Call for Submissions
The aim of the DIS 2026 call for Provocations and Works in Progress (PWiP) is to provide a platform for authors to propose novel, in-progress and thought-provoking research that challenges the status quo. The PWiP track invites small but significant contributions that can point to new directions and spark discussions at the conference.
While Works-in-Progress focuses on initial insights from unfinished studies, Provocations present novel ideas, critiques, and arguments without requiring the rigour of a supporting user study or fully documented design project and the associated citation practice. We welcome submissions related to the design of interactive systems, as well as the conference’s main theme of “Beyond Interaction”.
Important Dates
| PWiP Submission due | 13 February 2026 |
| Acceptance Notification | 1 April 2026 |
| Camera-ready due | 10 April 2026 |
| DIS 2026 Conference | 13 – 17 June 2026 |
This year’s theme calls for rethinking interactivity in systemic, entangled, and ecosystemic terms. We invite contributions that critically and creatively explore what lies beyond interaction and position design as a force for transformation in uncertain times.
The PWiP track particularly welcomes design research contributions that value:
- Novelty over evidence (You do not need a finished user study)
- Provocation over consensus (You do not need to please everyone)
- Design making over design guidelines (Why not show us, rather than tell?)
- Playful over convergence (You can value open-endedness)
- Pluralistic over single-sided (Cultivate relational and ontological perspectives)
PWiP papers must represent original content that is not replicated in concurrent submissions under review elsewhere. We accept submissions that build upon prior work by offering a substantively new contribution (but please follow the anonymisation guidelines). We encourage authors to look at previously published PWiP papers from DIS2023 , DIS2024 , and DIS2025
All PWiP submissions will be peer-reviewed, and acceptance decisions will be made by a Programme Committee. Accepted PWiP submissions will be published in the DIS 2026 companion publication and appear in the ACM Digital Library (adjunct proceedings).
NOTE: DIS 2026 will be an in-person-only event, and attending online or with a video will not be possible. We encourage you to ensure you can make it to Singapore the third week of June 2026 before you submit.
Please note: a PWiP publication is not considered an archival publication.
Preparing and Submitting
A PWIP paper is a maximum of six pages in length (including references). Submissions that are over the required length will be rejected. All submissions should be formatted using the ACM Primary Article Template AND Publication Workflow. Proposers should use the one-column version of the designated ACM template (see below). All figures, tables, appendices, and an abstract of fewer than 150 words, must fit within the six-page limit. As references DO count towards the page limits, so you might expect to include only key references.PWiP submissions should be as close to their publication-ready versions as possible since authors will have limited time to make changes to their papers following acceptance. Papers that require major changes may not be accepted.
Submissions must be ANONYMISED according to the guidelines (please see the Anonymization Policy from here) and should be submitted via the Precision Conference submission system (PCS)
Quick Links to Paper Templates
- Microsoft Word
- LaTeX (Use sample-manuscript.tex for submissions)
- Overleaf (or search for ACM Conference Proceedings Primary Article)
Formatting your Submission
It is important that your submission is formatted correctly. Incorrectly formatted submissions might be rejected. Online guidance is available from the ACM: https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions
All paper submissions should be formatted using the templates described on this webpage, so please read the instructions here:
https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow
The ACM workflow requests authors to produce final publications (.pdf and HTML5) by themselves using TAPS.
PWiP submissions must be submitted in .pdf. First, authors prepare their manuscripts in the designated one-column format in .pdf using LaTeX or Word.
LaTeX users should use
\documentclass[manuscript, review]{acmart}
For an anonymous submission use
\documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart}
to automatically replace the authors with “ANONYMOUS AUTHOR(S)”. The authors then submit the .pdf and the source files via PCS.
Creating an Accessible ACM Conference Submission
ACM publications are reviewed and read by many people. Making your paper accessible will help promote equal participation for people with disabilities. The accessibility chairs have provided additional guidance on making submissions accessible that we encourage submitters to use when preparing their submissions.
Please refer to the accessibility guidelines in the call for papers and pictorials for creating accessible submissions/.pdfs as well as guidelines for creating accessible figures and tables.
Upon Acceptance
Authors of accepted PWiP submissions will be required to register for the full conference and present a poster during the conference with the option to additionally present a designed artefact relating to the work. Details regarding presentations of work will be provided with acceptance notifications.
Provocations and Works-in-Progress Program Chairs
- Janghee Cho, National University of Singapore
- Renwen Zhang, Nanyang Technological University
- Yu-Ting Cheng, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
Associate Chairs
- Wei Wu, Northeastern University, New York University
- Han Meng, National University of Singapore
- Minjung Park, Carnegie Mellon University
- Soohwan Lee, UNIST
- Mohsin Yousufi, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Alessia Romani, Western University
- Kristina Mah, University of Sydney
- Anindya das Antar, University of Notre Dame
- Taha Hassan, University of Alabama
- Bowen Kong, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology
- Yize Wei, National University of Singapore
- Xinru Tang, University of California, Irvine
- Yanheng Li, City University of Hong Kong
- Tianqi Song, National University of Singapore
- Weiyan Shi, Singapore University of Technology and Design
- Jessica Rahman, CSIRO
- Tian Xu, University of Colorado Boulder
- Shi Ding, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Ziyi Liu, Purdue University
- Lingyun Chen, Indiana University Bloomington
- Muhammad Tufail, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
- F. Khan, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
- Mahla Alizadeh, University of Siegen
- Patrick Hartono, RMIT Vietnam
- Marie Muehlhaus, Saarland University
- Ana Henriques, Interactive Technologies Institute
- Peng-Kai Hung, Eindhoven University of Technology
- Wenn-Chieh Tsai, National Taiwan University
- Zhennan Yi, Indiana University Bloomington
- Sohyun Park, KAIST
- Uttishta Varanasi, Aalto University
- Noor Hammad, Carnegie Mellon University
- Sang-Wha Sien, University of British Columbia
- Runze Cai, National University of Singapore
- Binyan Xu, Northeastern University, New York University
- Shiva Darian, New Mexico State University
- Sai Siddartha Maram, University of California Santa Cruz
- Gun Woo (Warren) Park, University of Toronto
- Tag Alshehri, Monash University
- Anqi Wang, Hong Kong university of Science and Technology
- Ankolika De, Pennsylvania State University
- Supratim Pait, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Daijin Yang, Northeastern University
- Yichun Zhao, University of Victoria
- JaeWon Kim, University of Washington
- Sojeong Yun, KAIST
- Qiurong Song, The Pennsylvania State University
- Jiaying “Lizzy” Liu, University of Texas at Austin
- Tucker Rae-Grant, University of Chicago
- Inha Cha, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Berk Göksenin Tan, Koç University