Consolidating a new HCI community
Raquel Oliveira Prates, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Juliana Pimenta Salles · 1999
In 1996 many people in Brazil were working with HCI, but most of them did not have any interaction with others. During CHI'96 in Vancouver, Brazilian participants realized the benefits of joining a wider HCI community and started thinking about creating our own national community.We started out by sending messages to the Brazilian Computing Society discussion list reporting our experience in CHI'96 and proposing to publish the names of people working with HCI in Brazil and their main area of interests. We were surprised to find out how many people were working with HCI in Brazil. This list soon turned into a discussion list and we started making plans on how to turn this group into a community.