Call for Tutorials - EICS 2026
June 30 – July 3, 2026
Patras, Greece
https://eics.acm.org/2026/
Important Dates (All dates are AoE)
Submission deadline (Tutorials): March 12, 2026
Notification to authors: April 22, 2026
Camera-ready deadline: April 30, 2026
About Tutorials
EICS 2026 invites proposals for tutorials on the engineering of
interactive computing systems. Tutorials are intended to provide a broad
and in-depth overview of a topic beyond a regular paper presentation, to
inform and train participants in new or emerging approaches, or to
expand on techniques, methods, and processes that improve how complex
interactive systems can be built.
Tutorials should be designed for a diverse audience, including PhD
students, experienced practitioners, and specialised researchers. Each
proposal will be evaluated based on its anticipated benefit for
participants, its fit within the overall tutorial program, relevance to
research and practice, timeliness, importance, audience appeal, and the
instructors’ expertise and experience.
EICS aims to stimulate and support the creation of reusable tutorial
materials and to provide a platform for presenters to distribute
instructional content that can be cited and reused by the community.
Depending on circumstances, tutorials may need to be delivered online;
presenters should take this possibility into account when preparing
their proposals.
Tutorial Submissions
Tutorials will be assigned time slots ranging from a minimum of 1 hour
to a maximum of 3 hours. Proposals requesting longer durations should
clearly motivate the need for additional time.
Each tutorial proposal must include:
- A description (maximum two pages, including text and figures) of the
proposed tutorial
- A separate PDF file containing sample material that would be presented
if the tutorial is accepted
- Background information on the presenters
The proposal description should include the following information:
- Title and abstract: A clear title and abstract that allow attendees to
quickly understand the tutorial’s subject
- Aim and objectives: The overall aim of the tutorial and the concrete
learning outcomes for participants, including its relevance to the EICS
community
- Target audience: Intended audience level (basic or advanced) and any
prerequisites
- Basic structure: Intended duration and planned structure (e.g.,
sequence of topics)
- Operational requirements: Any requirements beyond a standard PC
projector (e.g., audio equipment)
- References: Key papers, books, or other materials the tutorial builds
upon
Tutorial submissions will be selected by the Tutorial Chairs, possibly
with additional reviewers. Authors will receive light feedback on their
proposals.
Format and Submission Guidelines
Tutorial submissions must follow the ACM TAPS process and use the
official single-column template. Authors must not use the old
double-column format. Must be submitted via:
https://new.precisionconference.com
Use of Generative AI in Manuscript Preparation
Authors must comply with ACM’s policy on the use of Generative AI in
authoring papers, available at:
https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions
All submissions will be evaluated according to this policy. Papers that
breach these guidelines risk desk rejection.
Citation Guidelines
Authors are kindly requested to ensure that references report the
correct publication format to facilitate citation indexing, particularly
for conferences publishing in journal proceedings such as PACM. Please
avoid informal conference-style citations when a PACM reference is
available.
Contact
For questions regarding tutorial submissions, please contact the
Tutorial Chairs at: tutorials2026(a)eics.acm.org
EICS 2026 Tutorial Chairs
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Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the Call for Contributions for ACM RecSys 2026,
the leading conference on recommender systems, taking place September 28 –
October 2, 2026, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Why submit to ACM RecSys 2026?
ACM RecSys is the premier venue for research across the full spectrum of
recommender systems, from technical advancements to their societal,
economic, and legal impact and human-centered aspects.
Details & submission guidelines can be found here:
https://recsys.acm.org/recsys26/call/
Main Track (handled by the program chairs):
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Long Papers: We welcome high-impact original papers that contribute to
all aspects of recommender systems. The paper length should be commensurate
with the depth of contribution, comprehensiveness of analyses, and thorough
discussion of related work. Each accepted paper will be included in the
conference proceedings and presented at the conference. We expect the
review process to be highly selective.
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Short Papers: This track is intended for contributions that can be
described completely and rigorously within a smaller page limit. These
papers should present focused, self-contained research stories supported by
experimental validations.
