This Meet-Up explores how regional cultural values can act as a catalyst for the growth and sustainability of HCI communities and research agendas worldwide. Organized by the chairs of SIGCHI Regional Committees (Asia CHI, Latin America CHI, Mediterranean CHI), with support from the SIGCHI VP at Large, the session positions Regional Committees as bridges that attract new participants, mentor and nurture local ecosystems, and connect bottom-up initiatives to the global CHI network. Through short framings, small-group dialogues, and collective synthesis, we will surface culture-aware practices for attraction, mentoring and opportunities for culturally grounded community-building and collaboration. The session aims to produce a concise set of reusable outputs (1) better attract and welcome newcomers and underrepresented groups; (2) nurture local communities via context-sensitive programming; and (3) translate regional insights into globally visible collaborations within SIGCHI.

The HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) workshop at CHI 2025 will focus on "Building a Collective Vision for the Future." HCIxB has gathered a diverse audience annually by conducting workshops and symposia since CHI 2016. This year, we hope to regroup as a community to reflect on the growth of HCIxB over the past ten years, engage in mentoring sessions for present early career researchers, and collectively form a vision for the future. This full-day hybrid workshop aims to gather researchers and practitioners to explore how we can collectively shape the future of HCI across diverse cultures and geographies. We will have a panel discussion featuring invited speakers sharing insights from a recent HCIxB Book Chapter summarizing our future. Attendees will showcase their research through posters, highlighting HCIxB's trends worldwide, particularly in the Global South. Lastly, we will collaborate to create a vision for our community's future and provide initial resources to future HCIxB organizers.

Recent global developments, such as the war in Ukraine and uprisings in Iran, motivate this year’s HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) workshop at CHI 2023, asking how we can foster greater global solidarity. Our workshop aims to brainstorm and discuss pathways to engage in solidarity as a global research, practice, and education community. HCIxB has already gathered a diverse audience annually by conducting workshops and symposia annually since CHI 2016. At CHI 2023, we hope to hold a hybrid workshop to focus on themes of solidarity and resilience, and how we might support and nurture the growth of a diverse and growing body of students and early career researchers across the SIGCHI community.

As a premier international association for professionals, academics, and students who are interested in Human-Computer Interaction, SIGCHI has always been committed to diversity and inclusion. Over the years, SIGCHI Conferences have provided various venues to discuss matters that promote voices from diverse constituents. With this SIG, we would like to add to this effort, by bringing attention to barriers and opportunities for improvements in geographic inclusion at SIGCHI, and also highlighting efforts that were conducted before and might be adaptade to address ongoing challenges. We will assemble a geographically inclusive group of participants in a roundtable discussion to share their insights based on their lived experiences with geographic inclusion (at SIGCHI and elsewhere), and encourage the audience to engage in discourse with them.

Usability is the key to making future technology useful to the world, yet it is often ignored. This workshop will introduce Usability, and brainstorm ways to incorporate it into UN SDGs. One example is our effort to add World Usability Day (WUD) to the UN calendar. We will explore implications for technology design for the Global South. We will also identify concrete next steps that we all can take to advance Usability worldwide.

Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) research has led to major innovations used by large and diverse audiences in different parts of the world. However, a recent meta-analysis [25] found that research at CHI is still highly (73%) concentrated in western contexts. HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) has gathered a diverse audience by conducting workshops and symposia since CHI 2016, aiming to expand borders within CHI. For CHI 2022, we expect to regroup for a virtual workshop to reflect on shifting boundaries from CHI's past and emerging challenges in HCI research, education, and practice in recent years.

The Executive Committee (EC) of ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) organized a series of ten equity talks from March 2021 to August 2021. These were hour-long recorded virtual roundtable sessions, for which we solicited participation from the SIGCHI community on concerns and questions relating to equity, in a number of areas relevant to SIGCHI. Many concerns were listed, some were repeated across topics, and the EC followed due diligence when it came to presenting this information to the community. What comes next?

In this special interest group (SIG), we follow up on previous conversations around hybrid models for conferences, conducted in open sessions by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Executive Committee (EC). The COVID-19 pandemic led to a sudden shift to virtual conferences; as we start to go back to in-person events, it is important to reflect on the types of events we desire, and design these accordingly. With this SIG, we hope to share experiences from previous conferences (successful or not) and discuss potential solutions to pending issues. This SIG will be led by VP at Large Adriana S. Vivacqua, with the participation of other EC members.

