Authors: Daniel Vogel & Luigina Ciolfi, CHI 2025 Awards Chairs
The CHI 2025 papers program will feature 50 Best Paper Award winners and 201 Honorable Mentions. The total number of awards is 5% of all 5,014 completed submissions, with 1% reserved for Best Paper Awards.
The process began with the formation of an Awards Committee shortly after the PC meeting in January 2025. Two volunteer ACs from each Subcommittee (as split in A and B if applicable) were sought to join the Awards Committee.
The Awards Chairs received a list of all accepted papers, including: award nominations from ACs who reviewed the paper; Originality, Quality, and Significance scores for round 1 and round 2; and Decision Recommendations for round 1 and round 2. Within each Subcommittee, the papers were sorted using those criteria in that order.
Each Subcommittee was allocated a target number of Best Paper Awards and Honorable Mention Awards proportional to the number of papers handled by that Subcommittee during the review process. Shortlists were generated for each Subcommittee such that they included all papers nominated by ACs who reviewed the paper and such that the number of papers was at least 150% of the target number of awards.
The Awards ACs in each Subcommittee were tasked to review their shortlist and recommend papers for Best Paper, Honorable Mention, or a “Possible Best Paper”. They had access to the data described above in addition to all reviews from round 1 and round 2 and the paper PDF from round 2. They were instructed to respect the target number of awards allocated to their Subcommittee when making recommendations. Awards ACs could work independently or jointly to generate these recommendations. In the case of a conflict of interest with one or more of the shortlisted papers, only Awards ACs who were not conflicted submitted recommendations for those papers.
Once all Subcommittee rankings were completed, the Awards Chairs reviewed them. All recommendations that both Awards ACs agreed on were confirmed within the number of awards allocated to the Subcommittee. When the Awards ACs disagreed or when they had conflicts of interest, the Awards Chairs made a decision considering each Awards AC’s separate recommendations and their provided comments, as well as all the shortlist data and order. A final list of papers with a “Possible Best Paper” recommendation were awarded either a Best Paper or Honourable Mention when ranked across all Subcommittees using the same sort order as the shortlists.
The result is 251 awards that represent exceptional work throughout all CHI Subcommittees.
The full list of Best Papers and Honorable Mentions can be found at: https://programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/awards/
Congratulations to all winning Authors!
