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The AfriCHI’25 Full Papers Track invites original, unpublished research that advances Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) grounded in African contexts or perspectives,. Authors should consider how their topic is relevant to African people, places, events, processes, phenomena, languages, experiences, meanings, values, livelihoods, or aesthetics in Africa and in line with this year’s theme “Re-centering African Wisdom in HCI”.
To foster a rich and inclusive scholarly community, it is encouraged to review African scholarship and local knowledge and consider citational justice best practices. Highlighting African scholarship will help build upon the rich body of HCI research originating from Africa and integrate African perspectives and knowledge systems. Authors could consider presenting their work as being inspired by African narrative structures, such as storytelling.
Contributions to HCI theory, design, methods, and practices that showcase Africa’s unique advances, potential, and approaches to challenges are welcome. Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
Papers should range between 8000 to 12000 words(excluding references), with a title and a 250-word abstract inclusive. Papers exceeding this length will undergo additional scrutiny and may be desk-rejected if the length does not match the contribution. Papers should be stand-alone and include all the necessary tables, figures, and other relevant information.
Submissions must be anonymized, with no reference to the authors' names or institutions in the manuscript or document properties. However, citing your work in the third person is an acceptable practice.
All submissions must use the official conference template and follow the confernce’s author’s guidelines. While we value the diversity and richness of African languages, we will have to adhere to the ACM publication language, which is English.
All submitted papers will undergo a “Revise and Resubmit” double-blind peer review process. In the first round, the reviewers will recommend a decision of Reject or Revise and Resubmit. The authors of the papers selected to resubmit, will be asked to address reviewer feedback and revise their submissions before submitting them for further evaluation and final decision. All authors must be included in the first submission and no additional authors can be added in the revise-resubmit phased.
Content in a Papers should be significant and original and not contain material that has been previously published unless it has been “significantly” revised. According to the ACM Policies on Pre-Publication Evaluation and Prior Publication and Simultaneous Submissions guidelines, a significant revision contains more than 25% new content (e.g., new insights or results) and markedly amplifies or clarifies the original material. Papers are also assessed on their coverage of literature. We strongly encourage contributions that cite African works, within and beyond HCI/Interaction Design, along with citing the background or related literature typically associated with the topic.
Upon acceptance, a camera-ready submission has to be uploaded to the conference submission system following the ACM camera-ready standards. At least one author of each accepted paper must register and present at the conference. Accepted papers may be published in the ACM Digital Library as part of the conference proceedings. Previous AfriCHI conferences have been published in the ACM DL; the application for AfriCHi 2025 is under review.
AfriCHI’25 provides a mentorship program for early career researchers, students, and practitioners unfamiliar with academic writing. Experts will offer support in preparing submissions. For assistance, email the mentorship chairs at mentorshipsupport@africhi2025.org.
