Introduction
The SIGCHI Sustainability Committee is dedicated to fostering a culture of social and environmental sustainability. Constituted in April 2022, the Sustainability Committee advises the SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC) on actions and policies to improve global ecological well-being through the impact of SIGCHIās work, along with undertaking activities towards achieving socio-ecological transformation. The Sustainability Committee recognizes that committing to ecological responsibility necessitates an HCI culture that engages with the imaginations of diverse communities and is socially just. Thus, the committee considers the processes and dynamics of globalized development, as variously experienced in different contexts, in considering ecological sustainability. The SIGCHI Sustainability Committee is a part of the SIGCHI EC.
Our vision
- To significantly reduce all environmental costs of the conferences that SIGCHI supports
- To promote sustainability at SIGCHI events by developing policies and guidelines
- To mitigate the local socio-ecological impacts of global HCI activities and propose offsetting measures
- To embed sustainability as a foundational value of HCI research, design, practice, and education
- To work on ethically sustainable research guidelines and sustainable HCI curricula
Our activities
- Announcing the CHIā23 Sustainability chairs
- Gƶzel Shakeri (University of Oldenburg, Germany) and Matthew Louis Mauriello (University of Delaware, Delaware, USA) recently joined the CHI2023 planning committee as Sustainability Co-Chairs. Gƶzel and Matthew are meeting with prior yearsā Sustainability Chairs across ACM SIGCHI conferences to learn what works, what does not, and how to make CHI2023 the most sustainable conference yet. In addition to continuing to make progress on past yearās conference successes (e.g., reducing waste, benchmarking carbon costs, promoting ethical and sustainable sourcing), the co-chairs plan to set new agenda items that promote a holistic approach to sustainability at the conference informed by their involvement with SIGCHI which you will hear more about in their future online correspondences.
Committee Members
Nic Bidwell, Chair
Aalborg University, Denmark and International University of Management, Namibia
Aaditeshwar Seth
Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India
Diego Casado-Mansilla
University of Deusto, Bilbao, Spain
Gƶzel Shakeri
University of Oldenburg, Germany
Jasmine Lu
University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Jason Jacques
University of St Andrews, Scotland
Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor
Australian National University, Canberra, Australia
Matthew Louis Mauriello
University of Delaware, Delaware, USA
Patrick Gage Kelley
Tengxiang Zhang
Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Vishal Sharma
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
Calls for new members
To ensure the Sustainability Committee comprises people from all geographical regions, we are eager to specifically recruit two more members to represent Latin America and Africa, respectively. To be a part of the Sustainability Committee, please fill in the open call.
Contact
If you have any questions or sustainability-related concerns, we would like to hear from you.
Please contact us by emailing the committee at sigchi-sustain@acm.org. You may also contact the Sustainability Committee Chair at nic.bidwell@gmail.com.