IUI 2026: Call for Papers

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 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.

Important Dates (AoE)

• Abstract: October 03, 2025
• Full paper: October 10, 2025
• Decision notification: December 12, 2025
• Camera-ready submission: January 23, 2026

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

Submission Guidelines

• 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.
• We encourage authors to consider practical and societal implications of their work.
• All submissions (and supplemental materials) must be appropriately anonymized (double-blind review process).
• Authors are asked to make their paper submissions accessible.
• All submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI. Authors should include a “GenAI Usage Disclosure” section, right before the references.
• Any research in submitted manuscripts that involves human subjects must go through the appropriate ethics review requirements.

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}

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.

All materials must be submitted electronically to the Precision Conference Submission (PCS) Portal (https://new.precisionconference.com/).

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”.

Publication and Open Access

The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library.

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).

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.

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. 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