Workshops

Important Dates

All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Check your local time in AoE.

Monday, September 28, 2026: Deadline for application as a Workshops Juror
Thursday, October 1, 2026: Organizer submission deadline
Thursday, November 19, 2026: Organizer notification
Thursday, November 26, 2026: E-rights completion deadline
Thursday, December 3, 2026: TAPS upload deadline (Author must upload their final paper source to TAPS for processing)
Thursday, December 17, 2026: Publication-ready deadline (Authors upload final TAPS-approved version to PCS)
Monday, December 14, 2026: Organizer update PCS’ final submission page with information of workshop title, workshop abstract and website URL
Thursday, December 17, 2026: Call for participation released by workshop organizers and individual workshop website up and running
Thursday, December 17, 2026: List of accepted workshops released by workshop chairs on the CHI website
Thursday, March 4, 2027: Conference registration deadline
Participant submissions are due approximately Thursday, February 11, 2027. Workshops can define a specific date as necessary to fulfill whatever selection process they have. However, workshop organizers must notify the participants of acceptance at least seven days before the conference’s Early Registration Deadline.

Note: All deadlines include a 24-hour grace period in which submissions can still be edited. This period is provided solely for contingency and should not be treated as an extension. No support will be available, and authors must not contact the chairs regarding submission issues once the official deadline has passed.

Submission Details

Online submission: PCS Submission System
Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column)
Workshop proposal submission length: up to 6 pages (excluding references).
Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information.

ACM Selection Process Category

Reviewed

Message from the Chairs

We invite you to submit a workshop proposal for next CHI! Workshops are a chance to bring people together who care about the same ideas, questions, or problems in human-computer interaction (HCI). Your workshop can focus on anything from new research and design ideas to real-world tech use, teaching, ethics, or big challenges like sustainability.

Should I Consider the Panel, Workshops, or Meet-Ups track?

Panels are interactive, discussion-oriented forums in which audience members are participants in the discussion. Workshops are meetings of subject matter experts exploring new knowledge. Meet-ups enable attendees with a common interest to meet for informal but facilitated discussions during the main conference program.

Track	Primary Purpose	Style	Example Activities
Workshop	Collaborative work and discussion on focused HCI topics	Position papers, hands-on methods, group synthesis	Tutorial on data ethics, working groups on design tools
Meet-Ups	Social or networking gatherings around shared interests	Informal, participant-led	World Café, Think-Pair-Share, Speed Networking, Opinion Line
Panels	Structured discussions with audience interaction	Debate, Q&A, expert insights	Ethics of Al panel with audience polling

What is a CHI Workshop?

A CHI Workshop is a working session of 2 consecutive sessions at CHI where people come together to share ideas, solve problems, and learn from each other about human-computer interaction (HCI). It’s not just for socializing—it’s focused time to work and think together. Workshops can include:

Presentations on new topics
Group brainstorming or design and sketching sessions
Hands-on tutorials or how-to sessions
Deep discussions about (grand) challenges in HCI

Workshops are different from Meetups (which are more social) or Panels (which are more like group talks). Workshops are about doing actual work together.

How Workshops Works

Organizers plan and lead the workshop.
Participants join by sharing a short paper or idea to be part of the discussion.

If your idea is accepted, you’ll help promote the workshop and invite others to join. Everyone in the workshop is expected to join in the conversations and activities. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

HCI for Climate Change
Trust and Reliance in AI-Human Teams
Designing Technology and Policy Simultaneously
Sharing and Experiencing Hardware and Methods to Advance Smell, Taste, and Temperature Interfaces
Combating Toxicity, Harassment, and Abuse in Online Social Spaces
Beyond Prototyping Boards: Future Paradigms for Electronics Toolkits
PhysioCHI: Towards Best Practices for Integrating Physiological Signals in HCI

Applying to be a Juror: Want to Help Pick CHI Workshops?

