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SIGCHI Report: Developing our Volunteer Community

The SIGCHI Volunteer Development Committee–Monica Pereira, Heloisa Candello, Ceara Byrne, George Raptis, Stanislava Gardasevic and Mark Perry SIGCHI is an organisation that is led and supported by volunteers. SIGCHI survives on volunteering, and volunteer roles range widely — from becoming…

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The New ACM Violations Database

Recently, at the ACM’s SIG Governing Board Meeting, the ACM CEO, Vicki Hanson, presented the ACM’s Violations Database and the plan to use this database to monitor and enforce sanctions that have been imposed by ACM governing bodies on members.…

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The SIGCHI membership is becoming international

SIGCHI’s members are becoming more and more international. By the end of April, we currently have 2878 members. 1239 members indicated to live in the U.S. compared to 1580 members choosing one of the 258 other labels that you can…

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…

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…

Responses to the CHI2019 SIGCHI Townhall

This blog post is about some of the key issues facing both the CHI conference in specific, and the SIGCHI community overall. The questions came from the townhall at CHI2019. Traditionally, the townhall has been more related to SIGCHI business,…

New SIGCHI EC VPs and ACs Announced

In July 2018 a new set of elected SIGCHI EC members began their term. As outlined in a prior blog post, a strong value for this EC is to be Open. This refers to both having public processes as well as…

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