FY 2023 SDF Recipients

FY 2023 (Total awarded: USD 246,187)

Event/Initiative

Description

Category

Awarded

Month awarded

Items supported

Principal investigator and affiliation

1st BR-CHI Research and Collaboration Workshop

Brazilian ACM SIGCHI Chapter's first workshop to stimulate collaborative research in HCI and CSCW.

Chapters

6,400

May 2023

Transport and accommodation for mentors, accommodation for student participants, and interpretation of Brazilian Sign Language

Leticia Santos Machado; Federal University of Jequitinhonha and Mucuri Valleys (UFVJM)

AccessSIGCHI Meetup at CHI 2023

Meet up for disabled and/or neurodivergent members of the HCI community at CHI, hosted by AccessSIGCHI to create a safe space vital for mentoring and networking for disabled scholars and practitioners.

Community

550

April 2023

Food and a drink for disabled PhD students and CHI first timers

Jennifer Rode; University College London

Registration support for HCIxB(HCI Across Borders) workshop at CHI 2023

HCIxB s a global community focused on connecting researchers across diverse cultures and geographies and aiming to address the financial hardships that participants across the world face to cover the cost of attending CHI.

Community

8,000

March 2023

Conference and workshop registration fees for students

Vikram Kamath Cannanure; Carnegie Mellon University

RecSys 2023 Summer School

A course to educate, train, and support collaboration among young PhD students and researchers at the intersection of Recommender Systems and Machine Learning.

Conferences

58,300

March 2023

Stipends for speakers and students (including from the Global South), AV and other equipment

Maria Maistro and Alan Said; University of Copenhagen and University of Gothenburg

Funds for conducting and hosting events for the chapter members

An active chapter of over 50 designers, aiming to expand connections and host discussions with industry professionals.

Chapters

1,000

February 2023

Transport for speaker and guests, food and beverage organizers, venue rental, gifts, website hosting, social media subscriptions

Sakshi Bhutra; Srishti SIGCHI Chapter

World Information Architecture Day New Hampshire

World Information Architecture Day New Hampshire aims to bring together a diverse group of professionals, academics and students in the field of information architecture to discuss current challenges and opportunities, and provide mentoring opportunities for students and young professionals.

Community

2,200

February 2023

Registrations, badges, posters, speaker honorariums

Marlyn Tadros; Southern New Hampshire University

Interaction Design (IxD) in Digital Games

A course on Interaction Design in Digital Games accepted at CHI 2023 for in-person delivery; organizers seek to create high-quality material to be available for free for the HCI community beyond the CHI course.

Community

5,000

February 2023

Student stipends to create the slides and videos, supporting with accessibility needs, overhead for admin support

Pejman Mirza-Babaei; Bluemoon UX Research and Development Ltd.

{drag design} : {drop tech} talks @ IIITB

Community of designers seeking to expand the chapter's networks and activity through professional, social, and academic events.

Chapters

3,300

December 2022

Figma, Zoom, Canva subscriptions for hybrid participation and publicity, speaker honorarium and travel, refreshments

Taru Jain; IIIT Bangalore

Towards Sustainable Local Tourism with CHI

The SIGCHI Summer School in Costa Rica is a two-and-a-half day hybrid event with the theme “Towards Sustainable Local Tourism with CHI”, aimed at visibilizing the efforts of local communities in different HCI areas, mentoring undergraduate students, and supporting small businesses in sustainable tourism.

Chapters

9,973

November 2022

Travel support for keynote speakers, students, and mentors, catering

Iyubanit Rodríguez; Universidad de Costa Rica

2022 ACM Interactive Surfaces and Spaces Conference (ISS’22) Diversity and Hybrid Proposal

Improving inclusivity of the conference by having a student volunteer program that can support the hybrid experience, and providing travel support for students from underrepresented groups in New Zealand.

Conferences

7,690

November 2022

Catered writing workshop for SVs helping with hybrid, catering, support for Indigenous CHI workshop attendees

Judy Kay; The University of Sydney

Support for Conference Participation at the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2023

A travel fund to support attendance, including students, faculty who are early career or have financial need, and geographically diverse communities, to improve accessibility and inclusivity of the conference.

Conferences

10,000

November 2022

Student travel awards. prioritizing DC and those from underrepresented countries

Yong Zheng; Illinois Institute of Technology

Support Participation at ACM UMAP 2023

Travel fund to support students, early career faculty, and those from underrepresented regions.

Conferences

10,000

November 2022

Student travel awards, prioritizing DC and those from underrepresented countries

Yong Zheng; Illinois Institute of Technology

SIGCHI Melbourne Chapter DIS-M 2022 (Designing Interactive Systems - Melbourne)

The Melbourne chapter of SIGCHI, in collaboration with local universities, will be hosting a free one-day event showcasing Melbourne-based authors who have been accepted to this year’s ACM DIS 2022 conference, aiming to attract both academics and practitioners and support the local HCI culture.

Chapters

2,000

September 2022

Catering to support networking events for academics and practitioners

Jeni Paay; Swinburne University of Technology/SIGCHI Melbourne Chapter

National Symposium on Human Computer Interaction (FUSION 2022)

FUSION, hosted by the Kuala Lumpur ACM SIGCHI Chapter, will gather HCI students, academics, researchers, and practitioners in Malaysia to learn about one another's work and explore collaborations through paper presentations, a student design competition, talks, workshops, and a forum.

