The Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI) is one of the

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's special interest groups which is focused on

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s (HCI). It hosts the flagship annual international HCI conference,

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, with over 3,000 attendees, and publishes ''

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'' and ''

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'' (TOCHI). It also sponsors over 20 specialized conferences and provides in-cooperation support to over 30 conferences. SIGCHI has two membership publications, the ACM TechNews - SIGCHI Edition and ''ACM Interactions''. Until 2000, the '' SIGCHI Bulletin'' was also published as a membership publication.

History

SIGCHI was formed in 1982 by renaming and refocusing the Special Interest Group on Social and Behavioral Computing (SIGSOC).

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, previously editor of the '' SIGSOC Bulletin'', was its first chair. The formation of the ACM SIGCHI was first publicly announced in 1982 during the ''Human Factors in Computer Systems'' conference in Gaithersburg, Maryland, US, organized by

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and

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. The inugural CHI conference was hosted the year after, in 1983. In 1988, the

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and CSCW conferences were added.

Awards

Each year SIGCHI inducts around 7 or 8 people into the CHI Academy, honouring them for their significant contribution to the field of human–computer interaction. It also gives out a CHI Lifetime Achievement Award for research and practice, the CHI Lifetime Service Award, and the CHI Social Impact Award. Since 2018, SIGCHI also awards the Outstanding Dissertation Award to recognize excellent thesis by Ph.D. recipients in HCI.

SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award

*1998 - Douglas C. Engelbart (award called the SIGCHI Special Recognition Award in 1998) *2000 - Stuart K. Card *2001 -

*2002 - Donald A. Norman *2003 - John M. Carroll *2004 - Tom Moran *2005 - Tom Landauer *2006 - Judith S. Olson and Gary M. Olson *2007 - James D. Foley *2008 - Bill Buxton *2009 - Sara Kiesler *2010 ** Practice: Karen Holtzblatt ** Research:

Lucy Suchman Lucy Suchman is a Professor of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom. Her current research extends her longstanding critical engagement with the field of human-comp ...

*2011 ** Practice:

Larry Tesler Lawrence Gordon Tesler (April 24, 1945 – February 16, 2020) was an American computer scientist who worked in the field of human–computer interaction. Tesler worked at Xerox PARC, Apple, Amazon, and Yahoo! While at PARC, Tesler's work includ ...

** Research:

Terry Winograd Terry Allen Winograd (born February 24, 1946) is an American professor of computer science at Stanford University, and co-director of the Stanford Human–Computer Interaction Group. He is known within the philosophy of mind and artificial intel ...

*2012 ** Practice: Joy Mountford ** Research: Dan R. Olsen, Jr. *2013 ** Practice: Jakob Nielsen ** Research: George G. Robertson *2014 ** Practice: Gillian Crampton Smith ** Research: Steve Whittaker ** Special Recognition:

Ted Nelson Theodor Holm Nelson (born June 17, 1937) is an American pioneer of information technology, philosopher, and sociologist. He coined the terms ''hypertext'' and ''hypermedia'' in 1963 and published them in 1965. Nelson coined the terms ''transcl ...

*2015 ** Practice: Susan M. Dray ** Research: James D. Hollan * 2016 ** Practice: Jeff A. Johnson ** Research: Robert E. Kraut * 2017 ** Practice:

Ernest Edmonds Ernest Edmonds (born 1942, London, England) is a British artist, a pioneer in the field of computer art and its variants, algorithmic art, generative art, interactive art, from the late 1960s to the present. His work is represented in the Vict ...

** Research: Brad A. Myers * 2018 ** Practice: Arnold M. Lund ** Research: Steven K. Feiner * 2019 ** Practice: Daniel Rosenberg ** Research: Hiroshi Ishii * 2020 ** Practice:

David Canfield Smith David Canfield Smith is an American computer scientist best known for inventing computer icons and the programming technique known as programming by demonstration. His primary emphasis has been in the area of human–computer interaction (CHI) d ...

** Research: Susan T. Dumais * 2021 ** Practice: John T. Richards ** Research: Scott Hudson * 2022 ** Practice:

Steven Pemberton Steven Pemberton is a researcher affiliated with the Distributed and Interactive Systems group at the Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), the national research institute for mathematics and computer science in the Netherlands. He was one of t ...

