The 2020 SIGCHI Chapter Website Competition is the first website competition for ACM SIGCHI local chapters, both professionals and students. This competition was held to serve as a recognition for SIGCHI chapters who are nurturing their website to curate their…
Open Call for the SIGCHI Social Impact Awards Chair
SIGCHI is looking for nominations for the SIGCHI Social Impact Awards chair. Please see here for information on the nomination process: https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-nominations/ For general information on SIGCHI awards, see here https://sigchi.org/awards/ If you are interested in serving in this role, please complete…
SIGCHI’s Ask Me Anything (AMA) Sessions
Earlier this summer, we shared the SIGCHI Executive Committee’s commitment to listen, reflect, act, and represent. As a next step, we are working to create channels that might better enable us to listen (and respond) to concerns and questions from…
SIGCHI Chapter Newsletter 2020
The ACM SIGCHI Chapter Newsletter highlights SIGCHI Local Chapters’ stories in reaching out to their local communities. If you have any relevant and interesting stories for the upcoming newsletter, please send them to sigchi-vp-chapters@acm.org #01 – July 2020 #02…
SIGCHI Executive Committee Election Details
Summary. This is the third in a series of posts about the SIGCHI Election. It gives an overview of the election, including how you can vote, which will take place in Spring 2021. The first two posts in the series…
SIGCHI Executive Committee Roles and Responsibilities
Summary. This is the second in a series of posts about the SIGCHI Election. It gives an overview of the Executive Committee elected positions. The first post in the series is here, and the third is here. SIGCHI is run…
Join Us for Upcoming SIGCHI EC Ask Me Anything Sessions!
In line with the SIGCHI Executive Committee’s commitment to listen, reflect, act, and represent, we are creating channels to better listen (and respond) to concerns and questions from SIGCHI members. Members of the SIGCHI EC are organizing virtual AMAs (Ask-Me-Anything sessions) for inviting inputs and feedback on matters they…
Call for Nominations for Candidates for the SIGCHI Executive Committee Election
Summary. SIGCHI elections will take place during Spring 2021; all SIGCHI members can vote. We are posting an open call for people who wish to be considered as candidates; nominations due by November 20, 2020. We will announce the slate…
18 Months of SIGCHI Operations
In January of 2019, I stepped into the volunteer role of ACM SIGCHI VP of Operations. I must confess, I didn’t know what operations did exactly but I was told it was to run the technologies for the SIG and…
SIGCHI and CHI 2020 Town Hall
Every year, the SIGCHI Executive Committee and the CHI Steering Committee hold a Town Hall event at the CHI conference to share updates from our organization and to field questions from the community. With the disruption in the physical conference…