CHIWORK 2026 introduces its fourth symposium featuring a dedicated student consortium track. We extend a warm invitation to undergraduate (e.g., bachelor’s), postgraduate (e.g., master’s), and PhD students who are researching the evolving landscape of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and its role in shaping the future of work. This event presents a valuable opportunity to connect with fellow students who share your research focus, engage in discussions about your work and ideas, and receive valuable feedback and insights from experienced researchers. As student consortium co-chairs, we are looking forward to meeting you and hearing about your research ideas and progress.
When and where?
The student consortium will be an in-person (physical) event, part of the CHIWORK 2026 conference. It will take place in Linz, Austria on Monday, June 22, 2026 (the day before the main conference).
What will we achieve together?
The Student Consortium has the following objectives:
- Provide a setting where students can present their work and meet other students,
- Provide feedback on students’ current research and guidance on future research directions,
- Offer each student comments and fresh perspectives on their work from researchers and students outside their own institution,
- Promote the development of a supportive community of scholars and a spirit of collaborative research, and
- Contribute to the CHIWORK conference goals through interaction with other researchers and conference events.
Before the conference. Accepted submissions will be shared among all student consortium participants before the conference. This will aid the ability to give feedback to others on the day.
At the conference. Accepted participants will need to register for the conference. They will be invited to briefly present their research to others at a dedicated student consortium session on Monday, June 22, 2026. A comprehensive schedule will be shared with attendees as the symposium date approaches. The schedule will be focused on making the most of being together, for discussing, for learning, for receiving feedback, and for socializing.
Depending on space availability, student consortium participants could be given an opportunity to present themselves to the wider CHIWORK participants through a poster presentation or a short pitch. The details will be communicated at a later time.
Important dates
Submissions are open from February 23rd, 2026with the following timeline (All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Navigate to the time.is website if you are not sure):
- May 1, 2026: Application deadline. This is the last moment at which you can submit your application.
- Notification to applicants: Notification will be done on a rolling basis, with the latest notification sent out on May 15, 2026.
- June 22, 2026 : Student consortium at CHIWORK 2026, Linz, Austria (on-site only!).
Please note that taking part in this consortium should not prevent you from participating in other student consortia at other conferences. Similarly, if you took part in another consortium that should not limit you from applying to the CHIWORK SC.
How do I take part?
To take part, please submit through the EasyChair link, requiring the following documents (combined to a single PDF):
- A research description(6 pages max., excluding references) using the ACM Master Article Submission Template (single column), containing details about (1) what is your research about? (2) what have you done so far? (3) what is coming up next, and (4) what are your future plans (after graduation)? In addition, please provide the following information:
- Connection to CHIWORK. CHIWORK is about the connection between digital technologies and people’s work. What aspect of this connection are you interested in? Why?
- Your objective: What do you want to learn or get out of the student consortium? (for example: get to meet peers, get answers to a specific research or career question)
- Information of one referent: If the consortium has many applicants and we need more information to select, we might contact someone who knows you. Therefore, we ask for information on a referent.
- Other information: we ask whether you need a formal invitation to aid with a visa application and whether you have any other questions for us or information that you want to share with us.
- A CV (Curriculum Vitae) of at most 2 pages as a PDF file.
- The CV should highlight at a minimum your education and relevant (research) work experience, as well as reasons why you want to apply.
- It should also include brief details about who you are, what institution and study program you are enrolled in, who your advisor(s) is/are, your current stage of study, including year (e.g., “second-year PhD candidate”, “third-year bachelor student”).
If you are a Bachelor or a Master student, please provide a shorter research interest statement (2 pages max., excluding references) using the aforementioned template. Please indicate (1) what you are broadly interested in in research, (2) what you have done so far to develop more in that area (for example: what courses or what type of research project?), (3) what your plans for the future are (after graduation).
Please note that the submissions should not be anonymized. Students must be the only authors of the submission, meaning advisors or collaborators cannot be listed as co-authors.
Selection process
The selection process is juried and carried out by the consortium chairs. The applications are reviewed based on the relevance for the CHIWORK community, with diversity and inclusion criteria in mind. Applications will be evaluated on a rolling basis, with an early submission deadline for those that require early confirmation.
The submissions are non-archival. This means that the submission will not be added to the proceedings of the conference. The authors are, however, free to publish the work on arXiv or similar preprint servers (after the conference).
Who is running this consortium?
The student consortium co-chairs are responsible for selecting participants and developing and facilitating the program of the day. They will participate in the sessions and will be one of your sources of feedback on the day.
Andreas Riener, Techniche Hochschule Ingolstadt, Germany
Himanshu Verma, TU Delft, The Netherlands
You can contact the co-chairs at: [email protected]
Who is involved on the day?
On the day, participants can get feedback from these expert mentors:
To be announced closer to the date