Interactive Demos

Important Dates

All times are in the 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.

Thursday, January 21, 2027: Submission deadline
Thursday, February 18, 2027: Notification deadline
Thursday, February 25, 2027: E-rights completion deadline
Thursday, March 4, 2027: TAPS upload deadline (Author must upload their final paper source to TAPS for processing)
Thursday, March 18, 2027: Publication-ready deadline (Authors upload final TAPS-approved version to PCS)
Thursday, March 18, 2027: (optional) Video presentation 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)
Submission length: Up to 6 pages (excluding references)
Walkthrough video: Maximum 5 minutes (mandatory for review, optional for publication)
Still image for promotional use
Envisioned Interaction, Floor Plan, and Equipment: Details describing what your booth will look like and how people will experience your demo. Authors will be asked to fill such information in PCS
Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information

ACM Selection Process Category

Reviewed

Message from the Interactive Demos Chairs

The Interactive demos track is a high-visibility, high-impact forum of the Technical Program that allows you to present hands-on demonstrations, share novel interactive technologies, and stage interactive experiences. We encourage submissions from any area of human-computer interaction, including practical application domains as well as interactive entertainment, art, and design. Our interactive demos track is planned as an in-person event with live demonstrations on-site at the conference.

Interactive demos promote discussion on novel technologies, and invites contributions from academia, industry, research, startups, maker communities, art, and design. If you have an interesting prototype, device, system, performance, exhibit, experience or installation, we want to know about it! As the interactive demos track focuses on the in-person experience, it is allowed for work to be submitted that has previously been accepted or presented as a paper or in other formats, as long as the demonstration adds a novel aspect to the existing work. We do ask you to provide a publication history for previously published work and explain how the Interactive demos would expand on it.

We look forward to receiving your submissions!

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 Interactive Demo

Before the submission deadline, you must submit a 6-page single-column article detailing the work, a walkthrough video (up to 5 minutes), a promotional image, and additional information detailing the requirements for the exhibit.

Overview

Submissions must have the following components at submission time:

Interactive Demo Proposal
Walkthrough Video
Still image
Envisioned Interaction, Floor Plan, and Equipment

Please see the following recent examples of successful CHI Interactive demo submissions:

1. Interactive Demo Proposal

The Interactive Demo proposal should be up to 6 pages long in the ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column, excluding references). It should be self-contained and clearly describe the novelty and distinguishing ideas of your project, and the user experience of interacting with it. This is especially valuable for readers who are not able to view the related demonstration at the conference or the walkthrough video. Your paper should include:

An abstract summarizing your work within 150 words.
A description of the system, installation, or exhibition and the problem it addresses. Where relevant, discuss the broader context and questions that your work promotes reflection upon.
A description of the relevance of the work to the immediate CHI conference community, as well as to the broader CHI community, emphasizing its novelty, uniqueness, and rationale.

Authors must make their submissions (i.e., paper and video) accessible using recommendations found in the Guide to an Accessible Submission and Guide for Videos.

2. Walkthrough video

A video is the optimal medium to communicate your interactive demo to the reviewers. You must submit a walkthrough video in addition to your written documentation. This should clearly show how a user will interact with your system and how long the experience lasts for. The video can be no longer than 5 minutes. A short video (3 minutes or less) is recommended if it helps avoid verboseness.

All uploaded contents (PDF(s) + image + video) need to fit within the overall submission size of 250 MB. Videos must also be made accessible and properly encoded. Check the Guide for Videos for SIGCHI technical requirements. Submitted videos will be used for review purposes and are not published, but you will have an opportunity to revise and submit a walkthrough video for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library before the Publication-ready deadline. Be sure to have permission for all content, and use rights-free music tracks.

3. Still Image

You are required to upload a still image of at least 1920 x 1080 px that represents your work, and a suitable image description. The image may be used for publications and conference publicity.

4. Envisioned Interaction, Floor Plan, and Equipment

Alongside your submission, you are also required to provide the envisioned interaction through the PCS Submission System. This is an explicit description of how the interactive demo will be demonstrated and live-performed if the submission gets accepted. This includes the use of physical space, how larger crowds are handled, and how the experience will be from an on-site attendee’s point of view. You will also be asked to upload a floor plan of your demonstration to help plan for the on-site logistics. The standard booth is approximately 2 meters × 2 meters; if your demo requires more space, please ensure that your floor plan reflects this.

As a standard, the organizers will provide you with a table, WiFi, and electrical power outlets. You are required to specify how many outlets you need, along with any special requirements (e.g., specific lighting), at the time of submission in case you need additional resources. Later requests may not be considered. We also note that the feasibility of the demonstrations at the conference is considered in the review process; the requirements of too many additional resources and/or spaces could lead to rejection even though the submission shows strong contributions.

Due to the expected crowd during the Interactive demos, we will ask you to provide a plan for dealing with lines. We ask that you detail how you are going to limit your presentation time to a maximum of 5 minutes per person, and if possible make the experience visible and understandable for bystanders. This is especially important for demos based on wearables, AR/VR, haptics, and other forms of devices that allow only one visitor to experience them at a time.

Interactive Demos for Accepted Papers

All the authors of the Papers track must make a separate submission to the Interactive Demo track if they would like to show their accepted work as an Interactive Demo. They do not need to prepare an extended abstract and may submit their accepted papers instead. Unlike previous years, we will not send out invitations to accepted papers.

Note that submissions with accepted papers will go through the same review process as normal submissions, and may be rejected depending on the appropriateness for this track as well as the feasibility of demonstrations at the conference.

Selection Process

Interactive demos track will be Reviewed.

Note that due to the short turn-around time, you will not receive feedback on your submission other than the acceptance decision. We intend to ensure that the Interactive demos track is exciting while representing a range of projects being undertaken across diverse CHI communities. The selection will also take into account feasibility, available space at the conference, and other relevant information.

Submissions should not contain sensitive, private, or proprietary information that cannot be disclosed at publication time. Submissions should NOT be anonymous. However, confidentiality of submissions will be maintained during the selection process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity.

Upon Acceptance of the Submission

Accepted Interactive Demos are always subject to conference liability checks.

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 submissions 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 interactive demos will be published as Demonstration 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.

Interactive Demos and Sustainability

We are committed to making interactive demos as sustainable as possible. While the in-person demos will by necessity require travel and transport of some demo materials and equipment, we encourage presenters to:

Minimize transportation: Avoid transporting non-essential equipment. As much as possible use locally sourced materials rather than shipping or transporting them.
Minimize waste: Avoid single-use materials and reduce excess packaging waste when transporting your materials (e.g., with reusable containers).
Recycle and dispose responsibly: Use recyclable materials with minimal impact on the environment, and dispose of them in an environmentally friendly way (e.g., donating useful materials to local charities rather than taking them back).

At the Conference

Accepted authors must present their work at the conference synchronously in-person. Accordingly, a presenting author must register to the conference. Demo presenters will be assigned a dedicated space at the conference. Demo presenters will be asked to present their exhibit during the designated conference slots. We will provide more details on logistics, including the floor plan, closer to 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.

After the Conference

Accepted Interactivities papers and videos are distributed in the CHI Conference Extended Abstracts in the ACM Digital Library.

Contact Us

Donald Degraen and Xinyi Fu

demos@chi2027.acm.org