Call for Submissions
The DIS 2026 Interactivity track invites provocative, playful, and critical demonstrations of interactive systems, artefacts, and experiences that extend beyond interaction. We seek submissions that challenge, reimagine, and expand the conceptualization of interactivity.
Important Dates
| Demonstrations Submission | 27 February 2026 |
| Acceptance Notification | 1 April 2026 |
| Camera-Ready Due | 24 April 2026 |
| DIS 2026 Conference | 13 – 17 June 2026 |
Submissions might take the form of working prototypes, novel gadgets, techno-craft, installations, speculative artefacts, or other interactive experiences. We encourage contributions that activate and engage DIS participants, inviting them into encounters that make visible the layered sociotechnical, cultural, political, and ecological dimensions of design.
Interactivity submissions should be exploratory, ambitious, and reflective. They can emerge from HCI, design, digital media, physical computing, or related fields, and may address questions such as:
Critical Computing and Design Theory
Re-examine the foundations of interactivity by questioning its underlying assumptions and frameworks. Explore how design inquiry, politics, aesthetics, ethics, and craftsmanship can move us beyond dyadic human-system relations toward more distributed, entangled, and systemic understandings of interactive systems.
Design Methods and Processes
Document, innovate, and advance design methods that foreground interdependencies, ripple effects, and systemic entanglements. Consider how methods can account for layered sociotechnical, cultural, political, and ecological dimensions of interactivity.
Experiences, Artefacts, and Technologies
Investigate how artefacts and technologies mediate broader ecosystems of relations. Explore new ways of staging encounters and designing experiences that illuminate the systemic impacts of interactive systems across social, cultural, political, and planetary domains.
Change Through Design
Address the ethical, political, and moral responsibilities of designing interactive systems in times of instability and transformation. Examine how interactivity can be redefined to engage with systemic change, whether social, cultural, economic, or ecological, and who is empowered or marginalized through these processes.
More-than-Human Interactions
Expand the scope of interaction to include nonhuman and more-than-human actors. Rethink how technologies, environments, and species co-shape interactive systems, and envision posthumanist or ecological futures where interactivity is redefined through planetary entanglements.
At DIS 2026 in Singapore, we invite you to create and share interactivities that critically and creatively explore the complexities beyond interaction.
DIS 2026 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 Singapore, for the conference in June 2026 before they submit.
Preparing and Submitting Your Interactivity
The interactivity track welcomes submissions of interactive prototypes, research-through-design works, and performances.
We require the following submission materials via PCS.
Submission
Submissions should follow the ACM Primary Article Templates and Publication Workflow 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.
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. 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 2026. It is expected that at least one author per accepted submission registers and attends the conference in person.
Demonstrations Chairs
- Junnan Yu, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- Jiannan Li, Singapore Management University
- Jeannie Lee, Singapore Institute of Technology
Jury Members
- Thomas Goodge, University of Glasgow
- Jordan Wirfs-Brock, Whiteman College
- Mauricio Sousa, Keio University
- Daniel Echeverri, Masaryk University
- Liang He, University of Texas at Dallas
- Jen-Shuo Liu, Samsung Research America
- Tram Tran, University of Sydney