Special Interest Group _on_Computer-Human Interaction
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ACM SIGCHI is the leading international community of students and professionals interested in research, education, and practical applications of Human Computer Interaction.
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A family of conferences organized every year since 1983
A thriving community of over 5,000 members
Committed to growing our global and local presence
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##### Announcing the 2025 SIGCHI Awards!
25 Feb 2025
We are very pleased to announce the awardees for the 2025 cycle of the ACM SIGCHI Awards! Centrally administered by the SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC), these awards are given annually in several categories recognizing lifetime achievements in research and practice as well as societal impact and outstanding dissertations. Furthermore, the EC also inducts members into the SIGCHI Academy. The awardees will be formally recognized at the upcoming ACM CHI 2025 conference in Yokohama, Japan in April, during which they may give a talk or participate in a panel discussion. Here follow the awardees, organized by award category and then alphabetical order:
**ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award**
* Paul Dourish - University of California, Irvine, USA
* Pattie Maes - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
**ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award**
* Kia Höök - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Yoshifumi Kitamura - Tohoku University, Japan
* Aaron Quigley - CSIRO Data61, Australia
**ACM SIGCHI Societal Impact Award**
* Tiago Guerreiro - University of Lisbon, Portugal
* Alexis Hiniker - University of Washington, USA
* Kentaro Toyama - University of Michigan, USA
**ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award**
* Leona Holloway - Monash University, Australia
* Katerina Stepanova - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Anupriya Tuli - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
* Zijie Jay Wang - OpenAI, USA
* Nur Yildirim - University of Virginia, USA
**ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2025**
* Carl DiSalvo - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
* James Fogarty - University of Washington, USA
* Elizabeth Gerber - Northwestern University, USA
* Wendy Ju - Cornell Tech, USA
* Pattie Maes - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
* Joanna McGrenere - University of British Columbia, Canada
* Antti Oulasvirta - Aalto University, Finland
* Kate Starbird - University of Washington, USA
* Wolfgang Stuerzlinger - Simon Fraser University, Canada
* Kentaro Toyama - University of Michigan, USA
* Martin Wattenberg - Harvard University/Google, USA
**ACM SIGCHI Special Recognitions** Because of their exploratory nature, each special recognition is given with a citation.
* Gregory Abowd - Northeastern University, USA - _For his extraordinary ability to inspire and mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds and his commitment to fostering collaboration, creativity, and impact._
* Cecilia Aragon - University of Washington, USA - _For establishing human-centered data science as a new field bridging HCI and data science, demonstrating its impact through applications from astrophysics to energy systems._
* Nadia Campo Woytuk - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - _For early-career research in intimate body-sensing technologies, developing open-source methods for studying intimate care, and creating inclusive maker spaces that support feminist HCI._
* Mark Colley - University College London, UK - _For early-career contributions to inclusive HCI research, extensive community building, and championing open science in automotive user interfaces._
* Gustavo Lopez - University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica - _For advancing HCI research and education in Latin America through community leadership, helping to establish regional SIGCHI chapters, and fostering collaboration in HCI._
* Jasmine Lu - University of Chicago, USA - _For pioneering research in ecological HCI through novel hardware interfaces and fostering communities around sustainable computing._
* Jooyoung Park - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - _For early-career contributions to feminist HCI and haptic technology design, advancing methodologies for embodied care technologies, and fostering inclusive research._
* Nadya Peek - University of Washington, USA - _For democratizing automation through open-source hardware, building global maker communities, and bridging academic research with grassroots fabrication practices._
* Anicia Peters - National Commission of Research, Science and Technology, Namibia - _For pioneering the development of HCI in Africa, transforming HCI education in Namibia, and applying human-centered approaches to critical societal challenges._
* Christian Sturm - Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany - _For sustained contributions to global HCI education, building student communities across Latin America and Africa, and championing inclusive approaches to design competitions._
* The Google/academia Android XR interaction team - _For pioneering the interaction framework of Android XR through exemplary industry-academia collaboration, establishing foundational input methods and interaction guidelines for XR operating systems._
* Karan Ahuja (Northwestern University)
* Andrea Colaco (Google)
* Massimiliano Di Luca (University of Birmingham)
* Hans Gellersen (Lancaster University)
* Mar Gonzalez-Franco (Google)
* Eric J. Gonzalez (Google)
* Ken Pfeuffer (Aarhus University)
* Hasti Seifi (Arizona State University)
Please see the [2025 awards blog post](https://medium.com/sigchi/announcing-the-2025-acm-sigchi-awards-17c1feaf865f) for more details. Congratulations to the awardees and thank you to the award committee for identifying these brilliant individuals!
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##### ACM Recognizes SIGCHI Members
14 Feb 2025
Niklas Elmqvist, our Awards Chair, will very soon be announcing our 2025 awardees and special recognitions (new this year!). Today, we'd like to call your attention to the new ACM Fellows (Niklas among them!) and Distinguished Members with contributions to SIGCHI. Please join us in congratulating:
ACM’s 2024 Distinguished Members: **Yunan Chen**, **Magy Seif El-Nasr**, **Nicole Ellison**, **Kim Marriott**, **Florian Schaub**, **Johannes Schöning**, and **Allison Woodruff**
ACM’s 2024 Fellows: **Susanne Bødker**, **Niklas Elmqvist**, **Jeffrey Heer**, **Scott Hudson**, **Cliff Lampe**, **Claudio T. Silva**, and **Thad Starner**
And congratulations to **Michel Beaudouin-Lafon**, long time ACM and SIGCHI volunteer leader, for being elected to the French Academy of Sciences!
SIGCHI is lucky to have you be a part of it!
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##### Statement from ACM Leadership
14 Feb 2025
Please see the statement from ACM leadership this week (posted on [the ACM homepage](https://www.acm.org/)) on its commitment to the ACM mission and core values in all its scientific and educational activities!
If you have any related concerns/suggestions, please reach out to the [SIGCHI President]([email protected]).
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Our _twenty eight_Conferences
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SIGCHI sponsors/co-sponsors 28 Human-Computer Interaction conferences annually, including our flagship conference, CHI (Human Factors in Computing Systems), which has been organized every year since 1983.
##### AutoUI
ACM Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications
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](https://www.auto-ui.org/)
##### C&C
ACM Creativity & Cognition
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](https://cc.acm.org/2025/)
##### CHI
ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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](https://chi2025.acm.org/)
##### CHI Play
Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play
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](https://chiplay.acm.org/)
##### CI
ACM Collective Intelligence Conference
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](https://ci.acm.org/)
##### COMPASS
ACM SIGCAS/SIGCHI Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies
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](https://compass.acm.org/)
##### CSCW
ACM Conference On Computer-Supported Cooperative Work And Social Computing
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](https://cscw.acm.org)
##### CUI
ACM Conversational User Interfaces
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](https://cui.acm.org/)
##### CritiCo
Conference on Critical Computing
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](https://sigchi.org)
##### DIS
ACM Designing Interactive Systems
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](https://dis.acm.org/)
##### EICS
ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems
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](https://eics.acm.org/)
##### ETRA
ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research & Applications
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](https://etra.acm.org/)
##### GROUP
ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work
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](https://group.acm.org/)
##### HRI
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
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](https://humanrobotinteraction.org)
##### ICMI
International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
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](https://icmi.acm.org)
##### IDC
ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference
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](https://idc.acm.org/)
##### IH
Conference on Interactive Health
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](https://sigchi.org)
##### IMX
ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences
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](https://imx.acm.org)
##### ISS
ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces
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](https://iss.acm.org/)
##### IUI
ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces
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](https://iui.acm.org)
##### MobileHCI
ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
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](https://mobilehci.acm.org)
##### RecSys
ACM Conference on Recommender Systems
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](https://recsys.acm.org/)
##### SUI
ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction
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](https://sui.acm.org/)
##### TEI
ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
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](https://tei.acm.org/)
##### UIST
ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
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](https://uist.acm.org/)
##### UMAP
ACM Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation and Personalization
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](https://www.um.org)
##### UbiComp / ISWC
ACM international Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing
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](https://www.ubicomp.org/)
##### VRST
ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology
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](https://vrst.acm.org/)
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