Announcements

We are very pleased to announce the awardees for the 2025 cycle of the ACM SIGCHI Awards! Centrally administered by the SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC), these awards are given annually in several categories recognizing lifetime achievements in research and practice as well as societal impact and outstanding dissertations. Furthermore, the EC also inducts members into the SIGCHI Academy. The awardees will be formally recognized at the upcoming ACM CHI 2025 conference in Yokohama, Japan in April, during which they may give a talk or participate in a panel discussion. Here follow the awardees, organized by award category and then alphabetical order:

ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

• Paul Dourish - University of California, Irvine, USA

• Pattie Maes - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award

• Kia Höök - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

• Yoshifumi Kitamura - Tohoku University, Japan

• Aaron Quigley - CSIRO Data61, Australia

ACM SIGCHI Societal Impact Award

• Tiago Guierreiro - University of Lisbon, Portugal

• Alexis Hiniker - University of Washington, USA

• Kentaro Toyama - University of Michigan, USA

ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award

• Leona Holloway - Monash University, Australia

• Katerina Stepanova - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

• Anupriya Tuli - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

• Zijie Jay Wang - OpenAI, USA

• Nur Yildirim - University of Virginia, USA

ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2025

• Carl DiSalvo - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

• James Fogarty - University of Washington, USA

• Elizabeth Gerber - Northwestern University, USA

• Wendy Ju - Cornell Tech, USA

• Pattie Maes - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

• Joanna McGrenere - University of British Columbia, Canada

• Antti Oulasvirta - Aalto University, Finland

• Kate Starbird - University of Washington, USA

• Wolfgang Stuerzlinger - Simon Fraser University, Canada

• Kentaro Toyama - University of Michigan, USA

• Martin Wattenberg - Harvard University/Google, USA

ACM SIGCHI Special Recognitions Because of their exploratory nature, each special recognition is given with a citation.

• Gregory Abowd - Northeastern University, USA - For his extraordinary ability to inspire and mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds and his commitment to fostering collaboration, creativity, and impact.

• Cecilia Aragon - University of Washington, USA - For establishing human-centered data science as a new field bridging HCI and data science, demonstrating its impact through applications from astrophysics to energy systems.

• Nadia Campo Woytuk - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - For early-career research in intimate body-sensing technologies, developing open-source methods for studying intimate care, and creating inclusive maker spaces that support feminist HCI.

• Mark Colley - University College London, UK - For early-career contributions to inclusive HCI research, extensive community building, and championing open science in automotive user interfaces.

• Gustavo Lopez - University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica - For advancing HCI research and education in Latin America through community leadership, helping to establish regional SIGCHI chapters, and fostering collaboration in HCI.

• Jasmine Lu - University of Chicago, USA - For pioneering research in ecological HCI through novel hardware interfaces and fostering communities around sustainable computing.

• Jooyoung Park - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - For early-career contributions to feminist HCI and haptic technology design, advancing methodologies for embodied care technologies, and fostering inclusive research.

• Nadya Peek - University of Washington, USA - For democratizing automation through open-source hardware, building global maker communities, and bridging academic research with grassroots fabrication practices.

• Anicia Peters - National Commission of Research, Science and Technology, Namibia - For pioneering the development of HCI in Africa, transforming HCI education in Namibia, and applying human-centered approaches to critical societal challenges.

• Christian Sturm - Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany - For sustained contributions to global HCI education, building student communities across Latin America and Africa, and championing inclusive approaches to design competitions.

• The Google/academia Android XR interaction team - For pioneering the interaction framework of Android XR through exemplary industry-academia collaboration, establishing foundational input methods and interaction guidelines for XR operating systems.

  • Karan Ahuja (Northwestern University)

  • Andrea Colaco (Google)

  • Massimiliano Di Luca (University of Birmingham)

  • Hans Gellersen (Lancaster University)

  • Mar Gonzalez-Franco (Google)

  • Eric J. Gonzalez (Google)

  • Ken Pfeuffer (Aarhus University)

  • Hasti Seifi (Arizona State University)

Please see the 2025 awards blog post for more details. Congratulations to the awardees and thank you to the award committee for identifying these brilliant individuals!

Niklas Elmqvist, our Awards Chair, will very soon be announcing our 2025 awardees and special recognitions (new this year!). Today, we'd like to call your attention to the new ACM Fellows (Niklas among them!) and Distinguished Members with contributions to SIGCHI. Please join us in congratulating:

ACM’s 2024 Distinguished Members: Yunan Chen, Magy Seif El-Nasr, Nicole Ellison, Kim Marriott, Florian Schaub, Johannes Schöning, and Allison Woodruff

ACM’s 2024 Fellows: Susanne Bødker, Niklas Elmqvist, Jeffrey Heer, Scott Hudson, Cliff Lampe, Claudio T. Silva, and Thad Starner

And congratulations to Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, long time ACM and SIGCHI volunteer leader, for being elected to the French Academy of Sciences!

SIGCHI is lucky to have you be a part of it!

Please see the statement from ACM leadership this week (posted on the ACM homepage) on its commitment to the ACM mission and core values in all its scientific and educational activities!

If you have any related concerns/suggestions, please reach out to the SIGCHI President.

We are extending the deadline for SIGCHI award nominations until **Dec 19, midnight AoE**! Please make sure to get your nominations for awards and special recognitions in! More information and the link to the nomination form are on our awards webpage.

Nominations for the 2025 SIGCHI awards are now open! Please submit nominations by midnight AoE on December 14, 2024.

We also newly invite SIGCHI Special Recognitions to honor contributions that may not be fully captured by our existing awards, such as Excellence in HCI Education, Community Building and Outreach, and more! These will help us identify new permanent awards to propose for future cycles.

See our awards webpage for details about the awards and nomination process!

We are holding a Conferences Town Hall on Monday, October 28th, 2-3pm UTC (the first of what will be quarterly town halls)! Find details on our event page.

Following the SIGCHI Futures Summit earlier this year, the EC has been focused on supporting our conferences—with logistics, finances, ACM OPEN, and more. Come meet our new Conferences Team, hear key updates about our conferences and publications, and discuss how we can further strengthen support!

This is open to past/present/future chairs and organizers of any of our conferences, but any attendees of SIGCHI conferences are also invited to listen and provide input.

The SIGCHI Exec has submitted our annual report, highlighting SIG developments over the 23-24 fiscal year! We've also posted on our Medium publication if you'd like to read it. Thank you to the many current and prior members of the Exec who contributed to this!

We are excited to share that, starting this term, we will be posting announcements here for the SIGCHI community to stay updated on news---big and small---from the SIGCHI Exec! We aim for Announcements to support awareness and transparency of SIGCHI's operations. Stay tuned for updates ranging from new open calls, to decisions made by the Exec, to initiatives from our committees.