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Past, Present, and Future Papers: To mark the twentieth year of the
RecSys Conference, this track encourages papers that consider a broad
perspective on how the field has evolved and the challenges and directions
that lie ahead.
Key Deadlines for Main Track Submission (11:59 pm, AoE):
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Submission Site Open: March 2, 2026
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Paper Abstracts Due: April 14, 2026
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Papers Due: April 21, 2026
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Author Rebuttal Period: June 4–9, 2026
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Paper Notifications: July 9, 2026
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Camera-Ready Due: July 27, 2026
Other Tracks and Deadlines (handled by their respective chairs, see the full
CFP <https://recsys.acm.org/recsys26/call/>):
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Workshop Proposals: March 10, 2026
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Tutorial Proposals: April 28, 2026
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Reproducibility and Replicability Papers: May 5, 2026 (abstracts April
28, 2026)
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Resource Papers: May 5, 2026 (abstracts April 28, 2026)
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Industry Papers: May 21, 2025
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Doctoral Symposium: June 9, 2026
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Research and Practice Notes: July 15, 2026
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Demos: July 15, 2026
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RecSys Challenge 2026: TBD
All accepted papers in the main track will be peer-reviewed, published in
the ACM Digital Library, and presented in person at RecSys 2026.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
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Foundations of recommender systems
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Human-centered and interactive recommendation
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2nd Call for Submissions for NordiCHI 2026 in Vaasa, Finland, October 3-7,
2026
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We are delighted to share the 2nd Call for Submissions for NordiCHI 2026!
Calls for research papers, critiques, panels, industry experience papers,
arts-based approaches, workshop proposals, tutorials, demos, late-breaking
work, and doctoral consortium contributions for NordiCHI 2026 are available
at the conference website: <https://nordichi2026.org/>
https://nordichi2026.org/
Proceedings of the conference will be published in the ACM Digital Library
within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS).
The biannual NordiCHI is one of the key venues for Human-Computer
Interaction (HCI) research in the world, bringing together a global
community of researchers, practitioners, students, and industry experts -
including you! In 2026, NordiCHI will take place in Vaasa, Finland on
October 3-7. The conference is jointly organized by Åbo Akademi University
and University of Vaasa.
Professor Yvonne Rogers, Professor Mattia Thibault, and Senior Designer and
Deputy Professor Pontus Wärnestål will deliver the keynote addresses at the
conference.
The conference theme is Pulse exploring the energy that drives us,
representing the dynamic highs and calm lows of life, keeping us thriving.
Vaasa is known for both its vibrant energy industry as the Nordic energy
cluster and the tranquility of its surrounding nature and UNESCO World
Heritage site. Our ambition is for the conference to energize its
participants through inspiring encounters and opportunities to truly feel
the pulse of the HCI field.
Submission deadlines (all AoE):
* April 16, 2026: Research Paper abstracts and metadata
* April 23, 2026: Research Papers, Critiques, Panels, Arts-Based
Approaches, Industry Experience
* May 7, 2026: Workshops, Tutorials
* May 18, 2026: Late-Breaking Work, Demos, Doctoral Consortium
Join us in Vaasa for an inspiring NordiCHI 2026!
Warm regards,
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NordiCHI 2026
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*** Second Call for Research Papers (2nd Round) ***
International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines,
and Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026)
29 September - 2 October 2026, 5* St. Raphael Resort and Marina
Limassol, Cyprus
https://conf.researchr.org/home/variability-2026
The International Conference on Software and Systems Reuse, Product Lines, and
Configuration (VARIABILITY 2026) invites high-quality contributions from researchers and
practitioners in software engineering, systems engineering, and related disciplines
focussing on a broad spectrum of methods, concepts, and tools for variability.
VARIABILITY aims to be the premier forum for the exchange of ideas, experiences, and
results in all aspects of software and systems variability management, reuse, software
configuration, and customization.
As software and systems become increasingly configurable, reusable, and adaptable,
managing their variability across all lifecycle phases is more critical—and more challenging
—than ever. VARIABILITY 2026 seeks to bring together the diverse communities that
address these challenges from theoretical, technical, and practical perspectives.
