ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)

Conference positioning

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) is a top computer-science conference venue for human-computer interaction, user experience, social computing, accessibility, design, and interactive systems. It rewards an HCI paper with a clear contribution type, rigorous study design, and relevance to human-centered computing. Treat this skill as a fit / venue-selection / re-framing tool for conference submission strategy, not as a substitute for the current year's CFP, author kit, ethics policy, or submission portal.

Because CS conferences change deadlines, templates, page limits, review workflow, artifact rules, AI-use policy, and rebuttal formats every cycle, always verify the live official instructions before making a submission-ready recommendation. Start from the official source anchor recorded for this venue in ../../resources/conference-roster.md and ../../resources/official-source-map.md.

When to trigger

• The author names CHI / ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems as the target venue.
• A manuscript in human-computer interaction needs a conference-fit read before being formatted or submitted.
• The paper must be re-framed from journal style or arXiv style into a selective CS conference narrative.
• The author needs an evidence-gap, anonymity, artifact, rebuttal, or re-routing diagnosis for this venue.

Scope & topic fit

• Core fit: human-computer interaction, user experience, social computing, accessibility, design, and interactive systems.
• Best submissions make a precise contribution type visible: algorithm, theorem, system, dataset, benchmark, empirical finding, design artifact, tool, or socio-technical analysis.
• The paper should explain why the result matters to CHI's reviewers, not just why it is interesting to the authors' lab or product context.
• Position related work against the most recent conference-cycle papers in this venue and its closest siblings; stale comparisons are a common early-review weakness.
• If the contribution is interdisciplinary, state which part is CS research and which part is domain evidence.

Venue-specific calibration

• Reviewer lens: Read reviewers as human-centered computing researchers. Contribution type, study design, participant context, ethics, and design implication must line up.
• Contribution hook to foreground: the venue-specific contribution bar.
• Scope vocabulary to use naturally in the abstract and introduction: human-computer interaction, user experience, social computing, accessibility, design, and interactive systems.
• Distinctive fingerprint for reviewer calibration: human-computer, interaction, user, experience, social, computing, accessibility, design, interactive, venue-specific, contribution, flagship, chi2026.
• Official anchor domain: chi2026.acm.org. Quote annual rules only after opening that source and the current-year CFP/author kit.

Close-neighbor routing guardrail

• Use this profile only when the manuscript's central contribution is genuinely in HCI flagship and the author can say why CHI reviewers are the primary audience, not merely a convenient deadline.
• Closest roster neighbors to compare before final routing: acm-conference-on-computer- supported-cooperative-work-and-social-computing (CSCW), acm-conference-on-intelligent- user-interfaces (IUI). Break ties by contribution type, evidence shape, reviewer community, and the current official CFP from chi2026.acm.org.