FY 2021 SIGCHI Development Fund Recipients
FY 2021 (Total awarded: USD 88,845)
Event/Initiative | Description | Category | Awarded | Month awarded | Items supported | Principal investigator and affiliation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
XX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems (IHC2021) | The Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC) is the main scientific event in the field of Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil, aiming to support accessibility and diversity through registration waivers, childcare, and accessibility services. | Community | 4,000 | June 2021 | Web conferencing and streaming, audience engagement tools, mailed coffee break kits, Brazilian Sign Language interpretation, technical support staff | Kamila Rodrigues; University of São Paulo - (USP) |
Support Student Participation at ACM UMAP 2021 | A travel fund to enable more students, especially authors, volunteers, and doctoral consortium attendees, to present their work at UMAP, communicate with the community, and enhance their career opportunities. | Conferences | 4,080 | May 2021 | Virtual registration waivers for students authors and student volunteers outside of the US | Yong Zheng; Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA |
CHI Mentoring Workshop 2021 (CHIMe 2021) | Virtual CHI workshop designed to bring together underrepresented HCI students, faculty, and researchers to help students build relationships/networks with their peers and leaders, provide a welcoming environment for mentoring and collaboration, and encourage students’ participation at CHI. | Community | 2,500 | April 2021 | CART, lunch gift cards for students | Martez Mott; Microsoft Research |
24 Hours of UX | A 24 hour-long online conference about UX, featuring communities from around the globe, with the potential to connect practitioners with academics and SIGCHI. | Community | 5,000 | April 2021 | Virtual conference platform | Keith Instone; 24 Labs |
Interactive Technology for Cycling — ideate, make – remote, together (related to the already accepted grant 'International HCI Summer School on Cycling') | Virtual workshop connecting academic and industry actors working in the fields of bicycle interaction, user interfaces, mobility, and related areas. | Community | 4,000 | April 2021 | Bicycle/helmet rent, hardware kits, shipping for hardware kits | Andrii Matviienko; Technical University of Darmstadt |
Physical and digital worlds - new interaction possibilities with data and 3D printing | An online innovation event devoted to exploring the opportunities 3D printing and design tools bring to user interfaces and interactions, engaging students, researchers, and makers | Community | 5,000 | April 2021 | Tools for marketing, collaboration tools, software licenses, 3D printing services, crowdsourcing services, prototyping materials | Pekka Ketola; 3DStep Oy, Ideascout Oy |
Annual CairoCHI ACM SIGCHI Chapter event (IrisX2021) | An annual gathering for professionals, researchers, and students interested in HCI, UX, and UI design, supporting ties between Egyptian and Arab academic and industry actors. | Community | 2,000 | March 2021 | Translation services, video editing services | Yasmeen Abdrabou; Cairo ACM SIGCHI Chapter (CairoCHI) |
Towards Explainable and Trustworthy Autonomous Physical Systems | CHI workshop for social scientists, AI researchers, and practitioners to discuss issues surrounding the design, implementation, and deployment of autonomous physical systems in society | Community | 3,750 | March 2021 | Conference registration for students and early careers | Daniel Omeiza; University of Oxford |
Living through Touch – Smart Haptic Communication for Inclusion, Accessibility and Participation | Three-day virtual symposium aimed at communicating research findings on ubiquitous, accessible interactive systems for social interaction and independent mobility designed with and for the Deafblind community, engaging individuals with deafblindness, their relatives, professionals (interpreters, interveners, caregivers, educators), HCI researchers, policy-makers, and industry members interested in haptic communication. | Community | 3,075 | March 2021 | Brazilian and French sign language interpretation | Arthur Thiel; Offenburg University |
IMX 2021 Virtual Conference: Diversifying Participation | Expansion of community-oriented virtual experience at IMX by increasing accessibility and diversifying participation | Conferences | 10,000 | March 2021 | Registration for students, SVs, and early careers, carer support, panel honorariums | Aisling Kelliher; Virginia Tech (D&I Chair for IMX 2021) |
Asian CHI Symposium | A joint event between Southeast Asia and Japanese CHI Symposia held at CHI conferences since 2017, introducing many Asian researchers and practitioners to the CHI community and bringing them to share and publish novel research ideas | Community | 4,940 | March 2021 | Workshop registration for those with financial need | Josh (Adi) Tedjasaputra; Customer Experience Insight Pty Ltd |
AfriCHI 2021 | A pan-African conference that brings together researchers, academics, practitioners, industry professionals, and students who are African, are based in Africa, or undertake or collaborate on HCI and Interaction Design projects about Africa | Community | 2,000 | March 2021 | Conference costs to enable lower registration fees | David Lamas; Tallinn University |
