FY 2022 (Total awarded: USD 80,157)
Event/Initiative | Description | Category | Awarded | Month awarded | Items supported | Principal investigator and affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Dreaming Disability Justice in HCI | A CHI 22 workshop which will bring together researchers, designers, practitioners, activists, and community members to discuss disability as a framework that centers the needs and experiences of disabled people toward more equitable HCI. | Community | 1,187 | April 2022 | Registration for workshop attendees | Cella Sum; Carnegie Mellon University |
Global Plaza @ CHI2022 | Global Plaza is a meeting place at CHI 2022 for CHI research from around the world, aiming to foster global inclusion and equity and decrease barriers to collaboration among CHI researchers | Community | 4,940 | March 2022 | Registration waivers for students and professionals, catering, and promotional materials/signage | Annu Prabhakar; University of Cincinnati |
Workshop: “Crossing Data / Cruzar Datos: Building Bridges with Activist and Academic Practices from and for Latin America” | An online workshop at CHI 2022 to create space for Latin American academics and activists engaging with data to debate legitimacy and power dynamics in knowledge production about and with data, hosted in Spanish with English and Portuguese translations. | Community | 5,000 | March 2022 | Registration waivers for participants with limited resources | Milagros Miceli; Weizenbaum Institute / TU Berlin |
Social Justice Event - CHI 2022 | This project involves organizing online social justice events at CHI 2022, including ‘CHI mourns’ to recognize loss due to COVID-19 and reflect on prior years of CHI, a collaborative reflection session to create a manifesto for CHI 2032, and discussion around how conference practices can support historically marginalized people and local community engagement | Conferences | 4,500 | March 2022 | Fees for sketch note artist to record conversations | Minha Lee; Eindhoven University of Technology |
Inbodied Interaction Virtual Summer School 2021 | Interactive virtual seminar series conducted with leading experts on selected topics around Inbodied Interaction, aimed at inspiring discussions on forms of interaction. | Community | 4,000 | November 2021 | Honorariums for speakers | Josh Andres; Australian National University |
MexIHC 2021: Eighth Mexican Conference on Human-Computer Interaction | MexIHC plays a key role in providing a forum in which researchers, mainly from Mexico and other mostly Latin American countries, can meet to learn and share approaches to address common issues in HCI | Community | 3,500 | November 2021 | Hosting the conference online, support for students in the student design competition and the graduate colloquium, English language editing | Pedro Cesar Santana Mancilla; Universidad de Colima |
MUM 2021: 20th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia | MUM is a leading annual international conference for research on mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, bringing together experts from both academia and industry for a fruitful exchange of ideas and discussion on future challenges. | Community | 5,000 | November 2021 | Support and interactivity through online tools, registration waivers for student volunteers and invited panelists | Adalberto Simeone; KU Leuven |
Trans/Queer in HCI 1–1 Mentoring Program | The purpose of the Trans/Queer in HCI 1–1 Mentoring Program is to connect LGBTQIA+ people in the HCI field with professional and/or personal mentors. | Community | 5,000 | November 2021 | Cart services, American Sign Language interpreter | Oliver Haimson; University of Michigan |
CSCW 2021 Workshop on Citational Justice | A CSCW 2021 online workshop aimed at fostering more collective conversations on the politics of knowledge production in HCI. | Community | 2,900 | October 2021 | Registration waivers for attendees with financial need | Naveena Karusala; University of Washington |
CSCW 2021 Workshop on Social Computing and Collaborative Work in Latin America and Beyond | Members of the SIGCHI Latin America Committee (SLAC) organized a workshop at CSCW 2021 as a meeting and discussion space for Latin American researchers working on CSCW research, aimed at helping attendees connect with their peers, find collaborators, and discuss challenges and opportunities, to in turn help shape other initiatives for SLAC. | Community | 4,840 | September 2021 | Registration for participants from Latin America | Adriana Vivacqua; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
The Future of Care Work: Towards a Radical Politics of Care in CSCW Research and Practice | A CSCW 2021 workshop bringing together researchers and practitioners to discuss and build collaborations around the relationship between the politics of care and technology. | Community | 4,950 | September 2021 | Registration waivers for attendees with financial need | Karthik Bhat; Georgia Tech |
