[IRIS] Call for Papers for the First Submission Round of Full Papers and Technical Notes of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 30 June - 3 July, 2026, Patras, Greece

[Eleftheria Lito Michanetzi]

Call for Papers for the First Submission Round of  Full Papers and 
Technical Notes of EICS 2026: The 18th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on 
Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 30 June - 3 July, 2026, 
Patras, Greece

https://eics.acm.org/2026/

Submission deadline for the 1st Round of PACM EICS 2026 for Full Papers 
and Technical Notes: July 25, 2025

EICS 2026 is the eighteenth international ACM SIGCHI conference devoted 
to engineering interactive computing systems and their user interfaces, 
addressing one or more software quality factors, such as usability, user 
experience, reliability, security, etc. Work presented at EICS covers 
all stages of the engineering life-cycle of interactive systems - 
inception, requirements, design, specification, coding, data analytics, 
validation and verification, deployment and maintenance.


EICS has the longest tradition of bringing together researchers who 
contribute to better ways of creating interactive computing systems, 
stemming from the conference on command languages in the seventies. The 
conference is best known for rigorously contributing and disseminating 
research results that hold the midst in between user interface design, 
software engineering and computational interaction.


EICS focuses on models, languages, notations, methods, techniques and 
tools that support designing, developing, validating and verifying 
interactive systems. The conference brings together people who study or 
practice the engineering of interactive systems, drawing from design, 
HCI, software engineering, requirements engineering, software 
development, modeling, and programming.


Submissions advance the state of the art of the engineering of 
interactive systems. Topics include, but are not limited to:


*Modelling, specification and analysis of interaction and interactive 
systems

*Requirements engineering for interactive systems

*Methods, processes, principles and/or tools for building interactive 
systems (e.g., design, implementation, prototyping, evaluation, 
verification and validation, testing)

*Software architectures for interactive systems

*Formal methods within interactive systems engineering

*Bridging the gap between engineering and design practices.

*Engineering design and evaluation tools

*Computational techniques for designing and evaluating interactive 
systems

*Interactive data-driven systems

*Explore and/or employ of diverse interaction techniques and devices 
(e.g., adaptive, context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch and multitouch 
input, voice, gestures, recognition of physiological signals, multimodal 
input, mobile and wearable systems, virtual, augmented, mixed and 
extended reality)

*Engineering hardware or software integration in interactive systems 
(e.g., fabrication and maker processes, physical computing, 
cyber-physical systems)

*Engineering interactive systems for diverse user groups (e.g., 
children, elderly, people with disabilities…)

*Engineering collaborative multi-user interactive systems

*Engineering interactive systems embedding AI-technologies

*Engineering interaction-driven AI-technologies

*Applying AI technologies in methods, processes and tools for building 
interactive systems in all stages of the engineering lifecycle


A newcomer’s guide to EICS is available at 
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3300960

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FULL PAPERS and TECHNICAL NOTES SUBMISSIONS


EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes are published as articles in the 
Journal Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM - 
EICS series). There are three submission deadlines per year, and authors 
can choose when to submit. Papers follow the traditional journal model 
of reviewing: papers may be accepted after submission and review, or may 
be recommended for revisions and re-submission to the next round to 
enable authors to refine papers based on reviewer recommendations.


Submissions for the journal of this venue should present original and 
mature research work within the scope of the conference. Note that 
accepted journal papers can be either regular research papers, or 
technical notes. Technical Notes are shorter, more focused 
contributions, that focus specifically on system contributions and 
technical work. Elucidating technical details of complex interactive 
systems, preferably ensuring the work can be reproduced or put to 
practice, is a primary objective of a Technical Note. Tech Notes require 
an illustrative example of the system, and they can, but do not need to, 
be validated by formal user evaluations or user studies. Validation can 
also be done through e.g. simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech 
Notes will be judged on their technical merits and relevance to 
interactive systems concerns.


There are no length restrictions on Full Papers and Technical Notes, nor 
any limit to the number of references that may be included. We advise 
authors to ensure the length of their papers is in function of the 
contributions. Concise and clear is often to be preferred over lengthy 
and verbose.


Full Papers and Technical Notes should be written in the ACM format, see 
https://www.acm.org/publications/authors/submissions

Papers should comply with the ACM policy on Research Involving Human 
Participants and Subjects, see 
https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/research-involving-human-participants-and-subjects

Submission deadline for the 1st Round of PACM EICS 2026 for Full Papers 
and Technical Notes: July 25, 2025

Papers are submitted using https://new.precisionconference.com

PACM-EICS Full Papers and Technical Notes chairs for EICS 2026
Célia Martinie and Davide Spano