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

human–computer interaction Human–computer interaction (HCI) is the process through which people operate and engage with computer systems. Research in HCI covers the design and the use of computer technology, which focuses on the interfaces between people (users) and comp ...

s (HCI). It hosts the flagship annual international HCI conference, CHI, with over 3,000 attendees, and publishes '' ACM Interactions'' and '' ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction'' (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). Lorraine Borman, 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

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, Maryland, US, organized by Bill Curtis and

Ben Shneiderman Ben Shneiderman (born August 21, 1947) is an American computer scientist, a Distinguished University Professor in the University of Maryland Department of Computer Science, which is part of the University of Maryland College of Computer, Mathem ...

. The inaugural CHI conference was hosted the year after, in 1983. In 1988, the UIST and

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conferences were added.

Publications

Apart from conference proceedings, SIGCHI publishes a number of periodicals. * SIGCHI Bulletin * interactions * ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

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 professor emerita of Anthropology of Science and Technology in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University, in the United Kingdom, also known for her work at Xerox PARC in the 1980s and 90s. Her current research exten ...

*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 Inc., Apple, Amazon.com, Amazon, and Yahoo!. While at PA ...

** Research: Terry Winograd *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. According to his 1997 ''Forbes'' p ...

*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 V ...

** Research: Brad A. Myers * 2018 ** Practice: Arnold M. Lund ** Research:

Steven K. Feiner Steven K. Feiner is an American computer scientist, serving as Professor for computer science at Columbia University in the field of computer graphics. He is well-known for his research in augmented reality (AR), and co-author of ''Computer Graph ...

* 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 (HCI) ...

** Research: Susan T. Dumais * 2021 ** Practice: John T. Richards ** Research: Scott Hudson * 2022 ** Practice: Steven Pemberton ** Research: Yvonne Rogers * 2023 ** Practice: Deborah J. Mayhew ** Research: Gregory Abowd * 2024 ** Practice: Elizabeth Churchill ** Research: Susanne Bødker, Jodi Forlizzi, James Landay, Wendy Mackay * 2025 ** Research: Paul Dourish,

Pattie Maes Pattie Maes (born 1961) is a Belgian scientist. She is a professor in MIT's program in Media Arts and Sciences. She founded and directed the MIT Media Lab's Fluid Interfaces Group. Previously, she founded and ran the Software Agents group. She ...

SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award

*2001 - Austin Henderson *2002 - Dan R. Olsen, Jr. *2003 - Lorraine Borman *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 Steven Pemberton *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 (born 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 ...

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 *2023 - Elizabeth Churchill and Loren Terveen *2024 - None *2025 - Kristina Höök, Yoshifumi Kitamura, and Aaron Quigley

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 an American 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 D ...

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 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 *2023 - Shaowen Bardzell, Munmun de Choudhury and Nicola Dell *2024 - Jan Gulliksen, Amy Ogan, Kate Starbird *2025 - Tiago Guerreiro, Alexis Hiniker,

Kentaro Toyama Kentaro Toyama is a computer scientist and international development researcher, who works on the relationship of technology and global development. He is the W. K. Kellogg Professor at the University of Michigan School of InformationMcDonald, Am ...

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 *2023 - Megan Hofmann, Dhruv Jain, Kai Lukoff *2024 - Karan Ahuja, Azra Ismail, Courtney N. Reed, Nicholas Vincent, Yixin Zou *2025 - Leona Holloway, Katerina Stepanova, Anupriya Tuli, Zijie Jay Wang, Nur Yildirim

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 GroupLens Research 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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