This Special Interest Group (SIG) will collaboratively explore potential futures of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) on the organization’s 40th anniversary. Taking stock of where we are now, forty years after inception, our goal will be to engage members of the SIGCHI community in a participatory approach towards imagining how SIGCHI might evolve, and how it can ensure that the elements it values most, such as connection, inclusion, and equity, among others, can be nurtured as the field evolves, and technologies come and go.

research-article SIGCHI at 40: celebrations and aspirations Authors: Andrew L. Kun University of New Hampshire University of New HampshireView Profile , Elizabeth Churchill Google GoogleView Profile , Tamara L. Clegg University of Maryland University of MarylandView Profile , Jonathan Grudin Microsoft and University of Washington Microsoft and University of WashingtonView Profile , Kristina Höök KTH Royal Institute of Technology KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyView Profile , Daria Loi Fishtail FishtailView Profile , Yolanda Rankin Florida State University Florida State UniversityView Profile , Elizabeth Rosenzweig Brandeis University Brandeis UniversityView Profile , Kentaro Toyama University of Michigan University of MichiganView Profile , Susan Dray Dray & Associates Dray & AssociatesView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 29Issue 6November - December 2022 pp 24–29https://doi.org/10.1145/3564036Published:03 November 2022Publication History 1citation140DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations1Total Downloads140Last 12 Months140Last 6 weeks29 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

opinion Share on 'It changed my life': stories of SIGCHI's influence Authors: Susan Dray Dray & Associates Dray & AssociatesView Profile , Elizabeth Buie Nexer Digital Nexer DigitalView Profile , Gillian Crampton Smith University of Applied Sciences Potsdam University of Applied Sciences PotsdamView Profile , Assem Kroma Carleton University Carleton UniversityView Profile , Xiang Li University of Cambridge University of CambridgeView Profile , Aaron Marcus Aaron Marcus and Associates Aaron Marcus and AssociatesView Profile , Monica Pereira Brunel University London Brunel University LondonView Profile , Cuauhtémoc Rivera-Loaiza Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de HidalgoView Profile , Janice Rohn Intel IntelView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 29Issue 6November - December 2022pp 42–45https://doi.org/10.1145/3564718Published:03 November 2022Publication History 0citation412DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads412Last 12 Months412Last 6 weeks58 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access

ArabHCI initiative was inaugurated in a CHI17 SIG Meeting that brought together 45+ HCI Arab/non-Arab researchers/practitioners who are conducting/interested in HCI within Arab communities. The meeting started an ongoing dialogue that recognizes the fact that HCI is still in its infancy in the Arab world and explores challenges and opportunities for shaping the future of HCI in the region. The meeting was further followed by three successful meetings in SIGCHI sponsored events that included general discussions about the state of HCI research in Arab countries, and a thematic discussion on exploring participatory design practices with Arab communities. In this workshop, we build on the momentum generated by our previous meetings, and attempt to draw a roadmap for HCI research and practice in Arab world. Our goal is to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss case studies from their own work, share experiences and lessons learned, and envision the future of the field in this area. We plan to share the results of our discussions and research agenda with the wider CHI community through various social and scholarly channels.

This forum addresses conceptual, methodological, and professional issues that arise in UX's continuing effort to have a positive impact by contributing robust information about users to product planning and design. --- David Siegel and Susan Dray, Editors

The HCI Across Borders (HCIxB) community has been growing in recent years, thanks in particular to the Development Consortium at CHI 2016 and the HCIxB Symposia at CHI 2017 and 2018. This year, we propose an HCIxB symposium that continues to build scholarship potential of early career HCIxB researchers, strengthening ties between more and less experienced members of the community. We especially invite scholarship with a focus on intersections, examining and/or addressing multiple forms of marginalization (e.g. race, gender, class, among others).

The ACM SIGCHI community has been at the forefront of addressing issues of equity and inclusivity in the design and use of technology, accounting for various aspects of users' identities such as gender, ethnicity, and sexuality. With this panel, we wish to explore how we, as SIGCHI, might better target similar goals of equity and inclusivity - across intersections - within our own community. We wish to create a forum for recognizing best practices regarding equity and inclusivity in participants' local and global contexts that we might feasibly integrate across SIGCHI. By equally prioritizing the voices of those in the audience and on the panel, we intend to foster a lively and constructive discussion that will help us chart a way forward. The takeaways from this panel will be articulated into an article for the Interactions magazine, targeting the larger human-computer interaction (HCI) community.

AbstractHCI education reflects the continual evolution of HCI, embracing the changing landscapes of technology, infrastructure, and technology use. This forum aims to provide a platform for HCI educators, practitioners, researchers, and students to share their perspectives, reflections, and experiences related to HCI education. --- Sukeshini Grandhi, Editor