SIGCHI
Encyclopedia
SIGCHI is the Special Interest Group on Computer–Human Interaction, one of the Association for Computing Machinery
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...

's special interest groups.
It is the world's leading organization in Human–Computer Interaction (HCI), and essentially created and defined the field.

It hosts the major annual international HCI conference, CHI
CHI (conference)
The ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems series of academic conferences is generally considered the most prestigious in the field of human–computer interaction. It is hosted by ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on computer–human interaction. CHI has been held annually since...

, with around 2,500 attendees, and publishes two of the main international publications on HCI: ACM interactions, and ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction is a peer-reviewed scientific journal that aims to be the premier archival journal in the multidisciplinary field of computer-human interaction. It has been published since 1994 by the Association for Computing Machinery.- Editors-in-Chief :*Shumin...

(TOCHI).

It was formed in 1982 by renaming and refocussing SIGSOC, the Special Interest Group on Social and Behavioral Computing.

SIGCHI has two membership publications, the SIGCHI Bulletin
SIGCHI Bulletin
The SIGCHI Bulletin is one of the two membership publications of ACM SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group on Computer Human Interaction. The other publication is ACM interactions....

and interactions
Interactions (magazine)
ACM interactions magazine serves a number of related worlds, offering content to educate and inspire designers, providing viewpoints related to culture and anthropology, describing innovation and creation in a business environment, and continually investigating the relationship between people,...

.

Each year it inducts 5 or 6 people into the CHI Academy
CHI Academy
The CHI Academy is a group of researchers honored by SIGCHI, the Special Interest Group in Computer–Human Interaction of the Association for Computing Machinery. Each year, 5–7 new members are elected for having made a significant, cumulative contributions to the development of thefield of...

, 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. Past recipients of these awards are listed on the SIGCHI website.

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