The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026) Call for Papers

The Annual ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI 2026)

March 23-26, 2026, 5* Coral Beach Hotel & Resorto, 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