About the Journal

Publication history

The academic journal Ergodesign & HCI (e-ISSN 2317-8876) was created based on the idea of Professor Anamaria de Moraes, who wanted to share the best works of the Ergodesign & USIHC events with the academic and scientific community in Brazil and abroad. Although there are several publications in the areas of Ergonomics and Design, this is the first publication of an academic and scientific nature in Brazil dealing with the application of Ergonomics to Design - Ergodesign - and to Human-Computer Interaction Studies within the scope of Ergonomics. Its first issue was released in 2013, a year after the death of Professor Anamaria de Moraes.

Ergodesign & HCI is an initiative and responsibility of the Laboratory of Ergodesign and Usability of Interfaces (LEUI), associated with the Postgraduate Program in Design, Department of Arts & Design, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio).

Ergodesign & HCI (e-ISSN 2317-8876) is a biannual publication (January-June and July-December), included in the Qualis Periodicals of the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES) in the Architecture, Urbanism, and Design area. The journal is also part of the Journals Portal of PUC-Rio.

 In 2023, the journal experienced a technical problem that made it impossible to publish the issues of volume 11. In 2024, with the problem solved, the 2023 publications were published and the journal's periodicity was resumed.

 

About this journal (focus and scope)

Ergodesign & HCI (e-ISSN 2317- 8876) is a scientific, academic journal published semesterly by the Laboratory of Ergodesign and Usability of Interfaces (LEUI), integrated to the Graduate Program in Design of Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, PUC-Rio.

Ergodesign & HCI covers the five thematic topics of LEUI research, as part of the research line Ergonomics and Usability and Human-Computer Interaction. They are:

  • Ergonomics and Usability of Products and Design Processes.
  • Ergonomics and Usability of Information Systems.
  • Ergonomics and Usability of Human-Computer Interaction.
  • Ergonomics and Usability of Build Environment.
  • Ergonomics and Usability of Transport.

Ergodesign & HCI journal is concerned with tracking the research about Design in each the focus is the human and his/her interactions with information systems, environment, digital interfaces, and transport systems, among other contexts. In this scenario are considered for submission, evaluation, and publication papers related to – but not limited to – the aspects listed below:

  •  The role of Design and Human Factors/ Ergonomics in methodological approaches as co-design, participatory Design, Human-Centered Design, design thinking.
  • Inter and multidisciplinary researches that are focusing on User Experience (UX).
  • Case studies, descriptive and experimental investigations that consider the user´s involvement.
  • Theoretical researches that consider and highlight future scenarios for Human-Centered design and User Experience approaches.
  • Studies on inclusive projects and solutions for products, environment, and interfaces for specific groups of users in which accessibility plays a fundamental role.

Ergodesign&HCI  has as target audience students, teachers, and researchers in Design. Human Factors/ Ergonomics is applied in projects as products, systems, or services. Besides this group, this publication is also valuable for those from related areas such as Architecture, Social Communication, Psychology, Informatics and Industrial, Systems, and Computer Engineering and the public interested in this area.  Ergodesign&HCI  was launched in 2013 and is available only in electronic format.

 

Peer review

Papers submitted for consideration at Ergodesign & HCI will be evaluated through a peer-review process to select the best academic contributions in the area of Ergodesign and Human-Computer Interaction, according to themes specified in the journal’s Focus and Scope.

The journal performs the peer review process using the double-blind review system to assess the submitted papers; that is, the authors do not know who the reviewers will be and vice versa. For this reason, when submitting a text to the journal, authors must send two files: 1) complete article with identification of the authors (for internal use of the journal’s editorial team); 2) full article without identifying the authors (for the peer review process).

The evaluation process begins with a preliminary evaluation of the article by the Editors, the Desk Review. In this step, the following aspects will be evaluated: a) adequacy to the editorial policy of Ergodesign & HCI; b) adherence to the journal submission guidelines (formatting, standardization, ethical requirements); c) originality of the article. If the submitted article is not adequate based on this initial evaluation, it will be returned to the authors.

If the article is approved in the Desk Review process, it will be forwarded for evaluation to two reviewers, respecting the double-blind review. The reviewers are guided to contribute to the improvement of the content of the evaluated article. After returning the two reviewers, the Editors will be responsible for evaluating the content of the reviewers’ opinions and making their final editorial decision. If there is a discrepancy in the two evaluations received, the Editors will carry out a final evaluation of the article to arrive at the final editorial decision.

After the evaluation process, the article can be: 1) approved; 2) minor revisions; 3) major revisions; 4) rejected. In results 2 and 3, the articles will be sent back to the authors to make the suggested adjustments and be subject to the second round of evaluation by the reviewers if the Editors deem it necessary.

 

Estimated time to publication

Taking into account the date of submission of the article by the authors, the evaluation process and its publication, if accepted, the average time is between eight and 12 months.

 

Open access

This is an open-access journal, which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition of open access.

Ergodesign & HCI does not charge authors for submissions nor for the publication of approved papers.

