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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,…

Gary Marsden Travel Awards Recipients (July, September, November 2021)

We are excited to announce the recipients of the last three cycles of the Gary Marsden Travel Awards (GMTA) for 2021. The GMTA accepts applications from SIGCHI members who are students, early career researchers, or those experiencing financial hardship or…

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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…

Sketch mapping out conversation topics in Equity Talk #10 Race and SIGCHI

SIGCHI Equity Talks #10: Race & SIGCHI

Adriana Alvarado, Angela Smith, Bryan Dosono, Cale Passmore, Ihudiya Finda Williams, Marisol Wong-Villacres, Neha Kumar Previous Equity Talk Summary: Making SIGCHI Sustainable All Equity Talks Available Here This roundtable began with us hearing an introduction from Neha Kumar (current SIGCHI President) about the Equity…

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Latin America in SIGCHI: Where are we and what are we doing?

Written by Heloisa Candello, Carla F. Griggio, Gustavo López Herrera, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Javier Tibau & Marisol Wong-Villacres with the support of the SIGCHI Latin America Committee. Visualizations created by Gonzalo Méndez with the assistance of Miguel Murillo. To maximize access…

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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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SIGCHI Report: Developing our Volunteer Community

The SIGCHI Volunteer Development Committee–Monica Pereira, Heloisa Candello, Ceara Byrne, George Raptis, Stanislava Gardasevic and Mark Perry SIGCHI is an organisation that is led and supported by volunteers. SIGCHI survives on volunteering, and volunteer roles range widely — from becoming…

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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…