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Use when deciding whether a project belongs at ACM CHI, which of CHI's contribution types it makes, and which reviewing subcommittee should judge it — or whether the work is better routed to UIST, CSCW, DIS, IUI, ASSETS, IMWUT, or TOCHI before any drafting starts.

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# CHI Topic Selection

CHI accepts almost every topic that touches people and computing, so "is this in
scope?" is rarely the real question. The decisions that actually shape the outcome
are: *which contribution type is this paper*, and *which subcommittee should read it*.
Both are declared at submission time in PCS, and both are strategy, not paperwork —
CHI 2026 rejected roughly three quarters of 6,730 completed submissions, and a large
share of early rejections trace to papers pitched at the wrong reviewer community
inside CHI itself.

## Start with the human, not the system

Ask: **who changes what they do because this paper exists?** A designer picks a
different pattern, a researcher runs a study differently, a developer builds an
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