IHC 2025

IHC 2025 topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Hci In Society

  • Accessibility and assistive technologies
  • Legal and ethical aspects in HCI
  • Social aspects of IHC
  • HCI professional’s role in the market and industry 
  • Culture and HCI
  • HCI Teaching
  • Gender and minorities
  • Electronic government and citizenship
  • Interaction of elderly people
  • Digital literacy and computational thinking
  • Human values

Design and Evaluation of Interactive Systems

  • Analysis of domain, task and user 
  • Affective computing and emotional aspects in HCI
  • Participatory design
  • Interaction Design and User Experience
  • Empirical studies on the experience or impact of technology use
  • Help systems and tutorials in HCI
  • Models, methods, and formalisms for interface and interaction design
  • Tools and techniques for user interface and interaction design
  • Models, methods, and formalisms for evaluating user interfaces
  • Tools and techniques for evaluating user interfaces
  • End-user Programming and End-User Development

GRANDIHC-BR: GRAND RESEARCH CHALLENGES IN HCI IN BRAZIL FOR 2025-2035

  • GC1: New Theoretical and Methodological Approaches in HCI

  • GC2: Ethics and Responsibility: Principles, Regulations, and Societal Implications of Human Participation in HCI Research

  • GC3: Plurality and Decoloniality in HCI

  • GC4: Sociocultural Aspects in Human-Computer Interaction

  • GC5: Human-Data Interaction, Data Literacy and Usable Privacy

  • GC6: Implications of Artificial Intelligence in HCI: A Discussion on Paradigms, Ethics, and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

  • GC7: Interaction with Emerging Technologies: An Ecosystem Integrating Humans, Technologies and Contexts

Specific Application Areas

  • Smart cities and environments
  • Interaction design and children
  • Design and evaluation of digital games
  • Ecodesign
  • Digital entertainment
  • HCI and health and well-being
  • HCI for work
  • Digital legacy
  • Online communities, social media, social networks, and social software 
  • HCI in virtual learning environments and MOOCs
  • Information visualization

Interaction Between Areas

  • Artificial intelligence, machine learning and HCI
  • Ubiquitous computing and HCI
  • Education and HCI
  • Software Engineering and HCI
  • Ergonomics and HCI
  • Collaborative systems and HCI
  • Sustainability and HCI
  • Digital art and HCI

HCI Theories and Theoretical Approaches

  • Cognitive approaches
  • Semiotic approaches
  • Cognitive engineering and distributed cognition
  • Semiotic Engineering
  • Organizational Semiotics
  • Activity theory
  • Communication or collaboration theories
  • Other theoretical approaches

Forms of Interaction

  • 3D Interfaces
  • Intelligent, adaptable, and adaptive interfaces
  • Natural user interfaces 
  • Tangible user interfaces
  • Multimodal interfaces
  • Virtual reality and augmented reality
  • Internet of things
  • Context-sensitive interaction
  • Interaction on mobile devices
  • Interaction emergent paradigms