Note: CHI 2026 has no hybrid or remote attendance. However, authors who are unable to travel may request to submit a pre-recorded and captioned video that will be played for the in-person audience.
Poster submissions are Up to 6 Pages Long (excluding references).
Important Updates
- Calling Ninja Reviewers for the CHI 2026 Posters Track
- Finalizing Your Poster’s Track Submission
- Posters at CHI 2026: Reimagined for More Emerging Work
Important Dates
All times are in 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 22, 2026: Submission deadline
- Thursday, February 19, 2026: Notification
- Thursday, February 26, 2026: E-rights completion deadline
- Monday, March 2, 2026: Initial TAPS upload deadline (Author must upload their paper to TAPS)
- Thursday, March 12, 2026: Publication-ready deadline (Authors upload FINAL TAPS-approved version to PCS)
- Thursday, March 12, 2026: (optional) Video presentation
Submission Details
- Online submission: PCS Submission System
- Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column)
- Submission length: Up to 6 pages long (excluding references)
- Submissions must be anonymous and should not include any author names, affiliations, and contact information. For more details, please refer to the CHI Anonymization Policy.
We recommend that authors read the following two policies before submitting:
- The April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and use of large language models (LLMs), and the SIGCHI blog post about it.
- The 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving humans.
ACM Selection Process Category
Message from the Posters Chairs
The Poster track provides the CHI community with an opportunity to present new and exciting contributions that showcase innovative technologies, extend prior research conversations, detail short self-contained studies, case studies or provide provocations for new work and ideas to emerge. We welcome submissions around a diversity of topics and methodologies. Examples might include, but are not limited to:
- An original and innovative technology, technique, case study or prototype with or without an accompanying evaluation
- A qualitative or quantitative study with a complete analysis
- A “sequel” to a prior research contribution
- A “prequel” to motivate or provoke novel conversations or future work
- A theoretical, methodological or case study contribution that provokes novel conversations for the discipline
We encourage all members of the CHI community, but particularly newcomers to submit Extended Abstracts to elicit useful feedback, foster discussions, and share valuable, original ideas at the conference. All Poster submissions are non-archival. Authors may re-use and re-submit the content to other peer-reviewed and archival venues (e.g., could be reused in a future CHI full paper submission).
Please read the Important Updates section above.
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.
Publication Policies & Requirements
Authors must review ACM’s publications policies. Please read this separate page for them.
Metadata Integrity
The abstract/metadata deadline is a hard deadline for listing all author names; there are no exceptions. Changes to the order of authors are allowed only during the Publication-Ready submission phase. The abstract/metadata is crucial to the integrity of the review process and author representation. If any of the authors need to be added or removed after the abstract/metadata deadline, the authors would need to withdraw their submissions/papers.
Minor changes to the title and abstract are permitted during the revision period.
Policy on Use of Large Language Models
Text generated from a large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be marked where such tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Please review the April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship before using these tools. The SIGCHI blog post describes approaches to acknowledging the use of such tools, which we refer to for guidance. Note that the LaTeX template will default to hiding the Acknowledgements section while in review mode – please make sure that any LLM disclosure is available in your submitted version. 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.
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@chi2026.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 Your Poster Submission
Poster work must be submitted via the PCS Submission System. The submission must have a paper, and can include an optional appendix.
- Paper: The primary submission material consists of an extended abstract in the ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column; up to 6 pages, excluding references).
- Appendix (optional): There is no page limit for the appendix. Note that the reviewers will be told that the Appendix should not form part of their considerations or significantly influence their review decision. Therefore, information that is essential to the understanding of the paper should not be in the appendix (e.g., study protocol, statistical analysis, etc.). The Appendix should be submitted in a separate file.
- Supplementary material: Material that is not needed to get a good understanding of the paper, but may provide additional details, e.g., for replication, may be included in the supplementary material part (not in the main paper) and as such do not count towards the page limit. Please keep in mind that reviewers are not expected to have to check the supplementary material to get a good understanding of the potential study, analysis or results.
Selection Process
EAs submissions are reviewed through an ACM Reviewed process and receive light feedback from reviewers. The criteria for evaluation are as follows:
- Contribution to CHI 2026: Does this work present research contributions, nascent or provocative ideas that will stimulate interesting conversation among CHI attendees?
- Significance & Benefit: How important is the problem or question that this submission addresses? Is there an audience at CHI that would find this work influential and/or compelling? Would the authors benefit from discussing their work with the CHI audience and vice versa?
- Originality: How does the work build on, or speak to, existing work in the area? Does it make a novel contribution?
- Validity: How well are the chosen methods described and justified within the submission?
- Clarity: How clear, understandable, and targeted is the writing? To what extent does the abstract conform to all formatting requirements and the 6-page limit?
Please note that because we want to encourage nascent research through this track, submissions do not need to be as complete as a full paper submission and as such completeness of the work is not a direct review criteria.
The submission should contain no sensitive, private, or proprietary information that cannot be disclosed at the time of publication. All submissions are considered confidential during review. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity.
Upon Acceptance of Your Submission
The corresponding author of a conditionally accepted Poster 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. The publication-ready version has to follow the LaTeX and Word templates from ACM.
Poster Presentations
Accepted authors must prepare and present a poster at CHI 2026, and they should choose whether they will present on-site (in Barcelona) or remote video presentation. Authors must indicate the presentation mode by selecting the corresponding checkbox under “Conference Practicalities- Presentation” in the PCS Submission System by March 12 (AOE).
For on-site presentations:
- Posters should be A0-sized. No template is provided. For content guidelines, see “At the Conference” below. Note the dimensions of the poster boards are 4ft (48 inches) height x 8ft (96 inches) width with a 1.5inch border/frame with one poster displayed per side of the board.
- Note that the conference venue does not provide printing services. The venue (CCIB) has a limited number of print shops near the venue, so it is best if you have this printed before your arrival at the venue.
- Poster tape will be provided.
- On-site presenters do not need to upload posters to the PCS system.
For remote presentations:
- Remote presenters must upload video presentations of their posters to the PCS Submission System by March 12th (AOE).
- Video Presenters may additionally request that their video presentation be shown to the in-person audience on site via a monitor setup. Please indicate this request via the PCS Submission System– “Conference Practicalities- On Site Video Presentation” by March 12 (AOE).
At the Conference
At least one author of an accepted submission should register and present their work at CHI 2026. If authors fail to register for the conference, their accepted work would be withdrawn from the ACM Digital Library.
In-person presenters will be assigned a time and location to present their poster to CHI 2026 attendees. Posters should include (1) the title, authors’ names, and affiliations, (2) a concise overview of the research, (3) clear illustrations of key aspects of their Poster paper submission, and (4) a compelling visual design. Posters might also include QR codes to link to online materials (e.g., scenario videos, interactive prototypes). Note that during the poster presentation at the conference we are not able to provide power outlets or any audiovisual/computing equipment.
Poster Zones & Locations:
All posters will be assigned to a designated Poster Zone within the exhibition hall. Each zone is identified by a distinct conference color (including coordinated carpet) to support wayfinding. Each zone contains 40 boards and can accommodate up to 80 posters.
Authors will be provided with an assigned poster number. This Poster Number is indicated at the very end of your final submission form in PCS.
After the Conference
Accepted Posters will be published as CHI Extended Abstracts in the ACM Digital Library.
Contact Us
Should you need technical assistance, please direct your technical query to posters@chi2026.acm.org.
Benjamin Cowan, Juliana Jansen Ferreira, Dakuo Wang, Marios Constantinides, Marta E. Cecchinato, Rachel McDonnell
