ACM SIGCHI

Last reminder about SIGCHI awards and special recognition nominations! The strict deadline is this Saturday: Dec. 13, 11:59pm AOE.

For more details and to nominate, please use this form: sigchi.submittable.com/submit/f6b12...

Advancing Equity Through Open Access webpage about acm's commitment to OA publishing

Open access means going from “pay to read” to “pay to publish”. This helps you share your work and institutions foot the bill. ACM only charges enough to cover publishing costs. Learn about how ACM Open advances equity from the ACM DEI Council Chair ➡️ www.acm.org/diversity-in...

SIGCHI Quarterly Town Hall: Awards, ACM Open, and Accessibility The SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC) has been organizing town halls on a quarterly basis (virtual 3x a year and in-person at CHI), alongside…

Most SIGCHI authors are covered through ACM Open agreements and geo waivers. If you’re not yet covered, SIGCHI will also have financial hardship waivers during transition year 2026. Details in our recent blog post ➡ medium.com/sigchi/sigch...

ACM Open for Authors ACM Open for Authors

🥳 We're 30 days out from #ACMOpen, SIGCHI! We're sharing reminders about the transition to 100% open access throughout December, stay tuned! Open access = 2-3x more downloads + 70% more citations than paywalled articles. Read more about the benefits ➡ authors.acm.org/open-access

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We're continuing our monthly virtual coffee hours with a session later today (Nov 19) at 9pm UTC! In your time zone: dateful.com/eventlink/32...

Join us for open conversation on conferences, community, and chapters. Refer to the event page for the Zoom link: sigchi.org/events/novem...

SIGCHI Annual Report July 2024 — June 2025

Catch up on SIGCHI's annual report! ACM SIGs submit an annual report to the SIG Governing Board, describing accomplishments of the year. We submitted ours in August, but also wanted to share it as a blog post for members, whether long-standing or new. medium.com/sigchi/sigch...

SIGCHI Quarterly Town Hall: Awards, ACM Open, and Accessibility The SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC) has been organizing town halls on a quarterly basis (virtual 3x a year and in-person at CHI), alongside…

Read a summary of our quarterly town hall on Nov 13, which covered awards, ACM Open, and accessibility! We thank attendees, and Kentaro Toyama (Chair for Awards) and Dragan Ahmetovic (VP Accessibility) for co-presenting. medium.com/sigchi/sigch...

We have two new blog posts out on the SIGCHI Medium, covering our Nov 13 town hall and the SIG's annual report!

Friendly reminder that we have our quarterly town hall coming up on Nov 13, 2pm UTC. We have three topics to focus on, and will set aside time for any general concerns/suggestions/asks as well. Join us if you can!

Please reach out to our Chair for Awards Kentaro Toyama with any questions or concerns.

People can't get awards 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.

As 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 our existing awards. Special recognitions are not awards, but they will help us identify new permanent awards for future cycles.

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.

SIGCHI - 2026 Call for Nominations for SIGCHI Awards Thank you for your interest in nominating an individual for a SIGCHI award or special recognition. The deadline for all nominations is Saturday, December 13, 11:59pm, AoE. The SIGCHI awards identify a...

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: sigchi.submittable.com/submit/f6b12...

Kentaro Toyama is our new Awards chair 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 nominations, you are welcome to join!

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.

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 is setting up Financial Hardship Waivers. If you're concerned about how you'll be covered, please attend.

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: sigchi.org/events/sigch...

@cfiesler.bsky.social, @vitak.bsky.social and I have another column in the @acm-sigchi.bsky.social newsletter on behalf of the SIGCHI Research Ethics Committee: "The Ethics of Consent: Reflecting on the Case of r/ChangeMyView"
sigchi.org/news/newslet...

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: sigchi.org/events/septe...

🚨 Important Registration Updates

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Reminder🔉 Abstract/metadata deadline is today (Sep 4 AoE)! No new submissions and author changes after the deadline. Make sure metadata is finalized before time runs out!

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You can now register for online and on-site attendance.
Find out more about our registration fees and register here: chiplay.acm.org/2025/registr...

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Open Call for Volunteers 2025 As a volunteer-driven organization, we are deeply reliant on numerous volunteers who give their time to organizing conferences, reviewing…

Further details, including committee-specific calls, are in our Medium blog post: medium.com/sigchi/open-...

We will close this call on September 30th, and work with committee chairs to match people to volunteer roles.

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.

The SIGCHI Exec is supported by several committees. We are 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.

SIGCHI - Open Call for Volunteers As a volunteer-driven organization, we are deeply reliant on numerous volunteers who give their time to organizing conferences, reviewing papers, overseeing initiatives, and much more. The SIGCHI Exec...

Announcing our new open call for volunteers (deadline Sept 30th)! sigchi.submittable.com/submit/32914...