Appropriate topics include, but are not limited to:
In recent years, successful UIST submissions have focused on domains including: input and output devices, augmented/virtual reality, programming tools, mobile interaction, haptic and tactile interfaces, human-robot interaction, AI and HCI, fabrication, design and prototyping tools, creativity tools, ubiquitous computing, accessibility, visualization, information management, wearable computing, social computing, toolkits, education, crowdsourcing, and computer-supported cooperative work. We look forward to relevant submissions in novel domains as well.
In previous years, papers would become available publicly on the ACM DL up to a week in advance of the conference. This year, pre-print papers will become available to conference registrants much earlier, as soon as August 11, 2021. This is just one week after the camera-ready deadline, and approximately two months earlier than past years.
Authors who have internal approvals or intellectual property deadlines related to the publication date of their papers should take note of and prepare for this much earlier deadline.
Details of how papers will be released will be forthcoming before the paper submission deadline. Access will be restricted to only those registered for the conference.
In previous years, it has become a tradition to set a cut-off score for the rebuttal opportunity and reject low-scoring papers after the initial reviews. For those authors who entered the rebuttal stage, this usually one-week long stage was often reported as particularly stressful to coordinate especially around weekends.
For UIST 2021, we are implementing the following changes as part of the review process. First, we are removing the rebuttal cut-off to enable more controversial papers to participate in the full review process. Associate Chairs should gauge from the reviews and internal discussion whether a rebuttal is encouraged and state so in their meta reviews. Second, we are implementing a two-week rebuttal period from Wednesday, May 26 to Wednesday, June 9, 2021. This extended period is intended for authors to coordinate remotely and enable all authors including those who submitted to UIST for the first time to fully engage with the reviews and the rebuttal opportunity.
Members of the program committee managing a paper are asked to request a third Associate Chair for papers that remain undecided after the rebuttal and initial follow-up reviewer discussion. A rebuttal response by Associate Chairs and external reviewers will be enforced by the Papers co-chairs as much as possible.
UIST invites many types of HCI research contributions, including those that pertain to interactive systems. Evaluating systems contributions can be hard, and there are unconscious biases that we must actively address as we review.
For example, a system built on well-known techniques can holistically accomplish novel functionality. In these types of situations, reviewers will need to judge the novelty of the bricolage and the significance of its contribution without penalizing the work for leveraging existing solutions.
Similarly, given the diversity of systems contributions, authors and reviewers should carefully consider whether an empirical evaluation is required or even appropriate. Papers that do not include such an evaluation should not be penalized unless the quality of the research or scholarship is materially diminished, a consideration that is especially important in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To more fairly and consistently evaluate systems HCI work, this year we will elicit more structured feedback from reviewers based on guidelines proposed by many researchers in the systems HCI community. We will publish more details on this soon.
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Abstract: Wednesday March 31, 2021 5pm PT
Full Submission: Wednesday April 7, 2021 5pm PT
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Demos | Wednesday July 14, 2021 5pm PT |
Doctoral Symposium | Wednesday June 30, 2021 5pm PT |
UIST Visions | TBD |
Student Volunteers | TBD |
Student Innovation Contest | TBD |
Papers are the main medium for conveying new research results at UIST and must describe original, unpublished work.
Abstracts due (title, abstract, author list) | Wednesday March 31, 2021 5pm PT |
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Papers due (paper PDF and video) | Wednesday April 7, 2021 5pm PT |
Initial reviews sent to authors Two-week rebuttal period starts (all papers have a rebuttal opportunity, no cut-off) |
Wednesday May 26, 2021 5pm PT |
Rebuttals due | Wednesday June 9, 2021 5pm PT |
Decisions sent to authors (conditional acceptance or rejection) |
Friday June 25, 2021 5pm PT |
Final reviews sent to authors | Wednesday June 30, 2021 5pm PT |
Camera-ready versions due | Wednesday July 28, 2021 5pm PT |
Final acceptance decision | Wednesday August 4, 2021 5pm PT |
Video preview due | TBD |
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Below we highlight some of the most important points, but please ensure you have reviewed the UIST paper submission and review process [review process guide] as well as a guide to a successful UIST paper submission [general guidelines].
Posters provide an interactive forum in which authors can present their work to conference attendees during special poster sessions. Posters are an opportunity to describe new work or work that is still in progress, and work that is already presented in other venues but to share more with the UIST community.
Posters are non-archival, will be more lightly reviewed (curated) than papers.
Submission deadline | July 21, 2021, 5pm PDT |
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Acceptance notification | August 4, 2021 |
Camera-ready versions due | August 18, 2021, 5pm PDT |
Video preview due (optional) | September 25, 2021, 5pm PDT |
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The UIST Poster Example Gallery has ideas and guidelines for poster designs (coming soon).
The UIST Doctoral Consortium provides a unique opportunity for Ph.D. students to interact with established academic and industry researchers in the UIST community. Students can receive both feedback on technical aspects of their research as well as mentoring about different career options. The range of topics appropriate for the Doctoral Consortium is the same as the topics covered in the UIST Technical Papers program. Participants will be selected based on their anticipated contributions to the breadth and depth of the intellectual discussions at the symposium. This year, the Doctoral Symposium will be held as a virtual symposium. We will spread out the symposium over two days: instead of one long session, we plan to have multiple shorter sessions on Monday and Tuesday. There will be some shared social activity with the panelists which will be organized closer to the actual date. The UIST Doctoral Symposium is a by invitation only event.
As with previous years, participants will have the opportunity to interact with distinguished panelists from the UIST community.
Submission deadline | June 30, 2021, 5pm PDT |
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Acceptance notification | July 21, 2021 |
Camera-ready versions due | August 4, 2021, 5pm PDT |
Doctoral symposium date | October 9-10, 2021 |
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