FY 2025 (Total awarded: USD 30,523)
Event/Initiative | Description | Category | Awarded | Month awarded | Items supported | Principal investigator and affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
EICS 2025 Doctoral Consortium | Workshop for students to present and receive feedback about their research | Conferences | 5000 | June 2025 | Student registration and travel | Judy Bowen, University of Waikato |
HCI Across Borders Workshop at CHI 2025 | Venue to showcase HCI-related work and initiatives from communities across geographies to a global audience | Community | 1500 | April 2025 | Registration for six attendees with financial need | Delvin Varghese, Monash University |
2nd ACM Europe Summer School on Accessible and Inclusive Technologies | Summer school to foster a new generation of researcher committed to developing more accessible, ethical and inclusive technologies | Community | 3000 | April 2025 | Travel support for students from the Global South | Arthur Theil, Birmingham City University |
Travel funding support for CHI'25 Doctoral Consortium students | Efforts to support student mentorship at the CHI 25 doctoral consortium | Conferences | 7000 | March 2025 | Support for student travel | Kaisa Väänänen, Tampere University |
TEI Diversity and Inclusion | Initiatives to enhance accessibility of the conference | Conferences | 2858 | March 2025 | Live captioning | Nathalie Bressa, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris |
CHI NL Community Event 2025 | An event to foster connections within the Dutch HCI community across academia and industry | Community | 1000 | March 2025 | Support for student participation | Armagan Karahanoglu, University of Twente |
HCIPAK: Summer School on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) in Pakistan | Pakistan's first HCI summer school with expert lectures, workshops, and networking. | Community | 2100 | February 2025 | Support for speakers and students, logistics, and promotion | Natasha Nigar, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore |
Offline Inauguration Event of IIITD's ACM-SIGCHI Chapter | IIIT Delhi's SIGCHI chapter kickoff event with talks and workshop sessions | Chapters | 1815 | February 2025 | Speaker costs, materials, and promotion | Sagar Gupta, IIIT Delhi |
Bridging Diverse Connections Through Mobile Social Networking | Hybrid workshop to explore how mobile phones bridge offline and online connections, featuring expert talks, student research, and discussions on inclusion. | Community | 350 | January 2025 | Support for local speakers | Alvin Chin, Discovery Partners Institute, University of Illinois System |
Creating awareness for SIGCHI through the World Usability Day Africa event | Initiative seeking to expand SIGCHI’s presence in Nigeria by focusing on two goals: raising awareness through the World Usability Day Event and creating student and professional chapters via virtual meetups | Chapter | 400 | November 2024 | Speaker travel support and honoraria | Joseph Kalu; Taz Innovation |
A More Sustainable HRI 2025 Conference | Effort to raise awareness among attendees of local environmental and social sustainability issues by commissioning artwork from an Aboriginal designer to be used in the conference | Conferences | 5000 | November 2024 | Purchase of Indigenous design artwork and loyalties for the artist | Ilaria Torre; Chalmers University of Technology |
Mentorship Event at ICMI 2024 | Session to discuss kicking off a mentorship program within the ICMI community and matching mentors with mentees | Conferences | 500 | August 2024 | Venue and materials | Laura Cabrera-Quiros, Tecnológico de Costa Rica |