Exploring Hybrid: A (hybrid) SIG to discuss hybrid conferences

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2022-04-28

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SIGCHI Executive Committee, Adriana S Vivacqua, Andrew L Kun, Cale Passmore, Helena Mentis, Josh Andres, Kashyap Todi, Luigi De Russis, Matt Jones, Naomi Yamashita, Neha Kumar, Nicola J Bidwell, Pejman Mirza-Babaei, Priya Kumar, Shaowen Bardzell, Simone Kriglstein, Stacy M. Branham, Susan Dray, Susanne Boll, and Tamara Clegg. 2022. Exploring Hybrid: A (hybrid) SIG to discuss hybrid conferences. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI EA '22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 164, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3516405

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In this special interest group (SIG), we follow up on previous conversations around hybrid models for conferences, conducted in open sessions by the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction (SIGCHI) Executive Committee (EC). The COVID-19 pandemic led to a sudden shift to virtual conferences; as we start to go back to in-person events, it is important to reflect on the types of events we desire, and design these accordingly. With this SIG, we hope to share experiences from previous conferences (successful or not) and discuss potential solutions to pending issues. This SIG will be led by VP at Large Adriana S. Vivacqua, with the participation of other EC members.