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 |