INTERACTING WITH PUBLIC POLICYAre HCI researchers an endangered species in Brazil? (original) (raw)

HCI public policy activities in 2012: a 10-country discussion

2012

Public policy increasingly plays a role in influencing the work that we do as HCI researchers, interaction designers, and practitioners.“Public policy” is a broad term that includes both government policy and policy within non-governmental organizations, such as standards bodies. The Interacting with Public Policy forum focuses on topics at the intersection of humancomputer interaction and public policy.

Workshop on engaging the human-computer interaction community with public policymaking internationally

CHI '13 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems on - CHI EA '13, 2013

There is an increasing interest in the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy. This day-long workshop will examine successes and challenges related to public policy and human computer interaction, in order to provide a forum to create a baseline of examples and to start the process of writing a white paper on the topic.

Understanding HCI policy in Spain in the context of accessibility

Interactions, 2012

Public policy increasingly plays a role in influencing the work that we do as HCI researchers, interaction designers, and practitioners. "Public policy" is a broad term that includes both government policy and policy within non-governmental organizations, such as standards bodies. The Interacting with Public Policy forum focuses on topics at the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy. Jonathan Lazar, Editor

Public policies and multilingualism in HCI

Interactions, 2014

Public policy plays an influential role in the work we do as HCI researchers, interaction designers, and practitioners. "Public policy," a broad term, includes both government policy and policy within non-governmental organizations. This forum focuses on topics at the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy. --- Jonathan Lazar, Editor

HCI public policy activities in 2012

Interactions, 2012

Web Accessibility Many countries continue to struggle with implementing and enforcing Web accessibility for people with disabilities. While excellent international standards exist (e.g., the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines from the Web Accessibility Initiative) and most countries have either harmonized their Web accessibility laws with WCAG 2.0 or heavily relied on its standards, there are still major challenges to achieving successful Web accessibility, including compliance mechanisms and updating to the new WCAG 2.0 standards. The lack of compliance mechanisms for Web accessibility continues to be a problem worldwide. For instance, in Italy, the rules for evaluating or monitoring for compliance are not sufficiently updated to address emerging technologies, even though some regional governments, such as Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, have started to support some interesting initiatives to increase and monitor the level of accessibility. In the U.S., Section 508 regulations require, among other things, accessibility for all federal government websites. But two actions that were publically promised in 2011 to improve compliance with Section 508 regulations have (as of press

The role of tool support in public policies and accessibility

Public policy plays an influential role in the work we do as HCI researchers, interaction designers, and practitioners. Public policy, a broad term, includes both government policy and policy within non-governmental organizations. This forum focuses on topics at the intersection of human-computer interaction and public policy

Building An HCI Community In Brazil: Recent Efforts and Initiatives

Proceedings of the INTERACT

In this article we report the state-of-the-art of the HCI field in Brazil. We start with a brief history of the access of institutions and individuals to technology. After that we present some of the efforts done in academia in the 90's to establish the HCI field and to organize the HCI community. We briefly describe the personal profile of the participants of this community and how the field stands in relation to the Brazilian industry and government. Finally we expose our view on how to pursue our goals in the near future. The information here presented reflects mainly the work and experiences done by the participants of a recently established HCI group of interest, whose main interactive medium is the internet. This group has emerged in the academic millieu and has strong links with computer science departments.

Making public things: how HCI design can express matters of concern

Science studies scholar Bruno Latour suggests that contemporary democracy is shifting from "matters of fact" to "matters of concern": contentious conditions entwined with everyday life. What is the role of human-computer interaction (HCI) design in this shift? In this paper we draw from five design projects to explore how design can express matters of concern by communicating the factors and consequences of issues. In the process, we consider the role of design in contributing to the formation of publics and discuss an emerging orientation to publics in HCI design.

Human–Computer Interaction and International Public Policymaking: A Framework for Understanding and Taking Future Actions

Foundations and Trends® in Human–Computer Interaction, 2016

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