VARIABILITY results from a merge of three prominent conferences focussing on software
and systems variability, configuration and reuse: SPLC (the International Systems and
Software Product Line Conference, 29 successful editions), VaMoS (the International
Working Conference on Variability Modelling of Software-Intensive Systems, 19 successful
editions), and ICSR (the International Conference on Systems and Software Reuse, 22
successful editions).
VARIABILITY is by design open as a conference. It welcomes new fields of variability-
intensive research, such as artificial intelligence, hybrid software-hardware systems, etc.
For this first edition of VARIABILITY, we strive to continue the success of the predecessor
conferences ICSR, SPLC, and VaMoS by welcoming high-quality submissions for the
research track in numerous closely related areas, such as systems and software product
lines, systems and software reuse, configurable systems and software, product
configuration, and systems and software variability. We will award the best research paper
and the best artifact paper.
Topics of Interest
We invite contributions on variability management, reuse, and configuration across all
phases of the software and systems lifecycle. The topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
Requirements & Domain Engineering
• Domain analysis and variability modeling
• Decision modeling and support
• Customization and personalization specification
• Requirements variability and traceability
Architecture & Design
• Variability-aware software architectures
• Architecture-centric product line engineering
• Model-driven engineering (MDE)
• Multi-product lines, program families, product lines of product lines, software
ecosystems
Implementation & Code Generation
• Generative programming and code synthesis
• Modularization techniques for reusable code
• Programming languages and frameworks for variability
• Open-source strategies for software reuse
Testing, Verification & Quality Assurance
• Testing and analysis of configurable systems
• Safety and security in variable systems
• Formal Methods for Software Product Lines
• Non-functional properties: quality-aware analysis, quality-driven configuration
• Reuse in testing, verification, and quality assurance
Evolution, Maintenance & Operation
• Refactoring and restructuring of configurable systems
• Reverse engineering, variability mining, and refactoring
• Runtime variability and dynamic (software) product lines
• Maintenance strategies for large-scale reused systems
• Variability in DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
AI and Data-Driven Methods
• Machine learning for variability management
• AI-assisted product configuration
• Data and repository mining from product lines and configuration histories
• Recommendation systems for reuse and customization
Publication of Proceedings
Accepted papers will be published in the VARIABILITY 2026 proceedings by Springer in the
LNCS series.
Submission Guidelines
Paper Types
We invite the following types of submissions:
• Full Papers (up to 18 pages excluding references): Research papers must present
original, unpublished work with validated results through empirical evaluation, formal
analysis, or implementation-based experiments. Submissions must clearly articulate the
problem, its relevance, the proposed contribution, and validation results.
• Short Papers (6 - 8 pages excluding references): Short papers present early-stage
research, novel ideas, or conceptual proposals that are not yet fully developed or
validated but offer promising directions. These papers should articulate the vision,
motivation, and potential impact.
Formatting
Papers must use the Springer LNCS template according to:
https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…
Springer provides author guidelines that should be consulted for further details:
https://resource-preview-cms.springernature.com/springer-cms/rest/v1/conten…
Submission Link
Submissions should be made via Easy Chair, selecting the research track:
https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=variability2026
Paper Originality, Double-Anonymous Policy, Reviewing
All papers must be original and not under review elsewhere. Submissions will be double-
anonymous and reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions will be evaluated based
on their novelty, relevance, rigor, transparency, and presentation. Authors of submissions
to the first deadline might be invited to submit a revision of their papers to the second
deadline, which will be reviewed as a revision.
Revisions
Research-track papers can be submitted to the first or second cycle. In the first cycle,
papers can receive the following decisions: accept, revision, or reject. Revision means that
the reviewers believe that the paper has potential, but that its quality or contribution is not
yet ready for publication. Such papers are offered lightweight shepherding by a community
member, who is not necessarily a PC member or reviewer. Revised papers should be
submitted to the second cycle together with a response letter, explaining how the reviewer
comments were addressed. They are then reviewed by the same PC members. Papers
rejected in the first cycle can be resubmitted in the second cycle, but need to contain an
appendix “Changes to First-Cycle Submission” at the end of the PDF (after references,
regardless of the page limit) that lists the major changes in bullet-point format.
