IN BRIEF

The purpose of a tutorial is to provide conference attendees, including early-career researchers and researchers crossing-over from related disciplines, with an opportunity to learn about concepts and techniques for research into user-centered aspects of information interaction and information retrieval. Tutorials also serve as a venue to share presenters’ expertise with the global community of user-centered information retrieval researchers and practitioners. Tutorials should focus on a specific topic presented within the context of CHIIR-related research. Example topic areas include but are not limited to:

• A quantitative or qualitative analysis method and its use in CHIIR contexts
• A modeling or simulation technique for retrieval interaction
• A method for research data collection, anonymization, or public archiving

Tutorials could be either full-day or half-day, with a length commensurate with the presented materials and the projected interest of the CHIIR community. We actively encourage both researchers and industry practitioners to submit tutorial proposals that target different levels of expertise and different interests. We also encourage the submission of hands-on tutorials that combine theoretical concepts with practical exercises. Please submit your proposal to EasyChair.

Tutorial proposals are not anonymous. The tutorial proposal should consist of two parts as follows:

Extended abstract (two-page maximum) including:

• The title of the proposed tutorial and format (full or half day)
• Motivation for the tutorial: why it is valuable to the CHIIR community
• Syllabus and learning outcomes
• A short bio of each presenter, including their name, affiliation, email address, and website, and their experience or qualifications in the topic of this tutorial

Extended abstracts for accepted tutorials will be published in conference proceedings.

Supplementary document (two-page maximum) including:

• A proposed outline for the day/half-day that includes the type of activities you intend to carry out during the event
• Any special requirements for the tutorial room
• Any materials that would be needed
• A website URL if desired (doesn’t need to be active until after acceptance)
• Up to 100-word blurb for the website in the event of acceptance

Tutorial Evaluation Criteria

Tutorial proposals will be reviewed and selected according to these criteria:

• The ability of the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of research into user-centered aspects of information interaction and information retrieval, or to broadening the field to look at important new challenges and techniques
• Experience and skill of the presenter(s)
• The value of any materials released with the tutorial for the community

We welcome submissions on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative research methods. ACM CHIIR operates under the ACM Conference Code of Conduct.

Topics covered include but are not limited to:

• Information seeking, including task-based and exploratory studies

• Search interfaces, including those for specialized tasks, populations, and domains

• Information access methods and systems for users of all abilities

• Information interactions other than search

• User-centered design approaches to humans interacting with information and systems

• Interaction techniques for information retrieval and discovery

• Online information seeking, including log analysis of search and browsing

• Modeling and simulation of information interaction

• Quantitative and qualitative studies of human information interaction

• Information seeking and use behaviors, including measures of use and broader sensemaking

• Field and case studies of information searching, design and access

• User-centered evaluation methods and measures, including measures of user experience and performance, experiment and search task design, eye-tracking and neuro-physiological approaches, data analysis methods, and usability

• Human interaction and experience with conversational information systems

• Context-aware and personalized search, including design, contextual features and analysis of information interaction

• Information visualization and visual analytics, including search result presentation

• Enabling and studying multi-modal interactions with information

• Collaborative information seeking and social search, including social utility and network analysis for information interaction

• Conversational search and other types of stateful and multi-turn interactions between users and search applications

• Insights and analyses related to human experiences and usage trends with recommendation technologies

• Information interaction and seeking with mobile devices and services

IMPORTANT DATES

Deadlines time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE)

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Full research papers must describe original work that has not been previously published, not accepted for publication elsewhere, and not simultaneously submitted or currently under review in another journal or conferences.

Submissions of full research papers must be in English, in PDF format, and be at most 4 pages in length (including figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, acknowledgments, and any content except references), with unrestricted space for references, in the current ACM two-column conference format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use sigconf proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word). ACM’s CCS concepts and keywords are required for review.

At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register for CHIIR 2026, and the author(s) or their delegate(s) must present the work at the conference in person.

TUTORIAL CHAIRS