HCI capacity building: Knowledge, Cultural and collaborative learning with indeginous communities in Timor Leste | An initiative to expand and conctextualize HCI in Timor Leste, reaching local researchers, postgraduate students, industry partners, and academics for the purpose of knowledge exchange and capacity-building in the region | Community | 5,000 | November 2020 | One-year subscription for Zoom and Miro, website development, video production, honorarium for mentors and speakers at workshops, local interpreters, design materials, printing certificates | Eiad Yafi; Universiti Kuala Lumpur |
HCI Teaching in a Pandemic: Current Chances and Challenges | An event to bring together the global HCI community to reflect on how the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly changed the world, University life, and classroom teaching, and to address the need for new teaching models | Community | 5,000 | September 2020 | Web development for repo of useful materials produced at the workshop, assembly and shipping of technology kits to enable participants to join the virtual event while on the move and from any location | Luke Haliburton; LMU Munich |
UIST 2020 Virtual Conference | Initiative to provide a virtual conference experience that will be engaging and interactive and that will exceed the commonplace conference experience that many virtual conference attendees partake in today | Conferences | 5,000 | September 2020 | Online platform, accessibility testing, freelance developr who can connect conference websites and platforms, registration waivers for students | David Lindlbauer; ETH Zurich |
Drawing Futures – Speculations in SIGCHI | A series of 5 hands-on virtual events to use drawing as a rich, diverse, inventive, and critical tool to speculate SIGCHI in the year 2025, bringing together researchers and practitioners that represent the international/diverse HCI community to consider future research and practice bridges, interdisciplinarity, underrepresented groups, new frontiers in HCI, and community building and maintenance | Community | 1,400 | September 2020 | Zoom and Mural subscriptions, Visualizer to ensure participants can clearly see (live) drawings/instruction form facilitator/tutor, Adobe Photoshop and InDesign, Wordpress to deliver outputs, honorariums for sketching facilitator/tutor, Zine creator, and editor | Makayla Lewis; Birmingham City University |
HCI and Design in South Asia | As part of a broader initiative, the South Asian HCI community hopes to build an online community to share relevant pedagogical content, host virtual meetings, and engage in collaborative projects | Community | 5,000 | September 2020 | Google Suite, Mural, Slido, Slack, support for teachers, production team for video editing, equipment and setup for meetings | Pranjal Jain; TheUXWhale, India | Srishti SIGCHI Chapter |
XIX Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC'20) | The Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems (IHC) is the main scientific event in the field of Human-Computer Interaction in Brazil, aiming to support accessibility and diversity through registration waivers, childcare, and accessibility services. | Community | 3,000 | September 2020 | Audience engagement tools, coffee break kits, Brazilian Sign Language interpretation | Maria Lúcia Bento Villela; Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri (UFVJM) |
Online Collaboration Workshop | An initiative to strengthen the Brazilian CSCW community, aimed at increasing submissions for the Brazilian Symposium of Collaborative Systems and building out the scientific research network between the Brazilian community and the Latin American community investigating Online Collaboration | Community | 5,000 | September 2020 | Zoom, Mentimeter, Slack, Slido, data storage for hosting recordings, sign language interpretation, translating and subtitling, website translation services, designer for website and other materials, Trello, Padlet | Juliana Baptista dos Santos França; Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro |
SydCHI Research Day | The Sydney ACM SIGCHI Local Chapter, “SydCHI”, aims to promote local research collaboration and activities in the Sydney region and this virtual HCI workshop aims to (1) understand the community and its strengths, (2) formulate collaborative research agendas, and (3) identify partners and expand the community | Community | 3,600 | September 2020 | Samsung Gear 360 to record scenes for online meeting platform, VR cases for smartphones to view meeting spaces, SydCHI goodies, delivered lunches | Wafa Johal; University of New South Wales |
Co-designing a Dataset with Black and Latinx Deaf/Hearing Communities | A project to bring together Black and Latinx adults from deaf and hearing communities to co-design and label a dataset of significant environmental sounds, and methodologies for populating that dataset | Community | 5,000 | September 2020 | Hardware, server, gift cards for co-designers, interpretation/ASL services | Donna Auguste; Auguste Research Group, LLC |
Broadening Participation in Social Computing Research and Practice through the CSCW2020 Doctoral Consortium | An initiative to expand participation at the CSCW DC by covering registration for students outside of the U.S. | Conferences | 500 | September 2020 | Registration waivers for international/non-US students | Jennifer Thom; Spotify |