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Past Deadlines

> August 1st, 2019

SIGCHI Student Travel Grant

> September 13th, 2019

Papers: Title, abstract, authors, subcommittee choice, and all other metadata

> September 20th, 2019

Papers: Submission files

> October 16th, 2019

Case Studies, Courses, Doctoral Consortium, Workshops/Symposia

> November 15th, 2019

Gary Marsden Student Development Fund

> December 18th, 2019

Special Interest Groups, Panels

> January 6th, 2020

Alt.CHI, Interactivity/Demos, Late-Breaking WorksStudent Game Competition, Student Research Competition

> February 15th, 2020

Gary Marsden Student Development Fund

Papers Review Process

Introduction

The aim of this page is to provide authors with an overview of the process and schedule for reviewing papers.  In sharing this we have two aims:

  1. to ensure that authors are aware of the review process for their paper.
  2. to provide an insight into how tight the time frame is for all the required steps and enable an understanding of why shifts in dates are generally impossible.

Key:

SCs – Subcommittee Chairs

ACs – Associate Chairs

1AC – Primary AC (leading the review process)

2AC – Second AC

3AC – Third AC

Recent Changes

  • CHI 2020  is continuing with a virtual PC meeting. The main change from CHI 2019 is that the 2AC will no longer invite an external reviewer; instead, the 1AC will invite all external reviewers. The 1AC will write a meta-review (and no personal review of the work), and the 2AC will write a personal review. One undesirable consequence of  having the 2AC invite an external reviewer was that the 2AC and external reviewer knew each others’ identify, yet they wrote ‘peer’ reviews of the paper.
  • Similar to CHI2019, we have early rejects (both desk and quick rejects). The policy can be found here.

Scale

We expect approximately 3,750 titles and abstracts to be submitted by the initial deadline. Approximately 3,000 will turn into complete papers. This will require the production of at least 6,000 high-quality external reviews + 3,000 high-quality AC reviews + 3,000 high-quality meta-reviews – a process that is locked in to be finalized within a very tight 11 week turn-around period if it is to meet the (fixed) publisher deadline.