Quick Facts
CHI 2024 will be a hybrid conference from May 11-16, 2024 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.
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.
- Submission deadline: Thursday, December 14th, 2023
- Notification deadline: Thursday, February 1st, 2024
- e-rights completion deadline: Thursday, February 8th, 2024
- Publication-ready deadline (including optional Video previews): Thursday, February 29th, 2024
- TAPS Closes: Thursday, March 7th, 2024
- 8-min video for presentation at the conference (mandatory): Thursday, March 28th
Submission Details
- Online submission: PCS Submission System
- Template: ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column)
Submission Format
- Submission format: 8-12 pages (excluding references), with an abstract of fewer than 150 words.
- Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information.
- Additional description of how the work will be presented at the conference. Your descriptions should seriously consider the guidelines for an accessible presentation. Keep in mind that unique presentation types may not be covered in this guide, so you may need to do additional research and be creative to ensure that your unique presentation style is accessible. Here is a link guide for accessible presentation. If you have any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at accessibility@chi2024.acm.org.
Selection Process
Open Review (open to the community) followed by a Reviewed selection process.
Update July 26, 2023
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.
Message from the alt.chi Chairs
alt.chi 2024 continues the tradition of bringing substantive, thought-provoking, original work to CHI through an alternative approach. alt.chi is appropriate for submissions that prove difficult to assess through the main Papers track, whether for reasons of methodology, style or content. alt.chi hosts some of the most audacious and insightful presentations at the conference. This is the avant-garde of CHI. We invite the submission of bold, compelling, critical, and innovative works that challenge or re-imagine human computer interaction research and design. alt.chi 2024 is methodologically inclusive and accepts reports, reflections, analyses, designs, fictions and systematic inquiries. Especially encouraged are:
- Critical perspectives on HCI, design, and society
- Creative, subversive, and/or unorthodox research methods that explore HCI boundaries, quandaries, and paradoxes
- Works that explore the politics, economics, and practice of HCI and design – and propose alternatives
- Explorations of novel methods through which to present HCI research – both in the submission and through the conference presentation
The vast majority of CHI Papers are inherently inappropriate for submission to alt.chi. In other words, work that can conceivably be accepted to the full papers track is generally inappropriate for submission to alt.chi. alt.chi 2024 should be viewed as an opportunity to re-shape the conversation by introducing a vibrant intellectual community to a new way of doing work, unconstrained by traditional conference/paper formats.
What is alt.chi?
alt.chi is a forum for controversial, risk-taking, and boundary pushing research at CHI. The CHI program committee formed alt.chi to act as a forum for innovative and insightful work that can go unrecognized through the standard review process. Contributions to alt.chi often innovate methodologically, critique accepted practices, or take on controversial questions. Moreover, alt.chi presentations are often innovative in format as well as content, and we wish to encourage authors to consider how they might present their work in alternative ways. Previous years have seen alt.chi contributions presented through theatre, carnival, music, poetry, and graphic novels.
alt.chi Commentaries
As contributions to alt.chi are often challenging and unusual, since 2014 they have benefited from reviewer commentaries. Where appropriate, reviewers may be asked to revise their review as a short commentary to be published with the alt.chi submission and optionally presented in person following the authors’ presentation at the conference. These commentaries serve to amplify and enrich alt.chi presentations of provocative work.
Preparing and Submitting Your alt.chi Submission
An alt.chi submission must be submitted via the PCS Submission System. The alt.chi submission must include a paper and may also include a 5-minute video figure.
Submissions should consist of 8-12-page papers in ACM Master Article Submission Templates(single column; excluding references), with an abstract of fewer than 150 words. Although deviation from the format may be required for some submissions, please ensure the first page and references follow the strict template requirements. If you want to do something unusual or are unsure, check with us first at altchi@chi2024.acm.org. Submissions should not be accepted or under review anywhere else while in submission.
Like many tracks at CHI, your alt.chi submission may include a short digital video figure or interactive illustration that is up to five minutes in length and no more than 200 MB final data size. Because not everyone who reads the submission may view the video figure or attend the presentation, your submission must stand on its own without the figure, and will be reviewed as such. However, a video is mandatory for all accepted papers. Some guidelines for creating video submissions can be found at: Guide to a Successful Video Submission.
Metadata Integrity
All submission metadata, including required fields in PCS like author names, affiliations, and order, must be complete and correct by the submission deadline. This information is crucial to the integrity of the review process and author representation. No changes to metadata after this deadline will be allowed.
Accessibility
Authors are strongly encouraged to work on improving the accessibility of their submissions before peer review begins, using recommendations found in the Guide to an Accessible Submission for their paper and in the technical requirements for video content for their video. For any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at accessibility@chi2024.acm.org.
Selection Process
alt.chi follows an open review and then a Juried review process. During the period between submissions and notifications, members of the CHI community are invited to review the submission in a non-anonymous forum.* Anyone who is interested will be able to view and discuss your work. Authors will be encouraged to invite appropriate members of the CHI community to review their work, and the alt.chi committee will also invite discussions. We want to encourage discussion and debate on what makes a good alt.chi (or regular CHI) submission, and, ultimately, what pushes the field forward. After the discussion period, the chairs will evaluate the work based on:
- How well the work embodies alt.chi’s values of creativity, criticality, reflection, and originality.
- How coherent the work is conceptually, philosophically, and methodologically.
- How well the proposed presentation format suits the content of the submission and how likely it is to engage people at the conference.
- The extent to which the work expresses a voice and argument unlikely to be heard in the Papers track.
- The nature of the discussions that the submission provokes among reviewers.
Submissions should not contain sensitive, private, or proprietary information that cannot be disclosed at publication time; nor can submissions contain text of prior CHI reviews. Submissions should NOT be anonymous. Submissions will be treated as confidential and reviewers will be instructed accordingly.
All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity.
* all reviewers will be required to consent to a review agreement prior to participating in the selection process.
All alt.chi prospective authors with a paper submission will be expected to review at least two papers submitted to alt.chi during the review period.
Reviewing for alt.chi
- Please volunteer to review if you haven’t already. To do this, visit the PCS volunteer page, select CHI 2024, and enter a number of reviews for alt.chi.
- You will then have access to the bidding page. You will see a list of all available titles and abstracts. For any you wish to review, please select “want” or “willing”. You can bid on more papers at any time during the review period, and can deselect reviews if you change your mind.
- You will have access to the submissions, discussions and reviews through your reviewing page.
- Reviewers and authors are encouraged to actively engage in discussions about their papers throughout the reviewing process.
Upon Acceptance of Your Submission
The corresponding author of a conditionally accepted paper has to follow the instructions on preparing and submitting a final version 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 paper from the program. The publication-ready version has to follow the LaTeX and Word templates from ACM. Should you need technical assistance, please direct your technical query to: publications@chi2024.acm.org.
At the Conference
Authors of accepted alt.chi submisisons are not required to travel to CHI 2024 to publish their paper. Accepted authors must present their work at the conference synchronously in-person or asynchronously remotely. All accepted authors are required to upload a video presentation of up to 8 minutes in duration by the video presentation deadline. See technical requirements for video content at CHI. Authors who do not participate in presenting their work as described in this Call for Papers may be withdrawn from the ACM Digital Library. alt.chi presentations are flexible in form. As noted above, previous years have seen alt.chi contributions presented through theatre, carnival, music, poetry, and graphic novels. Remember to make these alternative presentation styles accessible, using the above linked resources and doing additional research on presentation styles not covered.
After the Conference
Accepted alt.chi submissions will be distributed in the CHI Conference Extended Abstracts, available in the ACM Digital Library.