ACM IUI 2026 - The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces

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Category Intelligent User Interfaces; IUI; A.I.

Deadline: October 10, 2025 | Date: March 23, 2026-March 26, 2026

Venue/Country: 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus

Updated: 2025-06-22 21:48:52 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

The 31st Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026)

March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus

https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/

The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier venue where

researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the intersection

of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI submissions

should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and discuss both

computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies, techniques, and systems.

This area is crucial as AI is increasingly integrated into everyday technology. Understanding and

shaping AI systems for human needs is essential to ensure that AI systems are effective and

responsible. As these techniques become increasingly powerful, new use cases and human-AI

interactions can be explored. This conference offers an opportunity to focus the research

community on important problems at the intersection of AI and HCI and bring together experts

from various disciplines to discuss and build on these ideas in workshops, breaks, and

networking sessions.

Contributions are welcome from all relevant arenas, including academia, industry, government,

and non-profit organizations. Diverse insights are critical to the vitality of the IUI community,

and the conference will accept papers for both long and short oral presentations. Contributions

to IUI are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence appropriate to the claims (e.g., user

study, system evaluation, computational analysis).

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Papers

We invite original paper submissions that are not under consideration elsewhere. Accepted

papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. At least one author of all

accepted papers must register with full registration fee (not student registration fee), attend in

person, and present their paper during the main conference program. One registration covers

one paper only.

A selected set of accepted top-quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended

versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) special

issue titled “Highlights of IUI 2026” that will appear in 2027.

Reflection of practical and societal impact

We encourage authors to consider practical and societal implications of their work (as well as

its shortcomings) throughout their projects and to include a reflection on those implications in

their papers, in particular how the proposed methods and insights could be applied and

deployed in a realistic setting and how they can improve people's lives in the real world.

We also encourage authors to discuss potential ethical considerations of their work in terms of

diversity, inclusion, and equality; and other topics under the broad responsible AI topic and its

societal impact. We recognize that technology is rarely neutral --- simply by making some

things easier than others, it reshapes society (Winner, 1980; Green, 2020). Further, given the

incredibly short invention-to-application cycles for AI-related technologies, it is becoming

increasingly unlikely that “somebody else” will carefully consider how an emerging intelligent

user interface technology might impact the world before this technology is deployed. Our

purpose is to help authors ensure that the likely societal consequences of their work are

consistent with their intentions and values. For colleagues who are not yet experienced with

incorporating societal impacts into their IUI research but who are willing to give it a try, here

are some ideas to consider.

Anonymization

ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions (and supplemental materials)

must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines:

• Authors' names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper.

• Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process.

• Self-citations should be included where necessary but must use the third person. For

example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as shown

in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be perceived as

self-citation).

Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being desk-rejected without review.

Accessibility

Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with vision

impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be required to

make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for

detailed instructions.

If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as described

in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos.

Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines.

Usage of Generative AI

All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023 ACM

Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a large-scale

language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such tools are used for

purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage

Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure of all use of GenAI

tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the writing. This section,

together with the references, will not be counted toward the word limit.

While we do not anticipate using tools on a large scale to detect LLM-generated text, we will

investigate submissions brought to our attention and desk reject papers where LLM use is not

clearly marked.

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 with regard to 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 human participants and subjects before submitting.

Additional Policies

Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI

Conferences and ACM Publications Policies.

Submission Format, Length, and Platform

We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow.

Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest

templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using

\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template.

Papers are of variable length. Paper length must be proportional to its contribution. We

encourage authors to stay within a 10,000 word limit. Authors of papers exceeding 12,000

words should add a note at the end of their manuscript explaining how the length of the paper

is commensurate with the contribution of the work.

Submission Platform (for Papers)

All materials must be submitted electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS)

Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/) by the abstract and paper deadlines.

In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for Society,

Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Papers”, respectively,

and then press “Go”.

Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily the

first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access agreement with

ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing the paper. Details are

under “Publication and Open Access”.

Supplemental Materials

Submitting supplemental material (e.g., questionnaires, demo videos of applications, data

sheets) is optional but encouraged.

If supplying a demo video, please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for

videos.

Publication and Open Access

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital

Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official

publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications,

including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will

have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open

institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions

already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require

APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%).

Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish

their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether an

APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM Open and

review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare and are

granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.

Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a

temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join

ACM Open. The subsidy will offer:

* $250 APC for ACM/SIG members

* $350 for non-members

This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help

advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period.

This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.

Workshop and Tutorial Proposals

We are pleased to invite proposals for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with

the 31st International ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI 2026), Paphos,

Cyprus.

Workshops aim to provide a venue for presenting research on emerging or specialized topics

of interest and to offer an informal forum for discussing research questions and challenges.

Potential workshop topics should be related to the general theme of the conference

(“Where HCI meets AI”).

Tutorials aim to provide fundamental knowledge and experience on topics related to intelligent

user interfaces and the intersection between Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Artificial

Intelligence (AI).

We welcome proposals for a wide range of *full-day* or *half-day* workshops and tutorial

formats and activities, including but not limited to:

• Mini Conferences: Workshops that focus on a specific topic and may have their own paper

submission and review processes.

• Interactive Formats: Workshops that encourage active participation and hands-on

experiences through break-out sessions or group work to explore specific topics. They may

have their own paper submission and review process or target a report summarizing the

discussions and outcomes.

• Emerging Work Sessions: Workshops that foster discussion around emerging ideas.

Organizers may raise specific topics and invite position papers, late-breaking results, or

extended abstracts.

• Project-Centric Formats: Workshops tied closely to a specific existing large-scale funded

project(e.g., NSF, EU) with the goal to engage a broader community.

• Interactive Competitions: Formats that invite individuals and teams to participate in

challenges or hackathons on selected topics relevant to IUI.

• Tutorials: Sessions that provide a structured instruction on topics aligned with the conference

theme, such as HCI methods, AI techniques, methodological frameworks, or tools for building

intelligent user interfaces.

Review and Oversight by Workshop and Tutorial Chairs

Proposals will be reviewed and evaluated by the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs. It is possible

that workshops may be cancelled, shortened, merged, or restructured if there are insufficient

submissions.

Workshop and Tutorial summaries will be included in the ACM Digital Library for ACM IUI 2026.

We will also publish joint workshop proceedings for accepted workshop submissions (through

CEUR or a similar venue).

Responsibilities of Workshop and Tutorial Organizers

• Coordinate the Call for Papers, including solicitation, submission handling, and peer review

process.

• Create and maintain a dedicated website with Workshop or Tutorial information. The IUI

Website 2026 will link to this page.

• Prepare and communicate Call for Participation, targeting both IUI and broader relevant

communities (e.g., via mailing lists, social media, newsgroups, or offline events)

• Facilitate the planned activities, including paper presentations, discussions, and/or

interactive elements.

• Submit a workshop or tutorial summary for inclusion in the ACM Digital Library.

• Collect camera-ready papers and author agreements from workshop participants for the joint

workshop proceedings (CEUR or similar).

Note that for the joint proceedings (CEUR or similar), submissions should be peer-reviewed

and will need to meet publishers’ guidelines. CEUR, for example, requires a 5-page minimum

per contribution. Note that not all workshop and tutorial formats listed above may meet these

requirements, and we may not be able to include them.

IUI 2026 is an in-person event, and we expect workshop organizers to attend, allowing the

workshop to be conducted on-site. One author per paper is expected to attend in person to

present the work.

Proposal Format

Workshop or tutorial proposals should be a maximum of four pages long (single-column

format). Prepare your submission using the latest templates: Word Submission Template

(https://authors.acm.org/binaries/content/assets/publications/taps/acm_submission_template.docx),

or the LaTex Template

(https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/preparing-your-article-with-latex).

