Templates
Paper format
This template should be used to prepare TEI 2020 Papers and Graduate Student Consortium submissions.
Authors can use the new ACM SIGCHI Proceedings Format for their submission (including the camera-ready version). There are three (3) options available:
- Microsoft Word template – Download and use the Interim template (see also the preview PDF) along with the ACM fonts. This file will not change between the submission and camera ready, and it includes instructions on how to use the template. Authors are not required to use the macros and mark-up features for the submission. Make sure to install the ACM fonts and verify that your submission is using the correct fonts (e.g., Linux Biolinum for body text).
- LaTeX template – Download the LaTeX ZIP file, and use the sample-sigchi.tex and samplebody-conf.tex files. See also the ACM user guide for using LaTeX. Ahead of CHI 2019, the community has put together a set of tips and guidelines on typesetting your paper using LaTeX, which can be found here.
- Overleaf project – For online collaborative writing, authors can create an Overleaf project using this template.
Extended Abstracts format
Please use this template to prepare your submissions for the Arts track, the Student Design Challenge, Works in Progress, Studios, and Workshops.
Authors can use the new ACM SIGCHI Extended Abstracts Format for their submission (including the camera-ready version). There are three (3) options available:
- Microsoft Word template – Download and use the Interim Extended Abstracts template along with the ACM fonts. This file will not change between the submission and camera ready, and it includes instructions on how to use the template. Authors are not required to use the macros and mark-up features for the submission. Make sure to install the ACM fonts and verify that your submission is using the correct fonts (e.g., Linux Biolinum for body text).
- LaTeX template – Download the LaTeX ZIP file, and use the sample-sigchi-a.tex file. See also the ACM user guide for using LaTeX. Ahead of CHI 2019, the community has put together a set of tips and guidelines on typesetting your paper using LaTeX, which can be found here.
- Overleaf project – For online collaborative writing, authors can create a project using this Overleaf template.
Pictorials format
Please use the Adobe InDesign template below to prepare your submissions for Pictorials, which aims for an annotated visual composition. If you do not have access to InDesign, please use the current ACM Extended Abstract template (see above). Refer to the Pictorials guidelines for additional information.
Instructions for camera-ready submissions
ACM copyrights and author policies
After your paper gets accepted, the lead author will receive instructions from rightsreview@acm.org on the email address that is associated with the paper. Read through the ACM copyright and permissions policy to make yourself aware of any conflicts, expectations, releases, and 3rd party material information that will be needed to include certain figures, images, or other material in your submission.
- The ACM eform assigned to your paper should be completed within 48-72 hours after receipt.
- The title and authors’ names need to be the same on the PDF file as on the submission page and ACM eform.
- Please see the confirmation message from rightsreview@acm.org upon the completion of the assigned ACM eform for the text to include on the bottom/left of the first page of your camera-ready submission.
Accessibility
Authors are strongly encouraged to work on improving the accessibility of their submissions, using recommendations found in the CHI 2019 Guide to an Accessible Submission.
Steps to make a document accessible include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Making sure all visual material has alternative text attached in case images cannot be rendered or seen by a reader.
- Give the document a title and description in its metadata.
- Export a tagged PDF document to ensure the document structure is encapsulated in the file, easing navigation through the document. You may have to add some tags to elements yourself.
- Embed fonts into the PDF file to ensure readers will be able to see the document as intended by its authors.
Creating the PDF file
Your final submission should not contain any footer, page numbering, or header string information at the top or bottom of each page. All submissions will be paginated in a determined order by the chairs and page numbers are added to each PDF during the compiling, indexing, and pagination process.
- Because the proceedings will be distributed digitally, colour images are allowed.
- Make sure that your images are at least 300 or 600 dpi for quality reproduction, and preferably saved as TIF (EPS) instead of JPG (JPEG) images.
- Rules used in your graphs, tables or charts must be at least 0.5+ pt. and black for quality reproduction.
- If your figure uses custom or any non-standard font, the characters may appear differently when printed in the proceedings. Remember to check your figure creation to ensure that all fonts are embedded or included in the figure correctly.
- If a figure or image is assembled from multiple images, the images must be embedded, layers flattened or grouped together properly in the file, not lined. Transparencies need to be flattened.
Finally, when you create your PDF from LaTeX or Microsoft Word, it should be an optimized PDF, quality of 600 dpi or more, and have embedded fonts. The page size must be US letter page size (8.5 x 11 inches). When your paper is ready, please check the PDF file for font embedding, formatting issues, bad column breaks, and all of the above-mentioned requirements.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact the Publications Chair.