BCS HCI 2025: Call for Papers

Welcome to BCS HCI 2025! This year, Cardiff University is hosting the British Computer Society’s Special Interest Group in Human Computer Interaction Conference (BCS HCI 2025), taking place in-person from November 8th to 11th, 2025.

The conference theme is HCI4AI – Human Centred Approaches and their Impact on AI system design, application, and evaluation. We invite researchers, practitioners, and academics to submit their work.

Conference Tracks

Research Papers

We invite researchers, practitioners, and academics to submit original full research papers. This track provides an opportunity for authors to present comprehensive studies, groundbreaking research, and significant developments in the field of HCI.

• Important Dates:
  • Notification: 18th July 2025.
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: 31st August 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
• Inquiries: Contact the Research Papers Chairs.

Futures

The Futures track offers a unique platform to envision the future of a specific area, discipline, or topic. It invites authors to submit forward-looking perspectives grounded in their expertise and existing scholarship, which may offer predictions or flesh out possibilities through speculative design, design fiction or visions of a future. Submissions should be thought-provoking and discussion-oriented.

• Important Dates:
  • Extended Submission Deadline: 27th June 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
  • Notification: 18th July 2025 (Juried by committee).
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: 31st August 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
• Inquiries: Contact the Futures Chairs.

Workshops, Masterclasses, and Panels

• Important Dates:
  • Participant submissions due (on or before): July 4th, 2025.
  • Participants notified of acceptance (on or before): August 8th, 2025.
  • Workshops and Masterclasses: November 8th and 9th, 2025.
  • Panels: November 10th and 11th 2025.
• Inquiries: Contact the Workshops, Masterclasses, and Panels Chairs.

Posters

The poster track provides an excellent opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and students to present and discuss work in progress, late-breaking results, and novel ideas in an interactive format.

• Important Dates:
  • Submission Deadline: 22nd July 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
  • Notification: 22nd August 2025.
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: 29th August 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
• Inquiries: Contact the Posters Chair.

Community

This track challenges traditional conference presentation formats. It invites researchers to dive deeper, reflect more critically, and engage the community in more meaningful conversations about already published, groundbreaking, work.

• Important Dates:
  • Submission Deadline: 8th August 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
  • Notification: 29th August 2025 (Juried by committee).
• Inquiries: Contact the Community Chairs.

Interactions and Demos

The Interactions and Demos track provides a platform to showcase interactive artefacts, installations, novel systems, prototypes, and experiences.

• Important Dates:
  • Round 2 Submission Deadline: 17th June 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
  • Notification: 18th July 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: 1st August 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
• Inquiries: Contact the Interactions Chairs.

Late Breaking Work (LBW)

Late-Breaking Work (LBW) is an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and industry professionals to present emerging ideas, preliminary results, and novel concepts in areas of HCI.

• Important Dates:
  • Submission Deadline: 22nd July 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
  • Notification: 5th September 2025.
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: 9th September 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
• Inquiries: Contact the Late Breaking Work Chair.

Doctoral Consortium

The Doctoral Consortium provides an opportunity for research students to present and discuss their dissertation research with senior researchers and other students.

• Important Dates:
  • Submission Deadline: 1st July 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
  • Notification: 18th July 2025 (Juried by committee).
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: 31st August 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
• Inquiries: Contact the Doctoral Consortium Chairs.

Research and Design Competition

This competition challenges participants to envision and create innovative solutions to clearly identified problems within the scope of this year’s conference theme.

• Important Dates:
  • Submission Deadline: 22nd July 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
  • Notification: 5th August 2025 (Juried by committee).
  • Camera-Ready Deadline: 12th August 2025 @ 23:59 GMT.
• Inquiries: Contact the Research and Design Competition.

Topics of Interest

The conference theme is HCI4AI – Human Centred Approaches and their Impact on AI system design, application, and evaluation. A wide range of topics are welcome, as listed on the main programme page.

Contacts

• General Chairs:
  • Daniel J. Finnegan and Nervo Verdezoto Dias
  • Email: general@britchi2025.co.uk
• Technical Programme Chairs:
  • Effie Law and Fernando Loizides
  • Email: programme@britchi2025.co.uk
• Papers Chairs:
  • Corina Sas and Aneesha Singh
  • Email: papers@britchi2025.co.uk