Apply to Serve on the Program Committee for CHI26 as an Associate Chair
The volunteer form to be an Associate Chair (AC) for the CHI 2026 Full Paper track is open until May 31st, 2025!
ACs do the work of finding the right reviewers for peer review at CHI; the role offers a good stepping stone to further involvement in the conference and the community. Please share broadly!
To volunteer, you make a “submission” to the CHI 2026 AC Volunteering track in Precision Conference (which is not on the Reviews tab, but on the Submissions tab).
The volunteer pool will be shared with the Subcommittee Chairs, who will use it as a tool to recruit ACs. If you are interested in serving a particular subcommittee, you might also reach out to the Subcommittee Chairs for that committee (once they are announced).
To volunteer:
- Log in to your PCS account.
- From the dropdowns, set Society to “SIGCHI”, set Conference/Journal to “CHI 2026”, and set Track to “CHI 2026 AC Volunteering”.
- You will then have an incomplete submission to that track. Choose “Edit submission”.
- Enter your information into the form and submit it!
Vera Liao, Xiaojuan Ma, Alessandro Bozzon, Thomas Kosch
CHI 2026 Papers Chairs
Moltes Gràcies a Totes Les Persones Voluntàries (Many thanks for volunteering)
Last year, we opened a call for volunteers to help organize CHI 2026. The community stepped forward and we received over 300 applications. In the candidate pool there was a good mix of researchers globally from the new to the established. Each applicant told us for which role they wanted to volunteer and shared their background and experience. And what was really great is to read how passionate and caring each of them were and how they envisioned building the conference and community. We want to thank each of you for your input.
Currently, the General Chairs (GCs) or Technical Program Chairs (TPCs) have extended invitations to the organizing committee and are finalizing the roster. We won’t close the candidate list until everyone is confirmed, as we may still pull from the candidates for alternatives. The CHI Conference is run through academic service and volunteering; so thank you all for volunteering!
But wait, we still have a lot of roles to fill! The TPCs will be recruiting Subcommittee Chairs and Area Chairs for the papers program. The Student Mentoring Chairs will be looking for experienced mentors. The GCs will be looking for student volunteers. And, of course, we always need expert reviewers across the whole program. There’s a lot ahead and more opportunities to help! Stay tuned to this blog and follow us.
Looking forward to working with many of you and seeing you all in Barcelona.
Welcome to CHI2026 (and a Call for Volunteers)
The ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the premier international conference of Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2026 takes place in Barcelona at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona.
CHI 2026’s General Chairs are Nuria Oliver and David A. Shamma and the CHI 2026 Technical Program Chairs are Heloisa Candello, Pablo Cesar, and Pedro Lopes. The entire committee is excited to bring the conference to the Iberian peninsula for the first time and we look forward to engagements with the broader Mediterranean region.
As the conference has been growing, the CHI Steering Committee (with input from many other future of CHI committees and a symposium that has been run over the years) put forth a new format for the conference. In short summary, technical program submissions will fall into six submission areas:
- Papers
- Panels
- Meet up
- Posters
- Workshops
- Interactive demos
The aim is to reduce the number of types of submissions and rename them to be more self-explanatory to simplify the conference program. The CHI Steering Committee has explained the changes and historical background for the restructuring in detail. We will be adding more guidance for authors and session organizers as things move forward.
CHI runs because of its volunteers. Chairs fill roles from papers to demos and from accessibility to family, it’s a massive community led operation. We invite you to join us! If you’ve never been to a CHI or can’t remember how many CHIs you attended in the past, we have a role for you. If you’re new to conference organization or a long time volunteer, we want to hear from you. We have a call for volunteers form as we look for technical chairs (papers, panels, etc.) as well as organizational chairs (accessibility, diversity, web/design, etc.). The call is open now, is easy to fill out, and will be open for several weeks so please throw your name into the hat. The call will be open until December 10th.
We look forward to hearing from you. We hope you volunteer! Stay tuned to our blog for more details.
Ens veiem a Barcelona!
