Call for Late-Breaking Work

The Tenth Symposium on Pervasive Displays aims to continue the tradition of previous PerDis symposia by offering a premier venue for advances in research, technologies, and applications related to pervasive displays. We welcome researchers, students, and practitioners in this multi-disciplinary, yet intimate, single-track venue to discuss challenges, innovations, and achievements in pervasive displays from diverse perspectives, e.g., from the fields of Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, Media Architecture, Urban Interaction Design, Smart Cities, and Sustainable Technology. We encourage submissions from both technical and design research perspectives on the future of display technologies in public and semi-public spaces.

Pervasive displays are digital display systems that are embedded into the physical, social, or interactive environment, enabling context-aware, situated, and continuous communication. These displays exist either as standalone systems or as part of larger infrastructures that engage with users, objects, or the environment itself in a variety of contexts—public spaces, private areas, urban settings, or mobile/remote contexts. These displays are designed to interact with users or surroundings in meaningful, often collaborative, ways through visual, auditory, haptic, thermal, olfactory, or any other sensory output means.

We are pleased to announce the Call for Late-Breaking Work (LBW) at PerDis 2026. The PerDis conference invites original submissions across the broad spectrum of topics pertinent to the venue, as specified in the main Call for Papers:

Interaction and technology

  • Applications in public, semi-public, or private spaces (e.g., retail, museums, healthcare, urban settings, human-building / human-environment interaction)
  • Visual, auditory, haptic, thermal, and olfactory display systems
  • Tangible and shape-changing displays, or displays embedded in physical objects and infrastructure
  • Autonomous and mobile displays, including those in urban robots, drones, and vehicles
  • Interfaces and interaction techniques for context-aware, situated, or wearable displays
  • Media façades, architectural displays, and public infrastructure interactions
  • XR and AR systems anchored to real-world environments (e.g., location-based, projection-based, and immersive spatial experiences)
  • Wearable and body-mounted displays (including all sensory modalities)
  • Dynamic content design for interactive, responsive, or multi-sensory display environments
  • Other perspectives

Research methods for developing, studying, and evaluating pervasive displays

  • Evaluations, case studies, deployments, and experience reports from real-world settings
  • Audience behavior: interaction, perception, and engagement with different types of displays
  • Usable privacy, ethics, and trust considerations in public or shared display systems
  • Sustainability considerations for public or shared display systems
  • System architectures, toolkits, and frameworks for developing pervasive display applications
  • Displays for accessibility, inclusion, and multi-sensory communication
  • Design research, conceptual, critical, and speculative design involving future or experimental pervasive display technologies
  • Art installations, experimental uses of pervasive displays, and multi-modal experiences
  • Displays integrated into everyday objects, smart materials, or urban infrastructure (e.g., smart benches, transport systems)

Important Dates — Late-Breaking Work

*All deadlines are AoE
Submission 11 December 2025
Acceptance Notification 15 January 2026
Camera-ready 1 February 2026
Conference 16–18 March 2026

Preparing the Submission

Novelty

The submission must be original work. The paper should contain work that has not been previously published or is not concurrently under consideration for any other conference, workshop, journal, or other publication with an ISBN, ISSN, or DOI number.

Length

We accept contributions up to 4 pages (excluding references) submitted as a PDF in the single-column ACM Conference Proceedings Primary Article Template.

Formatting

Anonymity

All submissions must be fully anonymized, including appendices and supplemental material, as well as acknowledgments. Citations to the authors’ prior work must not be anonymized; instead, refer to prior work in the third person (e.g., “Smith et al. [1] …” rather than “We … [1]”). Papers that violate anonymization (including in supplemental materials or external links to datasets, code, etc.) will be desk-rejected.

Supplementary Materials

Accessibility

Authors are encouraged to follow SIGCHI’s guidance.

Use of Generative AI

Authors must adhere to the ACM Policy on Authorship regarding the use of generative AI in submissions. Authors are responsible for all content produced (including plagiarism, misrepresentation, or fabrication) by these tools and must disclose their use.

ACM Publications Policy

By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you acknowledge that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of ACM Publications Policies will be investigated by ACM and may result in retraction and other penalties per policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID to complete the publishing process. ACM is committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper attribution, and supporting ongoing efforts around name normalization.

Please check our PerDis’26 website for updates and further details on submissions and deadlines.

Submitting

Submission Platform

Submissions are facilitated via EasyChair (PerDis 2026 LBW track). Authors may submit and edit materials until the submission deadline. For difficulties or technical questions, contact the Late-Breaking Work Chairs at posters@perdis.acm.org.

Selection Process

All submissions will be blind reviewed by an international panel of experts in pervasive displays. Confidentiality of submissions will be maintained during review. Rejected submissions will be kept confidential. Materials for accepted submissions will remain confidential until published in the ACM Digital Library.

Upon Acceptance

Publication

We plan to be ACM-sponsored as in previous years, and aim to archive accepted papers in the ACM Digital Library. Poster designs are not included in the Digital Library. Material presented as Late-Breaking Work may form the basis for future publications after appropriate integration and extension. ACM will send authors a copyright form. After completion, authors will receive the ACM copyright information, which must be included in the paper. Camera-ready submissions are made through the submission system, following the publication instructions.

The official publication date is when the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library, which may be up to two weeks before the first day of the conference.

Presentation Format

Upon acceptance, at least one author must present the work at the conference.

Conference Registration

For each accepted late-breaking work, a full registration for the PerDis’26 conference is required by the early-bird registration deadline.

Simo Hosio
University of Oulu, Finland

Xinyan Yu
University of Sydney, Australia