Assoc. Prof. Suranga Nanayakkara (NUS/MIT Media Lab), Dr Thilina Halloluwa (PhD) (UQ), Dr.Senuri Wijenayake, PhD (RMIT), Dr. Danula Hettiachchi (RMIT), Dr. Primal Wijesekera (UC Berkeley) ,Dr. Anusha Withana (SydneyUni), Dr. Roshan Peiris (RIT)— they’ve all built paths from Sri Lanka to CHI.
Now it’s time to build one together.
The ACM SIGCHI Colombo Chapter just published a step-by-step guide for submitting to CHI 2027 in Pittsburgh (May 10–14, 2027 — theme: “Bridges”). Whether you’re a student, academic, or industry practitioner in Sri Lanka doing HCI-related work, here is what we want to suggest as your roadmap.
We’re organizing reading groups, writing workshops, and mentorship matching with diaspora researchers. Sri Lanka’s unique challenges — multilingual interfaces, digital inclusion, AI literacy, post-conflict tech design — are exactly what the global HCI community needs to hear about.
Our context isn’t a limitation. It’s our superpower.
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