For Latex, please use “\documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}”.

The proposals should be organized as follows:

• Name and title: A one-word acronym and a full title. Please indicate “(Workshop)” or

“(Tutorial)” after the title, as appropriate.

• Abstract: A brief summary of the workshop or tutorial.

• Description of workshop or tutorial topic: Should discuss the relevance of the proposed

topic to IUI and its interest for the IUI 2026 audience. Include a concise discussion of why this

workshop or tutorial is particularly relevant for the intended audience and how it will

complement and enhance topics covered at the main conference.

• Previous history: List of previous workshops or tutorials on this topic, including the

conferences that hosted them and the number of participants. If available, report on past

editions of the workshop (including URLs), along with a brief statement of the workshop series

(e.g., covering topics, number of paper submissions, and participants), as well as post-

workshop publications over the years and acceptance statistics. If this is the first edition of the

workshop, describe how it differs from others on similar topics (e.g., by including conference

names and years).

• Organizer(s): Names, affiliations, emails, and web pages of the organizer(s). Provide a brief

description of the background of the organizer(s). Strong proposals normally include organizers

who bring differing perspectives on the topic and are actively connected to the communities of

potential participants. Please indicate the primary contact person and the organizers who will

attend the workshop. Also, please provide a list of other workshops or tutorials organized by

workshop organizers in the past.

• Workshop program committee: Names and affiliation of the members of the (tentative)

workshop program committee that will evaluate the workshop submissions.

• Participants: Include a statement of how many participants you expect and how you plan to

invite participants for the workshop or tutorial. If possible, include the names of at least 10

people who have expressed interest in participating in the workshop or tutorial.

• Workshop or Tutorial activities: A brief description of the format regarding the mix of

events or activities, such as paper presentations, invited talks, panels, demonstrations,

teaching activities, hands-on practical exercises, and general discussion. Please also list here

any materials you will make available to tutorial participants, such as slides, access to hardware

or software, and handouts.

• Planned outcomes of the workshop or tutorial: What are you hoping to achieve by the end

of the workshop or tutorial? Please list here any planned publications or other outcomes

expected.

• Length: Full-day or half-day.

Submission Platform (for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals)

• All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS 2.0

http://new.precisionconference.com/~sigchi by the proposal submission deadline.

• In PCS 2.0, first click "Submissions" at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for

society, conference, and track, select "SIGCHI", "IUI 2026", and then "IUI 2026 Workshops" or

“IUI 2026 Tutorials”, respectively, and press "Go".

We encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit workshop proposals. To

support diverse perspectives in the workshops, we strongly recommend including organizers

from varied institutions and backgrounds.

Furthermore, we welcome workshops with an innovative structure that can attract diverse types

of contributions and foster valuable interactions.

Prospective organizers are encouraged to contact the Workshop and Tutorial Chairs in advance

(workshops2026iui.acm.org) to discuss ideas, receive feedback, or seek assistance in

preparing engaging proposals. Especially for workshop proposals featuring innovative

interactive formats, we are happy to help further develop and implement the ideas.

Important Dates for Papers (AoE)

• Abstract: October 3, 2025

• Full Paper: October 10, 2025

• Decision Notification: December 12, 2025

• Camera-ready Submission: January 23, 2026

Important Dates for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals(AoE)

• Workshop Proposals: August 22, 2025

• Decision notification: September 19, 2025

• Tutorial Proposals: October 17, 2025

• Tutorial Decision Notification: November 21, 2025

• Camera-ready Summaries: February 6, 2026

Organisation

General Chairs

• Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel

• Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Local Organising Chair

• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

Program Chairs

• Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China

• Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland

• Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA

Workshop and Tutorial Chairs

• Karthik Dinakar, Pienso, USA

• Werner Geyer, IBM Research, USA

• Patricia Kahr, University of Zurich, Switzerland

• Antonela Tommasel, CONICET, Argentina