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We welcome contributions from academics and practitioners in the form of long papers, short papers, workshops, tutorials, and doctoral colloquiums. To stengten the international profile of the conference, we welcome and encourage submissions and presentations in English. Although the main conference language is traditionally German, also other parts of the program are in are English (e.g. Keynotes).

We invite you to submit full papers as well as short papers, demos, tutorials, workshops, and submissions to the doctoral consortium.
Full papers, should make a novel scientific contribution and will be presented as talk during the main part of the conference.

If you have a research idea or first results of your research project, you are invited to submit a short paper which you will present as poster at the conference. There you can share and discuss your concepts and ideas with the community.

Demos shall present new and innovative interaction technologies and methodologies. The conference offers a separate demo session for this purpose.

Workshops are open forums for short presentations, discussions or collaborative work related to a specific topic. The workshop organisation, meaning the invitation and selection of contributions, is fully done by each workshop organiser.

The conference’s practical track invites you to submit full or creative presentations, workshops and panel discussions, tutorials as well as Young Professionals presentations in German or English language.

Full presentations might present exciting work results, new interaction techniques, new usability or UX methodologies or company-specific processes. You are as well invited to present and discuss controversial topics.

Your written contribution shall comprise up to 14 pages whereas your talk will get a 30-minutes slot including the discussion.

Submitting creative presentations means to discuss creative work results as well as experience reports. Your presentation comprises 15 to 30 minutes and is followed by a written article within the conference proceedings.

Workshops and panel discussions within the practical part allows our participants to discuss and work on an interesting topic together with other experts. Each workshop or panel discussion will get a 90-minutes slot at the conference. You are invited to submit a written contribution, although this is no prerequisite for conducting the workshop.

Tutorials offer the opportunity to show theoretical as well as practical knowledge or experiences to other participants. Each tutorial gets either a 90-minutes slot, 4 hours (half day) or 8 hours (full day). If you organise a tutorial, you are rewarded by just paying the reduced conference fee.

Our Young Professionals format allows junior experts to present their graduate thesis or results from professional training. You might find your next employer there in the audience.

If you are a non-EU citizen, please check if you need a visa for entering Germany and the Schengen Area. A list of citizens of countries that need a visa can be found here Do I need a visa?.