Selecting sites for academic conferences is a key issue in the SIGCHI community and beyond. Dr. Katie Seaborn and Adrian Petterson (The University of Toronto) have co-authored possibilities for going forward. https://medium.com/p/071173b3c34e #acm #sigchi #hci #chi #chi24 #whychi

A follow-up re CHI 2024 Dissent -- this letter contains things that we have achieved together, things that remain to be done, and recommendations for future work. #CHI2024 #whyCHI #CripTheACM #CripCHI

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tYFfSiCimPbQOHjYDSrw4cyBC_2zUIpnJpKDHOWuk60/edit?usp=drivesdk

If you want to support #decolonizing #sigchi, please sign up at this form to learn more about how to join the movement.

https://www.psytoolkit.org/c/3.4.4/survey?s=usWyk

#whychi shouldn't be in Hawaii? https://www.chiinhawaii.info/

Please retoot

I release the following post regarding #CHI2024, #whyCHI, and any other academic conference planning to remain in Hawai'i in this or any other year. May this discomfort lead us to new knowledge and renewed action.

https://open.substack.com/pub/fractalecho/p/educating-the-masters?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Really interested in the #whychi discussions about hosting CHI2024 in Hawaii.

Here's a quick discussion roundup (from Mastodon and Twitter):
-https://www.chiinhawaii.info/
-https://twitter.com/ProfJosiah/status/1691806236679848095
-https://hci.social/@chi/110916745058310447
-https://twitter.com/JAldrichPL/status/1692367232280698949
-https://hci.social/@andresmh/110912232616410797
-https://hci.social/@FractalEcho@kolektiva.social/110918403268484387
-https://twitter.com/vickiebananas/status/1691988848283136394
-https://hci.social/@jbigham/110916822610373471

For those students and early-career faculty who are worried about the loss of networking opportunity caused by refusing to participate in #CHI2024, I will be providing networking and mentorship support for scholars interested in Technology and Disability, broadly construed.

It is my duty to model the behavior I hope to see from my peers so that we can do what is right - Refusing CHI - while continuing to support young marginalized scholars. Those who benefit most from in-person CHI are the same people who are hurt the least by opportunity loss.

Twice a month for a year, I will host 2 mentoring and networking sessions. That's 24 people who will receive focused advice on scholarship, programs, contacts, and resources that will benefit their career goals and project aspirations. I absolutely do not help 24 ppl at CHI.

So if you are worried about networking opportunities without #CHI2024, or you are worried for your students, and your scholarship sits in the nebula of disability, marginality, HCI, design, ethics, policy, and politics, you can sign up here:

https://tinyurl.com/AcripdemicMentoring

#CripTheACM #CripCHI #whyCHI

https://chi2024.acm.org/2023/08/18/help-to-support-maui-fire-relief/ If this is your statement, CHI, then I'm sorry, but money alone won't fix things. We need to change our behaviour, and we need to accept that we cannot have it all. #chi2024 #whychi

I've already said in January that I won't be submitting to, reviewing for, or attending #CHI2024: https://hci.social/@floe/109658352678581278

Now after the #Maui fires, there's renewed discussion about #whychi - read below for a very thoughtful appeal for not supporting CHI this year.

https://www.chiinhawaii.info/