Guide to Selecting a Subcommittee for Submission

List of the subcommittees

Subcommittees are listed and described below. Each has a title, short description, and an indication of who will Chair and serve on the subcommittee. Subcommittees have been constructed with an eye to maintaining logically coherent clusters of topics.

• Technology, Systems, and Engineering
• Specific Application Areas
• Games and Play
• Social Computing and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
• User Experience and Usability
• Design
• Interaction using Specific Capabilities or Modalities
• Understanding People: Theory, Concepts, Methods
• Interaction Techniques and Devices

Overview

CHI 2016 anticipates around 3,000 Papers and Notes submissions. The review process needs to handle this load while also providing high-quality reviews, which requires that each submission is handled by an expert Associate Chair (AC) who can recruit expert reviewers. The organization of the CHI program committee into topical subcommittees helps achieve this. See the description of the Papers and Notes review process for a detailed explanation of the responsibilities of the ACs Subcommittee Chairs (SCs).

Authors are required to suggest a subcommittee to review your submission. This page provides guidance on choosing the appropriate subcommittee for your submission.

Subcommittee selection process

When you submit a Paper or Note, you will designate which subcommittee you want to handle your submission. In the vast majority of cases, the subcommittee you select is the one that will review your submission. In cases where the Papers Chairs and/or Subcommittee Chairs recognize that your submission will be reviewed more thoroughly in another committee, a submission may be transferred from one subcommittee to another. If a submission is transferred to another subcommittee, this will happen in the first week of the process, before reviewers are assigned; i.e., transferring will not affect a submission’s review process, it will only ensure that it receives the most complete, fair set of reviews.

Below, you will see a list of subcommittees and descriptions of the topics they are covering, the name of each SC, and the names of the ACs serving on each subcommittee. It is your responsibility to select the subcommittee that best matches the expertise needed to assess your research, and that you believe will most fully appreciate your contribution to the field of HCI.
CHI has traditionally supported diverse and interdisciplinary work and continues to expand into new topics not previously explored. We recognize that as a result, you may find several different subcommittees which are plausible matches for your work. However, for a number of reasons it will be necessary for you to select one target subcommittee, and you should strive to find the best match based on what you think is the main contribution of your submission (examples of papers that are considered good matches are linked below for each subcommittee). You can also email the SCs for guidance if you are unsure (an email alias is provided below for each set of SCs). Also, see the Subcommittee FAQ at the end of this page to see if specific guidance is available for your submission’s area.

Note that the scope of each subcommittee is not rigidly defined. Each has a broad mandate, and most subcommittees cover a collection of different topics. Further, SCs and ACs are all seasoned researchers, experienced with program committee review work, and each is committed to a process which seeks to assign each paper reviewers who are true experts in whatever the subject matter of the paper is. ACs recognize that many papers, or perhaps even most papers, will not perfectly fit the definition of their subcommittee’s scope. Consequently, papers will not be penalized or downgraded because they do not align perfectly with a particular subcommittee. Interdisciplinary, multi-topic, and cross-topic papers are encouraged, and will be carefully and professionally judged by all subcommittees.

In making a subcommittee choice you should make careful consideration of what the most central and salient contribution of your work is, even if there are several different contributions. As an example, let’s say you are writing a paper about Ergonomic Business Practices for the Elderly using Novel Input Devices. Perhaps this is a very new topic. It covers a lot of ground. It’s not an exact fit for any of the subcommittees, but several choices are plausible. To choose between them, you need to make a reasoned decision about the core contributions of your work. Should it be evaluated in terms of the usage context for the target user community? The novel methodology developed for your study? The system and interaction techniques you have developed? Each of these evaluation criteria may partially apply, but try to consider which is most central and which you most want to highlight for your readers. Also look at the subcommittees, the people who will serve on them, and the kind of work they have been associated with in the past. Even if there are several subcommittees that could offer fair and expert assessments of this work, go with the one that really fits the most important and novel contributions of your paper. That committee will be in the best position to offer constructive and expert review feedback on the contributions of your research.

