ACM SIGCHI

A gentle reminder that Gregory Abowd's Lifetime Research Award talk "Ignorance Is Bliss: A Career Retrospective" is happening in <10 minutes! Please note the updated Zoom link on the SIGCHI website: https://lnkd.in/gC2UQFhh

Coming up next in our online awards talk series, we'll hear from Gregory Abowd, 2023 Lifetime Research Award recipient! Please see full details on the SIGCHI website: https://lnkd.in/gC2UQFhh Title: Ignorance Is Bliss: A Career Retrospective Time: Friday, July 26, 4pm UTC

We're excited to share that we have recruited an excellent and richly experienced set of leaders to join us on the newly elected Executive Committee, overseeing SIGCHI Chapters, Conferences, and Awards! Vice-President for Chapters: Jeni Paay (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) Vice-President for Conferences: Matt Jones (Swansea University, UK) Adjunct Chair for Conferences: Ignacio Avellino (Sorbonne Université, France) Adjunct Chair for Conferences: Jerry Alan Fails (Boise State University, USA) Adjunct Chair for Awards: Niklas Elmqvist (Aarhus University, Denmark) Read more about them and what they’d like to accomplish for the SIG in this Medium post: https://lnkd.in/gh-PwfEs. And stay tuned for (1) open calls for additional EC roles, to be posted shortly, and (2) our Conferences Town Hall in October, to be led by our conferences team—Matt Jones, Ignacio Avellino, and Jerry Fails.

Next up in our Awards Talk series, Wendy Mackay is giving her SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award talk at MIT tomorrow (online + in person)! See Zoom/location details at https://lnkd.in/g-T4ax_B Title: WWW — Wendy’s Words of Wisdom Time: Tuesday, July 9, 4pm EDT

📢The new Executive Committee (EC) term begins on July 1, and the newly elected team is ready to take charge. For more on this update, please see our new Medium post: https://lnkd.in/gXq6VaUs

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👏 ACM has released the results of the #SIGCHI Executive Committee election: https://lnkd.in/gmXjRK2c 🙏We thank all the candidates for their willingness to serve our community. Congrats to the returning and incoming officers. Please offer them your support as they take on these important service roles for our community. The elected Executive Committee officers are: President/Executive Vice-President - Neha Kumar/Luigi De Russis Vice-President for Accessibility - Dragan Ahmetovic Vice-President for Communications - Naveena Karusala Vice-President for Finance - Hao-Chuan Wang Vice-President for Membership - Adriana Vivacqua Vice-Presidents At Large - Susan Dray & Pejman Mirza-Babaei

📣If you would like to announce SIGCHI events, conferences, or HCI-related jobs to the community, you have the following possibilities: * Twitter: to add @sigchi to the tweets * LinkedIn Group: https://lnkd.in/gAD-fdcg * FB: https://lnkd.in/gZ9KWV7k * and our SIGCHI Discord server

📢Please join in for our first Awards Talk this coming Friday by James Landay, 2024 Lifetime Research Award recipient. You can find the Zoom details on our website: https://lnkd.in/g-ckXVhN Title: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Farm Time: Friday, June 14, 1:30pm PDT Session Chair: Sunny Consolvo Many thanks to our awardees and session chairs for agreeing to make time for this service to the #SIGCHI community, and also to our Awards Chair Niklas Elmqvist for coordinating with the speakers to set up their talks 🙏

As promised, the post addresses questions on SIGCHI's finances: https://lnkd.in/gBZ4T-jD. It captures key categories of expenses for the SIG for fiscal years 2023 and 2024 (i.e. planning/spending for June 2022 to May 2024). Reminder: please join us on June 10/11/12 (based on where in the world you are located) at either/both of two virtual #SIGCHI Town Hall sessions. You can find the info here: https://lnkd.in/g3npQaFg