Past Events
Ask Me Anything Academia Session
The focus of an Ask Me Anything (AMA) session is to create a space for people to share experiences and learn from each other. In each session, we invite people from different career levels to answer questions about their experience.
Date: 22 October 2023
Location: Online
Reading Club
Reading Club was held on biweekly basis, to share knowledge from books/articles/scientific papers related to HCI/UI/UX.
Date: December 2021
Location: Online
Alexandria Meetup
The meetup aimed at dicusisng the community needs and meeting on ground after our yeraly IrisX event.
Date: August 2021
Location: Alexandria, Egypt
IrisX 2021
IrisX 2021 is the first annual gathering for UX and UI designers, developers, academics and students in Egypt. It aims at strengthening the existing community by providing an opportunity for the attendees to network and share their experiences and work. It additionally aims at building bridges with computing technology startups and entrepreneurs to raise their awareness about the potential benefits for leveraging UX knowledge in their technology products. The event is organized by ACM SIGCHI Professional Chapter CairoCHI (cairochi.acm.org) and powered by Babel Media Production & Design House
Date: 19,20 March 2021
Location: Online
CairoCHI Live Talks: Building+experimenting new features in Live Products
An online session series that discuss several topics related to the Egyptian HCI community.
In this session we talked about
Date: 6 Sep 2020
Location: Online
CairoCHI Live Talks: Brain-Computer Interfaces
An online session series that discuss several topics related to the Egyptian HCI community.
In this session we talked about, how machine learning techniques are utilized to analyze recorded brain activity and subsequently translate such activity to actions that can interact with the external environment. We also reviewed
applications that allow disabled patients to use their brain activity to spell different characters and control external devices.
Date: 1 July 2020
Location: Online
CairoCHI Live Talks: Product Lovability
An online session series that discuss several topics related to the Egyptian HCI community.
In this session we talked about, product livability,
what makes a successful productand Product Market-Fit.
Date: 23 June 2020
Location: Online
IrisX 2020
IrisX 2020 is the first annual gathering for UX and UI designers, developers, academics and students in Egypt. It aims at strengthening the existing community by providing an opportunity for the attendees to network and share their experiences and work. It additionally aims at building bridges with computing technology startups and entrepreneurs to raise their awareness about the potential benefits for leveraging UX knowledge in their technology products. The event is organized by ACM SIGCHI Professional Chapter CairoCHI (cairochi.acm.org) and powered by Babel Media Production & Design House
Date: 22 Feb 2020
Location: Greek Campus Cairo, Egypt
IrisX 2019
IrisX 2019 is the first annual gathering for UX and UI designers, developers, academics and students in Egypt. It aims at strengthening the existing community by providing an opportunity for the attendees to network and share their experiences and work. It additionally aims at building bridges with computing technology startups and entrepreneurs to raise their awareness about the potential benefits for leveraging Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and UX knowledge in their technology products. The event is organized by ACM SIGCHI Professional Chapter CairoCHI (cairochi.acm.org) and powered by Babel Media Production House
Date: 22 Feb 2019
Location: Greek Campus Cairo, Egypt
ACM SIGCHI Sponsored HCI Summer School@ AfriCHI 2018
CairoCHI has joined forces with othe African ACM SIGCHI chpaters, the Namibian Windhoek chapter, the Kenyan Wananchi chapter, and South African Protea chapter, to organise an ACM SIGCHI Sponsored Summer School on Designing With or For Marginalised Communities. The school welcomes post-graduate students, academics, and industry practitioners for hands-on training on HCI concepts, techniques and research methods. The school includes teaching, mentoring and taking the participants on a field trip to an existing research partner community in Namibia.
CairoCHI Bachelor Projects Competition
We invite all 2017/2018 graduates from Computer Science, Engineering, and Informatics disciplines to participate in the competition. Students will pitch their projects, get expert feedback and could win.
CairoCHI Cafe Meetup 2
CairoCHI cafe is a series of casual meetings for the chapter members and invited guests to discuss HCI and UX Design related topics. Our guest in the second cafe meeting is Delvin Varghese, a PhD candidate Open Lab, Newcastle University, UK.
CairoCHI Cafe Meetup 1
CairoCHI cafe is a series of casual meetings for the chapter members and invited guests to discuss HCI and UX Design related topics. Our guest in the first cafe meeting is international UX researcher Kathi R. Kitner from Google, USA.
CairoCHI 1st networking meeting
The GUC hosted “The First Meeting of the CairoCHI Chapter”, the third of its type in the Arab region after 2 chapters in Saudi Arabia.
