OPEN CALL FOR THE SIGCHI OUTSTANDING DISSERTATION AWARDS CHAIR deadline October 18th, 2019 (Midnight AOE) SIGCHI is looking for nominations for the SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Awards chair. Please see here for information on the nomination process: https://sigchi.org/awards/dissertation-award/ For…
Global HCI and Economically Developing Countries
SIGCHI recently created the Global Community Development for Conferences (GCDC) program. It’s upto conference chairs and steering committees to apply to this program but it’s aimed to provide support for researchers and practitioners both from and working/studying in Economically Developing Countries to engage…
Interim ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences
SIGCHI is pleased to announce that Andrew Kun has been appointed interim ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences from Jan 2020. At this time, our current ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences (Aaron Quigley) will step back to focus on…
Open Call for SIGCHI Asian Development Committee Volunteers
ACM SIGCHI is the premier international society for professionals, academics and students who are interested in human-technology and human-computer interaction (HCI). Traditionally, a large part of membership of ACM SIGCHI came from, and many of its activities have happened in…
Open call for volunteers: ACM SIGCHI Conferences Board and Working Group
This is the ACM SIGCHI Conferences Call for Volunteers for consideration to join either the Conferences Board or Conferences Working Group. We are searching for interested people for what are quite different volunteer roles. The SIGCHI Conferences Board is a committee…
Welcome two new SIGCHI Vice Presidents
SIGCHI is pleased to welcome our new Vice President for Operations Dr. David A. Shamma from FX Palo Alto Laboratory and our interim Vice President for Membership and Communications Dr. Pejman Mirza-Babaei from the University of Ontario. Both Pejman and David…
Call for Volunteers: Help Shape the Future of CHI
The annual CHI Conference — SIGCHI’s flagship event — is nearing its fortieth year. It is bigger than ever, attracting large numbers of attendees, technical submissions, and content in a wide variety of forms. Many in our community marvel at…
SIGCHI Development Fund: News for 2019
Over the past few years the SIGCHI Executive Committee revised and developed a number of new guidelines and dedicated initiatives under its SIGCHI Development Fund program. Today, the SIGCHI Development Fund provides resources for the SIGCHI community to spur communication,…
SIGCHI Representative for the ACM Education Council Open Call
Please note: The call is for the SIGCHI Representative on the ACM Education Council The ACM Education Council is a task-force-based, networking-oriented environment whose aim is to promote ACM’s educational mission to as wide a range of constituencies as possible:…
HCI/CSCW Summer School in Research Methods in Brazil, March 2019
With its mission to develop the field of HCI, the SIGCHI Executive Committee has had a “Development Fund” to provide resources to alleviate some of the constraints that can stifle the exchange of ideas across our diverse community and around…