Call for Submissions
We invite you to submit proposals for hosting a workshop at DIS 2026. Workshops at DIS provide unique opportunities for diverse scholars, practitioners, and researchers to come together and engage with specific topics in interactive systems design. In line with the DIS 2026 theme, we particularly welcome proposals that promote rethinking the concept of ‘interactivity’ within our broader sociocultural, political, economic, and ethical dimensions.
Important Dates
| Workshop Submission Due | 6 February 2026 |
| Acceptance Notification | 23 March 2026 |
| Camera-Ready Due | 10 April 2026 |
| DIS 2026 Conference | 13 – 17 June 2026 |
This year’s theme is Beyond Interaction, to expand the scope of traditional human-computer interaction. It moves beyond accepting current ideas of interactivity, to challenge assumptions, and generate a critical examination of how our relationships to the designed world may evolve. The goal is to embrace approaches that foster a sense of mutual care and response. We invite workshops that may consider the following:
- The island-city as a place for interactions: Using the unique setting of Singapore as an urban-island city-state to explore cross-cultural and interspecies connections in design.
- Shared landscapes: Exploring design that facilitates interactions between human, marine, and coastal communities, and practices of sustainable interaction with ocean resources
- Shared Ecosystems: Addressing environmental challenges such as pollution and climate change through design
- Dynamic cultures: Exploring sociotechnical designs and interactions that embrace cultural and intersectional diversity through caring approaches
- Beyond a dichotomy of western-eastern paradigm: Exploring design that meaningfully engages with varied ways of knowing, working with indigenous, diaspora and various knowledge holding communities and challenges tensions emerging from reductive worldviews
- Centering care: Exploring design that views care as an ethical responsibility and core to a collective commitment to equity and justice
These examples are intended to spark ideas (rather than limit the scope) that align with this year’s theme and venue. Singapore is a small island nation with a multicultural fabric, woven from Malay, Chinese, Indian, Eurasian and substantial diaspora and migrant communities. This diversity is a defining characteristic, shaping its culture, language, and food. Geographically, its limited land area has driven a pragmatic approach to development, leading to place-based innovations urban planning and sustainability, such as extensive green spaces and vertical farming
Workshop Logistics
Workshops will be held on 13-14 June, the two days preceding the main conference. Workshops can be a half day, one day, or in rare cases, two days in duration and will be hosted in person in Singapore. DIS 2026 will be an in-person-only event, and attending online will not be possible. This means that generally, all attendees must register for the workshop, but in rare cases, remote participation for a guest might be allowed with permission. Please explain the reason for remote participation in your application.
Workshop organisers should plan for a minimum of 10 and a maximum of 25 participants. Each accepted workshop proposal must have at least one registered organiser and five confirmed participants to run.
NB. Authors are limited to being listed on a maximum of 2 workshop proposals.
Submission Details
Proposals to host a workshop have two separate components submitted as separate files: 1) a 4 page extended abstract, and 2) a detailed workshop description. Proposals are not anonymised for review.
All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop chairs independently, and the co-chairs will convene for a ranking of reviews to select the final workshops for DIS 2025.
For a list of last year’s workshops, please see Workshops at DIS 2025.
We look forward to receiving your workshop proposals and to the vibrant discussions and collaborations they will inspire. For any questions or further information, please contact the workshop chairs at workshops@dis2026.acm.org
Extended Abstract
An extended abstract describing your proposed workshop should be up to 4 pages in length excluding references in the ACM Primary Article Template, submitted via the PCS submission system as a .pdf. Accepted abstracts will be archived in the ACM Digital Library. Ensure your submission is accessible by following the guidelines for “Creating an Accessible ACM Conference Submission” in the Call for Papers.
The Abstract should contain:
- Title and proposed duration
- Organisers’ names and institutional affiliations (proposals are not anonymised for review)
- Workshop theme, goals, background, and motivation
- Anticipated outcomes
- References (do not count toward the 4-page limit)
Detailed Workshop Description
A workshop description should also be submitted as a separate PDF file, containing details of your proposed workshop to help the workshop chairs understand the practical details relating to planning the workshop. This document will not be archived in the ACM Digital Library.
The detailed workshop description should include:
- Intended audience and advertising strategy
- Schedule and description of planned activities
- Anticipated outcomes and their significance
- Required facilities and equipment
- Inclusion and accessibility considerations
- Plans (if any) for disseminating workshop results beyond DIS 2026
- Short biographies of the organisers (50 words)
- A draft 250-word call for participation for your workshop to be posted on the DIS 2026 website. This should contain information on how and what potential participants should submit to you.
Submission Format
Templates are available for several platforms:
- Microsoft Word
- LaTeX (Use sample-manuscript.tex for submissions)
- Overleaf (Latex) (or search for ACM Conference Proceedings Primary Article)
Workshops Chairs
- Naseem Ahmadpour, University of Sydney
- Pin Sym Foong, National University of Singapore
- Xin Tong, HKUST (Guangzhou)
- Dajung Kim, UNIST