tldr; Publishing has material costs, and understanding the economics of non-profit publishing is important for meaningful discussions about open access Scholarly societies are non-profit organisations that sustain important community activities by reinvesting revenue from various sources, including publishing If we…
SIGCHI’s New Accessible Proceedings
SIGCHI is proud to announce that the CHI 2019 Proceedings are the first ACM conference proceedings to include responsive HTML articles. Look at the new proceedings formats available in the CHI 2019 Proceedings Table of Contents. This is a significant…
SIGCHI Report on Conferences
SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction) is led by the SIGCHI executive committee. Since SIGCHI first sponsored CHI, we have sponsored nearly 300 conferences and provided in-cooperation support to over 420. SIGCHI currently sponsor 24 conference series which includes CHI and…
Reviewer conduct
The following blog post was first published in March of 2017. In June SIGCHI was advised of the new ACM Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment for Members and Event Attendees. This blog post remains online as a record from March…
ACM Turing Celebration Event [student opportunity] apply by Feb 22
Applications are now invited from SIGCHI student members to represent SIGCHI at the 2017 ACM Turing Celebration Event. ACM’s “50 years of the ACM Turing Award” Celebration will be on June 23-24, 2017. At this, ACM Turing laureates will join other…