The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026): Third Call for Papers
George Angelos Papadopoulos
*** Third Call for Papers ***
The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026)
March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resort, Paphos, Cyprus
https://iui.hosting.acm.org/2026/
The ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (ACM IUI) is the annual premier venue
where researchers and practitioners meet and discuss state-of-the-art advances at the
intersection of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI). Ideal IUI
submissions should address practical HCI challenges using machine intelligence and
discuss both computational and human-centric aspects of such methodologies,
techniques, and systems.
This area is crucial as AI is increasingly integrated into everyday technology.
Understanding and shaping AI systems for human needs is essential to ensure that AI
systems are effective and responsible. As these techniques become increasingly powerful,
new use cases and human-AI interactions can be explored. This conference offers an
opportunity to focus the research community on important problems at the intersection of
AI and HCI and bring together experts from various disciplines to discuss and build on
these ideas in workshops, breaks, and networking sessions.
Contributions are welcome from all relevant arenas, including academia, industry,
government, and non-profit organizations. Diverse insights are critical to the vitality of the
IUI community, and the conference will accept papers for both long and short oral
presentations. Contributions to IUI are expected to be supported by rigorous evidence
appropriate to the claims (e.g., user study, system evaluation, computational analysis).
Topics
IUI 2026 topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Human-centered AI methods, approaches, and systems
• Explainable AI methods
• Democratization of AI
• Persuasive technologies in IUI
• Privacy and security of IUI
• Knowledge-based approaches to user interface design and generation
• User modelling for intelligent interfaces
• User-adaptive interaction and personalization
• IUI for crowd computing and human computation
• Human control in daily automations
• Trust and reliance in intelligent systems
Computational innovation
• Interactive machine learning
• Human-in-the loop AI testing and debugging
• Human-centered recommendation and recommender systems
• Generative models
• Human-in-the-loop reinforcement learning
• Intelligent user interfaces for generative AI
Innovative User Interfaces
• Affective interfaces
• Intelligent aesthetic interfaces
• Intelligent collaborative interfaces
• Intelligent AR/VR interfaces
• Intelligent visualization and visual analytics
• Intelligent wearable and mobile interfaces
• Intelligent tangible interfaces
Intelligent Multimodal Systems
• Embodied agents
• Multimodal AI assistants
• Intelligent multimodal interfaces
Intelligent Applications
• Education and learning-related technologies
• Healthcare and wellbeing
• Automotive
• Assistive technologies
• Entertainment
• Workplace happiness
• Social media
• Internet of Things (IoT)
• Smart homes
Large Language Models and Agentic AI
• End-user interaction with LLMs, agents, and multimodal models (e.g., chatbots, image
generation)
• LLMs and agents in the workplace
• Human-agent interaction and multi-agent systems
• Bias in LLMs and agents
• The effects of LLMs and agents use on creative tasks
• Personalized user interaction with LLMs and agents
• Prompt engineering
• User control and steering of LLMs and agents (e.g., RLHF, chaining, instruction tuning)
Evaluations of Intelligent User Interfaces
• User experiments and studies
• Reproducibility (including benchmarks, datasets, and challenges)
• Meta-analysis
• Mixed-methods evaluations
Papers
We invite original paper submissions that are not under consideration elsewhere. Accepted
papers will appear in the ACM Digital Library and citation indices. At least one author of all
accepted papers must register with full registration fee (not student registration fee),
attend in person, and present their paper during the main conference program. One
registration covers one paper only.
A selected set of accepted top-quality full papers will be invited to submit their extended
versions for publication in an ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS)
special issue titled “Highlights of IUI 2026” that will appear in 2027.
Reflection of practical and societal impact
We encourage authors to consider practical and societal implications of their work (as well
as its shortcomings) throughout their projects and to include a reflection on those
implications in their papers, in particular how the proposed methods and insights could be
applied and deployed in a realistic setting and how they can improve people's lives in the
real world.
We also encourage authors to discuss potential ethical considerations of their work in
terms of diversity, inclusion, and equality; and other topics under the broad responsible AI
topic and its societal impact. We recognize that technology is rarely neutral --- simply by
making some things easier than others, it reshapes society (Winner, 1980; Green, 2020).
