The Workshops Track of EICS offers the opportunity to organize specialized forums alongside the main conference and attract the attention of participants to emerging and trendy topics of research related to the engineering of interactive computing systems.

In addition to traditional workshops with paper presentations, we welcome innovative workshop formats including design and experience workshops (where participants design and/or evaluate artifacts) and interactive sessions based on collaborative work.

Workshops durations can be suggested by the organizers (half-day or full-day). In particular, we encourage previously organized workshops at EICS, which attracted considerable interest from attendees, to resubmit a continuation this year.

Workshop proposals should be no longer than 5 pages (new ACM Master template, use the manuscript option) and must include a description of:

• Background: The workshop aims and goals;
• The target audience: their expected background, their level of knowledge in the workshops themes and the expected number of participants;
• Pre-Workshop Plans: State your plans for recruiting attendees to your workshop and workshop community building (e.g. through a website or other communication with potential participants). Make also explicit what is expected from attendees in terms of submissions (format, lengths) and the timeline for the workshop (submission deadline, notification to authors, final program).
• Workshop Structure: Explain in detail the workshop structure & format, including activities, timing, and resources.
• Operational requirements: needs for specific equipment or space layout would the workshop be accepted;
• The advertising plan: including details of the planned website, distribution to mailing lists, invitations to attendees of previous workshops/conferences on similar topics;
• Post-Workshop Plans: The workshop output dissemination plan concerns the publication of the contributions presented during the workshops in a common volume for all the EICS 2026 accepted workshops. The current plan is to publish all the accepted material in workshops as an LNCS volume published by Springer. The format of the paper in this volume is available here. The papers submitted to the workshops will thus have the opportunity to be revised in the light of reviewers comments and of the workshop discussion. If workshop organizers don’t want to benefit from this opportunity, they should inform us at submissions time.
• Organizers: The organizers’ short bio, including the main contact person and their expertise in organizing workshops in general and their expertise on the topics of the workshop.

Workshop organizers will get the opportunity to present the work they cover and the results of their workshop as posters at the main EICS 2026 conference to maximize their impact (meaning workshop participants have the possibility to create a poster and present it as part of the main conference). Notice that workshop proposals are juried. Criteria selection include the relevance of the workshop topics and goals to EICS, scientific background and experience of the workshop’s organizers in organizing events, advertising and dissemination plan.

Examples of workshops run at previous EICS can be found at:

• EICS 2025 Workshops
• EICS 2024 Workshops
• EICS 2023 Workshops
• EICS 2022 Workshops

Indicative Timeline:

Organizers of accepted workshops are expected to plan according to the following deadlines:

• Apr 25, 2026: Workshop paper submission deadline
• Apr 30, 2026: Camera-ready for workshop proposals. If a workshop does not provide a camera-ready version by this deadline, it will not be included in the proceedings.
• May 2, 2026: Notification to authors
• May 8, 2026: Hard deadline for notification to the conference organizers whether the workshop will actually take place. This means setting an internal deadline for workshop contributions and reviews accordingly. The camera-ready versions of workshops that do not take place will not be included in the proceedings.

Workshop organizers should schedule their workshop submission and review process accordingly in order to meet these dates.

Use of Generative AI in manuscript preparation

Authors must read ACM’s policy on the use of Generative AI in authoring papers found in https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/frequently-asked-questions. All submissions will be evaluated against the criteria set by the policy. Papers found to contain material that breaches these guidelines risk desk rejection.

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• To participate in a workshop, attendees and organizers need to register for the workshop day (whereas registration to the main conference is not required).
• Workshops with 5 or less attendees will be canceled.
• The organization offers one free registration to the workshops day for one workshop organizer every group of 8 paying attendees registered (excluding virtual participants).
• The organization offers one free registration for the workshops day + the main conference to one workshop organizer every group of 12 paying attendees registered (excludiing virtual participants).

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Authors are kindly requested to include references reporting the correct publication to facilitate the citation indexing, in particular for conferences publishing papers on journals such as PACM. For instance, a (fictional) full paper presented at EICS 2023 should be referenced as follows.

John Doe, Jane Smith. 2023. Enhancing User Experience in Interactive Systems. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, EICS, Article 123 (jun 2023), 16 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/123456

Please do not refer to the paper as follows:

John Doe, Jane Smith. 2023. Enhancing User Experience in Interactive Systems. In Proc. of the 15th Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2023), 16 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/123456

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Should you have any doubt about your Workshop proposal please contact the chairs (workshops2026@eics.acm.org)

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