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…
Notes on SIGCHI Budget FY20
In the context of FY20 SIGCHI budget, this blog looks at what has been the SIGCHI balances, how much it really should be, and how we are doing.
Open Call for SIGCHI Asian Development Committee Volunteers
ACM SIGCHI is the premier international society for professionals, academics and students who are interested in human-technology and human-computer interaction (HCI). Traditionally, a large part of membership of ACM SIGCHI came from, and many of its activities have happened in…