David Lamas, Hegle Sarapuu, Hanna-Liisa Pender

Established in November 2010with the explicit goal of promoting the field of

human-computer interaction in Estonia

EstCHI has a very small formal member base but reaches a large community bringing together

academia and both public and private sectors

EstCHI promotes bi-monthly meetings attended by 70+ participants…

…and an yearly event in November, bringing together over 300 participants from Estonia and

surrounding countries

In 2014 EstCHI, together with Cyprus SIGCHI, started a series of HCI themed summer schools,

with SIGCHI’s support

The summer school was attended by 30+ participants, mainly doctoral students from allover the world but also by practitioners from Estonia and surrounding countries

EstCHI’s activities are sponsored by Tallinn University, Estonian IT Foundation for Education, Trinidad Consulting,

and many other occasional sponsors, including SIGCHI

EstCHI’s activities have impact!

There is now a successful Master’s Programme in Human-Computer Interaction and several

doctoral students working on HCI related topics

The number of HCI related projects and dissertations is raising as the topics are addressed by more and more students in many education institutions in the country

Practitioners are clarifying their roles and maturing their approaches

But more important, there is a growing uptake of HCI values and practices in both public and

private sector

David Lamas, Hegle Sarapuu, Hanna-Liisa Pender