About the Conference
The ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems is the leading international conference on Human-Computer Interaction. CHI 2026 will take place in Barcelona at the Centre de Convencions Internacional de Barcelona (CCIB). In a newly refactored program, six submission areas allow for a plurality of submission types.
Subject Areas
Important Dates
Publication & Indexing
Conference Organization
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Committee
General Chairs
David A. Shamma
MBZUAI
Nuria Oliver
ELLIS Alicante
Assistants to General Chairs
Jie Li
Human-AI Symbiosis Alliance
Tamara Mujirishvili
Roche
Technical Program Chairs
Heloisa Candello
Inteli
Pedro Lopes
University of Chicago
Pablo Cesar
CWI
Assistants to Technical Program Chairs
Jas Brooks
MIT
Alexandra Kitson
University of Victoria
Xiang Li
University of Cambridge
Maximiliane Windl
LMU Munich
Steering Committee Liaisons
Cliff Lampe
University of Michigan
Per Ola Kristensson
University of Cambridge
Paper Chairs
Alessandro Bozzon
TU Delft
Thomas Kosch
HU Berlin
Vera Liao
University of Michigan
Xiaojuan Ma
HKUST
Assistants to Paper Chairs
Celine Offerman
TU Delft
Anna Ricarda Luther
Universität Bremen
Xinyu Shi
University of Waterloo
Qiurong Song
Pennsylvania State University
Poster Chairs
Benjamin Cowan
UC Dublin
Juliana Jansen Ferreira
IBM Research
Dakuo Wang
Northeastern University
Marios Constantinides
CYENS Centre of Excellence
Marta E. Cecchinato
Northumbria University
Rachel Mc Donnell
Trinity College Dublin
Assistants to Poster Chairs
Smit Desai
Northeastern University
Jaisie Sin
Carleton University
Bingsheng ‘Arthur’ Yao
Northeastern University
Interactive Demo Chairs
Karan Ahuja
Northwestern University
Mark Billinghusrt
University of South Australia
Lisa Izzouzi
UCL
Ana Tajadura-Jimenez
UC3M
Panels Chairs
Joel Fisher
University of Nottingham
Susan Fussel
Cornell University
Mitesh Patel
NVIDIA
Workshops Chairs
Abdallah El Ali
CWI
Saiph Savage
Northeastern University
Hao-Chuan Wang
UC Davis
Meet-Ups Chairs
Laura Cabrera-Quiros
Tecnológico de Costa Rica
Julian Frommel
Utrecht University
Asreen Rostami
RISE
Journal Chairs
Francesco Chiossi
LMU Munich
Effie Lai-Chong Law
Durham University
Student Mentoring Chairs
Ferran Altarriba
Universitat de Girona
Elizabeth Churchill
MBZUAI
Yvette Wohn
NJIT
Assistants to Student Mentoring Chairs
Haoyu Dong
TU Eindhoven
Vikram Mohanty
Carnegie Mellon University
Student Research Competition Chairs
Max Birk
TU Eindhoven
Paloma Diaz
UC3M
Jacki O’Neill
Microsoft Research Africa
Analytics Chairs
Guo Freeman
Clemson University
Sven Mayer
TU Dortmund University
Cristina Zaga
University of Twente
Accessibility Chairs
Rahaf Alharbi
Pratt Institute
Maryam Bandukda
UCL
Aditya Gulati
ELLIS Alicante
Awards Chairs
Cosmin Munteanu
University of Waterloo
Marianna Obrist
UCL
Albrecht Schmidt
LMU Munich
Regional Ambassadors
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
Northeastern University
Juan Enrique Garrido Navarro
University of Castilla-La Mancha
Shaimaa Lazem
SRTA-City
Local Chairs
Pablo Aragón
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Davinia Hernandez-Leo
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Family Chairs
Maria Luce Lupetti
Politecnico di Torino
Pablo Paredes
Toyota Research Institute
Elena Marquez Segura
UC3M
Global Chairs
Houda Elmimouni
University of Manitoba
Yiyue Luo
University of Washington
Prerna Ravi
MIT
Assistant to the Global Chairs
Nadia Campo Woytuk
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Keynote Chairs
Marta Rey Babarro
University of Michigan
Mary Czerwinski
Microsoft Research
Publication Chairs
Phoebe O. Toups Dugas
Monash University
Gustavo López
Universidad de Costa Rica
Anke V. Reinschluessel
University of Konstanz
Xin Tong
HKUST
Valentino Artizzu
University of Cagliari
Fiona Draxler
University of Mannheim
Publicity & Social Media Chairs
Özgün Bakir
Técnico Lisboa
Yuhan Liu
Princeton University
Video Chairs
Julian Rasch
LMU Munich
Ticianne Darin
Federal University of Ceará
Sponsor Chairs
Pablo Perez
Nokia
Anicia Peters
NCRST
Jude Yew
Assistant to the Sponsor Chairs
Sergio Cabrero
Vicomtech
Sustainability Chairs
Alejandro Catala
University of Santiago de Compostela
Matthew Louis Mauriello
University of Delaware
Student Volunteer Chairs
Annie Chu
Northwestern University
Tzu-Sheng Kuo
Carnegie Mellon University
Yuki Onishi
University of Bergen
Esen Tütüncü
University of Barcelona
Visa Chairs
Montse Guardia
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Zhuoyue Lyu
University of Cambridge
Web Chairs
Yudai Tanaka
University of Chicago
Sanchari Das
George Mason University
Design Chair
Jie Li
Human-AI Symbiosis Alliance
Luoying Lin
City University of Hong Kong
