The ACM ISS 2026 demo session provides a great opportunity for authors to present their prototypes, products, and applications to conference attendees. We will provide a demonstration area where you can showcase your best interactive experiences and commercial products during the ISS 2026 conference. Our goal is to provide a highly interactive forum for lively discussions and hands-on experiences around the most exciting interactive technologies and installations.
A demo will allow you to:
ISS 2026 welcomes Demo Submissions about a range of topics relating to interactive surfaces and spaces, as well as novel interface technologies, that include (but not limited to):
The Demo program will be curated by the Demo Chairs, to maximise participation and a diversity of ideas. Submissions should not be anonymised.
All demo submissions must include:
By submitting your extended abstract to an ACM Publication, you are 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 extended abstract, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.
Your extended abstract should not be longer than 6 pages (excluding references). It must include all figures and references and use the ACM Master Article Submission Templates. The extended abstract should include a concise description of your idea, a description of the relevance of your work to the ISS conference community and the broader ISS community, your results or findings, supporting imagery and figures, and a discussion of the implications of your work to the selected domain. Full literature reviews are not expected, although relevant citations should be included. Extended abstracts can be image-heavy, akin to a pictorial, in which the visual components (e.g., diagrams, sketches, illustrations, renderings, photographs, annotated photographs, and collages) play a significant role in conveying novel concepts and research knowledge contribution. Note: pictorial-like submissions should use the same ACM Master Article Template mentioned above.
A video must be submitted along with the written document, as it is the optimal medium to communicate your demonstration to the reviewers of how authors envision their demonstration to the live audience at the conference. The video must be no longer than 5 minutes and must be less than 100 MB in size. Please make sure that your video is playable on standard PC and Macintosh computers. We recommend that you encode your video as an MP4 using the H.264 codec. Submitted videos may be used on the ISS website during and after the conference. Be sure to have permission for all content, and use rights-free music tracks.
Demo submissions will be reviewed by the ISS demos co-chairs for the suitability of ISS. Review comments will be lightweight and justify the outcome, and there will be no rebuttal phase. Confidentiality of submissions is maintained during the review process. All rejected submissions will be kept confidential in perpetuity. All submitted materials for accepted submissions will be kept confidential until the start of the conference. Abstracts of invited demos from the papers track will not be reviewed. We want to showcase interactive technologies from all over the world and create a highly exciting event. We thus encourage the resubmission of existing exciting demos.
Resubmitting a demonstration shown at a previous venue is allowed. Authors are requested to mention that the work has been demonstrated at other venues in the PCS submission.
As there is a short time between notifications and the camera-ready deadline, it is not possible to make large changes to your extended abstract. The camera-ready versions of accepted extended abstracts must be accompanied by a signed copyright form which will be provided to accepted authors by the ACM. Once the form is completed, we will provide you with the copyright information to be included in your paper. You can then submit the final version (including the new copyright notice) through the Precision Conference System by October 18, 2026.
Note: the camera-ready extended abstracts should use the double-column format.
For each accepted demo, at least one author must register for the ISS conference. Authors will also be required to upload a still image as well as a 30-second preview video that will both be used to advertise the demonstration before and during the conference.
Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted extended abstract. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors here. We are 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.
Authors of (conditionally) accepted full papers are invited to participate in the ISS demo session to present the work described in their paper. To request a slot in the demo track, you should create a submission in PCS like the regular demo submission. However, you are not required to prepare a new extended abstract document. You can submit the (conditionally) accepted paper instead of the extended abstract and the video submitted with the paper.
If you have questions about Demos for ISS 2026, contact the Demos Chair at demos2026@iss.acm.org