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Insights Into the Paper Track Program Committee
By Sven Mayer and Guo Freeman This year, CHI’s paper track program committee comprises 1203 individuals from around the world, including four Paper Chairs, 55 Subcommittee Chairs (SC), 34 assistants who help with various tasks, and an impressive number of 1110 Associate Chairs (AC). In this blog post, we provide insights into the paper track […]
Insights into the Papers Track Post-PC Meeting Outcomes
By Sven Mayer and Guo Freeman In this blog, we provide insights into the papers track outcomes after the CHI 2026 Program Committee (PC) meeting, which took place from January 12–14, 2026. As a reminder, after the first round of reviews, 2,603 submissions were invited to submit revisions. Of these invited resubmissions, 2,576 were resubmitted […]
Insights Into Submitting Authors of the Papers Track
By Sven Mayer and Guo Freeman Traditionally, we only learn about the many authors who get their CHI submissions accepted and published. However, this does not provide a comprehensive understanding of the global HCI community and our ongoing efforts to advance HCI research. Therefore, we believe that examining who submits to CHI is extremely valuable […]
Insights Into the Papers Track (Assisted) Desk Rejections
By Sven Mayer, Guo Freeman, and Cristina Zaga. In our previous blog post, we shared details about the papers track first round outcomes, where Desk Reject (DR) and Assisted Desk Reject (ADR) decisions were presented together with X1 (rejected after the first round review) as rejections. In this blog post, we provide further statistics about […]
Insights Into the Papers Track First Round Outcomes
By Sven Mayer, Guo Freeman, and Cristina Zaga. As the resubmission phase at CHI 2026 has wrapped up, we wrote this blog post to provide insights into the papers track first round outcomes, including: how many papers were submitted to CHI 2026 and how many papers were entered into the second round of reviewing in […]






