ACM SIGCHI

Nominations for the 2026 cycle of the SIGCHI awards and special recognitions are now open! Please nominate your colleagues and recent Ph.D. graduates! The deadline is Saturday, December 13, at 11:59pm AoE. The full call and nomination form are on Submittable: https://lnkd.in/eXaJfKPG SIGCHI Awards identify and honor leaders and shapers of the field of human-computer interaction. We currently present awards in six categories and have four awards subcommittees to oversee their review. As we did last year, we are also inviting SIGCHI Special Recognitions to honor individuals/groups who have made exceptional contributions to HCI in ways not captured by existing awards. Special recognitions are different from awards, but they will help us identify new permanent awards to propose for future cycles. People can't get awards/recognitions for which they are not nominated, so we hope that you will help by nominating not just your closest colleagues, but also deserving people from institutions and organizations around the world, especially from the Global South. Please reach out to our Chair for Awards Kentaro Toyama with any questions or concerns. 

Please join us for our upcoming quarterly town hall on Nov 13, 2pm UTC! We will be discussing ACM Open, accessibility, and awards, while leaving some time at the end for more open-ended feedback and Q&A! More details are on the event page (https://lnkd.in/e69em8dA) and below. 2026 is the transition year as ACM moves to 100% open access. Most of our authors are already covered through ACM Open agreements. For those who are not yet covered, SIGCHI will be setting up a process for Financial Hardship Waivers. If you have any concerns about whether and how you will be covered, please attend. SIGCHI VP Accessibility Dragan Ahmetovic will present his vision for accessibility across SIGCHI conferences, and invites you to attend and discuss where we can do better. If you have been or wanted to be an access chair at any SIGCHI conference, please join. Kentaro Toyama is our new Awards chair (see our announcement: https://lnkd.in/eRDhPazf) and we are ready to dive into SIGCHI Awards Season. The call for nominations has gone out, and Kentaro will be at the Town Hall to answer any questions about the process. If you have questions about the nomination process, you are welcome to join!

We'll be continuing our monthly virtual coffee hours with a session later today (Sept 25) at 11pm UTC! Join us for open and informal conversation on anything related to conferences, community, and chapters. Refer to the event page for the Zoom link: https://lnkd.in/ecZ7eWDz

Announcing our new open call for volunteers! The SIGCHI Exec is supported by several committees that sustain conferences and publishing, care for the community, and nurture global and local HCI presence. We are in the process of a committee reset, working with current chairs to review how committee remits can best support the SIG. The 16 committees we are currently recruiting for are listed in our call in bold: https://lnkd.in/emmVen5S If you are currently a volunteer, you can reaffirm your interest in serving in your role(s) using the form (linked above). If you are not currently a volunteer, but would like to nominate yourself or someone else, please use the same form. We will close this call on September 30th, and work with committee chairs to match people to volunteer roles. Further details, including committee-specific calls, are in our Medium blog post: https://lnkd.in/eD3j63pE Please email sigchi-4all@acm.org with any questions.

We look forward to seeing everyone at our virtual Town Hall in a little less than 3 hours!

Please join us at the SIGCHI Town Hall this coming Wednesday (July 2, 3pm UTC)! We plan to summarize the state of the SIG, and discuss ACM Open, the CHI 26 format, and other updates. Find details at https://lnkd.in/eMgV-zuB In the meantime, these blog posts on some of the key topics we'll be discussing may be of interest: An overview of the Post-conference Survey for CHI 25 (https://lnkd.in/evuCtKE5) Details regarding the CHI 26 technical program (https://lnkd.in/eSVy2rW8) Updates on transitioning to ACM Open (https://lnkd.in/eBrbJyV3)

A gentle reminder that our session on ACM Open with Scott Delman, Direction of Publications at ACM, is in ~1.5 hours, at 7 pm UTC!

📣 Join us for a session on the transition to ACM Open - 100% open access - on Monday, June 2, 7-8pm UTC! Find details at https://lnkd.in/eYU-4Gwu The ACM Council voted back in March on this transition plan for ACM Open (which kicks off on January 1, 2026) towards ensuring that our conferences and SIG do not lose people as we make the shift to open access. Scott Delman, ACM Director of Publications, will join us to talk about the transition and answer any questions we might have. You may also wish to read our blog post published last month, which outlines details of the plan and answers some frequently asked questions: https://lnkd.in/eBrbJyV3

Planning on joining us in Madeira for #DIS2025? Don't forget to register before June 5th to guarantee your spot and early bird pricing 😉 ACM, Association for Computing Machinery ACM SIGCHI

Since we now have yet another research ethics snafu this week (https://lnkd.in/gmX4P2Yw) it is probably good timing that Casey Fiesler, Jessica Vitak, and I have just launched a Research Ethics column in the new ACM SIGCHI Newsletter, on behalf of our work on the SIGCHI Research Ethics Committee. I have a hunch I know what our July column will be about.... https://lnkd.in/g992GUGs