FY 2024 SDF Recipients
FY 2024 (Total awarded: USD 274,850)
Event/Initiative | Description | Category | Awarded | Month awarded | Items supported | Principal investigator and affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
CHI NL 2024 Event | An event hosted by the Dutch SIGCHI chapter for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their recent accepted publications and engage HCI researchers who are not yet involved with SIGCHI. | Chapters | 5,000 | February 2024 | AV support for recording program, catering, travel for students, venue costs | Julian Frommel; Utrecht University |
Support for the SIGCHI Switzerland Winter Meeting at the University of St. Gallen | An event hosted by SIGCHI Switzerland to rejuvenate the chapter by sharing recently published work, electing a new board, and planning AlpCHI, a regional conference. | Chapters | 1,000 | February 2024 | Travel support for students and coffee breaks | Johannes Schöning; University of St. Gallen |
Student participation in AVI 2024 conference and DC | AVI 2024 is the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces and an ACM In-Cooperation conference. | Community | 5,000 | February 2024 | Student travel support and DC dinner | Ilaria Torre; University of Genoa |
With or Without Permission, CHI 2024 Workshop | This workshop aims to facilitate the design, development, and use of place-based AR experiences supporting social justice efforts, and connect researchers, activists, artists, and organizations. | Community | 1,670 | February 2024 | Hybrid registration for activists, artists, community organizations | Ana Cardenas Gasca; University of California Santa Barbara |
Doctoral Consortium @ EICS 2024 | Holding a doctoral consortium to support participation and mentorship of PhD students and networking with senior researchers. | Conferences | 7,315 | February 2024 | Registration for PhD students | Lucio Davide Spano; University of Cagliari |
Industry & Academic Combined Hybrid Panel Event | An event hosted by the Melbourne Chapter to connect practitioners, academics and students and make industry UX people aware of SIGCHI as their professional organization. | Chapters | 3,015 | January 2024 | Venue and tech support for hybrid, catering | Jeni Paay; Swinburne University of Technology |
Womencourage | womENcourage™ is aimed at celebrating the role and impact of women in computing and supporting participants at different stages in their STEM careers by offering a forum to share experience and knowledge, get feedback, and network. | Community | 10,000 | January 2024 | Support for registration and publicity, venue and and audio/visual facilities, program committee expenses, and travel grants for students | Paloma Diaz; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid |
Invited workshop and panel at IMX 2024: IMX in Latin America | Travel support and a workshop to invite key representatives from Latin America to participate in the conference, highlight their work, and forge stronger relationships, in preparation for IMX '25 in Brazil. | Conferences | 10,000 | January 2024 | Travel support for speakers from Latin America | Asreen Rostami; RISE Research Institutes of Sweden |
Rejuvenate SIGCHI's India Chapters Network | An initiative to rejuvenate existing chapters in India and establish new chapters in Tier2/Tier 3 cities, by visiting institutions in person, raising awareness of SIGCHI chapters, and discussing challenges in building community. | Chapters | 4,910 | December 2023 | Catering and travel for chapters-related meet-ups | Dani Raju; Studio Hasi |
Colombo SIGCHI Chapter: South Asian HCI Research and Collaboration | Awareness sessions to encourage interest in HCI and SIGCHI's wider goals within the SIGCHI Colombo Chapter. | Chapters | 3,000 | November 2023 | Catering for awareness-building sessions and student travel grants for Winter School | Dilrikshi Gamage; Tokyo Tech |
Expanding HCI Horizons: Bridging Knowledge Gaps for CS Students | This workshop seeks to spark students in Western Nigeria's interest in HCI and research. | Community | 5,750 | November 2023 | Student travel and accommodation, organizer travel, power supply | Christianah Titilope Oyewale; Mohammed VI Polytechnic University |
C&C 2024: Promoting Disciplinary DEI for the Interactive Arts Community | Initiatives to promote equity and inclusion by ensuring artists can participate in C&C and have their work showcased with the same emphasis as research papers. | Conferences | 10,000 | November 2023 | Travel grants for artists | Brian Bailey; University of Illinois |
Presentation and Conversation with Virpi Roto | A hybrid event building community among academics and practitioners in Melbourne working in the HCI, UX or AI spaces, including the SIGCHI Melbourne chapter, universities in Oceania, and local practitioners. | Chapters | 2,800 | October 2023 | Catering | Jeni Paay; SIGCHI Melbourne and Swinburne University of Technology |
Scalable HCI Research Symposium | The Scalable HCI Research Symposium aims to nurture discussions on scalable HCI, showcase Shenzhen's role in the global hardware arena, and inspire Chinese researchers to engage more with SIGCHI community. | Community | 7,000 | October 2023 | Student travel grants, professional translation services, video recording | Seungwoo Je; Southern University of Science and Technology |
