HCI in Southeast Asia: The Journey Forward (original) (raw)

Perspective of HCI and UX from Academics, Industry and Community in Indonesia

Asian HCI Symposium '22

HCI and UX have been taught, practiced, and supported uniquely in Indonesia. While the efforts to develop the fields of HCI and UX have been made a long way back, the awareness of the community about the importance of these topics just started in the last decade, and the practice still keeps evolving. This paper will describe a couple of highlights of HCI and UX education, professional practice, and communities in Indonesia. CCS CONCEPTS • Human-centered computing → Human computer interaction (HCI); HCI design and evaluation methods.

Advancing HCI Research and Education within and across South Asia

Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

With the advancements in technologies, the need for Human's perspective and human-centered designs are in much demand and its essential to understand diverse cultural needs. The community in South Asia has been recognized to have a unique and diverse sociocultural, political, infrastructural, and geographical background of the region. However, we continue to see that the studies presented to the CHI community about South Asia primarily focus on working with and unpacking the regional contextual constraints (of the users and the infrastructures), thus taking a developmental stance. We witness a lack of HCI work presented by South Asian research community promoting diverse methods, cultures and behaviors. We believe this is due to limited experience in the field and resources. In this online workshop, we take advanced steps to operationalize collaborations and resource sharing between HCI researchers by presenting their half-baked ideas, presenting published HCI work on other venues, or even sharing challenges faced in a Rejected HCI work in the context of South Asia. Our aim is to broaden the perspective of the CHI research and community towards the contributions from the region including and beyond development, by bringing together researchers, designers, and practitioners working or are interested in working within these regions on diverse topics.

Asian CHI Symposium: HCI Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020

The Asian CHI symposium is an annual event organized by researchers and practitioners in Asia. The symposium aims to bring together both early-career and senior HCI academia and UX practitioners from industries in Asia and bring about cross-exchange of information and transfer of knowledge in a multidisciplinary environment and multi-socioeconomic aspects of HCI research and also foster social ties and collaboration in the field of HCI. Beyond showcasing the latest Asian-inspired HCI work and those focusing on incorporating Asian sociocultural factors in their design, implementation, evaluation, and improvement, the Asian CHI Symposium 2023 is a sandbox for academically rigorous discourse platform for both HCI academic and UX practitioners to present their latest research findings and solutions that reflect the expansion of HCI theory and applications towards culturally inclusive design for diverse audiences in Asia. In addition to circulating ideas and envisioning future research in HCI, this symposium aims to foster social networks among academics (researchers and students) and practitioners and grow a research community from Asia.

Institutionalizing HCI in Asia

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007

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 interaction in these countries the 'institutionalization' of HCI is necessary. For us, this involves three elements: firstly an appropriation of HCI concepts and methods to suit the local country / culture, secondly the forming of a national organization around the reshaped discipline that can actively promote HCI in industry and academia and establish links with local national organizations, and thirdly the roll-out of effective usability practice in industry. Some efforts made in this regard are briefly outlined.

EduCHI 2022 - 4th Annual Symposium on HCI Education

EduCHI 2022 will bring together an international community of scholars, practitioners, and researchers to shape the future of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) education. Held as part of the CHI 2022 conference, the two-day symposium will feature in- teractive discussions about trends, curricula, pedagogies, teaching practices, and current and future challenges facing HCI educators. In addition to providing a platform to share curriculum plans and teaching materials, EduCHI 2022 will also provide opportunities for HCI educators to learn new instructional strategies and deepen their pedagogical knowledge

From the Margins to the Centre: Defining New Mission and Vision for HCI Research in South Asia

Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

The past two decades have seen an increase in the amount of research in the CHI community from South Asia with a focus on designing for the unique and diverse socio-cultural, political, infrastructural, and geographical background of the region. However, the studies presented to the CHI community primarily focus on working with and unpacking the regional contextual constraints (of the users and the infrastructures), thus taking a developmental stance. In this online workshop, we aim to broaden the perspective of the CHI research and community towards the contributions from the region including and beyond development, by bringing together

HCI Knowledge – Missing in Practice

HCI is taught as a core course in most computing programmes in universities worldwide as it is critical to the successful use of technology. The success of undergraduate HCI education can be gauged from their final year project (FYP) through their ability to reflect, integrate and apply their HCI knowledge. However, the extent of use of HCI knowledge in application development amongst students is unknown. This paper intends to fill in the gaps of HCI education and its application in practice as it attempts to uncover students' ability to apply their HCI knowledge in their FYP as an immediate outcome to evaluate the success of HCI education. The study was conducted in the context of Malaysian ICT tertiary education using IIUM as a case study. A content analysis of FYP reports was conducted to identify the use of HCI techniques in the application development including HCI evaluation. The result of the analysis indicates that most students conducted User Acceptance Testing but not HCI evaluation. The findings have implications for the need to review the teaching and learning of HCI, while attempting to strengthen the symbiotic collaboration among HCI academics, industrial partners and government agencies in the wake of increasing market demand for usability and user experience experts.

The expanding focus of HCI

Proceedings of the 4th Nordic conference on Human-computer interaction changing roles - NordiCHI '06, 2006

The focus of the research in human-computer interaction (HCI) continues to expand. One example of this is the growing interest in national and ethnic culture as a research topic. In this review, we examine the emerging field of cultural HCI by systematically analysing culture-related literature from five major HCI forums and past sixteen years. We focus on research methodology, technologies and cultures covered, theoretical underpinnings and referencing practices. We also discuss problems found on the basis of the review and provide perspectives on the future research into cultural issues.

Exploring Cultural Differences in HCI Education

2012

The discipline of human-computer interaction has become a subject taught across universities around the world, outside of the cultures where it originated. However, the intercultural implication of its assimilation into the syllabus of courses offered by universities around the world remains underresearched. The purpose of this ongoing research project is to provide insights for these implications in terms of the student and teacher experience of HCI.