Workshops provide a venue for addressing novel ideas and emerging research focused on user-centred aspects of information interaction and information retrieval. Generally, workshops are less formal, more interactive, and potentially more focused than the main conference itself. Typically, workshop themes will be related to topics of the main conference call for contributions, but proposals related to other areas of Human Information Interaction and Interactive Information Retrieval will also be considered. The format of each workshop will be determined by its organizers and can be either full-day or half-day. We encourage workshops that foster collaboration, discussion, group problem-solving, and community-building initiatives. Workshops that only revolve around the presentation of papers in a “mini conference” format are strongly discouraged.
The organizers of accepted workshops will be expected to define the workshop’s focus, solicit and review submissions, invite additional workshop participants, and decide upon the final program content. At least two organizers are expected to attend and run the entire workshop.
Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use sigconf proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word). For LaTeX, use:
\documentclass[sigconf,natbib=true]{acmart}Submissions must be anonymous and should be submitted electronically via EasyChair:
by selecting the “CHIIR 2026 Workshops” track.
Workshop proposals are not anonymous. Each workshop proposal consists of two parts as follows:
Note that extended abstracts for accepted workshops will be published in the conference proceedings.
Tutorial proposals will be reviewed and selected according to these criteria: (1) ability for the tutorial to contribute to strengthening the foundations of research on user-centred aspects of information interaction and information retrieval, or to broadening the field with respect to important new challenges and techniques, (2) experience and skill of the presenter(s), and (3) the value of any materials released with the tutorial for the community.
Please note that for tutorial proposals, an abstract submission is not mandatory.
Tutorial proposals are not anonymous, and the proposal review process is single blind. Workshops and tutorials have traditionally been single-blind to reflect the nature of their content.
Please review the ACM authorship policy before submission. Authors must be listed correctly in EasyChair at submission time. No changes will be permitted after the deadline.
All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the use of Artificial Intelligence.
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