At our community’s recent Equity Talk roundtable discussion about Making SIGCHI Accessible, many community members articulated a need for people with a wide range of expertise in accessibility–especially those who have lived experience of disability–from around the globe to be…
Gary Marsden Travel Awards Recipients (March 2021)
The Gary Marsden Travel Awards (GMTA) aims to support SIGCHI members who are students or early career researchers in attending HCI conferences, events, and (for early career researchers in particular) collaboration visits for mentorship. In January and March 2021 application…
Building Community @SIGCHI
We have a new “Community” page: https://sigchi.org/community/ to offer members a space to share information and updates within SIGCHI. Right now it has (1) our Events Calendar, (2) our Holidays Calendar, (3) the Voices of SIGCHI blog feed, and (4) a…
SIGCHI Equity Talks #1: Being Global
SIGCHI Equity Talks #1: Being Global March 8, 2021 @4.30pm GMT The video recording of this session will be posted on SIGCHI’s YouTube channel and linked here once professionally captioned. The next SIGCHI Equity Talk will be on Making SIGCHI Accessible,…
2021 SIGCHI Executive Committee Election Instructions
Now that you know about the 2021 Executive Committee election, and which positions are up for election, this post will explain how you can vote in this year’s election. Step 1: Be an active SIGCHI member before the voter registration deadline of…
Equity Talks @SIGCHI
ET#1: Being Global on *MARCH 8 1630 GMT* (Zoom/Sli.do) As the SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC) nears the end of its current term, we are putting together a series of community-facing roundtable sessions that we’re calling Equity Talks. These will aim to…
2021 SIGCHI Award Recipients
SIGCHI is very pleased to announce its 2021 Award Recipients. You can find more details about the awardees here: https://sigchi.org/awards/sigchi-award-recipients/2021-sigchi-awards/ SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award: Scott Hudson – Carnegie Mellon University (U.S.) SIGCHI Lifetime Practice Award: John T. Richards– IBM (U.S.) SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award:…
Gary Marsden Travel Awards Recipients (January 2021)
Congratulations to the recipients of the Gary Marsden Travel Awards from the January 2021 cycle! Juan Carlos Alvarez de la Vega, Northumbria University, UK (CHI 2021)Yulia Goldenberg, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (CHI 2021)So Yeon Park, Stanford University, USA…
2021 SIGCHI Executive Committee Election
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…