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UIST 2026

November 2–5, 2026 · Detroit, MI USA · Renaissance Center

Announcements

  • UIST 2026 Papers: Pre-Rebuttal Review Summary There was a 33% increase in UIST paper submissions. The overall mean score is 2.46 and the median is 2.5. Papers with an overall score of 3.0 or higher are in the top 23% of submissions.
    June 2026

    There was a 33% increase in UIST paper submissions. The overall mean score is 2.46 and the median is 2.5. Papers with an overall score of 3.0 or higher are in the top 23% of submissions.

    This is a summary of pre-rebuttal reviews and scores for the papers track of UIST 2026.

    The UIST 2026 papers track received a record number of submissions this year: 1,259 complete submissions, a 33% increase from UIST 2025. 84 (6.7%) of these papers were rejected prior to full reviews as they were determined to meet "Desk Reject" criteria (27 papers) or "Assisted Desk Reject" criteria (57 papers) (see the CFP for the criteria).

    In total, 1,175 papers received 4 reviews: two from committee members (ACs) and two from external reviewers. Each reviewer assigned the paper a score from 1.0 (lowest) to 5.0 (highest). The mean of these scores is called the "Overall Score". For the purpose of analysis, all papers that were Desk Rejects or Assisted Desk Rejects were assigned an Overall Score of 1.0.

    The plot below shows the Overall Score across all complete submissions.

    Histogram of overall scores across complete submissions. Median score is 2.5 and score near a 23 percent acceptance rate is 3.0.
    Fig 1. A histogram of Overall Scores for all paper submissions.

    The mean of Overall Scores across all complete submissions is currently 2.46 (SD = 0.66) and the median is 2.5. If your paper has an Overall Score of 3.0 or higher, your paper is in the top 23.03% of complete submissions, close to the UIST 2025 acceptance rate of 22.22%. If your paper has an Overall Score of 3.5 or above, your paper is in the top 7.86% of submissions.

    Authors should avoid interpreting these statistics as acceptance thresholds or acceptance probabilities, as the Overall Scores are not used directly to determine acceptance or rejection decisions. Instead, acceptance and rejection recommendations are made by Program Committee members considering the content of the submission and rebuttal (if provided), the content of the reviews, discussion among the reviewers, and discussion among Program Committee members at the PC meeting. The PC meeting this year will be held in person for the first time since 2019, in three different locations (Seoul, Ann Arbor, and Copenhagen).

    Please see the review announcement email for guidance on deciding whether to prepare a rebuttal, and see the UIST 2026 author guide for more information on the review process.

    We wish you the best in preparing your rebuttal and the next phase of the review process.

  • Student Innovation Contest: Call for Proposals The UIST 2026 Student Innovation Contest is now open for proposals! In partnership with EmotiBit, selected student teams will receive hardware kits to push the boundaries of prototyping with biosignals. Proposals are due June 15, 2026.
    May 2026

    The UIST 2026 Student Innovation Contest is now open for proposals! In partnership with EmotiBit, selected student teams will receive hardware kits to push the boundaries of prototyping with biosignals. Proposals are due June 15, 2026.

    The UIST Student Innovation Contest (SIC) invites student teams to create compelling interactive systems using novel hardware and software kits. This year, UIST SIC is partnering with EmotiBit to provide selected teams with biosignal sensing kits. Whether in health and wellness, retail, sports, art and music, entertainment, education, or entirely new domains—the possibilities are wide open!

    Up to 10 teams will be selected and will showcase their final demos in person at UIST 2026 in Detroit, competing for Jury Awards and the People's Choice Award. All teams get to keep the hardware kits.

    Key dates:

    • Proposal deadline: June 15, 2026
    • Acceptance notification: June 22, 2026
    • Final demo: In-person at UIST 2026, November 2–5, 2026

    See the full Call for Participation for eligibility, submission format, and more details. Join the UIST SIC and turn your ideas into reality!

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The ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST) is the premier forum for innovations in human-computer interfaces. Sponsored by ACM SIGCHI and SIGGRAPH, UIST brings together people from diverse areas including graphical & web user interfaces, tangible & ubiquitous computing, virtual & augmented reality, multimedia, new input & output devices, human-centered AI, and CSCW.

The intimate size and intensive program make UIST an ideal opportunity to exchange research results and ideas.

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