Call for Papers

The International BCS Human-Computer Interaction Conference is a vibrant and established multidisciplinary HCI conference in its 35th year. The July 2022 conference will be hosted by Keele University – a beautiful rural campus university with woods and lakes surrounding the Keele Hall manor house. Centrally located in the UK, near Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, Keele lies between Birmingham and Manchester.

“Towards a Human-Centred Digital Society” is our ambitious 2022 conference theme. We hope you can join us for full schedule of presentations, keynotes, interaction gallery, doctoral consortium, workshops and a Keele Hall BBQ!

The conference is a physical event that includes limited virtual and remote elements (i.e., not a virtual conference experience). Please see more details in About the Conference.

• All accepted papers will be published via ScienceOpen in the eWiC conference proceedings (ISSN 1477-9358).
• Please see Submission Guidelines for templates and author guidance, and the submission topics outlined below.

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Proposals for Workshops:

Workshops and tutorial/masterclass proposals deadline: 28th January 2022.

If you would like to propose a workshop or a tutorial or masterclass session then please email a proposed title and a short outline description to the conference email: bcshci2022@gmail.com. Workshops or tutorial/masterclasses can be full-day or part-day presentation or activity events. (Proposals for virtual workshops are welcome, but these would ideally be half-day rather than full-day events). All proposals should identify a focused, complementary, HCI theme or activity. For example, past events have included workshops on “Qualitative Data Research in HCI” and “Affective Computing in HCI” and a masterclass on “Chatbot Design and Development”. Proposals from any HCI theme are very welcome.

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• LATE-BREAKING: Late-breaking submissions of 4-6 pages are invited for the conference and 2-6 pages for the Interactions Gallery. Please see deadlines in the Call for Papers and template guidance in the Submission Guidelines. Late-breaking conference papers may include works in progress and position papers. Accepted papers will feature as oral presentation at the conference.
• INTERACTIONS GALLERY: We are also inviting Interaction Gallery exhibits and accompanying papers in the late-breaking call. Please see the Interactions Gallery page, the Interactions Gallery Call and the Submission Guidelines for templates and guidance.
• DOCTORIAL CONSORTIUM: There will be a full-day Doctoral Consortium for researchers on 11th July 2022. Please see details Doctoral Consortium guidance.
• Extended versions of BEST PAPERS will be invited for publication in a special issue of the Oxford University Press Interacting with Computers Journal, an official publication of the BCS, The Charted Institute for IT and the Interaction Specialist Group.

The conference accepts submissions related to, but not necessarily limited to, the following topics: