FY 2021 SIGCHI Development Fund Recipients

FY 2021 (Total awarded: USD 88,845)

Event/Initiative

Description

Category

Awarded

Month awarded

Items supported

Principal investigator and affiliation

XX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems (IHC2021)

The Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC) is the main scientific event in the field of Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil, aiming to support accessibility and diversity through registration waivers, childcare, and accessibility services.

Community

4,000

June 2021

Web conferencing and streaming, audience engagement tools, mailed coffee break kits, Brazilian Sign Language interpretation, technical support staff

Kamila Rodrigues; University of São Paulo - (USP)

Support Student Participation at ACM UMAP 2021

A travel fund to enable more students, especially authors, volunteers, and doctoral consortium attendees, to present their work at UMAP, communicate with the community, and enhance their career opportunities.

Conferences

4,080

May 2021

Virtual registration waivers for students authors and student volunteers outside of the US

Yong Zheng; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA

CHI Mentoring Workshop 2021 (CHIMe 2021)

Virtual CHI workshop designed to bring together underrepresented HCI students, faculty, and researchers to help students build relationships/networks with their peers and leaders, provide a welcoming environment for mentoring and collaboration, and encourage students’ participation at CHI.

Community

2,500

April 2021

CART, lunch gift cards for students

Martez Mott; Microsoft Research

24 Hours of UX

A 24 hour-long online conference about UX, featuring communities from around the globe, with the potential to connect practitioners with academics and SIGCHI.

Community

5,000

April 2021

Virtual conference platform

Keith Instone; 24 Labs

Interactive Technology for Cycling — ideate, make – remote, together (related to the already accepted grant 'International HCI Summer School on Cycling')

Virtual workshop connecting academic and industry actors working in the fields of bicycle interaction, user interfaces, mobility, and related areas.

Community

4,000

April 2021

Bicycle/helmet rent, hardware kits, shipping for hardware kits

Andrii Matviienko; Technical University of Darmstadt

Physical and digital worlds - new interaction possibilities with data and 3D printing

An online innovation event devoted to exploring the opportunities 3D printing and design tools bring to user interfaces and interactions, engaging students, researchers, and makers

Community

5,000

April 2021

Tools for marketing, collaboration tools, software licenses, 3D printing services, crowdsourcing services, prototyping materials

Pekka Ketola; 3DStep Oy, Ideascout Oy

Annual CairoCHI ACM SIGCHI Chapter event (IrisX2021)

An annual gathering for professionals, researchers, and students interested in HCI, UX, and UI design, supporting ties between Egyptian and Arab academic and industry actors.

Community

2,000

March 2021

Translation services, video editing services

Yasmeen Abdrabou; Cairo ACM SIGCHI Chapter (CairoCHI)

Towards Explainable and Trustworthy Autonomous Physical Systems

CHI workshop for social scientists, AI researchers, and practitioners to discuss issues surrounding the design, implementation, and deployment of autonomous physical systems in society

Community

3,750

March 2021

Conference registration for students and early careers

Daniel Omeiza; University of Oxford

Living through Touch – Smart Haptic Communication for Inclusion, Accessibility and Participation

Three-day virtual symposium aimed at communicating research findings on ubiquitous, accessible interactive systems for social interaction and independent mobility designed with and for the Deafblind community, engaging individuals with deafblindness, their relatives, professionals (interpreters, interveners, caregivers, educators), HCI researchers, policy-makers, and industry members interested in haptic communication.

Community

3,075

March 2021

Brazilian and French sign language interpretation

Arthur Thiel; Offenburg University

IMX 2021 Virtual Conference: Diversifying Participation

Expansion of community-oriented virtual experience at IMX by increasing accessibility and diversifying participation

Conferences

10,000

March 2021

Registration for students, SVs, and early careers, carer support, panel honorariums

Aisling Kelliher; Virginia Tech (D&I Chair for IMX 2021)

Asian CHI Symposium

A joint event between Southeast Asia and Japanese CHI Symposia held at CHI conferences since 2017, introducing many Asian researchers and practitioners to the CHI community and bringing them to share and publish novel research ideas

Community

4,940

March 2021

Workshop registration for those with financial need

Josh (Adi) Tedjasaputra; Customer Experience Insight Pty Ltd

AfriCHI 2021

A pan-African conference that brings together researchers, academics, practitioners, industry professionals, and students who are African, are based in Africa, or undertake or collaborate on HCI and Interaction Design projects about Africa