 

After receiving final approval for publication of the article, the authors retain the copyright of the work and grant Ergodesign & HCI the right of first publication of the article under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY), which allows the work to be shared and adapted with acknowledgment of authorship and initial publication in  Ergodesign & HCI.

The authors also grant Ergodesign & HCI a non-exclusive license to use the article in the following ways: (1) sell and distribute the article in hard copies or electronic format; (2) distribute the article to promote the journal through the internet and other digital and printed media and; (3) record and reproduce the work in any format, including digital media. To this end, authors must sign a submission letter, available on the Submissions page, agreeing with the conditions expressed above.

After the publication of the article in  Ergodesign & HCI, authors can enter into additional and separate contractual agreements for the non-exclusive distribution of the version published in  Ergodesign & HCI (for example, publishing it in an institutional repository or as a chapter in a book), with recognition of its initial publication in  Ergodesign & HCI. The article's publication in another academic journal is not allowed since the scientific community characterizes such action as a duplicate and redundant publication, an ethical violation expressed in the code of ethics of  Ergodesign & HCI.

Licensing: All content published in  Ergodesign & HCI receives a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY), which allows users to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform and create from the material for any purpose) its content, provided that the authorship of the work and first publication in  Ergodesign & HCI is recognized.

 

Publishing Ethics and Publishing Malpractice Statement

 Ergodesign & HCI is committed to ethics and quality in publication. We support standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in publishing in our journal: the authors, the journal editors, the peer reviewers, and the publisher. We do not accept plagiarism or other unethical behavior. The editors of  Ergodesign & HCI will use the guidelines and flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Flowcharts) if ethical violations are suspected, especially: duplicate publication; plagiarism; data manufacturing; undisclosed conflict of interest; other suspicions of ethical problems of the submitted article.

Duties of Editors:

  • Fair play: The editors will evaluate manuscripts for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.
  • Confidentiality: The editors and any editorial staff will not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
  • Disclosure and Conflicts of interest: The editors will not use unpublished information or ideas in their own research without the authors' express written. The editors should refrain from considering manuscripts in which they consider having conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or (possibly) institutions connected to the papers.
  • Publication decision: The editors of E Ergodesign & HCI are responsible for deciding which articles submitted to the journal should be published. The editors are guided by the journal's peer reviewers and act upon evidence of copyright infringement and plagiarism. The editors may consult with the editorial board or reviewers in decision making.
  • Involvement and cooperation in investigations: The editors should take reasonable responsive measures when ethical complaints have been presented concerning a submitted manuscript or published paper.

Duties of Reviewers:

  • Contribution to Editorial Decision: Peer reviewers are responsible for assisting the editor in making editorial decisions and, through the editorial communications with the author, may also assist the author in improving the paper.
  • Promptness: When a referee feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible, the referee should notify the editors of E Ergodesign & HCI and excuse himself from the review process.
  • Confidentiality: The referees undertake to consider manuscripts received for review as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others.
  • Standards of Objectivity: Reviews should be conducted objectively, and referees should clearly express theirs with supporting arguments.
  • Acknowledgment of Source: Peer reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. The peer reviewer should also call the editor’s attention any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.
  • Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.

Duties of Authors: 

  • Reporting standards: Authors of original research should present an accurate account of the work performed as well as an objective discussion of its significance. Underlying data should be represented accurately in the paper. A paper should contain sufficient detail and references to allow others to replicate the work. Fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable.
  • Originality and Plagiarism: The authors should ensure that they have written origin entirely. If the authors have used the work and/or words from others, this must be appropriately cited or quoted. Plagiarism, in all its forms, constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  • Multiple, Redundant, or Concurrent Publication: An author should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal. Submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal concurrently and/or publishing the same article in different journals constitute unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable.
  • Acknowledgment of Sources: Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should cite publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reporteAstely, as in conversation, correspondence, or discussion with third information obtained articles privately, must not be used or reported without explicit, written permission from the source. Information obtained in the course of confidential services, such as refereeing manuscripts or grant applications, must not be used with the author's out the author's explicit written perform the work involved in these services.
  • Authorship of the Paper: Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors. Where others have participated in certain substantive aspects of the research project, they should be acknowledged or listed as contributors. The corresponding author should ensure that all appropriate co-authors and no inappropriate co-authors are included on the paper and that all co-authors have seen and approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.  Ergodesign & HCI will not accept authors' inclusion after submission, only those included in the initial submission.
  • Disclosure and Conflicts of Interest: All authors should disclose in their manuscript any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that might be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed in the Acknowledgments section.
  • Fundamental errors in published works: When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, the author must promptly notify  Ergodesign & HCI and cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.

The software https://www.plag.ai/ is used to detect plagiarism.

 

Ethics statement based on:

 

Estimated time to publication

Taking into account the date of submission of the article by the authors, the evaluation process and its publication, if accepted, the average time is between eight and twelve months.

 

Password recovery

For security reasons, the system no longer sends passwords by e-mail. We recommend that once you have registered, you keep your password in a safe and easily accessible place for future reference.
Passwords can only be recovered by sending an e-mail to: ergodesignhci@puc-rio.br.