ACM SIGCHI Development Fund
Call for Proposals
The SIGCHI Development Fund provides support for projects which will
contribute to advancing Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and to
communicating information within SIGCHI.
Contents
The absolute criteria for funding are:
- High-quality work advancing the field of HCI
and the communication of information within SIGCHI.
- The project must be relevant to and provide value to SIGCHI members.
- The project must disseminate its results to the relevant members.
- The funding must be for a single activity, although the activity
can take place over a number of years. If the activity is the
beginning of what will become a perpetuated event,
the project must include a plan for obtaining continued
funding from sources other than the SIGCHI Development Fund.
- SIGCHI Development Funding will, in general, not pay for labor
cost of ACM and/or SIGCHI members where there is any potential
conflict of interest.
- SIGCHI Development Funding discourages the purchase of equipment.
If, however, equipment is absolutely required and cannot be
provided by others there must be a plan for returning equipment,
as directed, to the control of the SIGCHI Executive Committee.
- For events that span multiple years, funding may be only for the
current year and funding for future years must be requested annually
and cannot be guaranteed.
Availability of Funds
Availability of funds depend on the financial situation of SIGCHI
in the given fiscal year. As a rule of thumb SIGCHI is willing to
spend $20.000 per FY. Proposals are encouraged to stay well below this
amount.
Proposals can be submitted by any SIGCHI member.
An acceptable proposal should answer the following questions:
- Title:
What is the project to be called?
- Subject matter:
What is the purpose of this project?
- People:
Who speaks for, and take responsibility for this project?
Who else is on the team?
What are their qualifications to do this project?
What is your expectation of success?
- Duration:
Will this project need on-going, continual funding?
If so, how many years of seed money are being sought,
and what is the plan for continuing funding?
- Schedule:
When will it start and end?
- Relevance:
What SIGCHI members are this project relevant to?
Do they have similar projects already underway?
How will they be involved?
- Potential value:
What is the potential value of the proposed
project to SIGCHI members?
- Product:
What will be the outcome of the project?
- Delivery vehicle:
Who is the audience for this outcome?
How will these people be informed of the outcome?
Where applicable, how will they get access to it?
- Additional funding:
Have you considered other sources of funding?
Will someone match SIGCHI Development Funding?
- Dependency:
What other things does the successful completion
of this project depend upon?
- Previous work:
What work has already been done in this area
and how will this project build on it?
- Three copies of the proposal are to be submitted in hard copy to:
ACM SIGCHI Development Fund
Attention: SIGCHI Program Director
ACM
1515 Broadway, 17th Floor
New York, NY 10036 USA
Note: Sometime in the next year electronic submission of
proposals will be encouraged.
- Proposals that meet funding criteria will be forwarded to the
SIGCHI Chair, who will appoint an "advocate" from the SIGCHI EEC
to work with the proposer.
- The "advocate" will work with the proposer to help insure
that the proposal is complete and meets the SIGCHI Development
Fund funding criteria. When satisfied, the "advocate" will submit
the proposal to the Chair of the SIGCHI Development Fund Review
Committee.
- The SIGCHI Development Fund activities will be reviewed three times
a year, at the Spring, Summer, and Winter SIGCHI Extended Executive
Committee Meetings. For purposes of planning consider deadlines
for submission for the next year to be:
- For Summer Meeting: July 1
- For Winter Meeting: November 1
- For Spring Meeting: March 1
- The Chair of the SIGCHI Development Fund Review Committee will
submit all complete proposals to the SIGCHI Executive Committee
with funding recommendations. Funding decisions are based on a
majority vote of the SIGCHI Executive Committee.
Questions
Questions regarding the SIGCHI Development Fund Policy are to be directed to
the SIGCHI
Vice President for Operations.
For information on Grant in Aid Research for Students, see the Sigma Xi
Grants-in-Aid of Research Guidelines.