Community

2,000

March 2021

Conference costs to enable lower registration fees

David Lamas; Tallinn University

HCI capacity building: Knowledge, Cultural and collaborative learning with indeginous communities in Timor Leste

An initiative to expand and conctextualize HCI in Timor Leste, reaching local researchers, postgraduate students, industry partners, and academics for the purpose of knowledge exchange and capacity-building in the region

Community

5,000

November 2020

One-year subscription for Zoom and Miro, website development, video production, honorarium for mentors and speakers at workshops, local interpreters, design materials, printing certificates

Eiad Yafi; Universiti Kuala Lumpur

HCI Teaching in a Pandemic: Current Chances and Challenges

An event to bring together the global HCI community to reflect on how the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the world, University life, and classroom teaching, and to address the need for new teaching models

Community

5,000

September 2020

Web development for repo of useful materials produced at the workshop, assembly and shipping of technology kits to enable participants to join the virtual event while on the move and from any location

Luke Haliburton; LMU Munich

UIST 2020 Virtual Conference

Initiative to provide a virtual conference experience that will be engaging and interactive and that will exceed the commonplace conference experience that many virtual conference attendees partake in today

Conferences

5,000

September 2020

Online platform, accessibility testing, freelance developr who can connect conference websites and platforms, registration waivers for students

David Lindlbauer; ETH Zurich

Drawing Futures – Speculations in SIGCHI

A series of 5 hands-on virtual events to use drawing as a rich, diverse, inventive, and critical tool to speculate SIGCHI in the year 2025, bringing together researchers and practitioners that represent the international/diverse HCI community to consider future research and practice bridges, interdisciplinarity, underrepresented groups, new frontiers in HCI, and community building and maintenance

Community

1,400

September 2020

Zoom and Mural subscriptions, Visualizer to ensure participants can clearly see (live) drawings/instruction form facilitator/tutor, Adobe Photoshop and InDesign, Wordpress to deliver outputs, honorariums for sketching facilitator/tutor, Zine creator, and editor

Makayla Lewis; Birmingham City University

HCI and Design in South Asia

As part of a broader initiative, the South Asian HCI community hopes to build an online community to share relevant pedagogical content, host virtual meetings, and engage in collaborative projects

Community

5,000

September 2020

Google Suite, Mural, Slido, Slack, support for teachers, production team for video editing, equipment and setup for meetings

Pranjal Jain; TheUXWhale, India | Srishti SIGCHI Chapter

XIX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC'20)

The Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC) is the main scientific event in the field of Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil, aiming to support accessibility and diversity through registration waivers, childcare, and accessibility services.

Community

3,000

September 2020

Audience engagement tools, coffee break kits, Brazilian Sign Language interpretation

Maria Lúcia Bento Villela; Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM)

Online Collaboration Workshop

An initiative to strengthen the Brazilian CSCW community, aimed at increasing submissions for the Brazilian Symposium of Collaborative Systems and building out the scientific research network between the Brazilian community and the Latin American community investigating Online Collaboration

Community

5,000

September 2020

Zoom, Mentimeter, Slack, Slido, data storage for hosting recordings, sign language interpretation, translating and subtitling, website translation services, designer for website and other materials, Trello, Padlet

Juliana Baptista dos Santos França; Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro

SydCHI Research Day

The Sydney ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter, “SydCHI”, aims to promote local research collaboration and activities in the Sydney region and this virtual HCI workshop aims to (1) understand the community and its strengths, (2) formulate collaborative research agendas, and (3) identify partners and expand the community

Community

3,600

September 2020

Samsung Gear 360 to record scenes for online meeting platform, VR cases for smartphones to view meeting spaces, SydCHI goodies, delivered lunches

Wafa Johal; University of New South Wales

Co-designing a Dataset with Black and Latinx Deaf/Hearing Communities

A project to bring together Black and Latinx adults from deaf and hearing communities to co-design and label a dataset of significant environmental sounds, and methodologies for populating that dataset

Community

5,000

September 2020

Hardware, server, gift cards for co-designers, interpretation/ASL services

Donna Auguste; Auguste Research Group, LLC

Broadening Participation in Social Computing Research and Practice through the CSCW2020 Doctoral Consortium

An initiative to expand participation at the CSCW DC by covering registration for students outside of the U.S.

Conferences

500

September 2020

Registration waivers for international/non-US students

Jennifer Thom; Spotify