We invite industry and academic leaders in interactive surfaces and spaces technologies interested in leading a tutorial session at ISS 2026 to submit a tutorial proposal following the guidelines below.

Tutorials should focus on topics relevant to the ISS community and can include but are not limited to the following areas:

• Architectural concepts and emerging trends
• Immersive analytics and data physicalization
• Museum and art installation trends
• Interaction paradigms around large surfaces (tangibles, pen+touch, etc.)
• New and emerging body and space sensing technologies
• Overview of social protocols, presence, territoriality, and proxemics
• Evaluation methods for surface applications
• Multi-touch interaction with mobile devices
• Large-scale and outdoor interactive spaces (projected interfaces, drones, …)
• Feel, taste, smell and splash user interfaces on surfaces
• Affective spaces and surfaces
• …and other exciting topics!

Please submit your proposal by July 22, 2026. Proposals will be reviewed on a rolling basis upon receipt, with all reviews finalized within two weeks and no later than August 7, 2026. This year, we focus the conference on in-person attendance, which means that all presenters should be present in person. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Online tools and technologies
• Demonstrating hardware setups and installations, exploring the ins and outs of setting up interactive spaces in our * labs
• Live coding and code demonstrations
• The latest hardware and platforms (e.g. HoloLens 2, pen & touch, gaze trackers, LIDAR sensors, MaxMSP, P5.js)
• Using online tools to scale tutorials (e.g. multiple camera angles for sketching)

Tutorials can run 60-90-120 minutes (the length is up to the tutorial organizers).

Quick Overview

• Tutorials can be one among these: 60-90-120 minutes
• Tutorials at ISS 2026 will be open and inclusive. Attendance for all scheduled tutorials will be open to all participants who choose to register.
• The full conference registration include tutorials.
• Tutorials will be in-person with registration open to people attending in-person.
• At least one organizer must be at the tutorial in person.
• Accepted tutorial proposals will be published as part of the ISS conference proceedings and available in the ACM Digital Library.

Submitting a Tutorial Proposal

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 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 (ORCID FAQs). 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.

We request a short tutorial proposal (up to 4 pages, excluding references). Please format your submission using the single-column ACM Master Article Submission Template .

Accepted proposals will be part of the ISS 2026 conference proceedings and will be available in the ACM Digital Library.

Please include the following information in your tutorial proposal submission:

• Title of the tutorial
• Full contact information of all tutorial organizers and the main contact person (if there are multiple organizers)
• Topics and objectives of the tutorial and how these are relevant to the ISS community
• Description of planned hands-on activities and topics covered during the tutorial
• Please indicate how you aim to facilitate and support an engaging tutorial.
• Logistics requirements for holding the tutorial at the venue
• Short bio of the tutorial organizers

Please include a single information page (in addition to the 4-page proposal) with the following information:

• A maximum 100 words pitch advertising the aim and objectives of your tutorial
• Proposed tutorial length (60/90/120 min)
• If needed, the maximum number of tutorial participants

Please submit your tutorial proposal using the ISS Precision Conference submission system by the deadline on July 22, 2026.

Selection Process

Tutorials will be reviewed by the tutorial chairs and ISS 2026 Program Committee. Proposals will be reviewed confidentially, and decisions about acceptance are final.

Upon acceptance of your tutorial

Upon acceptance, ACM will send you a copyright form, which you have to complete. Once completed, we will provide you with the new copyright information to be put on your paper. You can then submit the final version (including the new copyright notice) through the Precision Conference System by October 18, 2026.

For each accepted tutorial, at least one author must register for the ISS 2026 conference . The authors are expected to lead/facilitate the accepted tutorial at the conference during their assigned tutorial session. Authors will also be required to upload a still image as well as a one-minute preview video that will be used to advertise the demonstration before and during the conference.

More details will be provided in the following weeks regarding the organization during the conference.

Tutorial Co-Chairs

• Tommaso Calò, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
• Dorota Glowacka, University of Helsinki, Finland

If you have questions about Tutorials for ISS 2026, please contact the Tutorial Chairs at tutorials2026@iss.acm.org

Important Dates AoE (Anywhere on Earth)

Conference
Nov. 23-26, 2026	Main Conference

Submissions and Deadlines
	Tutorials submission due
	Tutorials prop. notification to authors
	Tutorials prop. camera-ready due