Best Paper Awards
Springer will sponsor the awards for bet papers with an overall amount of €1000.
Journal Special Issue
Selected accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions with at least 30%
additional and original material, to be published in a special issue in a reputable Software
Engineering journal (currently under negotiation).
Important Dates (AoE)
• Paper Submission Deadline (2nd Round): 2 April 2026
• Notification of Acceptance (2nd Round): 1 June 2026
• Camera-Ready Deadline: 15 July 2025
• Author Registration: 15 July 2025
Organisation
General Chairs
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
• Gilles Perrouin, FNRS & University of Namur, Belgium
Research Track Chairs
• Thorsten Berger, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany
• Ina Schaefer, KIT, Germany
Industry Track Chairs
• Shaukat Ali, Simula Research Lab and Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
Journal First Track Chairs
• Mathieu Acher, University Rennes, Inria, CNRS, IRISA, France
• Xhevahire Tërnava, LTCI, Télécom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Doctoral Symposium Track Chairs
• Rick Rabiser, LIT CPS, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
• Iris Reinhartz-Berger, University of Haifa, Israel
Demos and Tools Track Chairs
• Sandra Greiner, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
• Leopoldo Teixeira, Federal University of Pernambuco
Projects Showcase Chairs
• Daniel Struber, Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, Radbound University, Sweden
• Dalila Tamzalit, Nantes Université, France
Hall of Fame Chairs
• Martin Becker, Fraunhofer IESE, Germany
• Goetz Botterweck, Lero - The Irish Software Research Centre and University of Limerick, Ireland
• Natsuko Noda, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan
Workshops Chairs
• Lidia Fuentes, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
• Malte Lochau, University of Siegen, Germany
Tutorials Chairs
• Loek Cleophas, Eindhoven University of Technology and Stellenbosch University, The Netherlands
• Mahsa Varshosaz, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Proceedings Chair
• Sophie Fortz, King's College London, UK
Publicity Chairs
• Wesley Assunção, North Carolina State University, USA
• Kentaro Yoshimura, Hitachi Ltd, Japan
Local Organiser and Finance Chair
• George A. Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Call for Contributions
Future Horizons in Human–AI Interaction: Joint Perspectives from HCI and AI
A workshop held at AVI 2026 - https://sites.google.com/view/fh-hai
Organizers: Elisabeth André (University of Augsburg), Cristina Conati (University of British Columbia), Maristella Matera (Politecnico di Milano), Shelly Levy-Tzedek (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), Micol Spitale (Politecnico di Milano)
Date: 8th June, 2026 or 9th June, 2026 (TBA)
Workshop Duration: Half-day
Submission form for abstracts: https://forms.gle/VxTR1vDR8UcXAYS8A
Recent advances in AI, from generative models to socially interactive agents, present new opportunities and challenges for user interaction, creating a pressing need for joint HCI and AI perspectives on designing human-centered AI systems. This workshop addresses the gap between AI development and human-centered design by bringing together researchers and practitioners from both communities to explore future horizons in human-AI interaction. The goal is to formulate shared guidelines, research directions, and collaborative initiatives that will shape the next generation of interactive AI systems in a human-centered, socially responsible manner.
The primary focus of the Workshop is on dialogue, collaboration, and community building, and we expect a highly interactive format. We therefore solicit the submission of short position papers (in the form of an abstract) to stimulate discussion through early ideas, challenges, case studies, or visionary perspectives.
All accepted contributions will be shared on the workshop website, and insights from the event will be synthesized into collaborative outputs, such as a post-workshop report or white paper.
