SIGCHI is co-sponsoring the (re)presented Initiative, coordinated by community members Rua Williams and Jennifer Mankoff. Please see their message:

Over recent months, we have held a series of listening sessions with the larger community of folks affected by travel restrictions for a wide variety of reasons (e.g., disability, parenting, visas). Over and over we have heard that the most challenging impacts travel restrictions have on careers relates to networking and visibility. In that vein, we have proposed a new initiative, to be jointly sponsored by AccessSIGCHI, SIGACCESS, and SIGCHI, focused on creating presentation opportunities for individuals affected by these restrictions. Each of our university and industry partners will be asked to reserve at least one slot per year in their existing seminar series to build a distributed seminar series for the “unrepresented presentations” of our various conferences. We are hoping to launch this fall; in the meantime we need to form an organizing committee and are seeking volunteers.

If you are interested in helping, please reach out to us through this form: https://tinyurl.com/unheard-initiative. You are also invited to join our mailing list, ACCESS-COMMUNITY@listserv.acm.org, to hear more about this and related initiatives.

On Thursday, April 3, we will be holding two open sessions on conferences and contingency planning, at 1pm UTC (in your timezone) and 9pm UTC (in your timezone). Each of them will be ~45 minutes long.

We have heard concerns from members of our community regarding ongoing events that are likely to impact conference participation with downstream effects on member and conference wellbeing. In response, we are organizing this forum to make space for concerns, brainstorm contingency plans, and find ways to keep the conversation going.

Session 1

When: Thursday, April 3, 1pm UTC

Zoom: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/92832082471?pwd=YS579Yf0c8N8keEHzVzMhWLzuCfMbH.1

Session 2

When: Thursday, April 3, 9pm UTC

Zoom: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/94343319281?pwd=yk9irEY55CzzSLTtys6IfHRPucHxlc.1

The CHI Steering Committee will be holding Zoom discussions on peer review for CHI. Details from the committee are below:

The CHI Steering Committee (SC) wants to hear from the SIGCHI community on future guidelines for minimum qualifications for peer review roles at CHI, to help ensure quality reviews and a process aligned with SIGCHI policies and values. A working group on peer review for CHI has put together these recommendations. Please read the proposed guidance and join us for synchronous zoom sessions to discuss.

CHI: Roles Criteria Meeting 1

Tuesday, April 8 8:00 US Pacific time (https://dateful.com/eventlink/2790013081 for conversion to your timezone)

Link: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/99753002498?pwd=C719K2N7ZXJFB85rKjsDLoiiJ35NmN.1

Meeting ID: 997 5300 2498

Passcode: 798421

CHI: Roles Criteria Meeting 2

Tuesday, April 8 20:00 US Pacific time (https://dateful.com/eventlink/1362461404 for conversion to your timezone)

Link: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/91420574901?pwd=L2IqX3lKiAdkiz8Yfn1wyAAjW6SkAY.1

Meeting ID: 914 2057 4901

Passcode: 719802

We want to hear from you! The Steering Committee will meet immediately after CHI to consider your feedback before moving forward with recommendations for future CHI conferences.

We look forward to your input!

Katherine Isbister and Regan Mandryk on behalf on the CHI Steering Committee and Peer Review Workgroup