SIGCHI is a membership-based, volunteer-driven organization, and every three years, it holds an election for some of its officers (called the Executive Committee.) 2021 is an election year, and this is the first of a short series of posts explaining…
Announcing the SIGCHI Executive Committee Candidates
Summary. This is the fourth in a series of posts about the SIGCHI Executive Committee Election. The first post introduced the process of assembling a list of candidates and contained an open call for nominations; the second post described Executive…
Vision for an Accessible SIGCHI
Stacy Branham, Soraia PrietchACM SIGCHI EC Adjunct Chairs of Accessibility Across the globe and throughout history, people with disabilities have been excluded from and even harmed by public institutions, including the academy (e.g., ). Within ACM SIGCHI, where our mission…
Welcoming The New Interim VP of Operations
For the past two years, I served as VP of Operations under SIGCHI. The role oversees our technology in the SIG. In my time, I helped shape our efforts around scalability, reachability, sustainability, and accessibility. Further, I’m incredibly proud of…
Gary Marsden Travel Awards
For a few years now, we have been issuing travel grants to SIGCHI student members. These have been sponsored by three SIGCHI funds: the Gary Marsden Student Development Fund (GMF — for students living and studying in the Global South), the SIGCHI Student…
SIGCHI Community and Conference Calendars
In June 2020, when the world was aggressively shifting its official/unofficial events and activities online, we had blogged about plansto put together a calendar of virtual community-organized events for our global membership. This was with the goal of staying connected…
Upcoming AMAs: Equity, Accessibility, Outreach
As part of the SIGCHI Executive Committee’s commitment to listen, reflect, act, and represent, this summer we began holding Ask Me Anything (AMA) sessions. Links to recordings and notes about the previous AMAs are included at the bottom of this post,…
Towards a More Equitable, Accessible, and Responsive SIGCHI
The SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC) has spent the last two years working to ensure greater equity, inclusion, and responsiveness within SIGCHI. Allison Druin, who served as our Adjunct Chair for Diversity & Inclusion from July 2018 to June 2020, started us off…
The 2020 SIGCHI Chapter Website Competition: Best Three Announced
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…