conference

CHI PLAY 2026 — Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play

York, United Kingdom

Nov 2, 2026 – Nov 5, 2026

ACM SIGCHI's interdisciplinary conference on play, games and human-computer interaction. A recurring venue for research on virtual characters, NPC believability and player–agent interaction, which is where much of the practical evidence on conversational game characters is published.