Since its first editions, the IHC (Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems), has awarded the Best Paper Award to articles chosen by the program committee among those that received the best evaluations from reviewers in each edition.

IHC 2023

Research Papers

• Best Paper: Making roads safer: a vehicle blind spot alert system co-designed with end-users
  Pedro Lisboa (Centro Universitário Facens), Felipe Pires (Centro Universitário Facens), Herick Ribeiro (Centro Universitário Facens), Pietro Campos (Centro Universitário Facens), Luciana A. M. Zaina (UFSCar)
• Honorable Mention: Cross-cultural adaptation of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory Task Evaluation Questionnaire into Brazilian Portuguese
  Caio Nunes (UFC) Ticianne Darin (UFC)
• Honorable Mention: Perceptions about Usefulness and Attitudes toward UX work: a survey with software startup Brazilian professionals
  Guilherme Guerino (UNESPAR), Suéllen Martinelli (UFSCar), Joelma Choma (UFSCar), Gislaine Camila Leal (UEM), Renato Balancieri (UNESPAR), Luciana Zaina (UFSCar)

Insightful Ideas and Emerging Results

• Best paper: Feasibility Study of a Model that evaluates the Learner Experience: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis
  Gabriela Dos Santos (UFPR), Deivid Eive (UFPR), Natasha Valentim (UFPR)
• Honorable Mention : Evaluating a MALTU Extension for UbiComp and IoT Systems
  Carlos Feitosa (UFC), Ingrid Monteiro (UFC)
• Honorable Mention : Once upon a time… you! A game to support health professionals in the treatment of children with chronic diseases, helping them to express their feelings
  Aline Verhalen (USP), Tiago Marino (USP), Kamila Rodrigues (USP)

Experience reports

• Best paper: May We Consult ChatGPT in Our Human-Computer Interaction Written Exam? An Experience Report After a Professor Answered Yes
  André Pimenta Freire (UFLA), Paula Christina Figueira Cardoso (UFLA), André de Lima Salgado (UFLA)
• Honorable Mention: Encouraging learners to seek and explain communicability issues about Consent Request
  Wesley Nunes da Silva (UFF), Mônica da Silva (UFF), Luciana C. de Castro Salgado (UFF)
• Honorable Mention: Online interaction codesign: an experience report with elderly women
  Valéria Argôlo Rosa (UESB), Ecivaldo de Souza Matos (UFBA), Diego Zabot (UFBA), Juliana Maria Oliveira dos Santos (UFBA)

IHC 2022

• Best Paper Award:  A systematic mapping study on digital game adaptation dimensions
  Caio Carvalho (UFPR), Luciano Teran (UFPA), Marcelle Mota (UFPA) e Roberto Pereira (UFPR)
• Honorable Mention: Evaluation Methods in Legal Procedures Concerning Digital Accessibility in Brazil: an Analysis of Cases Investigated by the Federal Public Ministry
  Delvani Antônio Mateus (UFLA), Fábio da Silva (UFLA), Tiago da Silva (Universidade Federal de São Paulo) André Freire (UFLA)
• Honorable Mention: Automated Assessment of Visual Aesthetics of Android User Interfaces with Deep Learning
  Adriano Lima (UFSC), Osvaldo Martins (UFSC), Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim (UFSC), Aldo von Wangenheim (UFSC), Adriano Borgatto (UFSC), Jean Hauck (UFSC)
• Best Insightful Ideas and Emerging Results Paper Award: It’s Dark But Just a Game: Towards an ethical and healthy game design practice
  David Miranda (UFC), Rebeca Pontes (UFC), Ticianne Darin (UFC)
• Honorable Mention – Insightful Ideas and Emerging Result: TraduBem: Towards a Text Verification Tool for an Altruistic Language
  Marina Rangel (UFF), Luciana Salgado (UFF), Sílvia Bim (UTFPR)
• Honorable Mention – Insightful Ideas and Emerging Result: Participatory Design with Teenagers for Cyberbullying Prevention and Mitigation
  André Almeida (UFVJM), Maria Lúcia Villela (UFV), Caroline Queiroz Santos (UFVJM), Gabryella Guimarães (UFVJM)

IHC 2021

• Best Paper Award: Gaze Interaction and People with Computer Anxiety: Paving the Way to User Interface Simplification
   Thiago dos Santos & Vagner Santana
• Honorable Mention: Beyond Barriers: A Practical Analysis of the SIM-SR  Method to Inspect the Communicability of Interactive Systems for Visually Impaired Users
  Lucas Carvalho, Mariana Santos, Joana, Gabriela Souza, Raquel Prates, Andre Freire
• Honorable Mention: Evaluating visual analytics for text information retrieval
  Sherlon da Silva (ICMC-USP), Maria Cristina Ferreira de Oliveira (ICMC-USP) e Evangelos Milios (Dalhousie University –Canada)
• Best Insightful Ideas and Emerging Results Paper Award: Dark Patterns: Towards a Socio-technical Approach. Luiz Baroni, Alisson Puska, Luciana Salgado, Roberto Pereira
• Honorable Mention – Insightful Ideas and Emerging Results: Challenges of interaction design for counter-hegemonic contexts: highlighting and overcoming contradictions for social transformation and responsiveness. Flavia Peres, Dyego Morais
• Honorable Mention – Insightful Ideas and Emerging Results: Conflicts in Metacommunication Messages in Alternating User and Designer Roles: A Dialectical Perspective. Ila Muniz, Ecivaldo Matos

IHC 2020

• Best Paper Award: ChartVision: Accessible Vertical Bar Charts        
  Cynthya Letícia Teles de Oliveira, Alan Trindade de Almeida Silva, Jefferson Magalhães de Morais, Marcelle Pereira Mota
• Honorable Mention: Interaction Design and Requirements Elicitation Integrated through SPIDe: a feasibility study
  Jean C. S. Rosa, Beatriz B. do Rêgo, Filipe A. Garrido, Pedro D. Valente, Nuno J. Nunes, Ecivaldo Matos
• Honorable Mention: Comparing Heuristic Evaluation and MALTU Model in Interaction Evaluation of Ubiquitous Systems        
  José Cezar de Souza Filho, Marcos Randel Freitas Brito, Andréia Libório Sampaio
• Best Insightful Ideas and Emerging Results Paper Award: InteraHeu: heuristics for technological interaction on events
  Genildo Gomes, Rosiane de Freitas, Thais Castro, Bruno Gadelha

IHC 2019

• Best Paper Award: Do Android App Users Care about Accessibility? An Analysis of User Reviews on the Google Play Store
  Marcelo Eler, Leandro Orlandin e Alberto Oliveira
• Honorable Mention: Evaluating Alternative Interfaces Based on Puff, Electromyography and Dwell Time for Mouse Clicking
  Erick Campos, Denis Martins, Suzane dos Santos, Renan Cunha, Cassio Batista e Nelson Neto
• Honorable Mention: TangiTime: Designing a (Socio)enactive Experience for Deep Time in an Educational Exhibit
  Yusseli Lizeth Méndez Mendoza e Maria Cecilia Baranauskas
• Honorable Mention: Reclaiming Human Space at IoT: Contributions of the Socially Aware Design
  Jose V. da Silva, Maria Cecilia Baranauskas, Eliana Moreira, Luã Marcelo Muriana e Andressa Santos

IHC 2018

• Best Paper Award: Observed Appropriation of IoT Technology: A Semiotic Account
  Bruno A. Chagas, David F. Redmile, Clarisse S. de Souza
• Honorable Mention: Revisiting Interactive Art from an Interaction Design Perspective: Opening a Research Agenda
  Emanuel Felipe Duarte, M. Cecília C. Baranauskas
• Honorable Mention: Adaptation and Automation of a Cancellation Test for Evaluation of Exploratory Visual Behavior
  Renata Cascaes, Kalill Lameira, Ricardo A. Sarmanho, Kelly V. Pinheiro, Antônio Pereira, Marcelle P. Mota, Nelson C. Sampaio Neto
• Honorable Mention: Do I know what my code is ‘saying’? A study on novice programmers? perceptions of what reused source code may mean
  Luana Müller, Milene Selbach Silveira, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza

IHC 2017

• Best Paper Award: Native or Web-Hybrid Apps? An Analysis of the Adequacy for Accessibility of Android Interface Components Used with Screen Readers
  Lucas Pedroso Carvalho, André Pimenta Freire
• Honorable Mention: Blending theories towards understanding and designing socio-technical scenarios
  Alysson Bolognesi Prado, Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas
• Honorable Mention: Modeling Task Deviations as Eccentricity Distribution Peaks
  Vagner Figueredo de Santana, Rogério Abreu de Paula, Claudio Santos Pinhanez
• Best Short Paper Award: The Acceptability of Digital Immortality: Todays Human is Tomorrows Avatar
  Vinicius Galvão, Cristiano Maciel

IHC 2016

• Best Paper Award: Analysis of Interaction Anticipation and Volitive Aspects in Digital Posthumous Communication Systems
  Fabrício H. S. Pereira, Raquel O. Prates, Cristiano Maciel, Vinícius C. Pereira
• 2nd Best Paper: Analysis of Configuration Decision Space Over Time: The Google Inactive Manager Account Case
  Raquel O. Prates, Mary Beth Rosson, Clarisse S. de Souza
• 3rd Best Paper: A comparative exploratory study on mobile Web adaptation in front-end frameworks from the perspective of end-users
  Danilo Camargo Bueno; Luciana Aparecida Martinez Zaina
• Best Short Paper Award: Perceptions of Sustainability Aspects in Computing
  Renata R. Oliveira, Newton Galindo Jr, Vânia P. A. Neris

IHC 2015

• Best Paper Award: Supporting designers in modeling privacy for social network sites
  Maria Lúcia Bento Villela, Raquel Oliveira Prates
• Honorable Mention: Gender identity and sexual orientation perceived oppressions in digital systems user interfaces: an exploratory study
  Guilherme C. Pereira, M. Cecilia C. Baranauskas
• Honorable Mention: Specification and evaluation of an attention-aware remote control
  Daniel Chagas, Elizabeth Furtado

IHC 2014

• Best Paper Award: Enriquecimento de Personas para Apoio ao Design de Aplicações Terapêuticas para a Saúde Mental
  Kamila R. H. Rodrigues, Lucas Bocanegra, Vinícius P. Gonçalves, Vinícius Carvalho, Vânia P. A. Neris

IHC 2013

• Best Paper Award: Metáforas de Perspectivas Culturais na (re) definição de padrões de colaboração de um jogo de multi-toque para usuários com autismo
  Greis Francy Mireya Silva Calpa, Luciana Cardoso de Castro Salgado, Alberto Barbosa Raposo
• 2nd Best Paper: Uma Análise Comparativa dos Métodos de Avaliação de Sistemas Colaborativos Fundamentados na Engenharia Semiótica
  Natália Sales Santos, Lidia Silva Ferreira, Emanuelly F. M. Barros, Raquel Oliveira Prates
• Honorable Mention: ‘Affectibility’ and Design Workshops: Taking actions towards more sensible design
  Elaine Cristina Hayashi, Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas.

IHC 2012

• Best Paper Award: Customizing a communication device for a child with cerebral palsy using Participatory Design practices: contributions towards the PD4CAT method
  Luciana Correia Lima de Faria Borges, Lucia Vilela Leite Filgueiras, Cristiano Maciel, Vinicius Carvalho Pereira.
  
• 2nd Best Paper Award: Assessing the Semiotic Inspection Method – The Evaluators’ Perspective
  Soraia de Souza Reis, Raquel Oliveira Prates.
• 3rd Best Paper: Accessibility in Rich Internet Applications: People and Research
  Leonelo Dell Anhol Almeida, Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas.

IHC 2011

• Best Paper Award: Interação de Idosos com Celulares: Flexibilidade para Atender a Diversidade
  Vinícius Gonçalves, Vânia P. A. Neris, Jó Ueyama

IHC 2010

• Best Paper Award: Making Interactive Systems More Flexible: An Approach Based On Users’ Participation and Norms
  Vânia P. A. Neris, Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas
• 2nd Best Paper: Universal Design Principles Combined with Web Accessibility Guidelines: A Case Study
  Leonelo Dell Anhol Almeida; Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas

IHC 2008

• Awarded Paper: An exploratory study on non-visual mobile phone interfaces for games
  Luis Valente, Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Bruno Feijó
• Awarded Paper: Folksonomias: uma análise crítica focada na interação e na natureza da técnica
  Roberto Pereira, Sérgio Roberto P. da Silva

IHC 2001

• Best Paper Award: Bringing interface design and software development processes together: how organizational issues impact product’s usability
  Maria Cecilia Calani Baranauskas, Juliana Salles, Roberto Bigonha

IHC 2000

• Best Paper Award: Missing and declining affordances: Are these appropriate concepts?
  Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza, Raquel Oliveira Prates, Tom Carey
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