Accomplishments

• CHI 2005 & 2006 2005: Financial health Increased attendance 2006: 2300 attending (sig % increase) Preserved value of papers
• 2006 papers team did an excellent job working with paper support team
• Renewed communication with Bulletin
• Culture of inclusion opening up
• Fiscal and attendance recovery - with no loss of service to members
• Bulletin going to the web
• Less crankiness with SIGCHI among community
• Great nominating committee for elections
• CHI conference changed and evolved, people are back
• European community is more closely connected with the organization
• politics are at a minimum within the EC
• development of communities in Asia
• connections between SIGCHI and rest of ACM
• Review of interaction was thorough and informative
• Many specialized conferences now real and recurring (e.g. DUX) and strong
• controversy over CHI mafia no longer relevant
• advanced publicity for 2006 suggests that CHI appeals to professionals (website and CFP)
• survey on Pubs delivering positive feedback on papers/pubs process
• Volunteer development process improved and evolved (big metric for ACM)
• Formation of US public policy committee
• election process improved (early start, early end)
• Web Bulletin
• interaction content/reader involvement
• EC meetings end on time
• Willingness to try new things (SV blog)
• More email to members
• EC Blog !?!
• Stability of papers proc. (ACS)
• Health of other confs, coop and co-sponsorship as bridge to other societies
• Elections (# of strong candidates)
• Member services
• ++PCS
• Developing countries/chapters
• Better targeting Profs w/ conf
• Close work w/ strong relationship w/ ACM HQ
• Tutorials -> courses
• No longer living on subsidies
• Broadened Conf (design) w/o destroying core
• AC for volunteers
• Progress on chapters - leadership

Wishes/Regrets

• Fund new initiatives (one time)
• Tension between Prof Assoc of members vs. advocacy org for field -> where do we want to be? * are we a cause?
• Get Dennis to lose the tie
• Member benefits outside the US/Europe
• Better communication of EC to members
• Better communication: committee -> EC -> memb.
• Conference costs
• Mechanism so membership of community (eg designers) can see how her idea gets pushed up the chain
• Neutral forum vs advocate - whose positions - which govts
• Clearing house to document process
• Fragility of support for HCI research
• Balance between innovation and stability
• More use of Bulletin as communication vehicle
• Newsstand test of interactions
• EC ambassador to membership -> & to volunteers -> "Thank You"
• Better capitalize on our efforts through comm.
• Tension between designers and researchers not resolved
• Volunteer engagement - Fostering a culture of volunteerism
• Articulation of value of SIGCHI membership benefits
• Web site (SIGCHI) attention
• Volunteers database/website not progressed
• Better long-term process that has time lines and milestones
• Invest back into field
• More transparency wrt conference costs
• Connecting to local SIGS
• Advocate for more federal funding
• Amount of publishing people have to do - contribution to discipline suffers and it strains the process
• Lack of continued development of SIGCHI website
• Harmonize SIGCHI website and Bulletin website
• Interactions web presence (+ volunteer to lead this)
• communication externally/ within membership/internally within EC
• maintain history
• foster more of a culture of appreciation instead of recrimination
• council of chapters - need a sense of chapters owning their own fate
• broader use of adjunct chairs & consultative group comprising the EEC
• CHI in Europe & push toward continues internationalization at ACM
• Specialized conf support needs to improve with communication
• Leadership development
• Documentation/job description within EC, specialized confs
• Non-paper contribution and recognition
• Branding and cross-marketing