** Research: Yvonne Rogers

SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award

*2001 - Austin Henderson *2002 - Dan R. Olsen, Jr. *2003 -

*2004 - Robin Jeffries and Gene Lynch *2005 - Gary Perlman, Marilyn Mantei Tremaine, Sara Bly, Don J. Patterson, and John Morris *2006 - Susan M. Dray *2007 - Richard I. Anderson *2008 - John Karat and Marian Williams *2009 - Clare-Marie Karat and

*2010 - Mary Czerwinski *2011 - Arnie Lund and Jim Miller *2012 - Michael Atwood and Kevin Schofield *2013 - Joseph A. Konstan *2014 - Wendy Mackay and Tom Hewett *2015 -

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (20 July 1961) is a French computer scientist working in the field of human–computer interaction. He received his PhD from the Paris-Sud 11 University (which is now Paris-Saclay University) in 1985. He is currently profess ...

and Jean Scholtz *2016 - Gary M. Olson and Gerrit van der Veer *2017 - Scott E. Hudson and Zhengjie Liu *2018 - Maria Francesca Constabile and John C. Thomas *2019 - Bill Hefley *2020 - Gilbert Cockton and Catherine Plaisant *2021 - Wendy Kellogg and Philippe Palanque *2022 -

Geraldine Fitzpatrick Geraldine Fitzpatrick (born 1958) is an Australian professor and academic researcher who serves as the head of the Human-Computer Interaction Group at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology) since 2009. Her research is interdisciplinary at th ...

SIGCHI Social Impact Award

*2005 - Gregg Vanderheiden *2006 - Ted Henter *2007 - Gregory Abowd and Gary Marsden *2008 - Vicki Hanson *2009 - Helen Petrie *2010 - Ben Bederson and Allison Druin *2011 -

Allen Newell Allen Newell (March 19, 1927 – July 19, 1992) was a researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND Corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science, Tepper School of Business, and Departm ...

and Clayton Lewis *2012 - Batya Friedman *2013 - Sara J. Czaja *2014 - Richard E. Ladner *2015 - Leysia Palen *2016 - Jonathan Lazar *2017 - Jacob O. Wobbrock and Indrani Medhi Thies *2018 - Lorrie Faith Cranor *2019 - Gillian R. Hayes *2020 - Ronald M. Baecker and Bonnie Nardi *2021 - Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas, Andy Dearden and Juan Gilbert *2022 - Liz Gerber, Jennifer Mankoff and Aaditeshwar Seth

SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award

*2018 - Stefanie Mueller and Blase Ur *2019 - Chris Elsden, Anna Maria Feit and Robert Xiao *2020 - Katta Spiel and Paul Strohmeier *2021 - Josh Andres, Arunesh Mathur and Qian Yang *2022 - Aakash Gautam, Fred Hohman and Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken

SIGCHI Executive Committee

SIGCHI is governed by a set of by-laws and SIGCHI’s Elected Officers are the President, the Executive Vice-President, the Vice-President for Membership and Communications, the Vice-President for Finance, and two Vice-Presidents at large. The Executive Committee (EC) also includes editors of membership publications and appointed officers including the Vice-President for Publications, the Vice-President for Conferences, the Vice-President for Chapters, the Vice-President for Operations, and the immediate past Chair.

2009–2012

President: Gerrit van der Veer

2012–2015

President: Gerrit van der Veer

2015–2018

From July 2015 to July 2018, the SIGCHI President was Loren Terveen of

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at the University of Minnesota and the Vice President was Helena Mentis of

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2018–2021

From July 2018 to July 2021, the SIGCHI President was Helena Mentis of

with Vice President Cliff Lampe of

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2021–2024

The current SIGCHI President is Neha Kumar with Vice President Shaowen Bardzell. The President and VP run as a team and were elected to the positions for a three-year term.

Grants

SIGCHI provides resources for the community to expand, grow and communicate in the form of Grants. * SIGCHI Development Fund: Intended to support community-led initiatives to spur communication among local communities. * SIGCHI Early Career Mentoring fund: to support early-career scholars to participate in a meeting for mentorship. * SIGCHI Student Travel Grants: to provide students the opportunity to attend any of the SIGCHI Conferences..

References

External links

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