The EICS’2027 Doctoral Consortium (DC) will take place on Monday 21st June, 2027. The 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:
A submission consists of a short paper (8 pages excluding references) following the Springer’s LNCS format (see the format in the Submission Format and Properly Formatting Citations section
The submission should not be anonymous and must:
Each submission will be reviewed by at least two members of the Doctoral Consortium Program Committee. 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 be required to create a poster of their work which will be included during the conference poster session of the main conference. DC attendees are eligible for the “Springer most engaged student” award which will be based on the presentation during the DC and interactions with other student presentations; poster presentation and interactions during the conference. Further details will be provided to all accepted DC attendees prior to the conference.
In addition to the DC chairs, additional leading experts will be invited to the DC to discuss the participants' research. Participants will be invited to submit a revised version of their paper following the conference, to be published in the post-proceedings of the conference. Upon acceptance by the student and supervisor, further information will be provided regarding the publication process. The deadline for the camera-ready version will be confirmed after the conference (likely around September 2027).
All accepted DC attendees are invited and encouraged to act as student volunteers during the conference.
PhD students with accepted submissions will have the opportunity to present their work at the Doctoral Consortium and receive constructive feedback and advice on their research from a panel of experienced researchers and peers.
Authors must read ACM's policy on the use of Generative AI in authoring papers found in 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.
Submissions should be written using the Springer LNCS format. Instructions and templates available at:
https://springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-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
For questions about your Doctoral Consortium proposal, contact the DC Chairs at dc2027@eics.acm.org .