Call for Papers

The Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society (JBCS) invites the best papers from the research papers track of the Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC 2025) to submissions for a Special Issue on Human-Computer Interaction. The issue will feature an extended version of high-quality research on aspects of social, educational, organizational, and everyday challenges involving humans.

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) focuses on understanding and shaping the ways people experience digital technologies in their everyday lives. As interactive systems permeate work, education, health, entertainment, and public services, designing technologies that are usable, accessible, inclusive, and socially responsible becomes increasingly critical. HCI research addresses challenges and opportunities in the design, construction, and evaluation of interactive systems, fostering critical debate on the human, social, and ethical dimensions of technology. This Special Issue highlights mature research addressing various challenges and opportunities in HCI. 

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• Accessibility and assistive technologies
• Legal and ethical aspects in HCI
• Social aspects, human values, and culture
• Analysis of domain, task and user 
• Affective computing and emotional aspects in HCI
• Participatory design
• Interaction Design and User Experience
• Help systems and tutorials in HCI
• Models, methods, and formalisms for interface and interaction design
• End-user Programming and End-User Development
• HCI applied in different domains (e.g., smart cities, digital games, health, work, digital legacy, information visualization)
• HCI Theories and Theoretical Approaches (e.g., cognitive engineering, distributed cognition, semiotic engineering, organizational semiotics, activity theory, communication or collaboration theories)
• Interaction forms (e.g., 3D Interfaces, smart interfaces, tangible and multimodal interfaces, context-sensitive interaction, IoT)

 

Call for submissions from the best papers from the research track of the Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC 2025). These submissions must include at least 50% new contributions relative to the version previously published in IHC 2025 and will undergo an expedited review by the JBCS editorial board. The extended version's title and abstract should differ from the conference paper's. The authors should explicitly mention the IHC 2025 paper in the document by stating that the submitted version is an extended and revised version.

All papers must be written in English and prepared using the official JBCS LaTeX template (https://www.overleaf.com/read/sgfkmgfqzbdz). Author guidelines are available on the JBCS website (https://journals-sol.sbc.org.br/index.php/jbcs/about/submissions). The authors should submit a cover letter explaining the modifications made to the conference paper in the extended version, together with the extended version of the manuscript. 

Important Dates:

- March 10, 2026- submission of extended versions.

-  March-June 2026 - internal process of reviews and meta-reviews by editors.

- July 2026 -  feedback of the first round of reviews to authors.

- July-August 2026 - submission of the revised version.

- September-October 2026: feedback of the second round of reviews to authors.

- November 2026: camera-ready submission.

 

Editors:

• Luciana Zaina (UFSCar, Brazil)
• Célia Martini (Toulouse University, France)
• Isabela Gasparini (UDESC, Brazil)
• Ticianne Darin (UFC, Brazil)