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CHI 2025’s late-breaking work and demos track is a venue for presenting early results, research prototypes, industry showcases, and systems that pursue one or more innovative ideas in the conference’s interest areas, and that may be suitable for demonstrating to an audience of delegates. Accepted late-breaking submissions will be presented on-site in a poster session or in a demonstration booth (depending on the track) alongside other work of similar nature.
Late-Breaking Abstracts recognize novel, critically important research developments that occur during the lead-up to the International Congress. They should report data that became available for public dissemination after the deadline for the regular abstract submission, and must be of critical importance to the clinical/scientific community or to the public. In addition, the study and results reported must be novel (not simply an extension of previously published or presented work) or definitive in confirming or refuting other critically important work.
The selection process for late-breaking submissions is very selective, and many high quality studies are rejected on the basis of these criteria. Late-breaking submissions should not be a revision of an abstract submitted before the regular deadline, and they must include a detailed explanation of why the experiment could not be completed before the regular abstract submission deadline.