In television, news programs often interrupt regular programming with “cut-ins” and “alert crawls” to announce breaking stories. In early television news, such breaks were limited to stories deemed to be of critical importance (e.g., assassinations, weather emergencies, and so on). Today, such interruptions are routine, especially on 24-hour news networks.
The CHI 2025 late-breaking abstracts program is designed to recognize novel, critically important research developments that occurred in the lead-up to the International Congress and become available for dissemination after the deadline for regular abstract submission. Accepted Late-Breaking Abstracts are invited to present their work in an oral platform presentation at the International Congress.
Submissions are reviewed by a committee to ensure that accepted works are both novel and relevant to the CHI audience. Accepted late-breaking papers will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Authors will have the option to include an appendix with additional material, but this is optional. See this separate page for more details on the LBW format. All LBWs are semi-archival and may be resubmitted to other peer-reviewed venues in the future.