The EICS’2026 Doctoral Consortium (DC) is intended to bring together PhD students working on foundations, techniques, tools and studies in the Human-Computer Interaction Engineering field. DC provides an opportunity for doctoral students to present their research goals as well as intermediate results, and to discuss them with leading experts in the field as well as with peers. Students can be in intermediate or advanced stages of their research, but should not have completed their work yet, and should thus still be able to take into account feedback from the DC. The goals of the Doctoral Consortium are to provide PhD students with the opportunity to:

• Receive constructive feedback and advice on their research,
• Meet experts with different backgrounds working on topics related to the Human Computer Interaction Engineering field,
• Interact with other PhD students and exchange ideas and suggestions among participants,
• Discuss concerns about research, supervision, job market, and other career-related issues,
• Present their work at the EICS’2026 conference.

A submission consists of a short paper (from 5 to 6 pages excluding references) following the Springer’s LNCS format (see the format in the Submission Format and Citations), a free-form CV of the PhD candidate and a draft poster.

The submission should not be anonymous and must:

• identify a significant problem in the field of research,
• outline the current status of the problem domain and related solutions (main related works),
• clearly formulate the research questions,
• describe the research methodology applied or planned to answer the research questions
• present clearly (preliminary) ideas, the proposed concrete approach and the results achieved so far,
• make explicit the current status of the doctoral work (e.g. when research started, how long to reach the end, papers already accepted),
• outline the expected contributions to the problem domain and highlight their uniqueness.

Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. The main evaluation criteria are: relevance, originality, significance, technical soundness, accuracy, and clarity.

Accepted submissions will have the opportunity to present their work in the DC. PhD students having their DC submission accepted, will have the opportunity to present their DC poster in the poster session of the main conference.

In addition to the DC chairs, additional leading experts will be invited to the DC to discuss the participants' research. The camera-ready version should be sent after the conference (we will inform the deadline), so that participants have the chance to polish their paper based on the feedback they got from the conference. Revised DC accepted papers will be published in a proceedings that is under negotiation. This will not be automatic and will be arranged in agreement with the authors, for example student and supervisor.

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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Submission should be written using the Springer LNCS format. Instructions and templates available at proceedings guidelines.

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 Doctoral Consortium proposal please contact the chairs (dc2026@eics.acm.org)

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