Please note that from 1st January 2026, ACM is transitioning to
ACM Open (AO) — 100% open access. This policy also applies to
EICS '27 Full Papers & Technical Notes. More details are
available below.
The Journal
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.
Paper Types
Submissions should present original and mature research work
within the scope of the symposium.
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 simulation, feasibility, or comparisons. Tech Notes will
be judged on their technical merits and relevance to interactive
systems concerns.
Length & Format
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.
EICS 2027 is the nineteenth international ACM SIGCHI symposium
devoted to engineering interactive computing systems.
The symposium addresses software quality factors including
usability, user experience, reliability, and security across the
complete engineering lifecycle — from inception, requirements,
design, specification, and coding through data analytics,
validation and verification, deployment, and maintenance.
EICS maintains the longest tradition of bringing together
researchers who contribute to better ways of creating interactive
computing systems, bridging user interface design, software
engineering, and computational interaction.
Topics
Submissions should advance the engineering of interactive
systems.
Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:
Modeling, specification and analysis of interaction and
interactive systems
Requirements engineering for interactive systems
Methods, processes, principles and/or tools for building
interactive systems (design, implementation, prototyping,
evaluation, verification, 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
Diverse interaction techniques and devices (adaptive,
context-aware, tangible, haptic, touch, voice, gestures,
physiological signals, multimodal, mobile, wearable,
VR/AR/MR/XR)
Engineering hardware or software integration in interactive
systems (fabrication, maker processes, physical computing,
cyber-physical systems)
Engineering for diverse user populations (children, elderly,
people with disabilities)
Engineering collaborative multi-user interactive systems
Engineering interactive systems embedding AI-technologies
Engineering interaction-driven AI-technologies
Applying AI in methods, processes, and tools throughout the
engineering lifecycle
The PACM review model governs submission and review, occurring
three times annually.
Accepted papers are published in the PACM on Human-Computer
Interaction journal. Submissions undergo a double-blind review
process managed by Associate Chairs — ACs know author identities,
but authors and reviewers remain mutually anonymous. Authors
receive reviews and may provide a rebuttal before the final
decision.
Anonymization Policy
EICS uses a double-blind review process — reviewer and author
identities are hidden from each other, though ACs know both.
Further suppression of identity in the paper body beyond what is
listed below is left to authors' discretion. If you have specific
challenges anonymizing your submission, contact the track chairs
for advice.
Requirements
Remove author and institutional identities from the title and
header areas — changing text color is not sufficient
Ensure no identifying information appears in the document's
metadata (e.g., the 'Authors' field in your word processor's
'Save As' dialog)
Leave the acknowledgments section blank
Cite your own previous work in the third person — use "As
described by [10]" rather than "our previous work [10]"
Public Archives
EICS does not discourage posting work in public archives before or
during review. However, authors should be aware that promotion of
a submission can make complete anonymization difficult —
well-informed reviewers may recognise a paper without actively
searching for it. Unconscious biases can affect review quality
when identities become known.
Open Access
EICS 2027 publications appear under ACM Open — 100% open access.
Authors at participating ACM Open institutions pay no Article
Processing Charge (APC). Authors at non-participating institutions
will be subject to APCs; check participating institutions at
libraries.acm.org/acmopen/open-participants
and review waiver policies at
acm.org/publications/policies/…/waivers-and-discounts
. The SIG will work with conferences to support authors unable to
cover APCs.
Properly Formatting Citations
Authors are kindly requested to include references reporting the
correct publication to facilitate citation indexing,
in particular for conferences publishing papers in journals such
as PACM. For instance, a (fictional) full paper presented at EICS
2027 should be referenced as follows:
John Doe, Jane Smith. 2027. Enhancing User Experience in
Interactive Systems. Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact. 7, EICS,
Article 123 (jun 2027), 16 pages, https://doi.org/10.1145/123456
Please do not refer to the paper as follows:
John Doe, Jane Smith. 2027. Enhancing User Experience in
Interactive Systems. In Proc. of the 19th Symposium on Engineering
Interactive Computing Systems (EICS 2027), 16 pages.
https://doi.org/10.1145/123456
Use of Generative AI in Manuscript Preparation
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.