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| Computer Human Interaction International Conference | |
|---|---|
| Name | Computer Human Interaction International Conference |
| Status | Active |
| Discipline | Human–computer interaction |
| Frequency | Annual |
| First | 1982 |
| Organizer | ACM SIGCHI |
| Location | Rotating international venues |
Computer Human Interaction International Conference
The Computer Human Interaction International Conference is an annual scholarly meeting connecting researchers from ACM SIGCHI, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Berkeley and other institutions to present work in Human–computer interaction practice and theory. It attracts participants from Microsoft Research, Google Research, Apple Inc., Facebook Reality Labs, IBM Research and independent labs, fostering collaboration across venues such as CHI PLAY, UIST, DIS, CSCW and ICMI. The conference emphasizes peer-reviewed papers, panels, workshops and demonstrations involving practitioners from Nielsen Norman Group, IDEO, Fjord (consultancy), Tobii Technology and Leap Motion.
The conference serves as a flagship meeting for the Association for Computing Machinery community, especially members of ACM SIGCHI and affiliates from IEEE Computer Society, Royal Society, National Science Foundation, European Research Council and regional bodies like Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and Australian Research Council. Programs commonly include keynote addresses by figures from Alan Kay, Don Norman, Hiroshi Ishii, Ben Shneiderman, Terry Winograd, and lectures hosted by venues such as MIT Media Lab, Stanford HCI Group, Cornell Tech, University College London Interaction Centre and Max Planck Society labs. Industry partners including Amazon, Samsung Electronics, Intel Corporation, Sony Corporation, and Huawei sponsor exhibits and demo sessions.
Origins trace to early workshops and conferences organized by pioneers from Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, SRI International, PARC (company), and university groups at University of Toronto, University of Washington, Georgia Institute of Technology and University of Michigan. Milestones include influential years when award-winning papers by researchers at Bell Labs Research, Apple Computer, Microsoft Research Cambridge, PARC, and Nokia Research expanded topics to include ubiquitous computing as advanced by figures associated with Mark Weiser, tangible computing from Hiroshi Ishii and ubiquitous sensors developed at Intel Labs. Conference evolution followed the rise of adjacent events including CHI, MobileHCI, ACM Multimedia, SIGGRAPH, and Pervasive Computing forums.
Governance typically involves committees drawn from institutions such as ACM SIGCHI Executive Committee, representatives from ACM Publications Board, editors from journals like ACM Transactions on Computer–Human Interaction, Human–Computer Interaction (journal), Interacting with Computers, and steering committees populated by scholars from University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, ETH Zurich, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, University of Toronto DGP, and Tsinghua University. Program chairs coordinate peer review with volunteers from MIT CSAIL, Microsoft Research Redmond, INRIA, IT University of Copenhagen, and University of Melbourne. Awards coordination involves committees linked to ACM Fellows, IEEE Fellows, and societies such as Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Typical formats include plenary keynotes, long and short papers, posters, workshops, tutorials, panels, demonstration sessions and doctoral consortiums. Sessions are organized by track chairs from Cornell University, Princeton University, Yale University, Columbia University, Brown University and specialist labs including Disney Research, Honda Research Institute, Toyota Research Institute and BMW Group Research. Workshops connect to satellite events like CHI PLAY and summer schools at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, University of California, San Diego, University of British Columbia and KTH. Tutorial presenters often hail from Adobe Research and Nokia Bell Labs.
Core themes encompass user interface design, interaction techniques, accessibility, tangible interaction, affective computing, virtual reality, augmented reality, ubiquitous computing, social computing, mobile interaction, health informatics, and privacy. Influential research has intersected with breakthroughs at OpenAI, DeepMind, Nvidia Research, Apple ARKit, Google ARCore, and standards bodies like W3C and IETF. Applications have affected products from iPhone (1st generation), Android (operating system), Windows 95 era interfaces, and innovations at Nintendo and Sony PlayStation. Cross-disciplinary collaborations have involved Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Mayo Clinic, Stanford School of Medicine and organizations like World Health Organization for health-related HCI.
Awarded papers and influential citations include work affiliated with labs at Xerox PARC, Bell Labs, MIT Media Lab, Carnegie Mellon University’s Human–Computer Interaction Institute, Stanford HCI Group, and companies such as Microsoft Research and Google Research. Prestigious recognitions parallel ACM CHI Academy induction, ACM SIGCHI Best Paper Award, ACM SIGCHI Distinguished Member, and occasional Turing Award–related citations for authors associated with foundational computing research. Landmark papers have been presented alongside keynote talks by Sherry Turkle, Brenda Laurel, Lucy Suchman, Paul Dourish, and Yvonne Rogers.
Attendees range from doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers from ETH Zurich, Imperial College London, University of Melbourne, National University of Singapore to corporate researchers from Facebook AI Research, DeepMind Technologies, Baidu Research, Alibaba Damo Academy and startups incubated by Y Combinator, Techstars, and 500 Startups. Community-building occurs through special interest groups such as SIGCHI Local Chapters, regional conferences like NordicCHI, CHI LATAM, AsiaHCI, and organizations including ACM-W and IEEE Women in Engineering.
Proceedings are published by Association for Computing Machinery in the ACM Digital Library, indexed in Scopus, Web of Science, and cited alongside journal articles in ACM Transactions on Computer–Human Interaction, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, and Nature Human Behaviour. Extended versions and special issues appear in venues such as Communications of the ACM, Journal of the ACM, PNAS, and edited volumes from Springer, Elsevier, and Taylor & Francis.
Category:Human–computer interaction conferences