For the past two years, I served as VP of Operations under SIGCHI. The role oversees our technology in the SIG. In my time, I helped shape our efforts around scalability, reachability, sustainability, and accessibility. Further, I’m incredibly proud of…
18 Months of SIGCHI Operations
In January of 2019, I stepped into the volunteer role of ACM SIGCHI VP of Operations. I must confess, I didn’t know what operations did exactly but I was told it was to run the technologies for the SIG and…
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It’s been tough this social distancing and working from home. If you’re like me, it’s also tough not traveling, seeing friends, and attending events. Many of the talks, workshops, and conferences we’ve been planning to attend had cancellations. When HRI…
PWA ß 4 CSCW 2019
Earlier this year, the SIGCHI Ops team decided to sunset our native apps for conference programs. As an alternative, we put our efforts into making a progressive web application (PWA) which will allow for faster development time, greater accessibility, and…
The New SIGCHI Progressive Web App
For those of you who have done it, running a conference is a lot of work. Authors submit via Precision Conference (PCS) and publish in the ACM Digital Library (DL) while chairs organize sessions, make programs for their websites, and…
2019 Award Recipients
SIGCHI is very pleased to announce its 2019 Award Recipients. The recipients will be presented their awards at CHI 2019 in Glasgow, UK. Please join us in congratulating this year’s recipients!