We’re looking for people to help us choose which workshops will be part of CHI. These helpers are called jurors. Jurors review workshop proposals and give their opinion on what fits best with the conference. You can apply to be a juror if you:

Have helped with CHI or similar conferences before
Have reviewed papers or helped select talks/workshops
Have attended CHI conferences often (as a speaker, author, or guest)

Being a juror takes about 8 hours of work between late October and early December. It’s a great way to be part of the community and shape the future of CHI. To apply, send an email to workshops@chi2027.acm.org with: your name, where you work/study, your resume (CV), a short message (about 150 words) on why you’re interested.

Publication Policies & Requirements

Authors must review ACM’s publications policies. Please read this separate page for them.

Metadata Integrity

The metadata is crucial to the integrity of the review process and author representation. Therefore, the paper submission deadline is a hard deadline for listing all author names; there are no exceptions. See the SIGCHI blog post for further information. Changes to the order of authors are allowed only during the Publication-Ready submission phase. If any of the authors need to be added or removed after the paper submission deadline, the authors would need to withdraw their submissions/papers. The affiliations entered in PCS during submissions are final. Affiliations used for submission must stay on the paper per ACM policy, only a secondary affiliation can be added. Title changes are only permitted only if specifically requested by the chairs.

Policy on Use of Artificial Intelligence

Authors must follow the standing policy on the use of artificial intelligence, such as large language models, in the creation of academic work. Please review the ACM Policy on Authorship before using these tools.

Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects

Any research in submitted manuscripts that involves human subjects must go through the appropriate ethics review requirements that apply to the authors’ research environment. As research environments vary considerably concerning their requirements, authors are asked to submit a short note to reviewers that provides this context. Please also see the 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving humans before submitting.

Accessibility

Accessible submissions are essential for reviewers and are good practice. Authors are expected to follow SIGCHI’s Guide to an Accessible Submission. If you have any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at access@chi2027.acm.org early in the writing process (the closer to the deadline, the less time the team will have to respond to individual requests).

Preparing and Submitting the Workshop Proposal

Workshops are working sessions—people gather to share ideas, design together, or teach something new.
All workshops will be in-person only.
A workshop proposal must be prepared according to the ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column). It must be submitted via the PCS Submission System. The proposal must be no more than 6 pages (excluding references).

What has to be included in the Proposal (Max 6 pages, plus references)

Abstract
Motivation
Explain the topic, what’s important about it, and your goals.
Organizers
List names, roles, and why you’re the right team.
Activities
What will you do in the workshop? (e.g., talks, hands-on demos)
Call for Participation
Provide a 250-word abstract that will be posted on the conference site to advertise your workshop to the CHI community. This should appear at the end of your workshop proposal and should include the following:
- Your format and goals
- Who should join and what they need to submit
- How to submit
- Publishing plans
- That at least one organizer per accepted workshop must attend
- Workshop website
- How many people you expect to register and attend (must be at least 10)
- References

The workshop proposal is the only document that will be included in the CHI Extended Abstracts proceedings if it’s accepted.

The following additional information must be provided during submission time in PCS:

Publishing plans:
Say how you’ll publish the submitted papers (like on arXiv or CEUR-WS).
Accessibility:
Mention if you need things like transcription or other access tools.
Offline materials:
Share how people can follow along later if they miss the session (like recordings or PDFs).
After the workshop:
What happens next? Will there be a report or follow-up?

Note about past workshops: Add a note if this proposal is workshop series or follow-up workshops from those in previous CHI or other ACM conferences will be given special consideration but are not automatically accepted.Rules to Remember

All workshops will be held in 2 consecutive sections with one break in the middle.
You can only be listed on 2 proposals total.
You can only attend 1 workshop at a time.
You don’t choose your schedule—the conference decides when your workshop happens.
We expect that the majority of the organizers attend the workshop. At last, 2 workshop organizers need to register by the registration deadline and attend the conference to organize the workshop; otherwise, the workshop will be canceled.
Workshops with fewer than 10 participants (including the organizers) may be canceled.
You will likely get pens and large paper, but bring any extra stuff you need.
If you need special room setups (extra chairs), ask early for approval and expect to pay extra. Elements such as poster board cannot be accommodated.
If your workshop involves research with people, mention this and how it was reviewed (e.g., by your school’s ethics board).