Topics
We welcome contributions addressing (but not limited to):
* Human-Centered AI & User Experience
* New AI technologies (e.g., LLMs and agentic AI) for interaction design
* Socially Intelligent Agents & Robots
* Explainability & Transparency
* Adaptive & Personalized Interfaces
* Participatory Design for AI
* Multimodal interaction with AI
* Ethical, Inclusive & Responsible AI Interaction
Submission form for abstract submission: https://forms.gle/VxTR1vDR8UcXAYS8A
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Democracy today is not only debated in parliaments and assemblies, but
also continuously
shaped — and sometimes aggravated — by the technologies that mediate our
everyday lives. Social media feeds amplify outrage, recommendation
engines entrench polarisation, and algorithmic infrastructures
concentrate power in the hands of a few global actors. What once seemed
like a promise of digital democracy now too often appears as a machinery
of division and manipulation.
Yet, design opens other possibilities. Across various research fields,
communities and
researchers are experimenting with alternative technologies, including
cooperative social media platforms, deliberation tools for citizens’
assemblies, AI systems that support participation, and infrastructures
for commoning. These are not only technical artefacts but also
democratic experiments, reminding us that technologies can embody values
such as inclusion, accountability, transparency, and collective agency.
This special issue explores democratic technology design, the idea that
technologies can be designed not merely for efficiency or engagement,
but for democracy itself. What would it mean to treat algorithms as
accountable civic actors? To imagine infrastructures as shared commons?
To design platforms that cultivate empathy, dialogue, and care rather
than outrage?
We invite contributions that make such imagination possible: conceptual
frameworks linking political theory with design methods; participatory
and relational practices for developing democratic technologies;
empirical exemplars of counter-models to platform capitalism; and
critical reflections on how design might resist manipulation,
polarisation, and exclusion.Designing for democracy is not only a
technical challenge but also a cultural, social, and political one. It
requires crossing disciplinary boundaries—bringing together HCI,
participatory design, CSCW, design research, STS, philosophy, and
political theory. By consolidating these perspectives, this special
issue aims to chart a growing but still fragmented field, opening a
space for rethinking how technologies can support democratic futures.
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*Topics of Interest*
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We invite a broad range of researchers to address both theoretical and
practical issues around democratic technology design, including
conceptual papers, methodological innovations, empirical case studies,
design exemplars, and critical reflections.
Submissions may address (but are not limited to) the following themes:
• Principles and frameworks, e.g. using theories of democracy as design
principles
• Practices and methods, e.g. participatory and relational design for
democracy, tools
for deliberation and collective decision-making, speculative and
adversarial design
practices
• Systems and alternatives, e.g. alternative or counter-models to
platform capitalism,
cooperative social media and civic platforms, AI systems designed for
participation
and accountability, digital infrastructures for commoning
• Critical and situated perspectives, e.g. responses to crises such as
polarisation, false
information, and exclusion, inclusivity, feminist, postcolonial, and
indigenous
perspectives, democratic technology and long-term social justice design
• Design artefacts and prototypes, e.g. design contributions,
prototypes, and exemplars
of democratic technology, transition and infrastructuring approaches to
sustainable
democratic futures.
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/*Submission guidelines and procedure*/
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All submissions (abstracts and later final manuscripts) must be original
and may not be under review by another publication.
The manuscripts should be submitted either in .doc or in .rtf format.
All papers will be blindly peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers.
Authors are invited to submit 8-30 pages paper (including authors'
information, abstract, all tables, figures, references, etc.).
The paper should be written according to the IxD&A authors' guidelines
->https://ixdea.org/authors-guidelines/
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*Authors' guidelines*
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Paper submission page:
-> link <https://ojs.ixdea.org/>
(Please upload all submissions using the Submission page.
When submitting the paper, please, choose the section:
"/SI: Democratic Technology Design/")
More information on the submission procedure and on the characteristics
of the paper format can be found on the website of the IxD&A Journal
where information on the copyright policy and responsibility of authors,
publication ethics and malpractice are published.
For scientific advice and for any query please contact the guest
editors: marking the subject as: /SI: Democratic Technology Design/
• almira [at] uio [dot] no
• jasminni [at] uio [dot] no
• nichoss [at] uio [dot] no
• jason.miklian [at] globe [dot] uio [dot] no