sánchez

Universidad de las Américas Pueblahttp://ict.udlap.mx

ITAM, Mexico City, March 8, 2016