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

2. HCI In Brazil: Conference History 1998, 1 st IHC Jonathan Grudin & Tom Carey 1999, 2 nd IHC Lucy Suchman & Mark Gross 2000, 3 rd IHC Don Norman & Allen Cypher 2001, 4 th IHC Ben Shneiderman & Jenny Preece 2002, 5 th IHC Philippe Palanque & Jean Vanderdonckt 1998, 1 st IHC Jonathan Grudin & Tom Carey 1999, 2 nd IHC Lucy Suchman & Mark Gross 2000, 3 rd IHC Don Norman & Allen Cypher 2001, 4 th IHC Ben Shneiderman & Jenny Preece 2002, 5 th IHC Philippe Palanque & Jean Vanderdonckt  2003, 1 st CLIHC  Terry Winograd & John Carroll 2004, 6 th IHC Henry Lieberman & Liam Bannon  2005, 2 nd CLIHC  Clarisse de Souza & Paul Dourish 2006, 7 th IHC Bonnie Nardi & Alan Dix (invited)  2007 – Interact 2007

3. HCI In Brazil: Geography PUC-RioPUC-RSUEMUFMGUFPEUFPRUFRGSUFRNUFSCUFSCarUnicampUniforUSP-Poli serg UFRN PUCRS UFPR UEM UFMG UFRGS UFSC Unicamp USP-POLI UFSCar UFPE Unifor

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 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. The Semiotic Engineering Research Group (SERG/PUC-Rio) 15+ years building a semiotic theory of HCI 15 graduated PhD’s (+8 PhD students) Clarisse de Souza and Simone Barbosa The semiotic engineering of human-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 with Tablet PCs 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 with Tablet 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... 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 current collection of books in Portuguese

9. The current collection of books in Spanish

10. Opportunities At PUC-Rio ICDL-BR + Projeto Portinari

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