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Human–computer interaction in Latin America

2004; Oxford University Press; Volume: 16; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1016/j.intcom.2004.07.001

1873-7951

Cássio Souza, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa,

Digital Communication and Language

The first Latin American Conference on HCI (CLIHC—in Portuguese: Congresso Latino-Americano de Interação Humano–Computador , and in Spanish: Congreso Latinoamericano de Interacción Humano–Computadora ) was held in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, between the 17th and the 20th of August 2003. The conference was organized by researchers from diverse Latin American countries, as an attempt to foster collaborative projects among countries that share much of their Iberian culture and many of their social and economic challenges. In Table 1 , we can see the thematic distribution of submissions and accepted contributions on the full paper category. From the first few rows in the table, one may notice the directions Latin American research has been taking lately. ... Regarding full papers, CLIHC2003 received 66 submissions, 65% originated in Brazil. From a total of 39 contributions to the final conference program, Brazil was responsible for 22 of them, hispanic Latin American countries for six, and other European, North-American or African countries for 11.