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)

Content, Formatting, and Restrictions

The papers should clearly explain the research question addressed, research method and tasks, findings or results, and contributions of the work. They should also provide sufficient background and related work to situate and contextualize the authors’ work within the greater body of research. 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.

Papers can be a up to 14 pages including references (maximum of 12 pages of text) submitted as PDF in a single column ACM SIGCONF Conference Proceedings format that can be downloaded here. Further, authors are required to use the 2012 ACM Computing Classification System for CSS concepts.

Review Process

Papers will be peer-reviewed by multiple members of a program committee consisting of experts on pervasive displays. 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 PerDis’26 website.

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