[CHI] SIGCHI Awards: Lifetime Practice Award
CHI 2022Come see Lifetime Practice Award winner, Steven Pemberton, present his contributions as a practitioner. Abstract: Imagine, hypothetically, that programmers are humans ... despite all evidence to the contrary: * They work at night, and sleep during the day; * They…
Greenery Day
The present observation of Greenery Day as a national holiday in Japan stems from the celebration of the birthday of the Emperor Shōwa on April 29 every year during the Shōwa era. In 1989, following the ascension of the Emperor…
[CHI] SIGCHI Awards: Social Impact Awards Panel
CHI 2022Join us for a panel discussion with the SIGCHI Social Impact awardees for this year: Liz Gerber, Jennifer Mankoff, and Aaditeshwar Seth. This session will begin with a short presentation from each of the awardees, before we together explore topics…
[CHI] SIGCHI@40 Plenary Panel
CHI 2022As SIGCHI turns 40, it is time for us to take stock of the last 40 years, and plan for the decades to come. The SIGCHI Executive Committee brings together panelists spanning diverse backgrounds, experiences, and career stages across the…
[CHI] Equity Talks @SIGCHI
CHI 2022The Executive Committee (EC) of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI) organized a series of ten equity talks from March 2021 to August 2021. These were hour-long recorded virtual roundtable sessions, for which we solicited participation from the…
Yom HaAtzmaut
Jewish
Children’s Day
Children's Day (子供の日, Kodomo no hi) is a Japanese national holiday which takes place annually on May 5 and is the final celebration in Golden Week. It is a day set aside to respect children's personalities and to celebrate their…
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
[CHI] SIGCHI Chapters Breakfast
CHI 2022All Chapters representatives are invited for a conversation over breakfast around planning initiatives and augmenting support for SIGCHI Chapters.
[CHI] Closing Plenary
CHI 2022Abstract: In recent years, femtech - ‘female technologies’ has received increased attention and venture capital funding, with some celebrating this as a feminist approach to design. While commendable in opening spaces for other genders, these efforts are tethered to the…
Public Lecture Series: Critical Perspectives on Technology
Technologies invade our everyday lives, take part in constructing our identity, classify (often violently) bodies, and, pushed by recent regulations on social distancing, play an expanding role in connecting families and friends. The effects of this rapid increase of technological…
Buddha Purnima/Vesak
Vesak (Buddha Purnima, Buddha Jayanti) is a Buddhist festival that marks Gautama Buddha's birth, enlightenment and death. It falls on the day of the Full Moon in April or May and it is a gazetted holiday in India. Source: Wikipedia
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