SIGCHI Award Nominations Process

Please nominate another SIGCHI member for an award by December 15 (extended from December 5), 2022, Anywhere on Earth (AoE) through our application form.

Nominations must include:

SIGCHI award nominations must include the following:  (See below for special instructions on submitting the Outstanding Dissertation Award.)

• A brief summary (maximum 1,000 words) of why the nominee is suited for the award
• Name and contact information of the nominator
• Names and contact information of two people who are knowledgeable about the qualifications of the nominee, and agree that the nominee deserves the award. These endorsers do not write a separate endorsement letter. The nominator confirms with the endorsers that they endorse the nominee.

The Outstanding Dissertation Award follows a special process detailed here.

Queries should be submitted as follows:

NOTE: There is no ‘s’ at the end of ‘award’ in the following email addresses.

• General questions: sigchi-ac-award@acm.org
• Nominations – SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award: sigchi-resprac-award@acm.org
• Nominations – SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award: sigchi-resprac-award@acm.org
• Nominations – SIGCHI Societal Impact Award: sigchi-socimp-award@acm.org
• Nominations – SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award: sigchi-service-award@acm.org
• Nominations – SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award: sigchi-dissert-award@acm.org
• Nominations – CHI Academy: sigchi-resprac-award@acm.org

Awards Subcommittees

For the 2023 Awards cycle, the SIGCHI awards are coordinated by SIGCHI Executive VP Andrew Kun. The awardees are selected from the nominations by the following subcommittees that are appointed by the SIGCHI Executive Committee.

• The SIGCHI Research Award subcommittee selects the recipients of the SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award, and elects individuals to the SIGCHI Academy.
  • Steve Benford
  • Jodi Forlizzi
  • Chris Schmandt
  • Clarisse de Souza
  • Fernanda Viegas
  • Jacob Wobbrock

• The SIGCHI Practice Award subcommittee selects the recipient of the SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award, and elects individuals to the SIGCHI Academy.
  • Sunny Consolvo (chair)
  • Zhengjie Liu
  • Jean Scholtz

• The SIGCHI Societal Impact Award subcommittee selects the recipients of the SIGCHI Societal Impact Award.
  • Shikoh Gitau
  • Jacki O’Neill
  • Leysia Palen (chair)

• The SIGCHI Service Award subcommittee selects the recipients of the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.
  • Maria Francesca Costabile
  • Anirudha Joshi
  • Philippe Palanque (chair)

• The SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award subcommittee selects the recipient(s) of the Outstanding Dissertation Award.
  • Ann Blandford
  • Niklas Elmqvist (chair)
  • Mary Gray
  • Carla Dal Sasso Freitas

We follow the ACM awards committee conflict of interest process. Additionally, SIGCHI EC members are not eligible for awards (except for past presidents, who are). In practice, this means that the listed EC members from President through Vice President for Operations, as well as the Adjunct Chairs, are not eligible. Also note that subcommittee members are eligible for awards from other subcommittees.