🌏 HCIxB Workshop @ CHI 2025 🌏

📅 Date: Saturday, April 26th, 2025

📍 Location: Yokohama, Japan (CHI 2025)

Join the HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) community as we reflect on global challenges and envision the future of HCI, particularly in the Global South. This year’s theme: “Building a Collective Vision for the Future.”

🚨 Important Dates:

📌 Submission Deadline: February 24th, 2025

📌 Notifications: March 15th, 2025

📌 Posters Due: April 10th, 2025

Submit position papers, posters, or commentaries: HCIXB2025 Submission Form

About HCI Across Borders

HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) is a global community that has flourished over eight years of dedicated efforts to connect researchers and practitioners from diverse cultures and geographies. Originally conceived as the Development Consortium at CHI 2016 and continued through workshops from CHI 2017 to 2023, HCIxB has since evolved into a collaborative initiative with a shared mission: to foster community across boundaries—be they geographical, cultural, methodological, or beyond. This year, our goal is to reflect on our decade-long journey, provide mentoring opportunities for early-career researchers, and collaboratively envision the future of HCI.

Theme: HCI Across Borders (HCIxB): Building a Collective Vision for the Future

At CHI 2025, we are excited to host the HCIxB: Building a Collective Vision for the Future workshop, which will provide a unique platform for presenting HCI-related work and initiatives from global communities to a worldwide audience. This workshop will focus on reflecting on global challenges and critically assessing the role of technology design in this context.

We invite participants to share how global challenges have influenced their research, practice, or education, and to contribute to broader discussions about the future of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), with a particular focus on the Global South. We will also support remote attendance.

Submissions

We invite participants to submit position papers (300-500 words, PDF format preferred) on hcixb2025.hotcrp.com, reflecting on a range of topics related to HCI trends, lessons learned, and the opportunities for the next two decades. Submissions should address some of the following questions:

• Global HCI Trends: How has your research or practice in HCI been influenced by local, cultural, social, or political contexts, particularly in the Global South? What unique challenges and opportunities have emerged in your region?
• Future of HCI in the Global South: How do you envision the role of HCI in the Global South over the next 20 years? What key developments, technologies, or approaches do you foresee shaping this future?
• Collaboration and Community Building: What strategies do you suggest to strengthen collaboration and community building among HCI researchers across borders, especially in regions with limited resources or representation?
• Sustaining the HCIxB Community: How do you see the HCIxB community growing and sustaining itself in the coming years? What are your ideas for global feeder events or activities that could contribute to the community’s growth?
• Workshop Impact: How do you think attending the HCIxB 2025 workshop will benefit your work and the communities you hope to connect with?
• Personal Introduction: Please include a brief description of yourself, including your department, year of study, organization, and any other relevant background information.

Those interested in participating are asked to submit one of the following:

• Position paper (~250-500 words, single column, PDF format preferred)
• Commentary on a past publication (~250 word commentary)
• Poster
• Blog post
• Pictorial

File Format: PDF preferred

Submission Link:HCIXB2025

Organizers:
(in alphabetical order)
● AAKASH GAUTAM, University of Pittsburgh, USA
● CHRISTIAN STURM, Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, Germany
● CUAUHTÉMOC RIVERA-LOAIZA, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de
Hidalgo, México
● DELVIN VARGHESE, Monash University, Australia
● HAFENI MTHOKO, The Independent Institute of Education’s Varsity College,
South Africa
● LAURA S. GAYTÁN-LUGO, Universidad de Colima, México
● MARISOL WONG-VILLACRES, Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral,
Ecuador
● SARA MOIN, IIIT-D, India
● SARINA TILL, University of Cape Town, South Africa
● SUSAN DRAY, Dray & Associates, USA
● TSUYOSHI KANO, Kanazawa Institute of Technology, Japan
● VIKRAM KAMATH CANNANURE, Saarland University, Germany