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Call for Submissions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The DIS 2027 Interactivity & Arts track invites provocative, playful, artistic, and\/or critical demonstrations of interactive systems, artefacts, installations, and experiences that extend beyond interaction. This track brings together interactivity, demonstrations, and artworks as compatible and potentially converging forms of dissemination in HCI. We thus seek submissions that challenge, reimagine, and expand the conceptualization of interactivity, giving form to the conference theme: Sensuous Knowing – Sensuous Designing. We encourage the submissions of interactive pieces that engage the soma as a place of knowing, that treat material and digital entanglements as design resources, and that make felt experience the medium of inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Important Dates<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Submission Deadline<\/td>February 19th, 2027<\/td><\/tr>
Acceptance Notification<\/td>March 19th, 2027<\/td><\/tr>
Camera-Ready Due<\/td>April 28th, 2027<\/td><\/tr>
DIS 2027 Conference<\/td>June 28 – July 2, 2027<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>
Deadlines are specified as Anywhere on Earth<\/a> time<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Submissions might take the form of working prototypes, novel gadgets, techno-craft, installations, speculative artefacts, artworks, or other interactive experiences. We encourage contributions that activate and engage DIS participants, inviting them into encounters that make visible the layered socio-technical, cultural, political, and ecological dimensions of design. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Submissions should be exploratory, ambitious, and reflective. They can emerge from HCI, design, digital media, physical computing, the arts, or related fields. The track thematically builds on and extends the trajectory of recent editions of DIS, addressing questions such as (but not only):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Critical Computing and Design Theory<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Design Methods and Processes<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Experiences, Artefacts, and Technologies<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Change Through Design<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More-than-Human Interactions<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interactive Art<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Novel artistic work that explores the intersection between interactive systems, individuals, collectives, and\/or ecologies. Artworks can include, but are not limited to: screen-based computational works; web-based works; interactive installations; augmented, virtual, and mixed reality; mobile and location-based works; computer games; transmedia works; computer-mediated interactive performances; any other artistic works that involve some combination of computational and\/or rule-based system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sensuous Design<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Body as the primary site where interactivity is lived, felt, and known. Explore how digital and material systems can engage us somatically through all our senses. Consider how technologies might be designed to attune to felt experience rather than extract data from it, and how design practice itself can become a form of sensuous inquiry. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At DIS 2027 in Stockholm, we invite you to create and share artworks and interactivities that critically and creatively explore the complexities beyond interaction. The Interactivity & Arts track at DIS 2027 will be exclusively an in-person event, and attending online or via video will not be possible. It is the authors\u2019 responsibility to ensure they can make it to Stockholm for the conference before they submit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preparing and Submitting Your Interactivity & Arts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The interactivity & Arts track welcomes submissions of interactive prototypes, research-through-design works, and performances. We require the following submission materials via PCS:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Extended Abstract Submission<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Submissions should follow the ACM Primary Article Templates and Publication Workflow <\/a>to produce a single-column, up to six pages PDF document (including references). We encourage creative uses of the template (e.g., making use of full-page figures) as long as they adhere to its basic principles. 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 reviewed by a jury of experts in the community and should not be anonymised. We highly recommend you follow SIGCHI\u2019s accessibility guide for authors<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Technical Specifications and Requirements<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Video<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

A supplementary video is mandatory. The video will be used to assist in the jurying process and will be published as supplementary material in the proceedings. It should be under five minutes long, accessible according to the ACM norms, and we strongly recommend you follow SIGCHI\u2019s guide for videos: https:\/\/sigchi.org\/resources\/guides-for-authors\/videos\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Accepted Submissions and TAPS<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Authors of accepted submissions will be contacted to interact with the ACM Production System (TAPS) to produce their camera-ready documents<\/a>. 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 2027. It is mandatory that at least one author per accepted submission registers and attends the conference in person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interactivity & Arts Chairs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n