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Short Courses Accepted:
| Title | Proponents | Duration |
| Análise de Logs de Interação: Métodos e Aplicações | Vagner Santana (IBM Research – Brazil), M. Cecília Baranauskas (UNICAMP – Brazil) | 6 h |
| Projetando interações com vídeo | Frederick van Amstel (PUCPR – Brazil), Rodrigo Freese Gonzatto (PUCPR – Brazil) | 3 h |
| Design of Conversational Interfaces | Heloisa Candello (IBM Research – Brazil), Claudio Pinhanez (IBM Research – Brazil – Brazil) | 3 h |
| Pesquisas Qualitativas usando Grounded Theory | Cleidson de Souza (ITV and UFPA – Brazil), Igor Steinmacher (UTFPR – Brazil), Rafael Prikladnicki (PUC-RS – Brazil) | 3 h |
| Compreendendo respostas afetivas e fontes motivacionais no Design Socialmente Consciente | Elaine Hayashi (UNICAMP- Brazil), Lara Piccolo (Open University – Great Britain), M. Cecília Baranauskas (UNICAMP – Brazil) | 3 h |
Short courses aim to present practically and didactically a general view on a research topic or technology that might be interesting for the HCI community. Thus, attendants will be able to learn about a new topic, as well as apply the content to their researches and practices. Short courses must have as target audience undergraduate and graduate students and/or professionals.
Short courses must be planned for 3 or 6 hours long and presented in Portuguese or English. Short courses are subject to cancellation if there is not a minimum of 10 registered participants or to the analysis of its feasibility of its execution with a smaller group by the event’s organizing committee.
In particular, this year, we welcome short courses that focus on research methods, due to its importance for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as professors and practitioners. We also welcome proposals in other current and challenging themes.
Submissions
Submissions should be limited to two pages, either in Portuguese or English, in ACM SIGCHI papers (2015) and must contain the following sections:
- Title, authors and affiliations (submission of short courses should not be anonymous).
- Presentation (synthesis of the thematic importance).
- Extended Summary (brief explanation of what will be covered in each topic).
- Audience (to specify the audience and to signalize why the proposed course should attract the attention of this audience. Explain and justify any prerequisites.).
- Authors’ biographies (each author should be briefly presented).
- Duration of the course (three or six hours).
- Language that the course will be taught in (English or Portuguese).
- Computing and audiovisual resources needed (such as post-its, flipcharts, slide projectors, etc.).
- Bibliographic references.
Each selected course must have, as a final version, a summary of two pages to be published in the IHC 2017 extended proceedings. Also, the notes or slides from the tutorial, substantial and self-contained, accompanied with their references for further consultation of the presented topics within the tutorial, must be provided to the participants of the event. Authors must authorize the publication of the summary and notes from the short course in the IHC 2017 website.
One lecturer for each course will be given free registration in the event. Other types of support are being evaluated by the Organizing Committee and will depend on the availability of resources.
Submissions must be sent electronically, in PDF format, via JEMS system, short course category.
Important Dates
Deadline: 24 April 2017
Notification of results: 15 May 2017
Camera Ready: 05 June 2017
Short course material delivery: 29 September 2017
Coordinators
Tayana Conte (UFAM) – tayana@icomp.ufam.edu.br
Silvia Amélia Bim (UTFPR) – sabim@utfpr.edu.br