Selection Process

Workshops are a reviewed track and highly selective: in prior years. Workshop proposals will be selected by the Workshop Chairs through the recommendations of a jury. Once we confirm that workshops have met a basic quality standard, acceptance decisions will be based on assessing how compelling the workshop is likely to be for CHI attendees and the overall portfolio of proposed workshops. The Workshop Chairs will consider several factors during the selection process, including:

The potential for the workshop’s topic to new insights, e.g., a new, organized way of thinking about the topic or promising directions for future work.
The potential for the topic of the workshop to generate stimulating discussions.
The organizers’ ability to demonstrate the proposed workshop is well-structured.
The organizers’ ability to demonstrate the proposed workshop fosters interactivity.
The overall balance of topics in the workshops program and relevance to the main conference theme.
The proposed size of the workshop, and whether there is a clear and workable plan for facilitating a lively environment for discussion for all participants, particularly for larger and longer workshops.
If multiple submissions are received on the same or similar topics, the multiple organizers will be encouraged to work collaboratively to merge them or differentiate them.

Jury

Will be announced after the jury selection.

Upon Acceptance of the Submission

The corresponding author of a conditionally accepted submission has to follow the instructions on preparing and submitting a final version of the proposal by the Publication-Ready deadline. If the authors cannot meet these requirements by the Publication-Ready deadline, the venue chairs will be notified and may be required to remove the proposal from the program.

For publication, all accepted workshop proposals must be in double-column format. In a double-column format, the text is not allowed to exceed 4 pages, excluding references. Adding appendices is not allowed; however, the authors may upload supplementary material with additional information.

Please read the publication-ready author instructions. The publication-ready version has to follow the LaTeX and Word templates from ACM. Should you need technical assistance, please direct your technical query to publications@chi2027.acm.org.

Responsibility for obtaining permission to use video, audio, or pictures of identifiable people or proprietary content rests with the author, not the ACM or the CHI conference.

Accepted workshop proposals will be published as Extended Abstracts in the ACM Digital Library.

AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference. The official publication date may affect the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.

ACM Open

Content in this track will be published under ACM Open Access as an “extended abstract” article type. Extended abstract article types will not be charged an article processing charge (APC) for open access. For more information about which article types are subject to an APC, see the ACM article types summary.

Before the Conference

Workshop organizers will be responsible for the following tasks during the time leading up to the conference:

Publicize Your Workshop on the CHI Webpage: Organizers of accepted papers must provide a title, organizer list, call for participation, and link to the workshop website, which will be published on the CHI website prior to the conference. All other submitted materials for accepted workshop proposal submissions will be kept confidential until the publication of the CHI Extended Abstracts proceedings.
Publicize Your Workshop: Organizers of an accepted workshop must set up and maintain their own website in which they provide further and updated information about their workshop. In order to have a successful and well-attended workshop, we recommend that you post your call for participation early and widely (e.g., publicize it on social media and on relevant mailing lists).
Solicit Submissions from Potential Participants: While some organizers may choose alternate formats, a position paper generally outlines the organizers’ view on the workshop theme and the reasons for the submitter’s interest in the topic.
Select Participants: Choose participants on the basis of the position papers submitted and your goals for the workshop. Workshop sizes will provisionally be capped at a certain size of participants to allow the workshop to be hosted in the CHI venue. In such cases, the registration system will not allow more participants to register for your workshop. Under special circumstances, you need to contact the Workshop Chairs to inquire if a larger size of your accepted workshop might be possible.
Distribute Accepted Workshop Submissions and Pre-Workshop Materials: Materials and accepted submissions should be accessible to participants at least 1 week before the workshop day.
Develop a Final Agenda of Workshop Activities.
Provide clear instructions of workshop activities to workshop participants: Clearly communicate what participants need to prepare and what to expect during the workshop.
Develop a Plan for Any Follow-Up Activities.

At the Conference

Accepted contributions may be scheduled at any time during the conference. Authors should ensure their availability, as individual scheduling requests cannot be accommodated.

The organizers can expect a projector and chairs in the workshop rooms. Their activity needs to be coordinated accordingly.

Contact Us

Abdallah El Ali, Tommaso Turchi, and Xingyu Lan

workshops@chi2027.acm.org