1st CFP: ACM HCOMP 2026 - The 2026 ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment

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Call for Participation
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1st CFP: ACM HCOMP 2026
Location: 
Near Washington DC Area
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Sunday, 27 September 2026 to Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Country: 
USA
Contact: 
Ting-Hao 'Kenneth' Huang
Kurt Luther
Submission Deadline: 
Monday, 1 June 2026

Call for Participation: ACM HCOMP 2026

The 2026 ACM Conference on Human-AI Complementarity and Alignment
September 27–30, 2026 | Washington, D.C. Area

ACM HCOMP 2026 is the premier venue for research on how human and artificial intelligence can work together as complementary partners. This year’s conference marks a significant evolution: building on a decade of leadership in human computation and crowdsourcing as an AAAI series, HCOMP has transitioned to the ACM and established human-AI complementarity and alignment as its permanent core theme. This broader perspective addresses the full lifecycle of AI systems--from how they are built and evaluated to how they are governed and used in real-world practice.

HCOMP 2026 is co-located with ACM Collective Intelligence (CI) 2026 at the Virginia Tech Institute for Advanced Computing, fostering an interdisciplinary community across NLP, HCI, AI, social computing, economics, and ethics.

Example Research Topics for HCOMP

  • Human-AI Complementarity: Collaboration, coordination, and hybrid workflows.
  • Human-Centered Alignment: Scalable oversight, trust, and repairing misalignment.
  • Human Contributions to AI: Crowdsourcing, RLHF, and responsible data practices.

Submission Tracks

  • Full Papers: Archival research (max 6,000 words) published in the ACM Digital Library.
  • Talks: Non-archival presentations (max 1,500 words) for sharing work-in-progress or results intended for future journal publication.

Important Dates (AoE)

  • June 1, 2026: Abstracts Due
  • June 8, 2026: Papers Due
  • July 31, 2026: Notifications
  • August 13, 2026: Camera ready due
  • September 27–30, 2026: Conference Dates

Full details available at: https://www.humancomputation.com/2026/submit.html