It hosts the flagship annual international HCI conference, CHI, with over 3,000 attendees,[1] 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.[2]
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 Bill Curtis and Ben Shneiderman. [3]
The inugural CHI conference was hosted the year after, in 1983.[4]
In 1988, the UIST and CSCW conferences were added.[4]
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)
2023 - Shaowen Bardzell, Munmun de Choudhury and Nicola Dell
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
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.
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.
Sponsored Conferences
Apart from CHI, SIGCHI sponsors or co-sponsors over 20 specialized conferences in topics related to HCI.
ACM Conference on Supporting Groupwork (GROUP)
International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI)
International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI)
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI)
Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA)
ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX)
Collective Intelligence (CI)
Interaction, Design and Children (IDC)
ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS)
