Celebrating 10 Years of Fun & Play: CHI PLAY 2014-2024
The community-building efforts of many volunteers has grown the games and play community within SIGCHI into a vibrant and active group of researchers. Our dedicated conference—CHI PLAY—started in 2014 with the goals of being an inclusive, diverse, welcoming, and playful community that publishes the highest quality research papers and provides structured opportunities for networking, feedback, mentoring, and collaborative knowledge generation.
In 2024, we celebrate 10 years of fun and play at CHI PLAY. We not only reflect on the formation and care of the CHI PLAY conference over the last decade but also share our visions, dreams, and hopes for the evolution of CHI PLAY over the next decade. We especially recognize the hundreds of researchers, students, academics, practitioners, and developers who contribute to our field. Thank you for being so wonderful and we look forward to the next 10 years with both old and new friends!
Awards & Recognitions
CHI PLAY Lasting Impact Award
This award annually honors one influential paper published at CHI PLAY that has significantly impacted the CHI PLAY community and beyond. In 2024, full papers published from the CHI PLAY conference ten years prior (i.e., 2014) were considered. After careful considerations and a multi-stage evaluation process, the Lasting Impact Award Committee selected the following paper as the winner out of many highly competitive candidate papers, as it has made outstanding contributions to the field of player-computer interaction and has shown sustained influence.
Jared E. Cechanowicz, Carl Gutwin, Scott Bateman, Regan Mandryk, and Ian Stavness. 2014. Improving player balancing in racing games. In Proceedings of the First ACM SIGCHI Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY ’14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 47–56. https://doi.org/10.1145/2658537.2658701
Congratulations to the authors! The authors will present this Lasting Impact Award paper and reflect on its impact at CHI PLAY 2024 on Tuesday, October 15.
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Wish Board
CHI PLAY 10 Years Celebration Committee: Guo Freeman (Chair), Regan Mandryk (Co-Chair), Guenter Wallner (Co-Chair), Oğuz ‘Oz’ Buruk, Çağlar Genç, Lotta Ylinen, Travis Faas, Derrick Wang, Corinna Wüllner, Irene Ye Yuan, Aska Mayer, Xiang Li, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Melissa Rogerson, Erik Harpstead, Mitchell McEwan, Katja Rogers, Laura Cosio, Lingyuan Li, Vero Vanden Abeele, Julian Frommel, Jo Iacovides, Kathrin Gerling, Max Birk, Scott Bateman
