For inquiries, please contact the Short Papers Chairs.

Important Dates

  • Submission Deadline: 16 July 2026 Anywhere on Earth.
  • Notification: ~20 August 2026.
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: 27 August 2026.

Call for Short Papers

We invite researchers, practitioners, and academics to submit short research papers that present emerging ideas, preliminary results, and novel concepts in areas of HCI. This track is designed to showcase cutting-edge research that is still in progress but offers promising contributions to the field.

We welcome submissions around a diversity of topics and methodologies. Examples might include:

  • An original and innovative technology, technique, or prototype with or without an accompanying evaluation
  • A short qualitative or quantitative study with a complete analysis
  • Preliminary results of work-in-progress research
  • A “sequel” to a prior research contribution
  • A “prequel” to motivate or provoke novel conversations or future work
  • Position papers that provoke novel conversations for the discipline

Further information on potential HCI contributions can be found here: https://chi2025.acm.org/contributions-to-chi/

Selection Process

Short paper submissions will be juried, i.e. they will be reviewed by the Committee. Juried content is generally not required to make the same level of lasting and significant contribution to our knowledge and understanding as refereed content (full papers). Authors may expect to receive light feedback of up to a few paragraphs in length.

Short Papers will be assessed based on the following criteria:

  • Contribution and fit to the conference: Present research or ideas that will stimulate interesting conversations at the conference.
  • Significance: Focus on a significant problem or question that other HCI researchers will find influential or compelling.
  • Novelty and contribution: Make a novel, albeit small, contribution to the field.
  • Approach: Clearly present and justify the methods within the submission.
  • Clarity: Demonstrate clarity of writing, conform to the formatting requirements and the page limit.

Submission Guidelines

Multiple paper submissions and submitting across multiple tracks: If you are planning to be an author on multiple submissions, please carefully read information below regarding publication fees before submitting your work.

Paper Length: Short papers should be between 4 and 6 pages, excluding references. Appendices are optional, but should not exceed 2 pages in length.

Formatting: Please adhere to the Electronic Workshops in Computing paper format and ensure you use the template provided. Authors should submit their paper in PDF format.

Anonymity: Authors should ensure that their submissions are fully anonymised. This includes referring to your own past work in the 3rd person and fully referencing your past work (rather than listing some references as “Anonymous”)

Originality: Submissions must present original work not previously published or under review elsewhere.

Use of AI: Authors should declare how AI has been used in the research (i.e. in the idea generation, literature review, data collection, and writing) in the method section of the paper. The authors may use an Appendix if this additional space is needed to achieve this.

Submission Process

Submissions are via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=britchi26

Presentation

Accepted short papers will be presented through a poster and a lightning talk. At least one author must register and attend the conference to present the work.

Publication

Accepted short papers will be published online in the conference proceedings, accessible via ScienceOpen. They will also be indexed in the ACM Digital Library.

Publication fees: the substantial costs associated with the processing and digital archival of manuscripts, the following registration policy applies:

  • One Registration per Paper: At least one author must register at the conference for each accepted paper.

  • Multiple Papers by a Single Author: If an author has multiple accepted papers and is the only author with a conference registration, a Mandatory Publication Fee of £100 will be charged for each additional paper beyond the first.

  • Co-authored Papers: If a different co-author registers for each subsequent paper, the additional publication fee will be waived.

Programme Committee

TBC

We look forward to your contributions and to welcoming you to BCS BritCHI 2026!