CHI Author Response

CHI does not run a short rebuttal where you argue in a text box. An invited paper gets roughly five weeks to deliver two artifacts: a genuinely revised manuscript with changes visibly tracked, and a response letter mapping every reviewer concern to what changed. For CHI 2027 the resubmission deadline is December 3, 2026 (posted on chi2027.acm.org, read 2026-07-08). The stakes are real: the posted process warns up to 50% of revised papers may still be rejected; CHI 2026 accepted 65.5% of resubmissions.

The first 48 hours: triage, not writing

Read all reviews twice, write nothing outward, then sort every distinct criticism: