Call for Demonstrations

The DIS 2025 Demonstrations track invites interface or system demonstrations, novel gadgets, techno-craft, and other interactive experiences that critically or creatively explore the conference theme of “Sustainable Seas”. We encourage submissions that challenge traditional modalities of demonstration; we will prioritise demos that involve and activate DIS participants through physical and functional artefacts.

Demo submissions should be exploratory, provocative, innovative, and ambitious. We welcome submissions from various areas such as HCI, design, digital media, physical computing and related fields. These can explore:

  • Critical Computing and Design Theory.
    Explore the relationships among design inquiry, politics, aesthetics, ethics, and craftsmanship, unpacking the notion of criticality in design and computing.
  • Design Methods and Processes.
    Document, innovate and/or advance the methods and processes used across research and practice.
  • Experience, Artefacts, and Technology.
    Explore new relationships and intersections amongst and between experiences, artefacts and technologies, and the ways in which meaningful and impactful interactions are designed, created, and engendered.
  • Change Through Design.
    Examine the political, ethical, and moral dimensions of design, addressing inclusivity in design processes and considering who benefits from our designs.
  • Non-humanist or Posthumanist Alternatives.
    Rethink the boundaries between humans, non-humans, technology, and the vital aquatic world towards a sustainable and symbiotic future that integrates the critical role of our oceans in maintaining a healthy planet

DIS 2025 will be exclusively an in-person event, and attending online or via video will not be possible. It is the authors’ responsibility to ensure they can make it to Funchal, Madeira, for the conference in July 2025 before they submit. 

Important Dates

Demonstrations submission deadline11 April 2025
Notifications6 May 2025
Camera-ready deadline16 May 2025
DIS 2025 conference5-9 July 2025
Deadlines are specified as Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time.

Preparing and Submitting Your Demonstration

The demonstrations track welcomes submissions of interactive prototypes, research-through-design works, and performances. The central topic is “Sustainable Seas” as the core of a critical, reflective, or joyful experience.

We require the following submission materials via PCS

Submission

Submissions should follow the ACM Primary Article Templates and Publication Workflow (https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions) to produce a single-column, up to six pages PDF document (including references). To that end, authors working in LaTeX (inc. Overleaf) should opt for the following parameters:

\documentclass[manuscript, review]{acmart}

We encourage novel demonstrations, as well as demonstrations of works in the main Papers and Pictorials tracks. Submissions will be peer-reviewed and should not be anonymised. We highly recommend you follow SIGCHI’s accessibility guide for authors: https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/accessibility/ 

Technical Specifications and Requirements

The technical specifications and requirements of your interactive experience should be included in an additional PDF document. This can include diagrams and photos, what is needed at the venue, and it should detail any potential risks for attendees (including privacy concerns) and how they will be managed. This document does not have a page limit, nor does it need to follow a specific format.

Video

A supplementary video is not mandatory but highly recommended. This should be under five minutes long, and we strongly recommend you follow SIGCHI’s guide for videos: https://sigchi.org/resources/guides-for-authors/videos/ 

Accepted Submissions and TAPS

Authors of accepted submissions will be contacted to interact with the ACM Production System (TAPS) to produce their camera-ready documents: https://authors.acm.org/proceedings/production-information/taps-production-workflow 

Accepted works will be exhibited during a special session at the conference. Furthermore, they will be published in the ACM Digital Library as a Companion Publication of DIS 2025. Is it expected that at least one author per accepted submission registers and attends the conference. 

Demonstrations Chairs

  • Augusto Esteves, ITI / LARSyS, University of Lisbon
  • Hyunjoo Oh, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Catia Prandi, University of Bologna

demos@dis2025.acm.org