Promoting Human-Computer Interaction Values and Practices in Small and Emerging Economies

Part 5: Special Interests Groups International audience This special interest group aims to further the understanding of thechallenges related to the design and evaluation of digital interactive artifacts insmall and emerging economies. Computing is at one of its most exciting moments,playing an essential role in supporting human activities, facilitated bythe growing availability of services, devices and interaction modalities. Moreover,with the evolution from the large-scale computing to the contemporaryubiquitous computing, users were brought from the periphery to the center of anemerging pervasive socio-technical system, which pulled the inherent interactionparadigms through the successive waves of the personal, networked, collaborative,mobile, augmented and virtual reality interaction paradigms.Notwithstanding, in many small and emerging economies, interactive systemsare still being designed and evaluated without fully taking into account ourcognitive abilities, giving little or no consideration to the ways we perceive andhandle information, go about our work and life, create and maintain social relations,and use our cultural context and relate to our environment, thus failing torealized the technology’s potential.