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…
Vision for an Accessible SIGCHI
Stacy Branham, Soraia PrietchACM SIGCHI EC Adjunct Chairs of Accessibility See our 2021 End-of-Term Update 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…
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…