The annual CHI Conference — SIGCHI’s flagship event — is nearing its fortieth year. It is bigger than ever, attracting large numbers of attendees, technical submissions, and content in a wide variety of forms. Many in our community marvel at…
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…
SIGCHI Development Fund: News for 2019
Over the past few years the SIGCHI Executive Committee revised and developed a number of new guidelines and dedicated initiatives under its SIGCHI Development Fund program. Today, the SIGCHI Development Fund provides resources for the SIGCHI community to spur communication,…
SIGCHI VP for Membership and Communication
The SIGCHI Executive Committee is searching interested people for the position of the VP of Membership and Communication, starting immediately until July 2020. Main duties are to continue the various activities of the Communication Team, active involvement in all EC…
SIGCHI Representative for the ACM Education Council Open Call
Please note: The call is for the SIGCHI Representative on the ACM Education Council The ACM Education Council is a task-force-based, networking-oriented environment whose aim is to promote ACM’s educational mission to as wide a range of constituencies as possible:…
HCI/CSCW Summer School in Research Methods in Brazil, March 2019
With its mission to develop the field of HCI, the SIGCHI Executive Committee has had a “Development Fund” to provide resources to alleviate some of the constraints that can stifle the exchange of ideas across our diverse community and around…
2018 SIGCHI Inclusion Innovators Open Call
Nominate someone you know or volunteer yourself to be an INCLUSION INNOVATOR. A new committee is being formed to create a more inclusive professional community, that can enable professional growth and opportunities for our diverse membership. Please fill out this…
The Possibilities of Inclusion for SIGCHI
When we are inclusive… We can be heard. We can be respected. We can make change. We can have impact. For over three decades, the SIGCHI community has sought to be inclusive in building new technologies. As we know, a…
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…
Outcome of the First Call for SIGCHI Grand Challenges
As previously posted here, the new SIGCHI EC wanted to identify the strategic initiatives to be the focus of our work for the next three years. We began this process by distributing a call in early July 2018 to the…