Committees

Contact: SIGCHI-Asian-Develop@acm.org

The SIGCHI Conferences Board is a committee which supports the Vice President of Conferences in SIGCHI Conference related activities. Its membership is approved by the SIGCHI Executive Committee and includes nominees from the Vice President of Conferences and the SIGCHI Council of Steering Committee Chairs (CSCC), outlined below. Members of this committee typically hold the role of incoming, current or past conference Steering Committee (SC) chair for a SIGCHI specialized conference or CHI, or have commensurate levels of experience with conference management. The current board for 2020 includes:

Chair: Andrew Kun, Interim Vice President for Conferences, sigchi-VP-Conferences@acm.org

Updated: February 2021

Conferences working group

This working group supports the ACM SIGCHI Vice President for Conferences in operational aspects of the SIGCHI conference series e.g. banner development, calendar management, in-cooperation approvals, translation, surveys and community development.

Chair: Andrew Kun, Interim Vice President for Conferences, sigchi-VP-Conferences@acm.org

• Yenny Alexandra Méndez Alegría, National Open and Distance University (UNAD), (Colombia)
• Luigi De Russis, 
Politecnico di Torino – Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica, (Italy)
• Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin, (Ireland)
• Swathi Jagannath, 
Drexel University, (USA)
• Max L. Wilson, 
University of Nottingham, (UK)

Updated: March 2019

When a conference has been organized under the auspices of SIGCHI with the (co-)sponsored status (of at least 50%), the VP for Conferences will support the creation of a steering committee (SC) for that conference (if not already existing). The chair of this committee will be the privileged contact point with SIGCHI EC and VP for Conferences providing feedback on the issues faced by the conference series and transferring information and procedures to the organizers of the next conferences of that series. The chair will become a member of SIGCHI Council of Steering Committee Chairs (CSCC).

Interim Chair: Andrew Kun, Vice President for Conferences, sigchi-VP-Conferences@acm.org

notes:

1. Collaboration across Boundaries: Culture, Distance, & Technology (CABS) retired as a conference series in 2017.
2. ISS was formerly called ITS
3. Held annually since 2017 and every two years before that
4. Held annually since 2016 and every two years before that.
5. This series used to be called TVX: ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video and it is now called IMX the ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences
   imx.acm.org

Geographic Inclusion
Prabhakar, Annu (prabhaab) PRABHAAB@ucmail.uc.edu
Ishtiaque Ahmed ishtiaque@cs.toronto.edu
Cleidson Ronald Botelho de Souza cleidson.desouza@acm.org
This team is exploring three areas to support geographic inclusion within SIGCHI: Regional specific events, collaborations and support of scholarly work, highlighting regional research collaboration.

Inclusion Team for Data
Michael Muller michael_muller@us.ibm.com
Jofish Kaye jofish@jofish.com
Data Team has been working with the ACM to standardize the questions for gathering demographic data across the entire ACM. This is using a discussion which started within SIGCHI as a basis. They will also be helping to create one combine Inclusion survey to be sent to the SIGCHI membership.

SIGCHI D&I Events
Johnsen, Jessica A jajohnsen@nmhu.edu

STRiDE SiG (Striving Towards Representing the Diversity and Equity of Sexualities and Genders)
Morgan Klaus Scheuerman morgan.klaus@colorado.edu
This team is focusing on support for gender & sexual identity inclusion across all SIGCHI conferences. They are asking how gender & identity can be included, in writing, reading,  and reviewing and exploring dissemination of information in different forms to different members.

Accessibility Inclusion Team
Siddharth Mehrotra
Collaboration with SICHI Accessibility Group, addressing the issue of Content Accessibility that was raised as an unmet goal in their Accessibility Report with a specific focus on ‘creating guidelines to use as a standard’. 

Research Inclusion Team
Katie Wainwright (Google Researcher ChromeOS + Chromebooks a11y UX Researcher) kwainwright@google.com  
This team is exploring how to leverage the research currently being led by many HCI researchers and understanding how to apply  it to the challenges that face the SIGCHI professional community both for academic and industry professionals. They have begun by working on survey questions for the survey.

(Updated May 20, 2021)

Contact: sigchi-latam@acm.org

Contact: sigchi-vp-operations@acm.org

For all things Video, contact: sigchi-video@acm.org

Past Operations Members: Patrick Gauge Kelly (Design), David Lindlbauer (Video) Scooter Morris (VP), Dan Olsen (VP), Roman Rädle (Video), Fred Sampson (VP), David A. Shamma (VP), Madeline E. Smith (Archive), David Karger (VP)

The SIGCHI Research Ethics Committee is an appointed committee that facilitates community conversations about ethical issues, and reviews SIGCHI policies and procedures relevant to ethics.

See the Research Ethics Group on Facebook.

Contact: chi-research-ethics@acm.org

Contact: sigchi-volunteers@acm.org