Important Dates

• Short Paper Submission: October 29th, 2026 (AoE)
• Notification: December 15th, 2026
• Conference: 7-11 March, 2027

 

Demonstration Papers

Demonstration papers should enable presenters to give participants first-hand experience of novel research prototypes or operational systems. They provide the opportunity to exchange ideas gained from implementing IR systems and to obtain feedback from expert users.

A demonstration submission should both describe and show the proposed solution, addressing questions such as:

• What problem does the prototype/system/concept seek to address?
• How does it do so?
• Who are the target users?
• How will you demonstrate this work?
• How does the work compare with those that exist already?
• Finally, how, where, and when will your technology have a technical or commercial impact?

 

Design Papers (new for 2027)

Not all compelling ideas can (or should) be reduced to a running system. Design Papers invite submissions that articulate a new interaction paradigm, information experience, or search and retrieval concept through design artefacts: scenarios, storyboards, interaction flows, design probes, speculative mockups, or experiential prototypes. A working implementation is explicitly not required.

This track is inspired by practice in the broader HCI community, where design fiction, research through design, and conceptual prototyping are established methods for opening up possibility spaces and provoking critical reflection. We welcome work that asks what if as well as work that asks how. If you have been presenting this kind of work at CHI and wondering whether it belongs at CHIIR, the answer is: yes, and we want it here.

A Design Paper submission should make a clear design contribution — not simply a proposal for future work, but a developed artefact or design language that others can engage with, critique, and build upon. Strong submissions will address:

• The design space: What interaction challenge, unmet need, or underexplored paradigm does your design address? What assumptions about how people search, retrieve, or make sense of information does it question or reimagine?
• The design artefact: What did you actually make? Describe the artefact(s) (e.g., scenarios, interaction flows, storyboards, annotated wireframes, design probes, or experiential mockups) and explain how they embody your design intent.
• The design rationale: Why these choices? Ground your decisions in prior work, user insight, theory, or principled design argument. Design Papers are still research papers: the artefact should be accompanied by a rigorous account of why.
• The interactive presentation: Design Papers will be presented in the same interactive session as Demonstrations. How will you engage attendees with your design? Consider bringing printed artefacts, running a participatory scenario, using a Wizard-of-Oz walkthrough, or inviting structured feedback. The goal is conversation, not exhibition.
• Contribution to the field: What does this design make possible, make visible, or make arguable that did not exist before? How does it advance our collective understanding of interactive information retrieval?

A note to prospective authors from the CHI community: CHIIR is a welcoming venue for design-forward work, and this track is explicitly designed for you. The IR community has much to gain from richer design vocabularies, and your framing of interaction, as something to be shaped, questioned, and reimagined, is exactly what this track is for. We look forward to your submissions.

 

Submission Instructions

• Demo and design submissions must be in English and should be submitted as PDF files.
• Papers must not exceed 4 pages, including all content (e.g., figures, tables, proofs, acknowledgements, and appendices), but excluding references, which may extend beyond this 4-page limit. All submissions must follow the current ACM two-column conference format.
• For the review stage, papers should be submitted using the ACM double-column format. Suitable LaTeX, Word, and Overleaf templates are available from the ACM Website (use sigconf proceedings template for LaTeX and the Interim Template for Word). For LaTeX, use:
  • \documentclass[sigconf,natbib=true,anonymous=true]{acmart}
• Submissions must be anonymous and should be submitted electronically via EasyChair:
  • https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=chiir27
  • by selecting the appropriate track, either “CHIIR 2027 Demonstrations” or “CHIIR 2027 Designs” track.
• If at all possible, demo or design artefacts should be available at the time of submission to enable judgment of the full demo or design artefact. They can be made available on a public web page or in a publicly accessible repository, and linked to in the submission. Note that authors should take care that they cannot be easily identified during the double-blind review process. For additional guidance on anonymization of submitted demo and design material, see the guidelines on artifact submission described in SIGIR’s artifact badging process. Code can also be submitted via an anonymous Github repository.
• At least one author of each accepted submission must register for CHIIR 2027, and the author(s) or their delegate(s) must present the work at the conference in person.