Call for Submissions
We invite you to submit proposals for hosting a workshop at DIS 2027. 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 2027 theme, we particularly welcome proposals that explore the notion of ‘sensuous knowing’ within our design practice and inquiry.
Important Dates
| Workshop Submission Due | February 1st, 2027 |
| Acceptance Notification | February 16th, 2027 |
| Camera-Ready Due | April 28th, 2027 |
| DIS 2027 Conference | June 28th – July 2nd, 2027 |
This year’s theme is Sensuous Knowing – Sensuous Designing, invites you to engage in conversations of how the possibilities of human-computer can be expanded if we consider the broader range of our felt experiences and the effect they have on our behaviour, judgements, and interactions. It invites us to step back, slow down, and attune to our own experiences, our environment, and other human and more-the-human bodies that inhabit it. By paying attention and engage in dialogues we can discover connections and design knowledge embedded in bodies, communities of practice, artifacts, and ecosystems, thus elevating the forms of wisdom that may have been overlooked within traditional colonial knowledge production. The goal is to dissolve boundaries and embrace approaches that foster connections, exchange, care, and reciprocity. We invite workshops that may consider the following:
- Tapestry of sensuous knowing: Exploring how touch, smell, movement, hearing, balance, gut feelings, and the full range of bodily senses may inform the design of technologies and interactions otherwise overlooked by efficiency-driven paradigms.
- Sharing horizontal knowledge: Engaging in dialogue across diverse ways of knowing, valuing the knowledge embedded in craft, art, and practice, and fostering reciprocal exchange rather than hierarchical forms of knowledge production.
- Archipelagic connections: Exploring interaction design through the fragmented yet interconnected geographies, building metaphorical boats and bridges that can connect the islands of diverse research and practice communities in HCI.
- Entangled ecosystems: Investigating interactions across urban, coastal, forest, and marine environments, including practices of environmental stewardship, multispecies interaction, and sustainable engagement with fragile ecosystems.
- Learning from water and forest: Situating in Stockholm’s unique landscape connecting sea, forest, lakes, and urban parks, explore ways we can derive design insight by slowing down and attuning to the knowledge embodied in our ecosystems.
- Atmospheric relations: Exploring how Stockholm’s architecture, candlelit interiors, public spaces, winter darkness, seasonal rhythms, and practices of indoor coziness shape embodied experience, perception, and our relations with technology within the built environments.
- Rituals and Intimacy: Examining rituals of care, warmth, vulnerability, and intimacy as alternative frames for designing technologies and interactions.
- Designing with Silence: Considering quietness, stillness, listening, absence, and the Swedish notion of lagom(balance, sufficiency, and “just enough”), as productive design qualities that challenge hyperconnectivity, excess, and constant engagement.
- Designing with Winter: Considering cold, slowness, maintenance, endurance, and care as design conditions rather than constraints. Workshops may explore alternative temporalities and embodied practices shaped by northern climates.
- Cultivating Collective Care: Exploring how interaction design might draw from Sweden’s traditions of social welfare, solidarity, and public infrastructure to imagine technologies rooted in collective wellbeing, mutual responsibility, accessibility, and care across human and more-than-human communities.
- Alternative Scandinavian Design Futures: Challenging idealized imaginaries of Scandinavian design, technology, and sustainability by foregrounding decolonial, migrant, queer, feminist, and Indigenous perspectives.
- Embodied AI and Situated Intelligence: Exploring alternatives to disembodied computational paradigms by examining AI and interactive systems through movement, affect, relationality, and ecological situatedness.
These examples are intended to inspire ideas rather than limit the scope of submissions. We welcome experimental, practice-based, critical, artistic, theoretical, and community-centered workshop formats that resonate with the conference theme.
Situated across an archipelago where urban infrastructures meet forests, waterways, and the Baltic Sea, Stockholm offers a compelling context for reflecting on coexistence, interdependence, and ecological responsibility. The city’s long-standing engagement with environmental sustainability, social welfare, public space, and technological innovation creates opportunities to critically examine how interaction design shapes relationships between humans, technologies, and the more-than-human world. At the same time, Stockholm’s layered histories, diverse communities, and proximity to Nordic and Indigenous Sámi contexts invite reflection on plurality, situated knowledge, and alternative futures for design.
Workshop Logistics
Workshops will be held on 26-27 of 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 Stockholm. DIS 2027 will be a hybrid event, so workshop organizers are encouraged to consider how they may be able to facilitate remote participation. Workshop organizers can choose the format for their workshop: in-person only, hybrid, or online. 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 attending in person. Each accepted workshop proposal must have at least one registered organiser and five confirmed participants to run.
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 2026.
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
- Plans for remote or hybrid participation
- 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
- Ekaterina R. Stepanova, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
- TBD