Contributions

Call for Late Breaking Results

Please note that from 1st January 2026, ACM is transitioning to ACM Open (AO) — 100% open access. This policy also applies to EICS '27 LBR / Full Papers & Technical Notes. More details are available below.

Late-Breaking Results

Late-Breaking Results (LBR) describe preliminary results of ongoing research or incremental work that present new ideas, concepts, systems, or approaches that focus on methods, techniques, and tools that support designing and developing interactive systems. LBR are intended for eliciting useful feedback on early-stage or incremental work that can benefit from discussions with colleagues in the EICS community.

Submission Format

For review, authors submit using the single-column ACM template, with submissions approximately 8–12 pages and up to about 5,000 words, excluding references. Upon acceptance, LBR papers will be published as a 6-page paper in double-column format generated by ACM TAPS. Papers are submitted via new.precisionconference.com .

ACM TAPS Template authors.acm.org/…/taps-production-workflow

Topics

Submissions should advance the engineering of interactive systems. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Modeling, specification, and analysis of interactive systems
  • Requirements engineering for interactive systems
  • Software architectures and formal methods for interactive systems
  • Methods, processes, principles, tools, and frameworks for developing interactive systems
  • Domain-specific languages, notations, and APIs for interactive systems
  • Integration of engineering concerns into the design process
  • Engineering data-driven and smart interactive systems
  • Engineering for accessibility at scale, and integration with software development pipelines
  • Engineering serious games and cognitive stimulation tools
  • Engineering interactive applications with emerging technologies
  • Engineering interactive systems for diverse audiences
  • Engineering interactive systems for various domains
  • Engineering hardware/software integration
  • Engineering for specific properties (usability, user experience, safety, security, dependability, etc.)
  • Building human-centred AI systems

Submission Details

Submissions use the single-column ACM Master template and should be approximately 8–12 pages, up to about 5,000 words, excluding references. The ACM TAPS template is available at authors.acm.org/…/taps-production-workflow . Upon acceptance, papers are converted by ACM TAPS into the final 6-page double-column publication format.

Review Process & Presentation

LBR submissions undergo a double-blind review process. Accepted Late-Breaking Results are presented as posters at the symposium, giving authors the opportunity for direct discussion with the EICS community. Authors are expected to present their work in person.

Anonymization Policy

LBR uses a double-blind review process — the identities of both authors and reviewers are kept hidden from each other. Authors must take the following steps to anonymize their submission:

  • Remove author and institutional identities from the title and header areas of the paper
  • Ensure that identifying information does not appear in the document's metadata
  • 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]"

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.

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.

Contacts

For questions about Late Breaking Results submissions, contact the LBR Chairs at lbr2027@eics.acm.org .