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…
SIGCHI Development Fund (CfP)
The SIGCHI Development Fund (SDF) is a resource that provides support for the global SIGCHI community to invest in communication, innovation, and expansion around HCI. All SIGCHI members are eligible to apply for funding from the SDF. These proposals for…
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,…
ACM SIGCHI gets a new Medium Publication
Hello SIGCHI! You might have noticed already, but if not: we are adding a Medium publication to our communications tools! We see this as an exciting addition, because Medium allows contributors to post (and be acknowledged for) the opinions they…
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…
Open Call: Outstanding Dissertation Awards chair
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…
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…
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…
CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS – SIGCHI Volunteer Development Team
Role Summary We are looking to grow SIGCHI’s Volunteer Development team to understand volunteer needs and develop systems to support volunteering activities with two new posts as a Research Scientist and Systems Analyst / Designer. Both positions which will start…