The genesis of the current project is found in the academic education, experience achieved throughout two decades and with the construction of the first HCI Lab., in the Mediterranean coast in the Iberian Peninsula (1997). The lab was created without a financial support –non private or public– and was not escorted by any type of power or pressure.

Thus, in ALAIPO exists freedom to act and a formal researching spirit, spirit that is present in each one of all of its contents:

· Artificial Intelligence
· Communicability
· Computer-Aided Design
· Cultural Heritage
· Culture Systems
· Databases
· Digital Cartography
· Domotics
· Dynamic Graphics and Static Graphics (2D and 3D)
· E-book
· E-commerce
· E-job
· E-learning
· Eco-design
· Ergonomics
· Hypertext, Multimedia and Hypermedia
· Industrial Design
· Interface Design
· Methods and Techniques for Evaluation
· Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
· Open Source Software
· Publicity (Advertising)
· Quality Attributes in the Interactive Systems
· Quality Metrics
· Robotics
· Semiotics
· Social Psychology
· Sociology
· Software Engineering
· Statistics
· Usability Engineering
· Web 2.0 and 3.0

Finally, I would like to extend an invitation to join us in the development of this space. I thank in advance to all who directly or indirectly work daily in partnership for the expansion of the HCI in the Latin countries in America, in Europe and all other places, always seeking to improve the humanity’s quality of life.

Francisco V. C. Ficarra, Ph.D. (coordinator)