Courses

The AfriCHI’25 Courses provide opportunities for members of the African HCI community to extend their knowledge in methods, design, or professional skills related to Human-Computer Interaction.  In line with the AfriCHI 2025 conference theme, “Re-centering African Wisdom in HCI”, we seek to create a space where AfriCHI attendees have the opportunity to learn from diverse voices and to see HCI in new ways that center African perspectives. We particularly seek courses that foreground African research with an eye toward citational justice and recognition of our contributions to the field of human-computer interaction.

Courses can range in length based on topic from 45 minutes to four hours, offered by one or more people with relevant experience in that area. They may entail tutorials or practical instruction in a specific aspect of (for example) mobile development or an immersive tutorial on a specific HCI method, tool, or software. Longer programs may entail master classes on a specific topic of broad interest to the AfriCHI community.

Courses might cover (but are not limited to) methods, design, or professional skills

• African perspectives on Foundational concepts of HCI research and practice
• Specialized courses with significant depth in specific established and/or emerging areas of research and practice, including the various subfields relevant to the SIGCHI community
• Tools and methods courses that offer hands-on practical skill development in methodologies, technologies, research/design/development approaches, etc.
• Academic or professional meta-skills such as speaking to the press, writing grant proposals, or reviewing and writing papers for SIGCHI conferences

Hot Topics

The AfriCHI’25 Courses might cover:

1. African Design Theory and Practice
2. Storytelling as a Design Methodology
3. African Wisdom
4. Research Integrity and Ethics (e.g. in Co-Design; in AI, in xB; in Partnerships)
5. Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
6. African Perspectives on Cybersecurity
7. Teaching HCI
8. Foregrounding African Case Studies in teaching and related work
9. HCI techniques for Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Mixed Reality
10. Practices of applying HCI theories and methods in industry

Submissions

All submissions should be no more than 2000 words and state:

• Names and Affiliation of instructors
• Target Participants
• Learning Objectives 
• Syllabus and/or Reading List
• Proposed Length of Course (45 min, 90 minutes, 2 hours, 4 hours)
• Planned Activities
• Plans for course evaluation
• List of References

In addition, please submit a statement and/or CV documenting experience of the instructors in delivering this course, of up to two pages per instructor.

Submissions should include author names and are not anonymized. Authors seeking to publish the course proposal as part of the conference proceedings should use the ACM submission template. Otherwise, we will accept proposals in Word or PDF format.

Selection Process

All proposals submitted in the AfriCHI 2025 Courses track will be chair-reviewed. The chairs will determine which proposals are accepted based on the selection criteria below and may decide to bring in outside experts for further review. There is no mechanism for author response in the Course review process, and decisions are final. In some special cases, the chairs may request changes to the proposal as a condition for its acceptance (“conditional accept”). Authors of accepted Courses will receive instructions on how to prepare and submit the publication-ready source files for their course. These will be due on the publication-ready deadline.

Selection Criteria

The selection criteria for the AfriCHI 2025 Tutorial and Master Classes proposals will be guided by this year’s conference theme “Re-centering African Wisdom in HCI” and the proposal’s appeal to the wider AfriCHI community. Specifically, it will focus on   

1. Clarity of intended learning outcomes, value for the AfriCHI community, level of expected interest and engagement, and relevance to the African context and perspectives. A good course submission will give us a high degree of confidence that the course can meet and exceed these goals.
2. Previous presentations and, if appropriate, course participant evaluations of the Course at AfriCHI and the number of times this course (or a similar course) has been offered over the past years, also to balance the HCI courses program over the years.
3. Coverage of foundational courses on HCI and design, as well as of Hot Topics and other categories of interest listed above.
4. Prior experience and qualifications of the instructors.

Publication

Accepted course proposals may be optionally included in the conference proceedings and archived on the ACM Digital Library. Instructors seeking to publish their course proposal are required to adhere to the ACM guidelines for publication. The camera-ready submission must be uploaded to the conference submission system following the ACM camera-ready standards. 

All accepted courses will be included in the conference program and will have a dedicated session in parallel with other sessions. 

Important Dates

• Submission deadline:   15 June 2025
• Notification: 22 June 2025
• Camera-ready deadline: 15 July 2025

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Track Co-Chairs

Amal Aboulhassan - German International University in Cairo. 

Bester Chimbo - University of South Africa. 

Melissa Densmore - University of Cape Town (UCT).

Nobert Jere - University of Fort Hare.

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Email: 

Tutorials@africhi2025.org

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