We are very pleased to announce the awardees for the 2025 cycle of the ACM SIGCHI Awards! Centrally administered by the SIGCHI Executive Committee (EC), these awards are given annually in several categories recognizing lifetime achievements in research and practice as well as societal impact and outstanding dissertations. Furthermore, the EC also inducts members into the SIGCHI Academy. The awardees will be formally recognized at the upcoming ACM CHI 2025 conference in Yokohama, Japan in April, during which they may give a talk or participate in a panel discussion. Here follow the awardees, organized by award category and then alphabetical order:

ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Research Award

• Paul Dourish - University of California, Irvine, USA

• Pattie Maes - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Service Award

• Kia Höök - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

• Yoshifumi Kitamura - Tohoku University, Japan

• Aaron Quigley - CSIRO Data61, Australia

ACM SIGCHI Societal Impact Award

• Tiago Guerreiro - University of Lisbon, Portugal

• Alexis Hiniker - University of Washington, USA

• Kentaro Toyama - University of Michigan, USA

ACM SIGCHI Outstanding Dissertation Award

• Leona Holloway - Monash University, Australia

• Katerina Stepanova - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

• Anupriya Tuli - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

• Zijie Jay Wang - OpenAI, USA

• Nur Yildirim - University of Virginia, USA

ACM SIGCHI Academy Class of 2025

• Carl DiSalvo - Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

• James Fogarty - University of Washington, USA

• Elizabeth Gerber - Northwestern University, USA

• Wendy Ju - Cornell Tech, USA

• Pattie Maes - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

• Joanna McGrenere - University of British Columbia, Canada

• Antti Oulasvirta - Aalto University, Finland

• Kate Starbird - University of Washington, USA

• Wolfgang Stuerzlinger - Simon Fraser University, Canada

• Kentaro Toyama - University of Michigan, USA

• Martin Wattenberg - Harvard University/Google, USA

ACM SIGCHI Special Recognitions Because of their exploratory nature, each special recognition is given with a citation.

• Gregory Abowd - Northeastern University, USA - For his extraordinary ability to inspire and mentor individuals from diverse backgrounds and his commitment to fostering collaboration, creativity, and impact.

• Cecilia Aragon - University of Washington, USA - For establishing human-centered data science as a new field bridging HCI and data science, demonstrating its impact through applications from astrophysics to energy systems.

• Nadia Campo Woytuk - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - For early-career research in intimate body-sensing technologies, developing open-source methods for studying intimate care, and creating inclusive maker spaces that support feminist HCI.

• Mark Colley - University College London, UK - For early-career contributions to inclusive HCI research, extensive community building, and championing open science in automotive user interfaces.

• Gustavo Lopez - University of Costa Rica, Costa Rica - For advancing HCI research and education in Latin America through community leadership, helping to establish regional SIGCHI chapters, and fostering collaboration in HCI.

• Jasmine Lu - University of Chicago, USA - For pioneering research in ecological HCI through novel hardware interfaces and fostering communities around sustainable computing.

• Jooyoung Park - KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - For early-career contributions to feminist HCI and haptic technology design, advancing methodologies for embodied care technologies, and fostering inclusive research.

• Nadya Peek - University of Washington, USA - For democratizing automation through open-source hardware, building global maker communities, and bridging academic research with grassroots fabrication practices.

• Anicia Peters - National Commission of Research, Science and Technology, Namibia - For pioneering the development of HCI in Africa, transforming HCI education in Namibia, and applying human-centered approaches to critical societal challenges.

• Christian Sturm - Technische Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany - For sustained contributions to global HCI education, building student communities across Latin America and Africa, and championing inclusive approaches to design competitions.

• The Google/academia Android XR interaction team - For pioneering the interaction framework of Android XR through exemplary industry-academia collaboration, establishing foundational input methods and interaction guidelines for XR operating systems.

  • Karan Ahuja (Northwestern University)

  • Andrea Colaco (Google)

  • Massimiliano Di Luca (University of Birmingham)

  • Hans Gellersen (Lancaster University)

  • Mar Gonzalez-Franco (Google)

  • Eric J. Gonzalez (Google)

  • Ken Pfeuffer (Aarhus University)

  • Hasti Seifi (Arizona State University)

Please see the 2025 awards blog post for more details. Congratulations to the awardees and thank you to the award committee for identifying these brilliant individuals!

On Thursday, April 3, we will be holding two open sessions on conferences and contingency planning, at 1pm UTC (in your timezone) and 9pm UTC (in your timezone). Each of them will be ~45 minutes long.

We have heard concerns from members of our community regarding ongoing events that are likely to impact conference participation with downstream effects on member and conference wellbeing. In response, we are organizing this forum to make space for concerns, brainstorm contingency plans, and find ways to keep the conversation going.

Session 1 When: Thursday, April 3, 1pm UTC Zoom: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/92832082471?pwd=YS579Yf0c8N8keEHzVzMhWLzuCfMbH.1

Session 2 When: Thursday, April 3, 9pm UTC Zoom: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/94343319281?pwd=yk9irEY55CzzSLTtys6IfHRPucHxlc.1

The CHI Steering Committee will be holding Zoom discussions on peer review for CHI. Details from the committee are below:

The CHI Steering Committee (SC) wants to hear from the SIGCHI community on future guidelines for minimum qualifications for peer review roles at CHI, to help ensure quality reviews and a process aligned with SIGCHI policies and values. A working group on peer review for CHI has put together these recommendations. Please read the proposed guidance available here: (https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1oWgUuKZcZJ6tiypMnheLJenJdvniXyo5rOGE11YFtwE/edit?usp=sharing) and join us for synchronous zoom sessions to discuss.

CHI: Roles Criteria Meeting 1

Tuesday, April 8 8:00 US Pacific time (https://dateful.com/eventlink/2790013081 for conversion to your timezone)

Link: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/99753002498?pwd=C719K2N7ZXJFB85rKjsDLoiiJ35NmN.1Meeting ID: 997 5300 2498Passcode: 798421

CHI: Roles Criteria Meeting 2

Tuesday, April 8 20:00 US Pacific time (https://dateful.com/eventlink/1362461404 for conversion to your timezone)

Link: https://acm-org.zoom.us/j/91420574901?pwd=L2IqX3lKiAdkiz8Yfn1wyAAjW6SkAY.1Meeting ID: 914 2057 4901Passcode: 719802

We want to hear from you! The Steering Committee will meet immediately after CHI to consider your feedback before moving forward with recommendations for future CHI conferences.

We look forward to your input!

Katherine Isbister and Regan Mandryk on behalf on the CHI Steering Committee and Peer Review Workgroup