Broadening Participation in Social Computing Research and Practice through the CSCW 2021 Doctoral Consortium | The CSCW DC fosters young researchers in CSCW, providing mentorship and networking opportunities | Conferences | 500 | September 2021 | Travel grants for five students outside of the US | Anne Marie Piper and David Randall; University of California, Irvine, University of Siegen, Linnaeus University |
INTERACT 2021 | A bi-annual conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on Human-Computer Interaction. | Community | 1,800 | August 2021 | Support for five students in the Global South | Catherine Plaisant and Paolo Buono; University of Maryland, Università di Bari |
Improve inclusivity and diversity in UbiComp/ISWC 2021 | An effort to promote global diversity of participation and knowledge production at UbiComp, given that conference attendance does not yet reflect the global user community of UbiComp technologies. | Conferences | 3,050 | August 2021 | Registration waivers for participants from underrepresented areas | Saeed Abdullah; Penn State |
Sustaining and expanding the HCI community in Srishti Institute and Bangalore | An initiative to engage the Srishti SIGCHI Chapter community virtually, to bridge the gaps between students, academia and industry, and to provide resources and exposure to students who want to explore HCI. | Chapters | 600 | July 2021 | Subscriptions for Zoom, Zoho social, and Dovetail | Srinija Ghantasala; Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore. |
Latin American Conference on Human Computer Interaction | CLIHC is a premier conference that brings together the Latin American and international HCI research communities to discuss and exchange ideas, methods, approaches, and techniques for designing interactive user experiences. | Community | 10,000 | July 2021 | Registration waivers, support for registration logistics, software subscriptions (e.g., Zoom), publication support for proofreading and translation from Spanish to English | Claudia Lopez; Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria |
CHI Down Under Melbourne 2021 - Live Event | A physical gathering and celebration of local authors who had their research accepted at CHI 2021, with opportunities to present talks/posters, and receive questions and feedback from the local chapter. | Chapters | 2,000 | June 2021 | Subscription for Zoom account, refreshments | Jeni Paay; Swinburne University of Technology, Chair of SIGCHI Melbourne local chapter |
Interactive Experiences Exhibition at CHItaly 2021 | The Interactive Experiences is an interactive exhibition at CHItaly 2021 consisting of peer-reviewed prototypes and installations, selected for their outstanding ability to challenge the frontiers of HCI and engage different audiences in critical discourses; the exhibition will be adapted to a hybrid format to support accessibility and inclusivity. | Community | 5,000 | June 2021 | Materials to replicate submissions of artists who can't be present, shipping costs for submissions that cannot be replicated, financial support for SVs, captioning services | Maria Menendez-Blanco; Free University of Bolzano/Bozen (Italy) |
DIS 2021 (Unofficial) Virtual Events | Virtual events that are linked to DIS '21, where participants can meet each other in social spaces and also discuss their papers and pictorials during online sessions, to complement the conference's asynchronous interactions. | Conferences | 890 | June 2021 | Subscriptions for Gather.town, Zoom Pro, and Otter.ai | Kashyap Todi; Aalto University |
2021 CSST Summer Institute | Consortium for the Science of Sociotechnical Systems Research summer institutes connect ECRs with senior researchers from industry and academia to share ideas, define new research directions, provide career mentorship, and provide one another with feedback on ongoing projects. | Community | 10,000 | May 2021 | Lunch per diem and meal kits for attendees, reimbursement for childcare costs for mentors or mentees, administrative assistant to organize application review, meals, and reimbursements (given organizers' childcare responsibilities) | Katie Shilton; University of Maryland College Park |
HCI4SouthAsia Family Group @CHI2021 Meet-up | HCI4SouthAsia is creating a safe space co-located with the virtual CHI 2021 for those who may have difficulty attending the conference due to COVID-19 and other factors, in light of the rapidly increasing number of COVID-19 cases in the region and elsewhere, and the need for peer support and allyship within the SIGCHI community. | Community | 500 | May 2021 | Communication access real-time translation (CART) services | Pranjal Jain; theUXWhale, India |