Submission deadline: 14 Dec 2026 (AoE)
The Workshop Track invites proposals for interactive sessions that open up new questions, methods, collaborations, and resources for HCI, interaction design, and AI in Africa. Workshops should be spaces for discussion, experimentation, hands-on activity, and co-creation. Presentations may form part of a session, but should not be its main activity.
We welcome organisers from across research, teaching, design practice, industry, government, civil society, and community organisations, and we especially welcome teams that bring several of these together.
Proposals should engage meaningfully with African scholarship, communities, knowledge systems, design traditions, languages, values, and locally articulated needs. Locating a workshop in Africa is not sufficient on its own: the proposal should show how African contexts and perspectives shape its questions, methods, activities, or outcomes.
We welcome proposals on any topic that contributes to the conference theme and to the African HCI community. Areas of particular interest include:
Please follow this structure.
1. Title and organisers. Workshop title; names, affiliations, and contact details of all organisers; and a short note on each organiser’s relevant expertise.
2. Rationale. The problem, question, or emerging area the workshop addresses; why it is timely; the gap or need in African HCI it responds to; and why AfriCHI is the right venue.
3. Objectives. What the workshop aims to achieve, and what participants will gain by attending.
4. Relevance to the conference theme. How the workshop engages with people, place, and possibilities, and how African contexts, communities, or knowledge systems inform it.
5. Format and methods. The structure and facilitation plan for the session. Formats might include co-design activities, hands-on exercises, small-group discussion, collaborative mapping, design challenges, prototyping, scenario building, world cafés, role-playing, participatory futures exercises, demonstrations, structured debates, or collaborative framework development.
6. Participant engagement. How participants will contribute before and during the workshop, any required submissions or preparatory activities, and how diverse perspectives will be incorporated.
7. Participants and recruitment. The intended participant community; minimum and maximum numbers; and how participants will be recruited. Where relevant, consider participation beyond established academic communities — practitioners, students, policymakers, community organisations, activists, and local knowledge holders.
8. Duration. Half-day or full-day. The Workshop Chairs may suggest a change of duration to fit the programme.
9. Expected outcomes. Tangible or intellectual outputs, such as publications, research agendas, funding proposals, new networks, prototypes, design frameworks, methodological resources, policy recommendations, exhibitions, educational materials, or community-led outputs. We particularly encourage outputs that remain useful to participants and to African HCI communities after the conference.
10. Dissemination and next steps. How outcomes will be documented and shared, and how collaborations or partnerships will be sustained beyond AfriCHI 2027.
Organisers are strongly encouraged to include a positionality statement reflecting on their relationship to the workshop topic and to the communities they engage with. This may cover locations, identities and backgrounds, institutional positions, expertise, existing relationships with communities, and access to resources and decision-making spaces, and what these mean for the workshop’s activities and outcomes. The purpose is reflexivity, transparency, and responsible collaboration, not self-criticism.
Each proposal should include a separate 250-word participation call, which we will publish on the AfriCHI website if the workshop is accepted. It should cover the goals and topic of the workshop, who should participate, what participants need to submit (length, format, and process, where applicable), the workshop information page, and any equipment or set-up required. A placeholder page is fine at submission and can be updated after acceptance.
Proposals are reviewed by the Workshop Chairs. We assess:
The Chairs will curate a programme that reflects the range of interests across the African HCI community. Where appropriate, we may invite organisers to revise a proposal or to merge with a related workshop.
All accepted workshops run in person at the University of Lagos. Fully online and hybrid workshops are not permitted. At least one organiser must register for and attend AfriCHI 2027 to facilitate the session.
Accepted organisers will receive instructions for the camera-ready version, which must meet ACM publication requirements. Accepted proposals are published in the AfriCHI 2027 proceedings through the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series and made available in the ACM Digital Library.
| Milestone | Date (AoE) |
| Workshops submission deadline | 14 Dec 2026 |
| Notification to authors | 15 Jan 2027 |
| Camera-ready deadline | 15 Apr 2027 |
| AfriCHI 2027 conference | 28 Jun – 2 Jul 2027 |
Contact: workshops@africhi.africa
