Anupriya Tuli & Akhil Mathur (General Chairs) Anirudha Joshi (Local Arrangements Chair) Pushpendra Singh & Neha Kumar (SIGCHI Representatives) The SIGCHI-sponsored HCI & Friends Symposium that took place December 9–11 at the IIT Bombay campus in Mumbai, India, was the outcome of a few different plans that had been in…

We are now half-way through this Executive Committee’s term, and looking to fill the following Adjunct Chair (AC) roles for the next 18 months: Equity Co-Chair, Partnerships Co-Chair, Community Support Chair, Volunteer Support Chair, Education Chair, and Web Chair. We also solicit suggestions from our community for additional potential roles…

The year is fast coming to a close, and with that our modest celebrations for SIGCHI’s 40th also. Susan Dray (SIGCHI Partnerships Chair) and I are excited to share with you the compilation of memories and aspirations that was the special issue of Interactions for November of 2022, courtesy the…

The ACM Future of Computing Academy (FCA), created in 2017, no more exists, and Moshe Vardi’s recent Communications of the ACM article says a little about why. ACM pages that used to say what the FCA was, why it was created, who its inaugural members were, are no longer live…

In late November, the SIGCHI Executive Committee conducted an open session to discuss going hybrid. This session was hosted by Cale Passmore (CP) and me, and aimed at surfacing concerns and priorities around transitioning from virtual to hybrid formats, as…

We’re delighted to announce the results of our second set of open calls, which closed on August 27, 2021. These were for the SIGCHI Executive Committee’s (EC’s) Adjunct Chairs (ACs) for Community Support, Equity, Knowledge Sharing, Partnerships, Sustainability, and Volunteer Support. First, we’d like to thank all those who applied…

We’re delighted to announce the results of our first set of open calls, which closed on July 23, 2021. These were for the SIGCHI Executive Committee’s (EC’s) Vice-President (VP) for Chapters, VP for Conferences, VP for Operations, VP for Publications, and the Adjunct Chair (AC) for Awards. But first, we’d…

Meeting Notes from July 22, 2021 The Executive Committee (EC) Handover session (link to video recording) summarized the accomplishments of the outgoing EC and introduced the incoming EC to the SIGCHI community. …

Eunice Sari (outgoing Vice-President for Chapters) Neha Kumar (outgoing Vice-President at Large, incoming President) Previous Equity Talk Summary: The Future of SIGCHI All Equity Talks (running March through August, 2021) This roundtable began with us hearing an introduction from Neha Kumar (outgoing Vice-President at Large) about the Equity Talks…