Call for Pictorials
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 other sensory output means.
To mark the tenth ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays (PerDis 2026), we are pleased to introduce a new submission category: Pictorials. Beyond conventional screens and research papers, the pictorial call welcomes pervasive displays that can take experimental forms of communication, be woven into walls, streets, objects, and even bodies—attuning to their surroundings and engaging as multisensory communicators and storytellers. We particularly encourage imaginative approaches that tap into designerly and visual knowledge.
Pictorials are papers in which visual and textual components are integrated to communicate research through annotated imagery. This format is suited to unpacking and disseminating concepts, practices, and artifacts that may not be fully conveyed through text alone.
Rather than merely documenting existing methods or processes, pictorials should generate new knowledge through creative, critical, and visual forms of scholarly communication. Pictorials are not works in progress; they are archival and incorporated into the proceedings in the same manner as papers. Submissions should present a complete and well-articulated contribution in which annotated images play a central role in communicating knowledge.
While we provide a template and requirements for the first page, beyond that we encourage imaginative ways of presenting knowledge, expanding what is possible within academic dissemination.
Accepted Pictorials will:
| *All deadlines are AoE | |
| Submission | 11 December 2025 |
| Notification | 15 January 2026 |
| Camera-ready | 1 February 2026 |
| Conference | 16–18 March 2026 |
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. All references must be complete, accurate, accessible, and conform to the ACM Publication Format. Clearly describe the novelty and distinguishing ideas of your contribution for the field of pervasive displays.
Pictorials provide a platform for alternative forms of knowledge production within the pervasive displays community. A strong submission should:
We encourage authors to consult prior pictorials from related venues such as TEI, DIS, and CHI to understand the breadth of possibilities within the format.
All submissions must be anonymized for review. Leave author and affiliation information blank and avoid descriptions that could reveal identity (e.g., overly specific study locations).
.zip including a README that describes the contents.
Authors are encouraged to follow SIGCHI’s guidance.
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.
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 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. Please check our PerDis’26 website for updates and further details on submissions and deadlines.
Submissions are facilitated via EasyChair. Authors may submit and edit their materials until the submission deadline. For difficulties, technical problems, or questions, please contact the Pictorials Chairs at pictorials@perdis.acm.org.
All pictorials will undergo double-blind peer review. Reviewers will evaluate submissions based on:
We plan to be ACM-sponsored as in previous years, and aim to archive accepted pictorials in the ACM Digital Library. ACM will send authors a copyright form; once completed, authors will receive ACM copyright information to include in their paper. Camera-ready submissions are made through the submission system, following the publication instructions. The official publication date is when the proceedings are available in the ACM Digital Library (which may be up to two weeks before the conference).
Upon acceptance, authors are required to present their work at the conference.
For each accepted pictorial, a full registration for the PerDis’26 conference is required by the early-bird registration deadline.
Matilda Kalving
Tampere University, Finland
Mafalda Samuelsson-Gamboa
Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden