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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…

Announcing the SIGCHI Executive Committee Candidates

Summary. This is the fourth in a series of posts about the SIGCHI Executive Committee Election. The first post introduced the process of assembling a list of candidates and contained an open call for nominations; the second post described Executive…

SIGCHI’s Ask Me Anything (AMA) Sessions

Earlier this summer, we shared the SIGCHI Executive Committee’s commitment to listen, reflect, act, and represent. As a next step, we are working to create channels that might better enable us to listen (and respond) to concerns and questions from…

SIGCHI Executive Committee Election Details

Summary. This is the third in a series of posts about the SIGCHI Election. It gives an overview of the election, including how you can vote, which will take place in Spring 2021. The first two posts in the series…

SIGCHI Executive Committee Roles and Responsibilities

Summary. This is the second in a series of posts about the SIGCHI Election. It gives an overview of the Executive Committee elected positions. The first post in the series is here, and the third is here. SIGCHI is run…

Call for Nominations for Candidates for the SIGCHI Executive Committee Election

Summary. SIGCHI elections will take place during Spring 2021; all SIGCHI members can vote. We are posting an open call for people who wish to be considered as candidates; nominations due by November 20, 2020. We will announce the slate…

Welcome two new SIGCHI Vice Presidents

SIGCHI is pleased to welcome our new Vice President for Operations Dr. David A. Shamma from FX Palo Alto Laboratory and our interim Vice President for Membership and Communications Dr. Pejman Mirza-Babaei from the University of Ontario. Both Pejman and David…

Call for Volunteers: Help Shape the Future of CHI

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…

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,…

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…

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