IndiaHCI 2025: Call for Full Papers

The 16th International Conference of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Design & Research (IndiaHCI 2025) will be held from November 7th - 9th, 2025 at the Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), New Delhi, India.

This conference is sponsored by the HCI Professionals Association of India and in cooperation with ACM’s special interest group on computer-human interaction (SIGCHI).

Conference Theme

Transhumanism in HCI: Improving human condition through technology

This year’s conference aims to highlight emerging technologies in HCI that focus on:

• Understanding humans
• Enabling humans
• Augmenting humans
• Replacing humans
• Being humans

Topics of Relevance

We invite submissions of research papers spanning various areas of HCI and design, including, but not limited to:

• User Interfaces
• Tangible & Ubiquitous Computing
• Virtual & Augmented Reality
• Multimedia and New Media
• Natural User Interfaces
• Interaction Techniques
• Game Design
• Privacy and Usable Security
• Visualization
• Health and Aging
• User Modeling
• Engineering Interactive Systems
• ICT for Development
• Computer-Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW)
• Accessibility & Assistive Technologies

With a special spotlight on papers that are relevant to South Asia, including those related to culture, language, socio-economic situations, and the industry from the region.

Focus and Scope of the Conference

• Solutions that address various societal challenges, focusing on the social impact of HCI interventions in diverse contexts.
• User studies that engage qualitative or quantitative research methods and/or offer critical perspectives on technology design, deployment, and/or use.
• Engineering interactive systems design, ubiquitous computing (including wearables), social software, ICT for development (ICTD), and computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW).
• Innovative user interfaces for complex interaction contexts or challenging applications.
• Breakthrough user experiences leveraging techniques such as machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, speech processing, networking, or human perception and cognition.
• Innovative software architectures, design tools, toolkits, programming systems, and development environments that support the development and use of the above technologies in user interfaces.

Submission Guidelines

• Format: All submissions need to follow ACM single column format. Use the correct template; a single-column format must be used for the reviewing phase. Use of different templates or formats may result in desk rejection.
  • LaTeX OR Overleaf: The default template is set for 2-column and needs to be manually changed to 1-column for initial review using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart}
  • Word Template: The Microsoft Word Template contains invisible meta-tags related to the paper format and structure. Authors are requested to add their content without altering any format and structure of the template.
• Paper Length: No strict page limit. However, authors are encouraged to submit a paper of length proportional to its contribution. The average length of papers can be approximately 7,000–8,000 words excluding references, figure/table captions, and appendices. Submissions above 12,000 words (two standard deviations above the average) will be desk rejected unless strongly justified.
• Originality: Your submission must be original; it cannot be published or under concurrent review elsewhere. If you make multiple submissions to India HCI 2025 Papers, they must be distinct from each other.
• Anonymity: Your submission must be anonymized; conform to the Anonymization Policy. Papers that violate the anonymization policy will be desk rejected. You will have 48hrs to submit a revised version or the paper will be desk rejected.
• Videos: Videos accompanying submissions can be submitted through the India HCI Microsoft CMT as supplementary material (max 100 MB in size). Authors should note that videos too need to maintain anonymity for the review process.

Reviewing Process

Each paper will be subjected to rigorous review by two Associate Chairs and two external reviewers. Contact authors will be sent the initial reviews for their papers. Authors will have an opportunity to submit a 500-word rebuttal to answer questions or clarify misunderstandings of reviewers. The final decision for accepting or rejecting a paper will be done in a PC meeting.

All acceptances will be conditional pending changes that the papers committee may suggest or require for the final camera-ready draft of the paper. Additionally, at least one author of each paper needs to register for the conference.

Important Dates

• Portal opens for Submission: April 1st 2025
• Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 10th 2025
• Extended Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 18th 2025
• Initial Notification and Reviews: August 1st 2025
• Revised Submission: August 10th 2025
• Final Notification: September 1st 2025
• Camera Ready Submission: September 11th 2025

Submission Site

To submit, see the India HCI Electronic Submission site.

Paper Track Chairs

• Gavin Sim, University of Central Lancashire, UK
• Dilrukshi Gamage, University of Colombo, Sri Lanka