[STS-Africa] Fwd: CFP - inaugural African Human Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI)

[Nic Bidwell]

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*AfriCHI*

*“Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers”*

*3-8 July 2016 - Nairobi, Kenya*

*Africa Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Conference*

*www.africhi.net* <http://www.africhi.net/>
Call for Participation

The inaugural African Human Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI) takes
place in beautiful Kenya from July 3 to 8, 2016, hosted by the University
of Nairobi. AfriCHI aims to widen the international participation of
Africans in the practice and study of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and
Interaction Design, and to advance HCI by increased awareness of designs,
tools, inventions, methods, theories and pedagogies for creating or using
technology in Africa. AfriCHI’16 is organised in co-operation with the
Association of Computer Machinery’s Special Interest Group for Computer
Human Interaction, ACM SIGCHI, by a pan-African team, and has the
theme:*Kujenga
madaraja, kubomoa vizuiz*i or Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers.

AfriCHI’16 is for anyone interested in people’s interactions with digital
technology or media who is African, based in Africa, or undertakes/wants to
work on projects in Africa or with Africans. We welcome practitioners,
professionals, scholars and students in all fields and traditions that
consider interactions with digital technology. This includes not only
designers, engineers or analysts of software, hardware and media (e.g. user
experience or mobile application designers, information architects,
usability experts etc.), but also educators in all aspects of digital life;
researchers in all disciplines; change-makers, planners and managers in all
sectors, including government, NGOs and industries; entrepreneurs, artists,
activists; and elders in grassroots/creative collectives.

We invite a broad range of contributions for presentation at AfriCHI’16,
publication in the conference proceedings and wider access in prestige
online archives. This includes tracks for written papers and notes; oral
performances and multimedia works; panel discussions; posters;
demonstrations; English and local-language workshops; courses; and,
Doctoral and Masters research. Contributions will be reviewed by
international experts in HCI, its allied fields, and in African contexts
and traditions and, if accepted, will be published in the Proceedings of
AfriCHI’16. The written part of these proceedings is eligible for archiving
in the ACM Digital Library. We will use the Internet Archive for multimedia
contributions to *Gumzo*, a track for New dialogues for HCI, which reflects
our eagerness to engage HCI with Africa’s diverse languages and expressive
genres and forms. Please read about language and format options for each
track.

We encourage submissions from people who have had few possibilities to
participate in international conferences and also offer mentoring and
collaboration to people seeking this kind of assistance. AfriCHI’16 is
exploring real-time Internet links with institutions throughout Africa so
people who cannot travel to Kenya can listen to talks. If you can help make
this happen please contact the Remote Access Chair on: remote at africhi.net.

We also warmly invite volunteers to join our team to contribute time and
skills to organising other conference activities, before or during
AfriCHI’16 - please contact: volunteer at africhi.net.

*Topics*

AfriCHI’16 is an interdisciplinary conference about all issues that connect
people, digital technology and Africa and/or Africans. Topics of interest
in all tracks include, but are not limited to, any of the following in
relation to Africa/Africans:

Contexts:

Places; people, users or developers; communities or groups; events; every
day or unusual phenomena; languages; perspectives; trans-national,
cross-cultural or cultural aspects etc.

Meanings, values or experiences:

Health, education, governance, citizenship, wellbeing, designing things
that matter, empowerment, ethics, sustainability, privacy, diversity,
accessibility, engagement, aesthetics, fun etc.

Processes:

Techniques, tools or methods for researching, designing, co-designing,
evaluating, deploying or using interactive systems, etc.

Technologies:

Mobile devices; multi touch and touchless interaction; Web 2.0
technologies; social media; personal, community and public displays;
decentralised (mesh) networks; Big Data; Quantified Self; Internet of
Things, etc.

Pedagogies and epistemologies:

Teaching, learning or developing capacity in HCI/Interaction Design;
Afro-centric research, theory or invention; indigenous or traditional
knowledges in HCI/design; post-colonial perspectives etc.



*Submissions*

All submissions are made through the EasyChair online system and include
the main files, conforming to the templates and formats for the relevant
track, an abstract and descriptive information (e.g. authors, keywords). We
will open the EasyChair system three months before the submission deadline
for each track, and authors may submit and resubmit their materials as
often as they wish before this deadline. All deadlines on the date
associated with a submission track are midnight GMT and we will not extend
these deadlines. Thus, we urge authors to test uploading submissions before
the relevant deadline and contact the appropriate track chairs to arrange
alternatives in advance if they predict problems e.g. due to Internet
issues.

*Tracks*

*AfriCHI Papers & Notes* are original, double-blind peer-reviewed,
scholarly accounts of HCI research, design and/or theory that are presented
at AfriCHI’16 as talks. Papers and notes are published in the conference
proceedings. Papers and notes will have a maximum length of 10 and 4 pages
respectively (excluding references), and will be more widely accessible in
a prestige online archive. AfriCHI will have two-rounds of double-blind
reviews on all papers and notes submitted by 5 October 2015, and also
permits papers that do not meet expectations to be revised and submitted as
notes.

