The Tenth Symposium on Pervasive Displays aims to continue the tradition of previous PerDis symposiums 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 of 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 both from 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 part of larger infrastructures that engage with users, objects, or the environment itself in 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 though visual, auditory, haptic, thermal, olfactory or any other sensory output means.

We invite original submissions covering topics (but not limited to):

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)

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

Papers can be up to 14 pages, including references (maximum of 12 pages of text).

Formatting

• Papers must be in English.
• Authors are required to use the single-column SIGCONF Conference Proceedings format. Further, authors are required to use the 2012 ACM Computing Classification System for CCS concepts.
• LaTeX users download the template here or use the Overleaf template. Note that the default template is set for 2-column and needs to be manually changed to 1-column for initial review using the option shown below. For an anonymous submission, use \documentclass[manuscript,review,anonymous]{acmart}. For all others, use \documentclass[manuscript,review]{acmart}.
• For LaTeX, the correct templates (Overleaf or LaTeX templates) can be found on ACM’s Preparing your article for LaTeX page, using \documentclass[manuscript, screen, review]{acmart}.
• For Word, the correct submission template can be found here.
• The TAPS workflow we use is described on ACM’s TAPS workflow page.
• All references must be complete, accurate, accessible, and conform to the ACM Publication Format.

Anonymity

All submissions need to be fully anonymized. This includes any appendices or supplemental material, as well as a potential acknowledgments section. Citations to the authors’ own previous work are not allowed to be anonymized (to ensure reviewers can verify prior research). Authors should refer to their own prior work in the third person. For example, “Smith et al. [1] did …” instead of “We did … [1]”. Papers that violate the anonymization policy, including within the supplemental materials or external links to datasets, code repositories, etc., will be desk rejected.

Supplementary Materials

• All videos and supplementary material must be anonymized.
• Videos can be of any length and should include closed captions and audio descriptions; see Accessible Presentation Guide.
• Other supplementary material may include, for example, survey text, experimental protocols, source code, and data, all of which can help others replicate the work. Authors should submit any non-video supplementary material as a single .zip file, including a README file with a description of the materials.
• Reviewers should be able to assess the contribution based solely on the main PDF. The paper submission must stand independently without the supplementary material.

Accessibility

Authors are encouraged to follow : SIGCHI’s guidance

• Guide to an Accessible Submission
• Accessible PDF Author Guide
• Accessible Presentation Guide
• Adding Document Tags
• PDF Accessibility Checker

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 are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM’s new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM is committed to improving author discoverability, ensuring proper attribution, and contributing to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.

Please check our PerDis’26 website for updates and more details on the submission process and deadlines.

Submitting

Submission Platform

Submissions are facilitated via EasyChair. Authors may submit and edit their materials until the submission deadline. Should authors encounter any difficulties, technical problems, or questions about this process, please contact the Papers Chairs via papers@perdis.acm.org.

Selection Process

Papers will be peer-reviewed by multiple members of a program committee consisting of experts on pervasive displays.

Upon Acceptance

Publication

We plan to be ACM sponsored as in previous years, and the aim is to archive accepted papers in the ACM Digital Library. For updates, please check the PerDis’26 website. ACM will send authors a copyright form, which they have to complete. Once completed, authors will be provided with the ACM copyright information, which authors of accepted papers are required to sign and put on their papers. Authors are required to submit their camera-ready version through the submission system and process it according to the publication instructions.

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

Presentation Format

Upon acceptance, authors are required to present their papers at the conference.

Conference Registration

For each accepted paper, at least one author must register for the PerDis’26 conference by the early bird registration deadline.

Demo

The Demo Chairs might invite authors of accepted papers to participate in the demo session. For this, authors have to submit an additional document describing the technical requirements for the demo.

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