Stacy Branham, Soraia PrietchACM SIGCHI EC Adjunct Chairs of Accessibility See our 2021 End-of-Term Update Across the globe and throughout history, people with disabilities have been excluded from and even harmed by public institutions, including the academy (e.g., ). Within ACM…
Gary Marsden Travel Awards
For a few years now, we have been issuing travel grants to SIGCHI student members. These have been sponsored by three SIGCHI funds: the Gary Marsden Student Development Fund (GMF — for students living and studying in the Global South), the SIGCHI Student…
SIGCHI Community and Conference Calendars
In June 2020, when the world was aggressively shifting its official/unofficial events and activities online, we had blogged about plansto put together a calendar of virtual community-organized events for our global membership. This was with the goal of staying connected…
The 2020 SIGCHI Chapter Website Competition: Best Three Announced
The 2020 SIGCHI Chapter Website Competition is the first website competition for ACM SIGCHI local chapters, both professionals and students. This competition was held to serve as a recognition for SIGCHI chapters who are nurturing their website to curate their…
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…
Open Call for SIGCHI Development Fund Committee
A recent post laid out the details of the SIGCHI Development Fund, explaining the types of projects it is meant for, and listing some examples of what has been funded in the past. As we make efforts to expand these…
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: 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…
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…