SIGCHI Award Nominations Process

The deadline for all nominations is Nov. 13, 2020 Extended: December 11, 2020. 

Submit nominations here:
https://sigchi.submittable.com/submit/175157/awards-2020-2021

As of November, 2017, the nomination process has slightly changed. The selection subcommittees are now public, and there is a required nomination process. We welcome and encourage numerous nominations. Please keep in mind that lobbying (even informally) of committee members is not allowed.  Nominations are rolled over from year to year, but we encourage new nominations to be submitted for all candidates.

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 how the nominee meets the criteria for the award;
• the nominee’s CV;
• Name and contact information of the nominator
• Names and contact information of two people who are knowledgeable about the qualifications of and endorse the nominee (nothing is required by the endorser beyond their agreement that the nominee deserves the award).

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 Social 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 – SIGCHI Special Recognition Award: sigchi-resprac-award@acm.org
• Nominations – CHI Academy: sigchi-resprac-award@acm.org

About the Awards Committees and the Decision Process

The SIGCHI awards are overseen by the SIGCHI Adjunct Chair for Awards, currently Gloria Mark.  The awardees are selected from the nominations by the following committees that are appointed by the SIGCHI Executive Committee.

• The SIGCHI Research and Practice Awards subcommittee selects the recipients of the SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award, the SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award, the SIGCHI Special Recognition Award, and elects individuals to the CHI Academy.
  • Elisabeth André
  • Patrick Baudisch (chair)
  • Clarisse de Souza
  • Anind Dey
  • Jodi Forlizzi
  • Jeff Johnson
  • Zhengjie Liu
  • John Stasko

• The SIGCHI Social Impact Award subcommittee selects the recipient of the SIGCHI Social Impact Award.
  • Leysia Palen (chair)
  • Indrani Medhi Thies
  • Leysia Palen
  • Terry Winograd

• The SIGCHI Service Award subcommittee selects the recipient of the SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award.
  • Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (chair)
  • Maria Francesca Costabile
  • Susan Dray
  • John Thomas
  • Gerrit van der Veer

• The SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award subcommittee selects the recipient(s) of the Outstanding Dissertation Awards.
  • Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa
  • Jeff Bigham
  • Sue Fussell
  • Richard Harper
  • Niklas Elmqvist (chair)
  • Judy Kay
  • Hideki Koike
  • Ian Oakley
  • Albrecht Schmidt

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 Chair for Awards are not eligible. Also note that subcommittee members are eligible for awards from other subcommittees.

Gloria Mark
Adjunct Chair for Awards