Submission Guidelines

Submissions conflicting with one or more guidelines will be removed before or during the reviewing process.

Submission Format and Platform

All submissions are made through the Precision Conference System (PCS 2.0).

Submission Template

NordiCHI 2026 adopts the ACM TAPS Workflow.

Please prepare your submission for review, using the latest templates: Word Submission Template, or the LaTeX template using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart} for the LaTeX template (the LaTex template is also available in Overleaf). Please note that the submission is in single-column format although final papers will be produced in double-column.

How to submit

Submit only the PDF version of your manuscript to PCS. When generating the PDF file, please make sure that the fonts are embedded in the PDF file. This will ensure that reviewers can view the paper without problems.

To submit, go to the PCS submission page. Next go to “Make a new submission to” and choose the following:
• Society: SIGCHI
• Conference/Journal: NordiCHI 2026
• Track: [the track you are submitting to]

Anonymisation

NordiCHI adheres to the CHI anonymization policy that can be found here. In summary, Research Papers, Critiques, and Late-Breaking Work must be anonymized according to the following guidelines:

  • Authors’ names and affiliations must not appear in the paper. Make sure that author identities are not accidentally disclosed in file meta-data or by supplementary material.
  • Acknowledgements should be anonymized or removed during review.
  • Self-citations must use the third person (e.g., “as shown in Smith et al. [2]”) rather than “our previous work.”

Failure to follow these guidelines may result in desk rejection.

Submissions for the following tracks should not be anonymized: Industry Experience Papers, Panels, Arts-Based Approaches, Workshops, Tutorials, Demos, and Doctoral Consortium.

Copyright

Your submission must be original work. It cannot have been published elsewhere, nor can it be under concurrent review for publication by another conference or journal. All references must be complete, accurate, accessible to the HCI public, and conform to the Conference Proceedings Publication Format. Do not cite publications that are proprietary or confidential at the time of publication.

Final camera-ready versions of accepted submissions must be accompanied by a signed copyright form which will be provided to accepted authors.

Supplemental Materials

Submitting supplemental material (e.g., questionnaires, demo videos, data sheets) is optional but encouraged. If submitting a video, please ensure it includes captions and follows the SIGCHI Technical Requirements and Guidelines for Videos.

Accessibility

Authors are asked to make their submitted manuscript accessible (so reviewers with vision impairments can read them). The authors of accepted papers will be required to make their final PDFs accessible. Please use the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for detailed instructions.

Authors are encouraged to make all parts of their submission accessible. Helpful guidelines and suggestions can be found here:

Use of Generative AI tools in preparing submissions

The use of generative AI software tools such as large-language models (LLMs) must be clearly marked where used for purposes beyond editing the author’s own text. This should be included already in the submission phase and this section will not count toward the word limit. Submissions must comply with the ACM policy on the usage of GenAI (Sept 2025); see the accompanying Frequently Asked Questions for details.

Papers failing to acknowledge use of generative AI software tools may be desk rejected.

Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects

Any research involving human participants must comply with the ethics review requirements of the authors’ research environment. Compliance must be stated explicitly in the paper. In addition, authors are required to include a short note for reviewers explaining this context. Please also see the 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving human participants and subjects.

Publication and Open Access

The proceedings of NordiCHI ’26 will be published in the ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work.

Important note to authors about ACM´s new open access publishing model related to NordiCHI 2026 Research Papers track submission

ACM has introduced a new open access publishing model for the International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS). Authors based at institutions that are not yet part of the ACM Open program and do not qualify for a full geographic waiver will be required to pay an article processing charge (APC) to publish their ICPS article in the ACM Digital Library. To determine whether or not an APC will be applicable to your article, please follow the detailed guidance here: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/author-guidance.

Further information may be found on the ACM website, as follows:

Full details of the new ICPS publishing model: https://www.acm.org/publications/icps/faq
Full details of the ACM Open program: https://www.acm.org/publications/openaccess

Please direct all questions about the new model to icps-info@acm.org.

Additional Policies

Authors should also be aware of the SIGCHI Policy for Submission and Review at SIGCHI Conferences and ACM Publications Policies.