Each subcommittee description also links to several recent CHI papers that the SCs feel are good examples of papers that fit scope of that subcommittee. Please look at these examples as a way to decide on the best subcommittee for your paper – but remember that these are just a few examples, and do not specify the full range of topics that would fit with any subcommittee.

Technology, Systems, and Engineering

This subcommittee will focus on technology, systems, and engineering contributions that enable, improve, or advance interaction. This will include software and hardware technologies that enable and demonstrate novel interactive capabilities, as well as languages, methods, and tools for construction and engineering of interactive systems.

Engineering contributions should clearly demonstrate how they address interactive systems concerns. They can be targeted at end users, offering novel interaction capabilities or supporting simplified interactions. They can also be targeted at developers, facilitating the construction of innovative interactive systems.

Subcommittee Chairs:

Carl Gutwin, University of Saskatchewan
Caroline Appert, Université Paris-Sud

Contact:

sc.systems@chi2016.acm.org

Associate Chairs:

Andrea Bunt, University of Manitoba
Emmanuel Pietriga, Inria
Erin Solovey, Drexel University
James Fogarty, University of Washington
Jeffrey Bigham, Carnegie Mellon University
Jessica Cauchard, Stanford University
Jörg Müller, Aarhus University
Michael Nebeling, Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Rohs, Leibniz Universität Hannover
Nicolas Roussel, Inria
Scott Bateman, University of New Brunswick
Stephen Voida, University of Colorado Boulder

Specific Application Areas

This subcommittee will focus on papers that extend the design and understanding of applications for specific application areas or domains of interest to the HCI community. Example application areas and user groups are listed below. Submissions will be evaluated in part based on their impact on the specific application area and/or group that they address, in addition to their impact on HCI. During the Program Committee meeting, this subcommittee will split into three groups based on areas/domains of expertise; submissions will be discussed by the most appropriate group. A submission’s primary keyword will be the main determinant of the group to which it is assigned.

Example user groups: older adults, children, families, people in developing countries, and people with perceptual, cognitive, learning, or motor impairments.

Example application areas: education, health, home, accessibility, sustainability, ICT4D, security, privacy, creativity, software development tools, crowdsourcing, data visualization, and visual analytics.

Subcommittee Chairs:

Alexander De Luca, Google
Chris Quintana, University of Michigan
Jeff Heer, University of Washington
Julie Kientz, University of Washington
Leah Findlater, University of Maryland
Mike Hazas, Lancaster University

Contact:

sc.specificapps@chi2016.acm.org

Associate Chairs:

Allison Woodruff, Google
Amy Hurst, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Amy Ogan, Carnegie Mellon University
Andrea Bianchi, KAIST
Angela Sasse, University College London
Anind K. Dey, Carnegie Mellon University
Anne Marie Piper, Northwestern University
Betsy DiSalvo, Georgia Institute of Technology
Brian Bailey, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
David Flatla, University of Dundee
Eelke Folmer, University of Nevada, Reno
Eun Kyoung Choe, Pennsylvania State University
Florian Block, Harvard University
Florian Schaub, Carnegie Mellon University
Gabriela Marcu, Drexel University
Gavin Doherty, Trinity College Dublin
Hao-Hua Chu, National Taiwan University
Jason Yip, University of Washington
June Ahn, University of Maryland College Park
Karyn Moffatt, McGill University
Lauren Wilcox, Georgia Institute of Technology
Lena Mamykina, Columbia University
Lilly Irani, University of California San Diego
Maria Håkansson, Chalmers University of Technology
Mark W. Newman, University of Michigan
Marshini Chetty, University of Maryland College Park
Melissa Densmore, University of Cape Town
Mikael B. Skov, Aalborg University
Miriah Meyer, University of Utah
Nathalie Henry-Riche, Microsoft
Nicki Dell, University of Washington
Niklas Elmqvist, University of Maryland College Park
Paul Dunphy, Atom Bank (UK)
Predrag Pedja Klasnja, University of Michigan
Ranjitha Kumar, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Remco Chang, Tufts University
Robert Comber, Newcastle University
Serge Egelman, University of California, Berkeley / ICSI
Steve Oney, University of Michigan
Svetlana Yarosh, University of Minnesota
Tiago Guerreiro, University of Lisbon
Walter S. Lasecki, University of Michigan
Wesley Willett, University of Calgary
Yang Wang, Syracuse University
Zhicheng Liu, Adobe Research

