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This year’s conference theme is “Transhumanism: Improving human condition through technology” which aims to highlight emerging technologies in HCI that focus on 

• Understanding humans 

• Enabling humans

• Augmenting humans

• Replacing humans 

• Being humans 

• Solutions that address various societal challenges, focusing on the social impact of HCI interventions in diverse contexts

• User studies that engage qualitative or quantitative research methods and/or offer critical perspectives on technology design, deployment, and/or use.

• Engineering interactive systems design, ubiquitous computing (including wearables), social software, ICT for development (ICTD), and computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW).

• Innovative user interfaces for complex interaction contexts or challenging applications. Examples include managing large, complex information sets, usable privacy and security, multi-user interaction, crowdsourcing, automotive user experiences and in-vehicle interactions (devices and interface automation, instrumentation evaluation, interactive systems, benchmarking driver performance, and behaviour), or techniques that span devices distributed in time and space.

• Breakthrough user experiences leveraging techniques such as machine learning, computer vision, computer graphics, speech processing, networking, or human perception and cognition.

• Innovative software architectures, design tools, toolkits, programming systems, and development environments that support the development and use of the above technologies in user interfaces. 

Format: All submissions need to follow ACM single column format. Please ensure that you use the correct template; a single-column format must be used for the reviewing phase. Use of different templates or formats may result in desk rejection. Please find the templates for format here 

• LaTeX OR Overleaf Please note that the default template is set for 2-column and needs to be manually changed to 1-column for initial review using \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart}

• Word - Please note that the Microsoft Word Template contains invisible meta-tags related to the paper format and structure. While writing the paper authors are requested to add their content without altering any format and structure of the template.

Paper Length: Contributions can be 6-12 pages excluding references. Longer papers without a proportional contribution are more likely to be rejected.

Originality: Your submission must be original; it cannot be published or under concurrent review elsewhere. If you make multiple submissions to India HCI 2025 Papers, they must be distinct from each other. 

Anonymity: Your submission must be anonymized; please ensure that your submission conforms to the Anonymization Policy. Papers that violate the anonymization policy, including within the supplemental materials or external links to datasets, code repositories, etc., will be desk rejected.

Videos: Videos accompanying submissions can be submitted through the India HCI Microsoft CMT as supplementary material (max 100 MB in size). Although papers must stand on their own, submitted videos will be available to reviewers as supporting material. Authors should note that no specific guidelines are given for developing a video. Videos are viewed only as supporting material, and authors of accepted papers will have the opportunity to prepare a more polished final video presentation for inclusion in the proceedings and as supplemental material in the ACM Digital Library. Authors should note that videos too need to maintain anonymity for the review process. Authors are free to update the video once their submission is accepted, if they wish to disclose themselves in the videos.

When submitting your video for review, please encode your video in a format that works across as many platforms as possible without the installation of additional codecs. Please note that the total aggregate size for a submission must not exceed 100 MBytes (including all documents and additional material).

Reviewing process: Each paper will be subjected to rigorous review by two Associate Chairs (from the program committee) and two external reviewers (experts in the area that are not on the committee). Contact authors will be sent the initial reviews for their papers by August 1. Authors will have an opportunity to submit a 500-word rebuttal to answer questions or clarify misunderstandings of reviewers by August 11. The final decision for accepting or rejecting a paper will be done in a PC meeting, after which the authors will be notified of the decisions.

All acceptances will be conditional pending changes that the papers committee may suggest or require for the final camera-ready draft of the paper. The primary author of each accepted paper will receive detailed instructions on how to submit a final, publication-ready version of the paper. The paper will not be formally accepted to India HCI until authors revise it and submit a final draft for approval by the programme committee. Some submissions may be asked to undergo a more intense shepherding process in order to bring them to the standard required for India HCI. The deadline for submitting the “camera ready” version after all changes will be September 10. Additionally, at least one author of each paper needs to register for the conference by this date.

• Aakash Johry, IIT Delhi

• Abhishek Shrivastava, IIT Guwahati 

• Anirudha Joshi, IIT Bombay

• Ayushi Tandon, Trinity Business School, Trinity College Dublin

• Devanuj Balkrishan, JK Lakshmipat University, Jaipur

• Dipanjan Chakraborty, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad

• Gautami Tripathi, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi

• Girish Dalvi, IIT Bombay

• Jyoti Kumar, IIT Delhi

• Khyati Priya, IIT Bombay

• Malay Dhamelia, IIT Bombay

• Mamata Rao, NID, Ahmedabad

• Manjiri Joshi, Swansea University, UK

• Manohar Swaminathan, Microsoft Research, Bangalore

• Naveen Bagalkot, Srishti Manipal Institute, Bangalore

• Pallavi Rao, IIT Bombay

• Pradipta Biswas, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore

• Pranjal Borah, IIT Jodhpur

• Pratiti Sarkar, Paytm, New Delhi

• Pushpendra Singh, IIIT Delhi

• Ravi Mahamuni, TCS Research, Pune

• Sandeep Athavale, TCS Research, Pune

• Saurabh Tewari, IIT Delhi

• Sayan Sarcar, Birmingham City University, UK

• Seema Krishnakumar, IIT Hyderabad

• Shrikant Ekbote, MIT Institute of Design, Pune

• Siddharth Gulati, University of Manchester, UK

• Wricha Mishra, MIT ADT University, Pune

• Anmol Srivastava, IIIT Delhi, New Delhi 

• Pragma Kar, IIIT Delhi, New Delhi 

• Richa Gupta, IIIT Delhi, New Delhi 

• Sandesh Sanjeev Phalke, IIIT Dharwad, Dharwad

• Anusmita Das, IIT Hyderabad, Hyderabad