[STS-Africa] CALL FOR PAPERS: AfriCHI'16, Nairobi/Kenya, 21 - 25 November 2016

[Nic Bidwell]

Apologies for cross posting

Full Papers/Notes: Submission deadline: 3 February 2016


“Building Bridges, Breaking Barriers”

21st - 25th November 2016 - Nairobi, Kenya

Africa Human Computer Interaction (HCI) Conference

In-Cooperation with ACM SIGCHI

www.africhi.net
Call for Participation

The inaugural African Human Computer Interaction Conference (AfriCHI) will
take place in beautiful Kenya, between 21st and 25th November 2016. AfriCHI
will be hosted by the University of Nairobi. The aim of AfriCHI is to widen
the international participation of Africans in the practise 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 vizuizi 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, which is a track for New dialogues for HCI that
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 to
ensure that 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, well-being, designing things
that matter, empowerment, ethics, sustainability, privacy, gender and
cultural 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 online through AfriCHI's CMT at
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/AFRICHI2016/. This includes 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
AfriCHI's CMT on 30th November 2016.  Authors may submit and resubmit their
materials as often as they wish after this date, and before submission
deadlines. All deadlines on the date associated with a submission
track are midnight
GMT. 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 prestigious online archive. AfriCHI will have two rounds of double-blind
reviews on full papers and notes. Eligible full papers and notes submitted
by 3rd February will be invited to be revised and submitted as full papers
and notes, respectively, in the second round of reviews. Papers  that do
not meet expectations in the first review will be invited to be revised as
notes for the second review.

Template: Paper.

Deadline: 3rd February 2016

Paper Co-chairs: Bukelwa Ngoqo, Myriam El Mesbahi

Notes Co-chairs: Meke Kapepo & Helene Gelderblom

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.  Submissions are coordinated through CMT but also require uploads
to the Internet Archive
http://africhi.net/authors/submission-types/gumzo. 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
prestigious online archive.

Template: Paper and Pictorial

Deadline: 3rd February 2016

Chairs: Marion Walton, Thomas Reitmaier, 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 in a prestigious online archive.

Template: Extended Abstract

Deadline: 1st June 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 prestigious online archive.

Template: Extended Abstract

Deadline: 1st June  2016

Chairs: Dan Orwa and Abiodun Ogunyemi

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 prestigious online archive.

Template: Extended Abstract

Deadline: 6th April 2016

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 the a prestigious online archive.

Template: Extended Abstract

Deadline:  1st June 2016

Chairs: Erick Oduor and Nitish Chooramun

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 prestigious online archive.

Template: Extended Abstract

Deadline: 2nd March 2016

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 of courses are reviewed by jury and,
if accepted, will be published in the conference proceedings and more
widely accessible in a prestigious online archive.

Template: Extended Abstract

Deadline: 2nd March 2016

Chairs:  Rita Orji and Tigist Shewarega Hussen

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.

Kagonya Awori and Nicola Bidwell

Technical Programme 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
Book: At the Intersection of Indigenous and Traditional Knowledge and
Technology Design
https://play.google.com/books/reader?printsec=frontcover&output=reader&id=6IpwCgAAQBAJ&pg=GBS.PP1
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