Games and Play

This subcommittee will focus on papers across all areas of games and playful interaction. Although methods may vary, rigour is expected and submissions will be judged according to the standards for the chosen approach. Topics include but are not limited to: game interaction (novel interfaces and mechanics), playful interaction (toys, books, and leisure), the design and development of games, player experience evaluation (psychology of players, games user research and analytics), serious games (gamification, persuasive games, games for health or learning), and understanding play.

Subcommittee Chairs:

Florian Müller, RMIT University
Kathrin Gerling, University of Lincoln
Regan Mandryk, University of Saskatchewan

Contact:

sc.games@chi2016.acm.org

Associate Chairs:

Ben Schouten, Eindhoven University of Technology
Bonnie Nardi, University of California Irvine
Conor Linehan, University College Cork
Daniel Johnson, Queensland University of Technology
Dennis Wixon, University of Southern California
Heather Desurvire, User Behavioristics Inc.
Janet C. Read, University of Central Lancashire
Katherine Isbister, New York University
Lennart Nacke, University of Waterloo
Mark Hancock, University of Waterloo
Nicholas Graham, Queen’s University
Perttu Hämäläinen, Aalto University
Rilla Khaled, Concordia University
Sebastian Deterding, Northeastern University
Vero Vanden Abeele, KU Leuven
Zachary O. Toups, New Mexico State University

Social Computing and Computer-Supported Cooperative Work

This subcommittee is suitable for papers and notes that contribute to our understanding of collaborative technologies that affect groups, organizations, communities, and networks. Successful submissions will advance knowledge, theories, and insights from the social, psychological, behavioral, and organizational dynamics that arise from technology use in various contexts.

Subcommittee Chairs:

N. Sadat Shami, IBM
Pernille Bjørn, University of Copenhagen

Contact:

sc.cscw@chi2016.acm.org

Associate Chairs:

Anbang Xu, IBM Research
Antonella De Angeli, University of Trento
Brent Hecht, University of Minnesota
Brian Keegan, Harvard University
Claudia Müller, University of Siegen
Dan Cosley, Cornell University
Daniela Rosner, University of Washington
Gunnar Stevens, University of Siegen
Hilda Tellioglu, Vienna University of Technology
Ingrid Erickson, Rutgers University
Jacki O’Neill, Microsoft
Mark Ackerman, University of Michigan
Michael Bernstein, Stanford University
Michael Muller, IBM Research
Michael Prilla, Ruhr University of Bochum
Moira Burke, Facebook
Munmun De Choudhury, Georgia Tech
Myriam Lewkowicz, Troyes University of Technology
Patrick Shih, Indiana University
Richard Harper, Microsoft
Sarita Yardi Schoenebeck, University of Michigan
Scott Robertson, University of Hawaii
Susanne Bødker, Aarhus University
Victoria Sosik, Google
Volker Wulf, University of Siegen

User Experience and Usability

This subcommittee is suitable for papers that extend the knowledge, practices, methods, components, and tools that make technology more useful, usable, and desirable. Successful papers will present results, practical approaches, tools, technologies, and research methods that demonstrably advance our understanding, design, and evaluation of user experience and/or usability. The focus is on usability and user experience of widely used technologies with contributions being judged substantially on the basis of their demonstrable potential for effective reuse and applicability across a range of application domains or across a range of design, research, and user communities.