*Template: *Paper.

*Deadline*: *5 October 2015*

*Chairs*: Bukelwa Ngoqo and Darelle van Greunen

*Email:* papers at africhi.net



*Gumzo: New dialogues for HCI* showcases original oral performances or
multimedia productions, published in the conference proceedings and openly
licensed via the Internet Archive. Submissions consist of audio, video or
other multimedia files and can include languages used in Africa other than
English. Creators of files and/or their collaborators can also submit
pictorial abstracts, papers or notes to relate oral/media content to
scholarly discourse as additional publications. These will be double-blind
peer-reviewed and, if accepted, will appear in the written proceedings and
widely accessible in a prestige online archive.

*Template: *Paper and Pictorial

*Deadline*: *5 October 2015*

*Chairs*: Marion Walton, Thomas Reitmaier, Wallace Chipidza, Anja Venter,
Daniel Gonzalez-Cabrero and Liani Maasdorp

*Email:*  gumzo at africhi.net



*Posters* are graphical displays around which authors discuss, with a small
group, their work-in-progress, early insights or late-breaking results.
Written abstracts of posters will be double-blind peer-reviewed and, if
accepted, will appear in the conference proceedings and a more widely
accessible prestige online archive.

*Template: *Extended Abstract

*Deadline*: *8 January 2016*

Chairs: Nuzhah Gooda Sahib-Kaudeer, Christine Wanjiru and Gabriel Dzodom

*Email:* posters at africhi.net



*Panels* are discussions between invited people, with special knowledge,
experience or expertise,that provoke lively debate about issues relevant to
AfriCHI. Written abstracts of panel proposals are reviewed by jury and, if
accepted, will be published in the conference proceedings and will be more
widely accessible in a prestige online archive.

*Template: *Extended Abstract

*Deadline*: *18 January 2016*

*Chairs*: Dan Orwa and Wallace Chipidza

*Email:* panels at africhi.net



*Doctoral & Masters Consortia *are interdisciplinary workshops, facilitated
by an expert panel, in which students discuss their work and explore and
develop their research interests. Students’ written abstracts that are
accepted after review, will be published in the conference proceedings and
will be more widely accessible in a prestige online archive.

*Template: *Extended Abstract

*Deadline*: *2 November 2015*

*Chairs*: Izak van Zyl  & Obinna Anya

*Email:* consortia at africhi.net



*Demonstrations *are live presentations of running systems or artefacts,
such as interfaces, prototypes or research tools, that can both present
innovation and solicit diverse and expert feedback within the broad
discipline of HCI. Written abstracts of demos are reviewed by jury and, if
accepted, will be published in the conference proceedings and more widely
accessible in an online archive.

*Template: *Extended Abstract

*Deadline*:  *18 January 2016*

*Chairs:* Erick Oduor and Stephen Mburu

*Email:* demos at africhi.net



*Workshops* in *English & Local Languages *enable participants with similar
interests to explore perspectives on specific topics in HCI theory or
practice. Workshops take place over 0.5 - 2 days; and can be facilitated in
English or another language used in Africa. Abstracts of workshops are
reviewed by jury and, if accepted, will be published in the conference
proceedings and a widely accessible in a prestige online archive.

*Template: *Extended Abstract

*Deadline*: *2 November 2015*

*Chairs*: Rehema Baguma and Raymond Mugwanya

*Email:* workshops at africhi.net



*Courses *provide introductory or advanced instruction, over 0.5 - 1 day,
in basic HCI/related concepts, new technologies, emerging areas, tools,
methods or techniques etc. Abstracts ofcourses are reviewed by jury and, if
accepted, will be published in the conference proceedings and more widely
accessible in a prestige online archive.

*Template: *Extended Abstract

*Deadline:* *2 November 2015*

*Chairs:*  Oluwakemi Ola and Rita Orji

*Email:* courses at africhi.net

For more information about submissions, please visit www.africhi.net or
email the Technical Programme Chairs, Kagonya Awori and Nicola Bidwell on:
programchairs at africhi.net.

We look forward to receiving your submission or hearing from you in the
meantime.

*Christopher Chepken and Anicia Peters          *

*General Conference Chairs                      *

*On behalf of **AfriCHI’16 Organising Committee*
<http://africhi.net/organizers/organizing-committee>

-- 


Nicola J Bidwell
Professor of Computer Science (HCI), University of Namibia, Namibia
Professor Extraordinaire Informatics, University of Pretoria, South Africa

Affiliated Researcher: Digital Ethnography Group, Royal Melbourne Institute
of Technology, Australia
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