Chapters

1,305

September 2022

Conference management, Discord/Zoom subscriptions, prizes for student competition, honorariums

Nur Zuraifah Syazrah Othman; Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

SIGCHI support for CHI Student Competition Workshops at Ecuador, Colombia, and Peru

This event aims to support Ecuadorian students, academics, design professionals, and organizations/startups in collaborating on design projects and eventually enable them to submit to the CHI student design competition.

Community

10,000

August 2022

Office supplies, catering, travel support for speaker and participants

Christian Sturm; Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences

SIGCHI Melbourne Chapter Exhibition Booth at UX Australia

Melbourne SIGCHI chapter will host an exhibition booth at a practitioners conference, UX Australia, aiming to increase awareness of SIGCHI and encourage them to sign up for membership and join a local chapter.

Community

1,120

August 2022

Funding for chapter booth at UX Australia

Jeni Paay; Swinburne University of Technology

Fostering Meaningful Connections between Remote and In-Person CHI PLAY Attendees for an Equitable Conference Experience

CHI Play aims to facilitate a fully hybrid conference experience that offers an equitable remote attendee experience and fosters meaningful connections between remote and on-site attendees, through two-way streaming and social events that prioritize online attendees.

Conferences

9,860

August 2022

Professional streaming equipment, SV support, subscription and access fees for online games for social events

Kathrin Gerling; KU Leuven

XXI Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computational Systems (IHC'22)

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

10,000

July 2022

Childcare, Brazilian sign language interpretation, registration for people with disabilities and other underrepresented groups, accommodation for chair and keynotes, equipment rental, opening reception, catering, reusable cups

Maria Lúcia Bento Villela; Universidade Federal de Viçosa

ACM SIGCHI Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications conference panel: Women in AutoUI

This panel and networking event is aimed at increasing the involvement of women in the decision-making bodies of the AutoUI conference, and in the conference in general, through discussion of barriers women face and a "wall of fame" of portraits of women in the AutoUI community.

Conferences

10,000

July 2022

Travel grants for panelists, portraits and photobook of women in AutoUI

Kristina Stojmenova; University of Ljubljana

Participatory Design Conference 2022

The Participatory Design Conference aims to deliver a curated hybrid experience through trialling initiatives like a guide to scaffold conference interactions, re-designing a scheduling platform with UX and disability experts, live translations, and live-streaming.

Community

8,750

June 2022

Online streaming services and technical onsite camera crew and editors to support hybrid participation

Rachel Clarke; Open Lab, Newcastle University

Summer School on Digital Interactive Smart Spaces

A Summer School for young researchers on smart spaces, seeking to improve the learning experience by inviting international speakers.

Community

10,000

June 2022

Travel support for speakers

Maristella Matera; Politecnico di Milano

Introduction to HCI Research World

An HCI Workshop "Celebrating Digital Bangladesh with Women in Technology", aiming to support participation of women in computing through introduction to HCI methods, a poster competition, and writing training.

Community

9,750

June 2022

Travel support for keynote/mentors and students, stationery, catering

Rahat Jahangir Rony; North South University

Interaction Design and Children 2022 (Hybrid Conference)

The IDC community seeks to lower barriers to participating in the conference with the best possible immersive experience for online and in-person participants, with support for remote participation, addressing financial barriers to attending, and supporting parents caring for children.

Conferences

6,989

June 2022

Hybrid event platform, video/audio production, registration for attendees from underrepresented backgrounds, childcare

Cristina Sylla; University of Minho

Protea CHI Symposium

Event for current and potential Protea SIGCHI HCI/UX academics and researchers to develop a South African design team to compete at CHI conferences and in turn increase CHI publications, while simultaneously growing Protea SIGCHI and potential for future local events.

Community

10,000

May 2022

Travel support and catering for mentor and attendees for student design workshops

Melissa Densmore; University of Cape Town

Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work

CHIWORK is an annual symposium which aims to grow our understanding of how HCI will support work in the future.

Community

10,000

May 2022

COVID tests and masks, student travel grants, catering

Andrew Kun; University of New Hampshire

24 Hours of UX 2022 (June 7-8-9)

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

4,000

May 2022

Platform for online participation

Keith Instone; 24 Labs

Support Participation at ACM UMAP 2022

Registration waivers for onsite and online attendees, with a focus on global inclusivity and connecting different research communities given the co-location of two other conferences.

Conferences

10,000

May 2022

Registration for scholars from underrepresented regions

Yong Zheng; Illinois Institute of Technology

Increasing participation of scholars from the global south in ACM COMPASS - Computing and Sustainable Societies 2022

Travel grants to increase participation of underrepresented scholars, particularly those who are junior or based in the Global South, with the aim of reducing barriers to participate in an international conference and improving opportunities for North-South collaborations.

Conferences

10,000

May 2022

Travel support for scholars from underrepresented regions

Engineer Bainomugisha; Makerere University, Uganda; Co-General Chair, COMPASS 2022