Further, given the incredibly short invention-to-application cycles for AI-related
technologies, it is becoming increasingly unlikely that “somebody else” will carefully
consider how an emerging intelligent user interface technology might impact the world
before this technology is deployed. Our purpose is to help authors ensure that the likely
societal consequences of their work are consistent with their intentions and values. For
colleagues who are not yet experienced with incorporating societal impacts into their IUI
research but who are willing to give it a try, here are some ideas to consider.
Anonymization
ACM IUI uses a double-blind review process. All submissions (and supplemental materials)
must be appropriately anonymized according to the following guidelines:
• Authors' names and affiliations are not visible anywhere in the paper.
• Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during the review process.
• Self-citations should be included where necessary but must use the third person. For
example, "... as shown in our previous user study [2] ... " is not allowed, whereas "... as
shown in Smith et al. [2] " is acceptable (because in this case the citation [2] will NOT be
perceived as self-citation).
Failure to follow these guidelines may result in submissions being desk-rejected without review.
Accessibility
Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible (so that reviewers with
vision impairments can access them, for example). The authors of accepted papers will be
required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible
Submission for detailed instructions.
If you are submitting a video as supplemental material, please provide captions, as
described in Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos.
Please refer to the Accessibility page of the conference site for further details and guidelines.
Usage of Generative AI
All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI: the April 2023
ACM Policy on Authorship and Frequently Asked Questions. Text generated from a
large-scale language model (LLM), such as ChatGPT, must be clearly marked where such
tools are used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. Authors should include
a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references, to provide full disclosure
of all use of GenAI tools in all stages of the research (including the code and data) and the
writing. This section, together with the references, will not be counted toward the word
limit.
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.
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 with regard to 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 human participants and subjects
before submitting.
Additional Policies
Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI
Conferences and ACM Publications Policies.
Submission Format, Length, and Platform
We adopt the ACM TAPS Workflow.
Please prepare your submission for review in a single column format, using the latest
templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using
\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template.
Papers are of variable length. Paper length must be proportional to its contribution. We
encourage authors to stay within a 10,000 word limit. Authors of papers exceeding 12,000
words should add a note at the end of their manuscript explaining how the length of the
paper is commensurate with the contribution of the work.
Submission Platform
All materials must be submitted electronically to the Precision Conference Submission
(PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/) by the abstract and paper deadlines.
In PCS, first click “Submissions” at the top of the page, from the dropdown menus for
Society, Conference, and Track, please select “SIGCHI”, “IUI 2026”, and “IUI 2026 Papers”,
respectively, and then press “Go”.
Note: If the corresponding author (the individual who submits the paper, not necessarily
the first author) is affiliated with a participating institution that has an open access
agreement with ACM, the Article Processing Charges (APCs) will be waived for publishing
the paper. Details are under “Publication and Open Access”.
Supplemental Materials
Submitting supplemental material (e.g., questionnaires, demo videos of applications, data
sheets) is optional but encouraged.
If supplying a demo video, please follow the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and
Guidelines for videos.
Publication and Open Access
The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM
Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference.
The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published
work.
Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications,
including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will
have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open
institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800
institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers
will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%).
Authors from institutions not participating in ACM Open will need to pay an APC to publish
their papers, unless they qualify for a financial or discretionary waiver. To find out whether
an APC applies to your article, please consult the list of participating institutions in ACM
Open and review the APC Waivers and Discounts Policy. Keep in mind that waivers are rare
and are granted based on specific criteria set by ACM.
Understanding that this change could present financial challenges, ACM has approved a
temporary subsidy for 2026 to ease the transition and allow more time for institutions to join
ACM Open. The subsidy will offer:
* $250 APC for ACM/SIG members
* $350 for non-members
This represents a 65% discount, funded directly by ACM. Authors are encouraged to help
advocate for their institutions to join ACM Open during this transition period.
This temporary subsidized pricing will apply to all conferences scheduled for 2026.
Important Dates (AoE)
• Abstract: October 3, 2025
• Full Paper: October 10, 2025
• Decision Notification: December 12, 2025
• Camera-ready Submission: January 23, 2026
Organisation
General Chairs
• Tsvi Kuflik, The University of Haifa, Israel
• Styliani Kleanthous, Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Local Organising Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Program Chairs
• Li Chen, Hong Kong Baptist University, China
• Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki, Finland
• Alison Renner, Dataminr, USA