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…
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…
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…
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…
Gary Marsden Travel Awards Recipients (May 2021)
We are excited to announce the recipients of the May 2021 cycle of the Gary Marsden Travel Awards (GMTA). The GMTA accepts applications from SIGCHI members who are students, early career researchers, or those experiencing financial hardship or lack of…
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…
SIGCHI Equity Talks #1: Being Global
SIGCHI Equity Talks #1: Being Global March 8, 2021 @4.30pm GMT The video recording of this session will be posted on SIGCHI’s YouTube channel and linked here once professionally captioned. The next SIGCHI Equity Talk will be on Making SIGCHI Accessible,…