IHC 2026

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

 

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

 

  • Inteligência artificial, aprendizado de máquina e IHC
  • 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