The design competition aims to create a space for students and professionals to present creative solutions to practical problems, exchange experiences with the HCI community, and inspire ideas and opportunities for new work.
At IHC’24, the Design competition aims to motivate students and professionals in IHC, Computing, and Design to think about technological innovations for socially relevant problems. Finalists will have the opportunity to present their work to a jury of academic and industry professionals working in the field of HCI and to publish an extended summary of their solution in the Extended Proceedings of the event. The finalist proposals will be announced on the IHC page and social media.
“Design and innovation to face the climate crisis in Brazil”
Environmental disasters, mainly climate-related, have been happening in Brazil and the world for many years. In 2023, the number of climate disasters caused by rain, landslides, cyclones, and water shortages will be the highest recorded ever.
IHC in convergence in the center of Brazil is the IHC’24’s theme, alluding to the context of the Brazilian capital – Brasília (DF), where a cultural, political, and intellectual convergence, amidst people arriving and leaving from different states of the country, with their accents and carrying different realities. In line with this vision, the Design Competition proposes a reflection on the risks of the climate crisis that permeates the entire country, in its most different aspects, causing environmental disasters, social, economic, and political problems, in addition to human, emotional, and material losses. Thus, innovative digital solutions based on Interaction Design can be used, in different contexts, to i) raise awareness about climate risk, ii) monitor alert situations, guide preventive actions, iii) assist in risk management, and iv) support decision-making. The benefits are transversal in temporality – before, during, and after a climate emergency – but also involve different agents: the population, the private sector, governments, and organized civil society.
Challenge: Participating people are invited to develop the design of innovative digital solutions that support reflection, knowledge, information, and decision-making about climate disasters in Brazil. Interactive design solutions have desired that point to “convergence to face the climate crisis in Brazil”.
Objective: The solution should help one or more specific spheres of society to deal with the problem of climate disasters, considering the highlights available in the 2023 global risks report by World Economic Forum (The Global Risks Report 2023), namely:
Expectations: The digital design product can be of any type, exploring different interaction paradigms (such as Ubiquitous Computing, Wearable Computing, Internet of Things, Interactive Digital Art, Multimodal Interfaces, and Multiverse, among others), avoiding proposals solely centered on mobile applications or web applications. Therefore, solutions incorporating digital into everyday physical objects are encouraged, which might take advantage of Generative Artificial Intelligence, Data Visualization, and Biotechnology resources. It is essential that the problem is well characterized, presents a solid basis for establishing requirements and needs, and that the design process followed to conceive the proposed solution is well described and reported.
In applicable cases, authors must follow the recommendations on ethical aspects in research involving human beings.
Authors must make their submissions electronically, through the JEMS system, in PDF format. Submissions must contain the following items:
Authors must follow the Code of Conduct for Authors in Brazilian Computing Society’s Publications.
Changing the language or authors will not be permitted after submitting the report.
Each team must have a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 participants, including a single person as leader. The leader can be a university professor, graduate student at the Doctoral level, or industry professional. Undergraduate students, even if they carry out paid activities in the market, do not classify themselves as team leaders. Each team must contain at least 1 undergraduate or graduate student.
To participate in the Competition, each team must complete three stages:
The report must have up to 4 pages (references do not count towards the limit), and be written in Portuguese or English, using the Sociedade Brasileira de Computação (SBC) template. The report must be organized according to the following structure:
The report must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the JEMS (link coming soon).
The prototype must allow, at least, to simulate the execution of the most relevant action/task for the proposed solution. Teams can use any prototyping tool or resource, as long as they can be accessed by the evaluators through a link and do not require the installation of any resources. Authors of solutions that include interaction with physical objects, sensors, and actuators can create graphical representations of these objects and detail/explain them in the demo video.
The demo video must be up to 2 minutes long and must present the concept of the proposed solution and its prototype with the aim of “selling the idea” and convincing the audience. At the team’s discretion, the participants, process, and design rationale may be presented and explained. The video must be publicly accessible on YouTube and categorized with the tags: #IHC2024 #CompeticaoDesign #DesignCompetition
Five finalists will be selected for a short oral presentation, followed by time for questions from a group of evaluators, during the event to be held in Brasília (DF), Brazil, between the 7th and 11th of October 2024. Although it is desirable, all members of the finalist teams don’t need to be present on the presentation day at IHC’24. However, the presence of at least one team member is required. Further details about the final phase and instructions on the presentation will be released to the finalist teams later.
The IHC Design Competitions have been very competitive, with excellent proposals and highly qualified teams, so the selection as a finalist is already characterized as a certificate of excellence of the work submitted. Thus, each finalist team that presents its proposal at the IHC’24 will receive a Certificate of Recognition (Honorable Mention) for the work carried out. In addition to special certificates for the best proposals, the winning team will also receive a prize to be defined by the Organization.
The event organization will provide a registration fee waiver for one member of each team selected for the oral presentation.
The finalist teams’ digital solution reports will be published in the Companion Proceedings of IHC’24 on SBC-OpenLib (SOL).
Caroline Queiroz Santos (UFVJM) – caroline.queiroz@ufvjm.edu.br
Yuska Paola Costa Aguiar (UFPB) – yuska@ci.ufpb.br
Andrey Rodrigues – Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Angela Peres – Universidade de Ciências Da Saúde de Alagoas
Angelina Ziesemer – Conestoga College
Daniel Alves – Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia de Mato Grosso
Danilo Ferreira – Dataprev
Eliana Moreira – Instituto Federal de São Paulo
Erica de Oliveira – Centro Universitário Una
Luciana da Silveira Espindola – Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul
Ludmilla Galvão – Universidade Federal do Mato Grosso
Rafael Cordeiro – Dataprev
Thiago Coleti – Universidade Estadual do Norte Paraná
Tiago Maritan – Universidade Federal Paraiba
Report registration (title and abstract): 07/29/2024 (previously 07/15/2024)
Submission of Design Report: 08/05/2024 (previously 07/22/2024)
Notification of results: 08/26/2024 (previously 08/23/2024)
Submission of the final version: 09/02/2024
Presentation of selected projects at IHC’24: 10/07 a 10/11/2024