ISS Student Design Competition | A student design competition where undergraduate student teams design an AR experience for various historical artifacts, to support student engagement | Conferences | 5,400 | October 2023 | Registration and travel support for student participants | Scott Carter; Toyota Research Institute |
SIGCHI Expo Deakin Downtown | A one-day Expo workshop at Deakin University to bring together SIGCHI Melbourne chapter members from both academia and industry and recruit/engage non-SIGCHI chapter members. | Chapters | 3,015 | September 2023 | Food for expo to support/grow chapter across academia and industry | Phuc Le; Monash University/SIGCHI Melbourne Chapter |
Haptics for Inclusion | “Haptics for Inclusion” is a hybrid event that aims to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange between HCI researchers working in two areas: haptics and accessibility. | Community | 10,000 | September 2023 | Travel costs for PhD students, early career researchers, and speakers/presenters with disabilities, and sign language interpretation costs | Arthur Theil; Birmingham City University |
CSCW ’23 DEI activities | Activities at CSCW intended to foster inclusion, promote cultural awareness, celebrate the differences within the research community, and encourage collaboration across different backgrounds | Conferences | 3,900 | September 2023 | DEI lunch, hybrid support, honorariums, guided tours of the George Floyd Square, materials for crafts/games | Amy Zhang; University of Washington |
UIST ’23 DC Travel Funds | A travel fund for students to support diverse and unique perspectives, make the conference more equitable, and ensure that students' potentials are not limited by their finances | Conferences | 12,475 | September 2023 | Accommodation, registration, and airfare for doctoral consortium participants | Dan Afergan; Google |
AfriCHI Student Design Competition '23 | The first Pan African Student Design Competition (SDC) aimed at growing interest in HCI throughout Africa and supporting participation in the annual CHI conference's SDC. | Sustainability | 7,500 | September 2023 | Student travel grants | Edward White; Technical University of Ingolstadt |
African Co-design Academy | The African Co-design Academy is a summer school focused on exploring co-design approaches and best practices with students, with a particular emphasis on the African context. | Community | 7,500 | August 2023 | Travel and accommodation for student, postdoc, and early career participants | Catharina Maria Till; Independent Institution of Education’s Varsity College |
Latin American Conference on HCI 2023 | 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 | 7,000 | July 2023 | Student scholarships, sign language interpretation, and translation services | Marisol Wong-Villacres; Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral |
Stepping stone panel for global AutoUI | A panel at AutoUI to enable increased involvement of researchers from underrepresented countries and encourage more researchers from diverse backgrounds to attend in the following years. | Conferences | 10,000 | July 2023 | Travel and accommodation for panelists from underrepresented regions | Hatice Şahin Ippoliti; University of Oldenburg |
RecSys Travel Support Fund | Establishing a RecSys Travel Support Program to support inclusion of young researchers. | Conferences | 10,000 | July 2023 | Travel grants for Doctoral Symposium students and first-time presenters | Linus Dietz; King’s College, London |
Philippi Village Workshop on local, sustainable economies | A half-day visit by COMPASS attendees to Philippi Village, a community development hub, aimed at learning about sustainability and other local concerns and potentially developing further collaborations. | Sustainability | 2,000 | July 2023 | Transport, tour guide and speaker honorariums, photography | Leandro Navarro; Technical University of Catalonia |
ACM SIGCHI Winter School: Connecting South Asia to collaborate and develop research interest in HCI | This Winter School will bring together researchers, students, academia, and the industry in South Asia to discuss and educate about the potential of HCI as a field, HCI research methods, conducting HCI studies, writing papers, publication venues, and SIGCHI. | Community | 7,000 | June 2023 | Travel for students and speakers | Dilrukshi Gamage; Tokyo Institute of Technology |
Expanding hybrid CHItaly 2023 | CHItaly 2023 is the conference of the Italian SIGCHI chapter. | Community | 6,700 | June 2023 | Virtual reality headsets for hybrid participation, subscription to , travel for invited speaker, and student registration | Cristina Gena; University of Turin – Italy |
AMPLIFY: Amplifying regional connections of Thai HCI academics to SE Asia in a Thai HCI academic retreat | Retreat for HCI academics in Thailand to spark collaboration, brainstorm around barriers to recognition, and connect to other HCI communities in SE Asia | Community | 2,000 | June 2023 | Travel and accommodation for keynote speakers and student volunteer translator | Atima Tharatipyakul; Singapore Institute of Technology, Bangkok ACM SIGCHI Chapter chair |
