Late-breaking is a news term for an urgent or significant event that occurs in the time period leading up to an important deadline. This event may be of particular importance to a community or to the public at large, and it must be reported in detail. For example, in the days before 24-hour news networks existed, a broadcaster might interrupt regular programming with an alert crawl or cut-in for severe weather events such as tornado warnings, landfalling hurricanes, and other major disasters. Such interruptions were rare, but they became commonplace as the first 24-hour news channels grew in popularity.
CHI 2025’s Late-Breaking Works (LBW) program allows authors to report a high impact research development that was not ready by the general abstract submission deadline. The work should be relevant to the CHI conference’s research areas and present data that was not available until after the normal abstract submission deadline.
This opportunity to report early-stage work is designed to elicit useful feedback and foster discussions among attendees, as well as to encourage collaborations and future developments. Accepted LBWs will be published as CHI Extended Abstracts in the ACM Digital Library. Presenters of LBWs will have the option to give an in-person poster presentation at the conference.
The selection committee for LBWs adheres to strict criteria for selecting high quality research to be included in the LBW program. The following studies are not suitable for LBW presentations: case reports, qualitative surveys, reviews of existing treatments, practice reviews, rating scale validation, small confirmatory or epidemiology studies, and laboratory-based experiments.
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