Welcome to the IFIP TC13 Website

Established in 1989, the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee on Human–Computer Interaction (IFIP TC13) is an international committee of 30 member national societies and nine Working Groups, representing specialists in human factors, ergonomics, cognitive science, computer science, design, and related disciplines.

IFIP TC13 aims to develop the science and technology of human–computer interaction (HCI) by encouraging empirical research, promoting the use of knowledge and methods from the human sciences in design and evaluation of computer systems; promoting better understanding of the relationship between formal design methods and system usability and acceptability; developing guidelines, models and methods by which designers may provide better human-oriented computer systems; and, cooperating with other groups, inside and outside IFIP, to promote user-orientation and humanization in system design.

Thus, TC13 seeks to improve interactions between people and computers, encourage the growth of HCI research, and disseminate these benefits worldwide.

INTERACT is its flagship conference, staged biennially in different countries in the world.

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INTERACT 2021 Bari, Italy

INTERACT 2019 Cyprus

OPEN/PUBLIC LECTURE OF
Jan Gulliksen

KTH Royal Institute of Technology,
Digital Champion of Sweden,

IFIP TC13 Chair,

Business Meeting 39 Hamilton,
New Zealand,

February 18th, 2014

Meeting 36 Singapore,

Tuesday 28 (day 1), February, 2012

Meeting IFIP WG 13.2/2.4 in Paris,

  • WG 13.1 – Education in HCI and HCI Curriculum
  • WG 13.2 – Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design
  • WG 13.3 – Human-Computer Interaction and Disability (HCI and Disability)
  • WG 13.4/2.7 – User Interface Engineering
  • WG 13.5 – Human Error, Safety, and System Development
  • WG 13.6 – Human-Work Interaction Design group (HWID)
  • WG 13.7 – HCI and Visualisation
  • WG 13.8 – HCI and International Development
  • WG 13.9 – Interaction Design and Children

Working groups

TC13 country members around the world

INTERACT 2017 in Mumbai

Preparing for the INTERACT 2017 field trip

On the INTERACT 2017 field trip

IFIP TC13 aims to develop the science and technology of human–computer interaction (HCI) by encouraging empirical research, promoting the use of knowledge and methods from the human sciences in design and evaluation of computer systems; promoting better understanding of the relationship between formal design methods and system usability and acceptability; developing guidelines, models and methods by which designers may provide better human-oriented computer systems; and, cooperating with other groups, inside and outside IFIP, to promote user-orientation and humanization in system design.
Thus, TC13 seeks to improve interactions between people and computers, encourage the growth of HCI research, and disseminate these benefits worldwide.