Ground System Architectures Workshop Call for Participation(GSAW CFP 2018)

The VIII Latin American Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, CLIHC 2017, aims to provide a premier forum that brings together the Latin American and international HCI research communities to discuss and share ideas, methods, approaches and techniques for designing interactive user experiences. In consonance with previous editions, we believe that in the field of HCI we must foster the production of technology that can be used and appreciated by as many people as possible, enabling intercultural exchange and cooperation between people with different backgrounds and needs. 

This year, CLIHC 2017 is hosted by the Computer Science Program at the School of Economic Sciences, Universidad Francisco Marroquín, in the beautiful city of Antigua Guatemala - a U.N.’s World Heritage Site - and is open to submissions in the following categories: 

• Full papers
• Short papers
• Posters
• Workshops
• Tutorials
• Student Design Competition
• Postgrad consortium

Authors are invited to prepare and submit articles reporting on research projects, innovative designs, user studies, models of interaction, field studies, case studies, and others. Academics from universities all across Latin America, as well as researchers in public and private institutions, practitioners and professionals from the industry, undergraduate and postgraduate students, and the public in general are all welcome to participate in the peer-reviewed selection of the works that will be presented in Antigua Guatemala in November 8-10, 2017. 

The general theme of this edition of the conference is HCI for Freedom, it is how computational technology helps people to achieve their own goals overcoming all kinds of obstacles, unfair coercion, impositions, constraints, and limitations. As is evident in Latin America, technology is playing a key role in the transformation of society at all levels: individuals, communities and states. Technology enhances the people’s free will - the capacity to choose among different options. Thanks to modern telecommunications, the number of options available today are enormous and always increasing at all social strata, giving people new opportunities for development. At CLIHC 2017 we want to celebrate the freedom provided by Human-Computer Interaction.