Call for Nominations for 2027 SIGACCESS/SIGCHI Vicki L. Hanson Award

About this call

The Vicki L. Hanson Award is a newly established honor jointly offered by SIGACCESS and SIGCHI, two principal professional communities within the Association for Computing Machinery. It is designed to identify and recognize early-career researchers who have made significant contributions toward the accessibility of computing systems. The award is named for Vicki L. Hanson, whose career has been central to establishing accessibility as a rigorous area of computing research, and the honor is framed as a means of carrying that scholarly lineage forward into a new generation of work. As this is the inaugural cycle, the first cohort of recipients will serve a constitutive function: their selection will shape what the award comes to represent and, by extension, what the field recognizes as exemplary early-career work in this domain. The scope of eligible research is intentionally broad, encompassing new methods, systems, empirical findings, and theoretical insights that improve access to computing and digital technologies for people with disabilities and older adults. The call is therefore less a narrow disciplinary prize than an articulation of accessibility as a multidisciplinary research concern. Nominations are submitted by a nominator and supported by a documented set of materials: a curriculum vitae, a nominator's letter of one to two pages, and two to four letters of support of up to two pages each. The process carries no fee, and no prize amount or location is specified in the call. Candidates are considered on the strength of their contributions as they bear on the field's stated concern with equitable access.

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