Research trends in HCI in Brazil

Cognitive disabilities and web accessibility: a survey into the Brazilian web development community

“…Concerns about the importance of accessibility raised prominence in the Brazilian HCI community since the publication of GranDIHC-Br in 2012 (Baranauskas et al, 2012;de Oliveira Bueno et al, 2016), which stablished a challenge dedicated to accessibility and digital inclusion (Challenge 2), aiming to reach the following by 2022 advances in researches about inclusive design and awareness from industry about the commercial potential for the niche of people with disabilities (Furtado, Chagas, Bittencourt, & Façanha, 2014).…”

“…In the next three years after stablishing the five challenges for the GranDIHC-Br, the Challenge 2 is the most approached challenge on the Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC) and papers related to the topic increased from 2013 to 2015 ( de Oliveira Bueno et al, 2016). However, the scenario is not so optimist considered that most of papers published in IHC were not related to any challenge.…”

“…However, the awareness of web development professionals in Brazil regarding accessibility grew in the last decade due to initiatives to democratize the access to the knowledge about the subject. Some of the initiatives include the version 2.1 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) released in 2018 (W3C, 2018), the creation of the Accessibility Model in Electronic Government (eMag) based on the WCAG (Brasil, 2014), the increase of scientific research on the subject ( de Oliveira Bueno, Ferreira, Ferreira, & Anacleto, 2016) and the efforts of the Great Research Challenges in Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil (Gran-DIHC-Br) (Baranauskas, Souza, & Pereira, 2012), this one having the Challenge 2 dedicated to approach accessibility and digital inclusion.…”

I Workshop sobre Interação e Pesquisa de Usuários no Desenvolvimento de Jogos (WIPlay)

“…Em 2016, pesquisadores analisaram como as publicações de IHC no Brasil, no período de 2013 a 2015, abordavam os desafios elencados no GranDIHC-BR [14] para o período de 2012 a 2022, identificando que poucas pesquisas discutiam Valores Humanos (Desafio 4) no projeto e avaliação de soluções interativas. Posteriormente, Leitão et al (2017) provocaram uma reflexão sobre o que nossa comunidade tem feito para avançar no escopo desse desafio, além de advogarem pela articulação de questões acerca de valores humanos por meio de uma agenda de pesquisa com ênfase na ética e na interdisciplinaridade [13].…”