CHI PLAY

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CHI PLAY submitters! Just a heads up that submissions will be closing at AoE today. Please make sure to get all your materials uploaded to PCS!

Full paper submissions for CHI PLAY 2026 are now open via PCS!

Submit at: https://new.precisionconference.com/submissions
(Select SIGCHI ➡️ CHI PLAY 2026)

Deadline: February 18, 2026 (AoE)
Conference: York, UK, Nov 2-5, 2026

We're looking forward to your submissions!

#chiplay2026 #chiplay #sigchi

RE: @chiplay@hci.social

Just a reminder that the volunteer form for #chiplay2026 Associate Chair is closing tomorrow! Please consider filling out the form if you're interested in being an AC!

✨ Want to get involved with #chiplay2026?

We are inviting applications for Associate Chair (AC) volunteers to support the review process.

📝 Apply here until 22nd January, 2026: https://forms.gle/D3axemPJFE5BL5Mk9

📣 Hot off the press! We have published the Call for Papers for CHI PLAY 2026!

CHI PLAY 2026 will take place from November 2nd to 5th in York, United Kingdom.

The deadline for full paper submissions is February 18, 2026 (23:59 AoE). https://chiplay.acm.org/2026/full-papers/

Coming Fall 2026: You saw the panel, now mark your calendars! Plan to join The Center for Transformational Play for Meaningful Play 2026, hosted by Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh in partnership with Michigan State University. Meaningful Play brings together academics, game designers, and educators to explore how games and play can change people’s lives. If you make or study games - this is the conference for you! Learn more 👉 tinyurl.com/3d6ks8mt

After CHI PLAY is before CHI PLAY: We are happy to announce that #chiplay2026 will be held in York, England!
Learn More: chiplay.acm.org/2026/
If you want to get a head start on CHIPLAY 2026, check out the trailer video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHd3uroX2jI

Thank you to all who participated in CHI PLAY 2025! Your contributions are shaping the future of player-computer interaction. Stay turned for details dropping this week about next year’s event! 🧑‍💻💾⛹️

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#chiplay #chiplay2025

CHI PLAY offers the chance to connect with colleagues on a wide range of playful topics. Work In Progress (WIP) contributions provide a unique opportunity for authors to present reports on original yet incomplete work that seeks to advance our current knowledge in games and play through innovative or thought-provoking ideas. Great work everyone who presented this week!

See the full conference schedule here 👉 https://tinyurl.com/y27zs65w
#chiplay2025

CHI PLAY 2025 is underway! For registration, workshop, and other location and schedule information, visit: https://tinyurl.com/y27zs65w

Have a playful week! 🏁🤾🎉

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We're excited to share that the PACM issue containing full papers that will be presented at CHI PLAY 2025 has just gone online 👉 https://dl.acm.org/toc/pacmhci/2025/9/6
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It’s not too late to sign up to be a #CHIPLAY2025 session chair! You can volunteer in one or multiple roles to introduce speakers, host a Q&A, or moderate online discussions.

For the full details and to sign up, visit the CHI PLAY 2025 Session Chair Recruitment Form: 👉 https://tinyurl.com/m3cjz725

🎺Fanfare please for Jesse Schell who will deliver “News from the Future: Videogames from 2026 to 2035” as the exhibition keynote at #chiplay2025

Jesse is the founder and CEO of Schell Games. He is also Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entertainment Technology at Carnegie Mellon University and the author of The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, a former Disney Imagineer, and chair of the IGDA.

Learn more: https://tinyurl.com/yeyruyke

We’re delighted to announce that Katie Salen will deliver “Care(full) Play: Rethinking What Makes Play Meaningful” as the opening keynote address at #chiplay2025.

Katie is a Professor and Vice Chair for Graduate Affairs in the Department of Informatics at the University of California at Irvine, a member of the Connected Learning Lab, and Executive Director and co-founder of Connected Camps.
Learn more: tinyurl.com/bdfs8n43

Attending #chiplay2025? Sign up to be a session chair! You can volunteer in one or multiple roles:

📃 As paper session chair, you will introduce the speakers and host a Q&A panel at the end of the sessions.

⌨️ As online commentary session chair, you will (co-)host an online discussion.

🏗️ As work-in-progress (WIP) session chair, you will facilitate discussion for WIP posters.

For full details and to sign up, visit the CHI PLAY 2025 Session Chair Recruitment Form: https://tinyurl.com/m3cjz725

📢Registration Update! We have extended the deadline for Early Bird registrations until Monday, 15.09. (AoW)!

Find out more about our registration fees and register here: https://chiplay.acm.org/2025/registration/

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📢 Get ready for #chiplay2025!

You can now register for online and on-site attendance.

You still have time until September 10th to register with our discounted Early Bird fee!

Find out more about our registration fees and register here: https://chiplay.acm.org/2025/registration/

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📢 📈 The results of the second round of reviews are now online!
We are happy to announce that we accepted 39 papers to be presented at CHI PLAY 2025!
If you want to know more about the meta of the papers accepted for this year, head to https://chiplay.acm.org/2025/2025/07/13/chi-play-full-papers-after-second-round-of-review/

#chiplay #chiplay2025
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📢We have shared the notifications for submitted Full Papers with the corresponding authors!

https://chiplay.acm.org/2025/2025/04/14/paper-review-process-after-first-round-of-reviews/

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