To propose a workshop, you should write a proposal about the topic and your plans for the workshop. If accepted, you will be expected to lead the organization of the workshop. At least one workshop organizer is expected to attend the conference. Workshops must be planned to be entirely in-person (not as hybrid online experiences) as half-day events.
Key dates
Submissions due: 4th February 2025 11th February 2025
Notifications:
27th February 2025
Camera ready/TAPS due:
18th April 2025
Workshops:
8th July 2025
All deadlines are at 23:59 Anywhere on Earth
The process
All submissions will proceed through the following process. Please contact the Workshops & Tutorials Chairs if you have any questions.
1. Prepare your proposal
Submissions of proposals for workshops must be in English, in PDF format. You should NOT anonymise your workshop proposal. Your proposal must include:
- a title,
- an abstract,
- background to your workshop topic,
- plans for the workshop,
- how you will solicit papers/attendees,
- how you will create an accessible and inclusive experience,
- workshop’s website address,
- biographies for the organizers.
Your proposal should be at most 5,000 words (including figures, tables, proofs, appendixes, and other content, excluding references and acknowledgments).
You must use the ACM LaTeX or Word templates to prepare your submission. We encourage the use of LaTeX and the official ACM template on Overleaf. LaTeX users should have the following document class: \documentclass[manuscript,screen,review,anonymous]{acmart}
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Word users should use the one-column submission template and should be prepared to submit to TAPS approximately one week earlier than the stated camera-ready deadline.
ACM’s CCS concepts and keywords are not required for submission and peer review but are required if your paper is accepted and published by the ACM.
2. Submit your proposal
- All materials must be submitted electronically to PCS by the deadline.
- In PCS, first, click “Submissions” at the top of the page. Then, from the dropdown menu, select “SIGCHI”, “CUI 2025”, and the “Workshops” track.
Proposed workshop topics should be of interest to the conversational user interface research community. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- Design considerations for conversational UX
- Formatting content for conversation
- Real-world applications of conversational agents
- Working with foundational models (e.g., BERT, ChatGPT)
- Hybrid approaches to voice and text
- Understanding human conversation
- Evaluating conversational agent performance
- Turn-taking and interaction systems
- Incorporating trust-worthiness into conversational agents
- Enabling multi-party collaboration with conversational agents
- Ethical considerations of conversational agents
Please follow the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission to make your submission accessible for all users.
Submitting your article to an ACM Publication acknowledges that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies.
3. Await reviews
Each submission will be reviewed by one track chair and one expert reviewer through a curated process, in which reviewers will assess the novelty, feasibility, delivery and ability to engage attendees. Successful submissions will be invited to organize a workshop at CUI 2025.
4. Plan your workshop
If your workshop proposal is accepted, we ask you to start work on the workshop organisation immediately.
Workshop organization responsibilities include:
- Setting up a website for the workshop
- Publicizing the workshop and inviting potential participants to submit (Collecting submissions and selecting workshop participants based on the quality of their position papers (with or without external reviews)
- Running the workshop at the conference (in-person)
- Optionally, compiling and publishing workshop proceedings
- Optionally, soliciting and coordinating invited speakers for the workshop
5. Prepare your proposal for publication
If your proposal is accepted, you must include CCS concepts and keywords for publication.
Programme Chairs will send information on preparing your proposal for the publishing process. If accepted, Word users may be required to reimplement their proposal into the correct format for publishing, while LaTeX users will have to adjust their documentclass
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At least one author of each accepted workshop proposal must register for the conference and attend the conference in-person; otherwise, we cannot guarantee publication of your proposal. Accepted proposals will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. All workshop organisers wishing to attend must register for the conference.
You will receive an email from ACM to assign the rights for your proposal, following which you will receive an email from “The ACM Publishing System” (TAPS), which will handle the generation of the final version of your proposal. Accepted proposals will be produced from LaTeX or Word source files into a single-column HTML document and a two-column PDF for publication. We recommend all authors read ACM’s guidance for TAPS Best Practice.
Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID to complete the publishing process for your accepted paper.
All ACM publications follow the Green Open Access route by default, although authors can independently pay a fee for Gold Open Access. The total fee payable depends on the author(s) ACM membership status.
6. Present your work
You will be provided details about the timings of your workshop closer to the time by the Workshops chairs.
Your proposal will be published in the CUI Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. SIGCHI participates in the ACM Open Table of Contents (OpenTOC) service, which means proposals will be freely available from this website for the first year after publication.
Submissions
Please send your submission to Workshops chairs Shashank Ahire and Melissa Guyre at cui2025-workshops@cui.acm.org, with the subject line “CUI 2025 Workshop Submission”.
Questions?
If you have any questions, please contact the Workshops chairs, Melissa Guyre and Shashank Ahire, for support.