Subcommittee Chairs:

Jettie Hoonhout, Philips Research
Mark Dunlop, Strathclyde University

Contact:

sc.usability@chi2016.acm.org

Associate Chairs:

Andrés Lucero, University of Southern Denmark
Ben Steichen, Santa Clara University
David Geerts, KU Leuven
Effie Law, University of Leicester
Harald Reiterer, University of Konstanz
Jesper Kjeldskov, Aalborg University
Jinwook Seo, Seoul National University
Joe Tullio, Google
Lynne Baillie, Heriot Watt University Edinburgh, UK
Magy Seif El-Nasr, Northeastern University
Marco de Sa, Twitter
Marilyn Lennon, University of Strathclyde
Matthew Lee, Philips Research
Parisa Eslambolchilar, Swansea University
Sameer Patil, New York University
Tom Bartindale, Newcastle University
Vanessa Evers, University of Twente

Design

This subcommittee will focus on papers that make a contribution to the design of interactive products, services, or systems; or that advance knowledge of the human activity of design as it relates to HCI. It will cover a broad range of design approaches: participatory, user-centered, experience, and service. It will also cover a range of design practices: interaction, industrial, experience, information, architecture, visual communication, and sensorial. Finally, it will focus on design research issues such as aesthetics, values, effects (such as emotion), methods, practices, critique, and theory.

Subcommittee Chairs:

Giulio Jacucci, University of Helsinki
Jodi Forlizzi, Carnegie Mellon University
Mark Blythe, Northumbria University
Tek-Jin Nam, KAIST

Contact:

sc.design@chi2016.acm.org

Associate Chairs:

Aisling Kelliher, Carnegie Mellon University
Andruid Kerne, Texas A&M University
Bilge Mutlu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Carl DiSalvo, Georgia Tech
Daniel Ashbrook, Rochester Institute of Technology
Daniela Petrelli, Sheffield University
Erik Stolterman, Indiana University Bloomington
Ian Oakley, UNIST
John Vines, Newcastle University
John Zimmerman, Carnegie Mellon University
Kristina Andersen, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music
Kristina Höök, SICS
Liz Gerber, Northwestern University
Marianne Graves Petersen, Aarhus University
Melanie Feinberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Oren Zuckerman, IDC Herzliya
Scott Davidoff, NASA
Shaun Lawson, University of Lincoln
Simon Bowen, Newcastle University
Steve Harrison, Virginia Tech
Steven Dow, Carnegie Mellon University
William Odom, Simon Fraser University
Youn-kyung Lim, KAIST

Interaction Using Specific Capabilities or Modalities

This subcommittee will focus on advances in interaction that use capabilities, modalities, or technologies that have not yet been fully exploited in standard approaches to interaction. These contributions will be judged in part by their novelty and their ability to extend user capabilities in powerful new ways or to new contexts. Example areas include, but are not limited to: multimodal user interfaces, tactile and tangible interfaces, speech I/O, auditory I/O, physiological computing, on-body and brain-computer interfaces, perception and vision-based systems, and augmented reality.

Subcommittee Chairs:

Chris Harrison, Carnegie Mellon University
Shengdong Zhao, National University of Singapore

Contact:

sc.capmod@chi2016.acm.org

Associate Chairs:

Abhijit Karnik, Lancaster University
Andy WIlson, Microsoft
Anne Roudaut, University of Bristol
Audrey Girouard, Carleton University
Christian Holz, Microsoft Research
Cosmin Munteanu, University of Toronto
Daniel Avrahami, FXPAL
Gilles Bailly, Télécom ParisTech
Géry Casiez, Université de Lille
Jingtao Wang, University of Pittsburgh
Michael Haller, University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria
Per Ola Kristensson, University of Cambridge
Robert J.K. Jacob, Tufts University
Simon Perrault, National University of Singapore
Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow
Tovi Grossman, Autodesk Research
Wolfgang Stuerzlinger, Simon Fraser University
Yang Li, Google Research

Understanding People: Theory, Concepts, Methods

This subcommittee is suitable for papers whose primary contribution is improved understanding of people or interactional contexts. This understanding may be derived from quantitative or qualitative empirical research, or it may be conceptual in nature. Core contributions typically take the form of insightful findings, evolved theories, models, concepts, or methods. Contributions will be judged in part by their rigor, significance, validity, and practical or theoretical impact.

