A brief overview of HCI activity in Mexico and its Latin American context

1. Human-Computer
Interaction in Mexico
(and Latin America)
J. Alfredo Sánchez
Universidad de las Américas Puebla
ITAM, Mexico City, March 8, 2016

2. not exhaustive
please do add or correct as necessary

3. HCI in the academia
• Mid 1990s
• HCI as an elective course in a few Mexican universities
• HCI becomes a component of the National Undergraduate Examination
(EGEL-Ceneval)
• 1997
• First “Human-Machine Interaction” Workshop
in the context of ENC, the National Computer Science Conference
• 1999
• CHI-Mexico, a local chapter of SIGCHI
• http://chimex.acm.org/

4. HCI Mexico and Latin America
• 2001 – Development Consortium, in the context of CHI 2001, Seattle
http://ict.udlap.mx/imc/chi2001/
• Co-chairs: Cleotilde González, Alfredo Sánchez
• 12+ participants from
Brazil, Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Argentina, USA

5. CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference
• First Latin American Conference on HCI – CLIHC 2003, Rio de Janeiro
• Keynote speaker: Jack Carroll
• General Co-Chairs:
Clarisse de Souza (Brazil),
Alfredo Sánchez (Mexico)
• Program Co-Chairs:
Cleotilde González (Mexico)
Simone Barbosa (Brazil)

6. CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference
• CLIHC 2005 – Cuernavaca, Mexico (bi-annual, to alternate with local
HCI events)
• Keynote speaker:
Clarisse de Souza
Co-Chairs:
Oscar Mayora (Mexico),
Cecilia Baranauskas (Brazil)

7. MexIHC, The Mexican HCI Conference
• 2006: First refereed Mexican Workshop on HCI
• UDLAP, Cholula
• Keynote speaker: Bonnie Nardi
• http://ict.udlap.mx/mexihc/

8. CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference
• CLIHC 2007 – Rio de Janeiro
• Co-chairs:
Victor González (Mexico / UK)
Christian Sturm (Mexico / Spain)
• In the context of Interact 2007
• Proceedings at http://www.clihc.org/2007/

9. MexIHC, The Mexican HCI Conference
• MexIHC 2008, Mexicali
• Keynote speaker: Laura Haas, IBM Almaden

10. CLIHC, The Latin American
HCI Conference
• CLIHC 2009
• Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico
• Co-chairs:
Elizabeth Furtado (Brazil)
Alberto Morán (Mexico)
• Jointly with LA-Web 2009
• Proceedings at

11. MexIHC, The Mexican HCI Conference
• MexIHC 2010, San Luis Potosí
• Keynote speakers:
• Phillip Corriveu (Intel)
• Lidia Oshlayansky (Google)
• Bo Begole (PARC)

12. CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference
• CLIHC 2011
• Porto de Galinhas, Brazil
• Keynote speakers:
• Alexander Reppening, U Colorado
• Jesús Favela, CICESE, Mexico
• Program Co-Chairs:
• Clarisse de Souza (Brazil)
• Alfredo Sánchez (Mexico)
• Jointly with IHC 2011 Brazil

13. AMexIHC – The Mexican HCI Association
• Established on December, 2011
• Aimed at promoting research and development in HCI in Mexico
• Responsible for organizing the MexIHC Conference

14. HCI Latin America
• SIGCHI Latin America Workshop
• Belo Horizonte, Brazil
• SIGCHI Request for proposals
• Key outcome:
• SIGCHI Latin American Community
• http://www.sigchi.org/communities/laihc
• Officers:
• Alfredo Sánchez (México),
Elizabeth Furtado (Brazil, research), Natalia Vivas (Colombia, practitioners)

15. MexIHC, The Mexican HCI Conference
• MexIHC 2012, Mexico City
• Jointly (virtually) with the Spanish “Interacción” conference
• Keynote speakers: Danyel Fischer, Mario Moreno, Marco Winckler,
Raúl Rojas, Luis Francisco-Revilla

16. CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference
• CLIHC 2013
• Guanacaste, Costa Rica
• Keynote speaker:
Jonathan Grudin (Microsoft)
• Program Co-Chairs:
Cristian Rusu (Chile)
César Collazos (Colombia)
• Jointly with UcAmI 2013
(Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence Conference)
• Proceedigs published by

17. MexIHC, The Mexican HCI Conference
• MexIHC 2014, Oaxaca
• Keynote speaker: Susan Dray

18. CLIHC, The Latin American HCI Conference
• CLIHC 2015, Córdoba, Argentina
• Keynote speakers:
• Steve Feiner, Columbia University
• Juan Pablo Hourcade, U Iowa
• Program Co-Chairs
Luis-Felipe Rodríguez (Mexico)
Renata Fortes (Brazil)
• In the context of ISA 2015

19. The CUDI (Internet 2) HCI Community
• Established 2012
• Holds hands-on workshops,
discussion panels, webinars
• Now promoting an
Open Networked
UX Laboratory

20. HCI in Mexico textbook
http://ict.udlap.mx/libroihcmex/ -- A book by the community for the community

21. Human-Computer
Interaction in Mexico
(and Latin America)
J. Alfredo Sánchez
Universidad de las Américas Puebla
http://ict.udlap.mx
ITAM, Mexico City, March 8, 2016