AccessHack: The Effects of Inclusive Project-Based Education on Accessibility Computer Science Education | AccessHack is a virtual hackathon for undergraduate students, focused on teaching accessibility by bringing together students, designers, and advocates to develop innovative solutions to improve accessibility in technology, services, and spaces. | Community | 5,000 | June 2023 | Accessibility services such as ASL and CART, honorarium for speakers and panelists | Megan Hofmann; Northeastern University |
Dutch Post-CHI 2023 Event | The Dutch Post-CHI 2023 Event aims to bring the Netherlands HCI community together after CHI 2023 to connect and present/discuss CHI 2023 research. | Community | 2,250 | June 2023 | Travel for students, accessible recordings of the program, and honorariums for keynote speakers | Ujwal Gadiraju; TU Delft, Board Member, CHI NL |
CHI Student Competition Workshops at Argentina | A student design competition aimed at sparking students' interest in being a part of the HCI community and increasing the participation of underrepresented regions at the CHI SDC. | Community | 5,075 | May 2023 | Lodging for participants and travel for speaker | Christian Sturm; Ingolstadt University of Technology, Germany |
DIS 2023: Inclusion Development Award | DIS aims to broaden forms of access support and be more inclusive of voices in community-based design. | Conferences | 9,750 | May 2023 | CART Captioning Services, ASL services, and honoraria for panel speakers from community organizations | Daragh Byrne; Carnegie Mellon University |
CUI 2023: Accessible conference | Offering services for people with disabilities and parents caring for children to ensure a more accessible conference experience. | Conferences | 4,825 | May 2023 | ASL translation service and childcare | Minha Lee; Eindhoven University of Technology |
Graphics Interface ’23 Early Career Researcher Mentorship and Panel | A hybrid event at Graphics Interface (GI’23) to support mentorship and networking for ECRs. | Community | 3,500 | April 2023 | Support for mentors’ registration and travel expenses | Sowmya Somanath; University of Victoria |
First HCI workshop in Morocco | This first workshop aims to introduce and promote the field of HCI in Morocco by bringing together researchers and practitioners who share an interest in HCI and foster a network of practitioners and researchers in the field. | Community | 4,000 | April 2023 | Lodging for keynotes and student participants, and speaker fees | Houda Elmimouni; Indiana University |
Spaces and Interfaces: A Summer School on HCI for Wellbeing | The “Spaces and Interfaces Summer School on HCI for Well-being” for students and professors will focus on well-being and the well-being implications of new technologies | Community | 10,000 | April 2023 | Speaker travel, speaker and student accommodation, catering, social events | Yvonne Rogers; University College London |
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 | 6,500 | April 2023 | Student travel and hybrid support | Susanne Boll; University of Oldenburg |
2023 ACM UbiComp/ISWC Conference | UbiComp/ISWC aims to establish a community that is more inclusive of diverse regions and socioeconomic backgrounds by providing a per-region registration fee. | Conferences | 10,000 | April 2023 | Funds to support low-income and middle-income registration tiers | Edward Wang; UC San Diego |
Increasing participation of scholars from the global south in ACM COMPASS ’23 | Offering a travel fund to increase participation of underrepresented scholars from and working/studying in the Global South and provide an opportunity to network with the global research community through student travel grants. | Conferences | 10,000 | April 2023 | Travel, accommodation, and visa fees for five scholars from underrepresented regions | Engineer Bainomugisha; Makerere University, Uganda; Co-Sponsorship Chair, COMPASS 2023 |
Hybridization of ACM CHI Play 2023 | CHI Play aims for a more accessible, equitable, and inclusive conference by supporting a quality hybrid experience, including livestreaming and interaction between onsite and online attendees. | Conferences | 10,000 | March 2023 | Ceiling mounted webcams, matchbox microphones, event management platform, video switches, streaming devices | Jim Wallace; University of Waterloo |
Consortium for a Science of Sociotechnical Systems (CSST) | 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 | February 2023 | Travel, room and board for 2 mentors and 5 mentees, supplies for meeting and community-building activities | Stephen Voida; University of Colorado Boulder |
CHI Together at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland | CHI Together connects young researchers to collaborate on projects that will be submitted for publication at the CHI conference, with a focus on promoting the participation of young woman scientists in the field. | Community | 10,000 | January 2023 | Social event and travel stipends for PhD students and international guest speaker | Johannes Schöning; University of St. Gallen |
“Grow and Support Fund” for the SIGCHI Switzerland Chapter SwissCHI | A community meeting and SwissCHI lunch to revitalize the chapter after lower activity during the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic. | Chapters | 3,000 | December 2022 | Venue and catering | Johannes Schöning; University of St. Gallen |