Subcommittee Chairs:

Andrew Howes, University of Birmingham
Antti Oulasvirta, Aalto University
Ed Chi, Google
Mark Perry, Brunel University London

Contact:

sc.people@chi2016.acm.org

Associate Chairs:

Anna Cox, University College London
Antti Salovaara, Aalto University
Bongwon Suh, Seoul Nation University
Carman Neustaedter, Simon Fraser University
Dan Russell, Google
David Ayman Shamma, Yahoo Labs
David Coyle, University College Dublin
David Kirk, Newcastle University
Duncan Brumby, University College London
Ed Cutrell, Microsoft
Gary Hsieh, University of Washington
Hao-Chuan Wang, National Tsing Hua University
Helen Petrie, University of York
Henriette Cramer, Yahoo!
Jeff Huang, Brown University
Jeni Paay, Aalborg University
John Tang, Microsoft
Judd Antin, Facebook
Kasper Hornbæk, University of Copenhagen
Loren Terveen, University of Minnesota
Louise Barkhuus, Stockholm University
Luigina Ciolfi, Sheffield Hallam University
Mary Czerwinski, Microsoft
Matt Jones, Swansea University
Mauro Cherubini, Google
Max Wilson, University of Nottingham
Niels Henze, University of Stuttgart
Pam Briggs, Northumbria University
Parmit Chilana, University of Waterloo
Rowanne Fleck, University of Birmingham
Sean Munson, University of Washington
Shumin Zhai, Google
Sian Lindley, Microsoft
Stephen J. Payne, University of Bath
Steven Drucker, Microsoft
Susan Fussell, Cornell University
Wai Tat Fu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wijnand IJsselsteijn, Eindhoven University of Technology

Interaction Techniques and Devices

This subcommittee focuses on new interaction techniques, technologies, and devices for input and output. Contributions will be judged in part based on their novelty or on their demonstrated improvements of existing interaction types. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: sensing, actuation, unconventional UIs, touch and multi-touch, 3D interaction, augmented/mixed/virtual reality, mobile interaction, novel displays, and devices of different sizes and configurations.

Subcommittee Chairs:

Alex Olwal, Google
Mira Dontcheva, Adobe

Contact:

sc.interaction@chi2016.acm.org

Associate Chairs:

Ali Israr, Disney Research
Francois Guimbretiere, Cornell University
Gabe Cohn, Microsoft
Gudrun Klinker, TU München
Jason Alexander, Lancaster University
Jun Rekimoto, The University of Tokyo
Maneesh Agrawala, University of California Berkeley
Marti Hearst, University of California Berkeley
Mathieu Nancel, Aalto University
Olivier Bau, Samsung
Otmar Hilliges, ETH Zurich
Petra Isenberg, Inria
Saleema Amershi, Microsoft
Scott Hudson, Carnegie Mellon University
Sean Follmer, Stanford University
Sebastian Boring, University of Copenhagen
Stefanie Mueller, Hasso Plattner Institute
Sven Kratz, FXPAL
Takeo Igarashi, The University of Tokyo
Wendy Mackay, Inria
Xiaojun Bi, Google

Subcommittee FAQ

Several research areas could logically fit into more than one subcommittee. In an effort to ensure that appropriate ACs are available for every paper, for some of these “borderline” research areas, we’re encouraging submission to a specific subcommittee. This list will grow over time; if you feel an area should be added to this list, or if you have any other questions about this page, contact the Papers Chairs at papers@chi2016.acm.org .

• Submissions that describe Systems-oriented research in computer-supported cooperative work (CSCW) should be submitted to Technology, Systems, and Engineering. The Social Computing and CSCW subcommittee will review qualitative and quantitative studies of CSCW systems and practice. In the terminology recently used by the CSCW conference, papers described as “Systems” should go to the Technology, Systems, and Engineering subcommittee; papers described as “Empirical – Quantitative” and “Empirical – Qualitative” should go to the Social Computing and CSCW subcommittee.
• Submissions primarily about Information Visualization should be submitted to Specific Application Areas.