Neha Kumar – ACM SIGCHI

SIGCHI AWARDS 2023

The SIGCHI Executive Committee is delighted to announce the SIGCHI Awards for 2023. Our fantastic list of awardees for this year includes the following: You can learn more about their contributions and accomplishments below. Do note the incredibly rich, diverse…

SIGCHI Awards 2022

The SIGCHI Executive Committee is delighted to announce the SIGCHI Awards for 2022. Our fantastic list of awardees for this year includes the following: Lifetime Research Award: Yvonne Rogers Lifetime Practice Award: Steven Pemberton Lifetime Service Award: Geraldine Fitzpatrick Social Impact Award: Liz Gerber,…

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Open Session on Going Hybrid

In late November, the SIGCHI Executive Committee conducted an open session to discuss going hybrid. This session was hosted by Cale Passmore (CP) and me, and aimed at surfacing concerns and priorities around transitioning from virtual to hybrid formats, as brought up in…

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Newly Recruited SIGCHI Adjunct Chairs

We’re delighted to announce the results of our second set of open calls, which closed on August 27, 2021. These were for the SIGCHI Executive Committee’s (EC’s) Adjunct Chairs (ACs) for Community Support, Equity, Knowledge Sharing, Partnerships, Sustainability, and Volunteer Support. First, we’d like…

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Open Calls for the SIGCHI Executive Committee – Second Round

We have more open calls out for the adjunct chair (AC) roles below. You can apply here. Having appointed our Vice-Presidents for Conferences, Operations, Publications, Chapters, and Adjunct Chair (AC) for Awards in our first round of open calls, we now…

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SIGCHI Executive Committee Handover

Meeting Notes from July 22, 2021 The Executive Committee (EC) Handover session (link to video recording) summarized the accomplishments of the outgoing EC and introduced the incoming EC to the SIGCHI community. This was aimed at ensuring that the incoming…

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Open Calls for the SIGCHI Executive Committee

With seven members currently on the new SIGCHI Executive Committee (six elected + one past president), we cannot wait to recruit the rest of our team! First in a series of such efforts are our open calls for the roles…

Thank you, SIGCHI!

With the SIGCHI election behind us and the results announced, we begin our work as the SIGCHI Executive Committee-elect by extending our gratitude towards the many members of our community who participated in and mobilized this election process. This extensive volunteer…

Gary Marsden Travel Awards Recipients (March 2021)

The Gary Marsden Travel Awards (GMTA) aims to support SIGCHI members who are students or early career researchers in attending HCI conferences, events, and (for early career researchers in particular) collaboration visits for mentorship. In January and March 2021 application…

Building Community @SIGCHI

We have a new “Community” page: https://sigchi.org/community/ to offer members a space to share information and updates within SIGCHI. Right now it has (1) our Events Calendar, (2) our Holidays Calendar, (3) the Voices of SIGCHI blog feed, and (4) a…

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