Dialogues

XXIX.6 November - December 2022
Page: 42
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‘It changed my life’: stories of SIGCHI’s influence


Authors:
Susan Dray, Elizabeth Buie, Gillian Crampton Smith, Assem Kroma, Xiang Li, Aaron Marcus, Monica Pereira, Cuauhtémoc Rivera-Loaiza, Janice Rohn

  Earlier this year, we issued an open call for stories about how SIGCHI has positively affected people; the response was quite good. Submissions came from a wide variety of people—an undergraduate who was just beginning their Ph.D. journey, a graduate student, an early-career professor, several senior researchers, and several "old-timers" who were present at the original Gaithersburg, Maryland, meeting in 1982, when SIGCHI was formed. They come from China, Canada, the U.K., Mexico, and the U.S., and from both academia and industry. This article summarizes some of the commonalities in these submissions. The complete pieces, as well as a…




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