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HCI International News, Number 132, July 2025

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HCII 2025: HIGHLIGHTS

HCII 2026: HIGHLIGHTS

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HCII 2025 successfully completed - Thank you for your participation

HCI International 2025, the 27th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, was held as an 'on-site' Conference with the additional option for 'on-line' participation, from 22-27 June at the Gothia Towers Hotel and Swedish Exhibition & Congress Centre, Gothenburg, Sweden, under the auspices of 21 distinguished international boards of 505 Members from 51 Countries.

The first three days of the Conference (22-24 June) comprised 'on-line' parallel sessions for paper presentations, 'on-site' and 'on-line' Courses (formerly Tutorials) and 'hybrid' Workshops (allowing both 'on-site' and 'on-line' presentations). The Opening Plenary Session (evening of the 24th of June) and the parallel sessions that took place between 25-27 June run as 'hybrid' events (i.e., available 'on-site' and 'on-line' for presenters and participants).

This year, 2710 individuals (1601 on-line and 1109 on-site) from 75 countries participated in this truly international in scope event, where the work of contributors from all over the world was presented.

The Conference program included:

Springer (part of Springer Nature) is the publisher of the Conference Proceedings as a multi-volume set. A total of 7972 individuals from academia, research institutes, industry, and government agencies from 92 countries submitted contributions. 1430 papers and 355 posters (as short research papers) are included in the 67 volumes of the proceedings published just before the start of the Conference. 497 papers and 111 posters are also accepted for inclusion in the ‘HCII 2025 - Late Breaking Work" volumes of the Proceedings to be published after the Conference. All volumes together will comprise the full set of the HCII 2025 Conference Proceedings.

For the first time in its history, the HCII Conference organized poster pitch sessions. Poster pitches are brief oral presentations allowing ‘on-site’ poster presenters to highlight the core ideas, motivation, and contribution of their work to a broader audience.

Susan Dumais (Technical Fellow and Director of the Microsoft Research Labs in USA and in Canada, and Adjunct Professor at the University of Washington, USA) joined us as the keynote speaker at the Opening Plenary Session. Her keynote entitled: " Information Seeking and Sensemaking from Libraries, the Web, and Beyond" was also her acceptance speech for the HCII 2025 award ‘HCI Medal for Societal Impact’.

A Students’ networking social event, complimentary for registered student participants, took place ‘on-site’ in the evening of the 26th of June, offering students the opportunity to get together and exchange ideas in a truly international and multicultural setting.

The ‘HCII 2025 Design Café’, an interactive satellite event, was held ‘on-site’ during the HCII 2025 Conference. The focus of the HCII Design Café was on Human-AI Teaming (HAT).

The HCII Conference has established a long-term collaboration with the World Usability Initiative (WUI), founded and directed by Elizabeth Rosenzweig. The 2024 World Usability Initiative (WUI) Design Challenge with the theme "Designing for a Better World" award winners were announced on World Usability Day, 14 November 2024. The Design Challenge Awards (Gold $1,250; Silver $1,000; and Bronze $750), sponsored by the HCII2025 Conference, were conferred during the Opening Plenary Session. The three award winners were invited, with complimentary registration, and presented their work in a special hybrid session on the 27th of June.

Photos from the Conference are available through the Conference website and Facebook.

We would like to thank all Conference participants for their valuable contribution towards the success of this Conference.

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HCII 2025: Best papers / poster awards

As established in previous years, twenty-two awards were conferred during the Opening Plenary Session. The awards, in the form of a plaque and a certificate, were presented to the author(s) of the Best Paper of each Thematic Area / Affiliated Conference and of the Best Poster.

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HCII 2025: Student Design Competition Awards

In the context of the HCII 2025 Student Design Competition, a nine-member international committee acted as the jury and evaluated the accepted submissions (all of which were presented during the conference). Three awards were conferred during the Opening Plenary Session, each carrying a prize: the GOLD received $1,000 USD, the SILVER $500 USD and the BRONZE $250 USD.

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HCII 2026: Look forward to welcoming you to Montreal, Canada for the next Conference

HCI International 2026, the 28th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, jointly with the affiliated Conferences, under the auspices of 21 distinguished international boards, to be held under one management and one registration, will take place at the Montreal Convention Centre, Montreal, Canada, between 26 and 31 July 2026. HCII 2026 will run as an 'on-site' Conference with the additional option for 'on-line' participation.

You are invited to participate and contribute through papers, posters, courses, workshops and student designs to this major international forum for the dissemination and exchange of up-to-date scientific information on theoretical and applied areas of HCI. The Conference has a long-established tradition of inviting distinguished scientists and professionals in the broader HCI field to organize parallel sessions. Prospective authors should submit their proposal upon invitation from a session organizer.

The 2026 Conference Management System (CMS) will open for proposal submission by mid September.

The Conference Proceedings will be published by Springer in a multi-volume set. Papers will appear in the LNCS and LNAI series, while poster extended abstracts will be published in the CCIS series. All volumes will be available on-line through the SpringerLink Digital Library, readily accessible by subscribing libraries, and indexed by a number of services, including: CPCI, part of Clarivate Analytics’ Web of Science; Scopus; EI Engineering Index; ACM Digital Library; Google Scholar; DBLP, etc.

Awards will be presented during the Opening Plenary Session to the authors of the best paper of each of the Thematic Areas / Affiliated Conferences and the best poster of HCII 2026.

The Student Design Competition gives College and University students of all grades an opportunity to present their design idea, by submitting an abstract and a video clip (up to 5-minutes). Three awards will be presented, GOLD ($1000), SILVER ($500) and BRONZE ($250).

Exhibiting at the Conference is an ideal opportunity to display your products and services to an international audience of academics, researchers, professionals and users in the field of HCI.

Inspired by the World Café method, and following the success of its predecessors, the HCII 2026 Design Café will provide an opportunity for discussion and rethinking of important topics of global interest.

The World Usability Initiative (WUI) Design Challenge for 2025 under the theme ‘Emerging Technologies and Human Experience’ is open for submissions until 19 September 2025. Winners will be announced on World Usability Day, 13 November 2025. Three awards sponsored by HCII 2026 will be conferred during the Opening Plenary Session: GOLD ($1250), SILVER ($1000) and BRONZE ($750).

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Two papers reflecting Grand Challenges in HCI sponsored by the HCI International conference

Two papers reflecting Grand Challenges in HCI, sponsored by the HCI International conference, have been published recently as Open Access articles in the International Journal of Human Computer Interaction (IJHCI) and are readily available for your perusal.

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The HCI International NEWS is a newsletter that contains information about the HCI International Conference, book reviews, news from the field of HCI, as well as links to interesting articles and conferences. If you have any questions or comments, or if you would like to contribute, please contact the Editor, Dr. Abbas Moallem. The opinions that are expressed in this Newsletter are the sole responsibility of its authors and do not represent any institution or company.

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