Recently, at the ACM’s SIG Governing Board Meeting, the ACM CEO, Vicki Hanson, presented the ACM’s Violations Database and the plan to use this database to monitor and enforce sanctions that have been imposed by ACM governing bodies on members.…
Statement Regarding the 2020 ACM Turing Award
The following email was sent Tuesday, Apr 27, 2021 to all SIGCHI Members by Helena Mentis SIGCHI President on behalf of the SIGCHI Executive Committee and was cosigned by 14 other ACM Special Interest Groups (SIGs). Subject: Statement Regarding the…
Towards a More Equitable, Accessible, and Responsive SIGCHI
The SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC) has spent the last two years working to ensure greater equity, inclusion, and responsiveness within SIGCHI. Allison Druin, who served as our Adjunct Chair for Diversity & Inclusion from July 2018 to June 2020, started us off…
#SIGCHI4ALL
We apologize to the R.A.C.E. team for their volunteering experience with SIGCHI. Their post serves as a reminder that we must be purposeful in our anti-racist stance, as well as reflect on the power structures that exist within our institutions…
SIGCHI Conferences and the Coronavirus
The coronavirus and the related COVID-19 disease are unmistakably affecting the world right now, and SIGCHI is no exception. In the past weeks we have seen IUI, HRI, and most recently CHI have to cancel their annual meetings. These were…
End of 2019 Recap from SIGCHI
The following email was sent out to all SIGCHI members on December 31, 2019. —— Greetings SIGCHI members, As the new year is upon us, I wanted to send my best wishes to our SIGCHI members and recap the great…
Open Call for Conference Carbon Calculators
Some of you may not be aware of the efforts ACM’s SIGPLAN have done in the area of conferences and climate change. If not, you should check out their Resources Page and most importantly know that, because of SIGPLAN’s work,…
Multiple Open Calls for Volunteers
Adjunct Chair for Volunteer Development SIGCHI is a reliant on the mass of dedicated and motivated volunteers. These volunteers include the reviewers of our papers, the conference organizers, the SIGCHI leadership team and all of its committees, and even the…
End of 2018 Recap From SIGCHI
The following email was sent out to all SIGCHI members on December 31, 2018. —— Greetings SIGCHI members, As the new year is upon us, I wanted to send my best wishes to our SIGCHI members and recap the great…
New SIGCHI EC VPs and ACs Announced
In July 2018 a new set of elected SIGCHI EC members began their term. As outlined in a prior blog post, a strong value for this EC is to be Open. This refers to both having public processes as well as…