The Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction (SIGCHI) is one of the Association for Computing Machinery's special interest groups which is focused on human–computer interactions (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 Gaithersburg, Maryland, US, organized by Bill Curtis and Ben Shneiderman. In the year after, 1983, SIGCHI and the Computing Systems Group of the Human Factors Society co-sponsored the inaugural Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) in Boston. In 1988, the UIST and CSCW conferences were added.
Publications
Apart from conference proceedings, SIGCHI publishes a number of periodicals.
SIGCHI Bulletin ACM 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 - Ben Shneiderman 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 2011 Practice: Larry Tesler 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 2015 Practice: Susan M. Dray Research: James D. Hollan 2016 Practice: Jeff A. Johnson Research: Robert E. Kraut 2017 Practice: Ernest Edmonds 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 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 2026 Research: Lorrie Faith Cranor, Joseph A. Konstan
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 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 2026 - Cliff Lampe, Helena Mentis
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 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 2026 - Jon E. Froehlich, Jacki O’Neill, Volker Wulf
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 2026 - Humphrey Curtis, Martin Feick, Eunkyung Jo, Sukran Karaosmanoglu, Ben Zhang
SIGCHI Special Recognitions 2025 - Gregory Abowd, Cecilia Aragon, Nadia Campo Woytuk, Mark Colley, Gustavo Lopez, Jasmine Lu, Jooyoung Park, Nadya Peek, Anicia Peters, Christian Sturm, the Google/academia Android XR interaction team 2026 - AVELA, Sonya S. Kwak, Shaimaa Lazem, Maristella Matera, Brenna Schaffner, Phoebe Toups Dugas
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 University of Maryland Baltimore County
2018–2021 From July 2018 to July 2021, the SIGCHI President was Helena Mentis of University of Maryland Baltimore County with Vice President Cliff Lampe of University of Michigan.
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.
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) Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS) International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP) ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp) International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutomotiveUI) ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys) International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI) Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI) ACM Symposium and Virtual Reality Software and Technology Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHIPLAY) Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS) Creativity and Cognition (C&C)
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 ACM SIGCHI