Hello! We set this up based on a very brief conversation recognising that the existing HCI subreddits were not really doing anything for the research community, and that it was a shame not to have more activity here. But we didn't really have a plan beyond that.
So what would make posting and reading here worthwhile for you? Are there any itches that are not being scratched by the other places we have for discussion?
Hello everyone,
I'd love to hear your advice on how to navigate in sigchi. I'm a MSc student and have never been to an academic conference before. I bought student ticket for CHI 2019 and am planning my schedule. I will attend the list of paper sessions that Im interested in. I will definitely get a job right after my MSc to be financially independent and also want to gain some industry experience as user researcher. Im very interested in a PhD later on as well. So my questions are:
What are some suggestions for me to do during/before/after the conference?
How should I present myself (not sure because im a MSc student while others are experienced) ?
Is there no point to arrive for first 2 days cos there are only workshops? (they are super interesting topics but I did not purchase any tix due to the price).
Is it possible to hear recordings from all the paper sessions after the conference?
I appreciate anything else you think would be useful :)
Thank you!
I haven't found any other forums discussing it so I wanted to post this here.
Link: https://interactions.acm.org/blog/view/addressing-institutional-racism-within-initiatives-for-sigchis-diversity-an and SIGCHI's "apology" - https://medium.com/sigchi/sigchi4all-7a21b0d81893 - interestingly, one of the authors of the article has stated that nobody from SIGCHI's executive council has reached out to them
I'd love to hear from any SIGCHI members here and especially people who help run chapters.
As for me - I'm a master's student, a SIGCHI member, and I help run a SIGCHI Student Chapter in a developing country.
Our chapter in particular is very high-achieving - we've organised a lot of events and two of our members were at CHI in Glasgow last year, one presented at OzCHI and this year one member won a prize for her undergraduate paper at CHI.
Student members (especially undergrad and master's level students like me) represent the future of SIGCHI - even though a lot of us may not do PhDs we will be engaging in our professional careers with CHI and related conference as well as being consumers of academic research in our day to day work.
Given that, this news and SIGCHI's response is very worrying - our faculty advisor and fellow chapter members are deeply dismayed by this turn of events. And trust me, we are watching what's going on. Some of us are discussing *disaffiliating* from SIGCHI entirely and running our chapter as an independent organisation and while I graduate this year, I will probably not renew my membership.
I personally am now also reconsidering a career in Academia if this kind of thing is going to be commonplace (I understand that SIGCHI more or less runs all the important conferences and journals in HCI and are unavoidable if you want an academic career)
Here's a link to a blog post where we took every question submitted during the 2019 SIGCHI Townhall and tried to answer the questions.
https://sigchi.org/2020/02/responses-to-the-chi2019-sigchi-townhall/
Hi everyone, I was thinking of shelling out some money and becoming a SIGCHI member.
I went to a few of their conferences and was always impressed by the rigor and depth speakers gave. Is anyone here a member? And if so do you feel it is worth the money?
Thanks
I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.
Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.
Alot of great jokes get posted here! However just because you have a joke, doesn't mean it's a dad joke.
THIS IS NOT ABOUT NSFW, THIS IS ABOUT LONG JOKES, BLONDE JOKES, SEXUAL JOKES, KNOCK KNOCK JOKES, POLITICAL JOKES, ETC BEING POSTED IN A DAD JOKE SUB
Try telling these sexual jokes that get posted here, to your kid and see how your spouse likes it.. if that goes well, Try telling one of your friends kid about your sex life being like Coca cola, first it was normal, than light and now zero , and see if the parents are OK with you telling their kid the "dad joke"
I'm not even referencing the NSFW, I'm saying Dad jokes are corny, and sometimes painful, not sexual
So check out r/jokes for all types of jokes
r/unclejokes for dirty jokes
r/3amjokes for real weird and alot of OC
r/cleandadjokes If your really sick of seeing not dad jokes in r/dadjokes
Punchline !
Edit: this is not a post about NSFW , This is about jokes, knock knock jokes, blonde jokes, political jokes etc being posted in a dad joke sub
Edit 2: don't touch the thermostat
Do your worst!
How the hell am I suppose to know when it’s raining in Sweden?
Ants don’t even have the concept fathers, let alone a good dad joke. Keep r/ants out of my r/dadjokes.
But no, seriously. I understand rule 7 is great to have intelligent discussion, but sometimes it feels like 1 in 10 posts here is someone getting upset about the jokes on this sub. Let the mods deal with it, they regulate the sub.
They were cooked in Greece.
I'm surprised it hasn't decade.
He lost May
Now that I listen to albums, I hardly ever leave the house.
Don't you know a good pun is its own reword?
Two muffins are in an oven, one muffin looks at the other and says "is it just me, or is it hot in here?"
Then the other muffin says "AHH, TALKING MUFFIN!!!"
We told her she can lean on us for support. Although, we are going to have to change her driver's license, her height is going down by a foot. I don't want to go too far out on a limb here but it better not be a hack job.
For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.
I said "hey look, an escaPEA"
No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!
Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂
It really does, I swear!
And now I’m cannelloni
Because she wanted to see the task manager.
But that’s comparing apples to oranges
And boy are my arms legs.
Put it on my bill
Heard they've been doing some shady business.
but then I remembered it was ground this morning.
Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale
Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments
They’re on standbi
A play on words.
Calcium, nickel, neon
My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.
