doctoral colloquium

Last update: Jan 26, 2026

Overview

The IH’26 Doctoral Colloquium provides an opportunity for mentoring and sharing research among a small group of Ph.D. students. It will consist of an in-person event taking place in Porto on July 5th before the on-site conference. The primary goal of the DC is to provide a forum for in-depth research discussions (based on student’s dissertation projects) and for community building by creating a peer network for participants to engage with each other, and a panel of experienced HCI researchers (mentors).

Important Dates

All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Check your local time in AoE.

  • Thursday, February 5th 2026: Submission deadline
  • Thursday, March 5th 2026: Notification to authors
  • Thursday, March 19th 2026: e-rights completion deadline
  • Tuesday, March 31st 2026: Publication-ready deadline (Authors upload FINAL TAPS-approved version to PCS)
  • Tuesday, April 7th 2026: TAPS Closes

Submission Details

Submission Format

  • Submission: including a 6-page (excluding references) research description, a benefits statement, a letter of support from your advisor, and CV (see detailed instructions below).
  • Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information.
  • We recommend that authors read the following two policies before submitting:
    1. The April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and use of large language models (LLMs)
    2. The 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving humans.
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Message from the Doctoral Colloquium Chairs

The Doctoral Colloquium is an event for Ph.D. students to share their Ph.D. research. A small group of Ph.D. students who are about midway (see further guidance below under Preparing and Submitting your Doctoral Colloquium Proposal) through their Ph.D. programs with a clear research direction who will benefit from guidance provided by a small panel of established HCI researchers. The aim is for students to discuss, receive feedback, and learn from one another and from experienced HCI researchers from other institutions.

The goals are that the selected Ph.D. students will:

  • Gain new ideas and perspectives on their research directions;
  • Support each other by constructively offering their feedback to the other attending Ph.D. students;
  • Build a peer network with new friendships with the other participants, together becoming a supportive cohort of emerging scholars with a spirit of collaborative research; and
  • Support the engagement with the full IH conference by participating in many of the events and opportunities that IH offers, and by enjoying interactions with other IH attendees.

Preparing and Submitting your Doctoral Colloquium Proposal

Tip: You’re at the right stage for this event if you have a plan for the things you’ll do to finish your dissertation, have made some progress in carrying out that plan, and can still change the plan based on feedback. Please ensure that your proposal helps us see that you are indeed at this stage.

Each proposal should be a single PDF with four required components/documents: (1) a six-page description of your Ph.D., (2) an expected benefits statement, (3) a recommendation letter, and (4) a two-page curriculum vitae. If you are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation from your thesis advisor, please include a short explanation.

To be considered, you must submit your Doctoral Colloquium proposal by the submission deadline.

1. Six-page research description (excluding references): Use the ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column) template and include the following:

    • Your name, Advisor(s) name(s), and the university where you are conducting your doctoral work.  Submissions should NOT be anonymous.
    • Current year of study and projected completion date (plus information about the regulations of your PhD program regarding length, any part-time study, etc.)
    • Have you ever attended another doctoral colloquium? If so, please name it, link to the conference homepage, and give the size of the conference (number of participants overall and the number of participants in the DC). Then we will assess whether attending another DC makes sense.  
    • The background and motivation for your research, including the key related work that frames your research
    • Specific research objectives, goals, or questions; try to explain how your work differs from previous work
    • Research approach, methods, and rationale
    • Results and contributions to date
    • Expected next steps, as well as open questions and challenges that you face in your research
    • Dissertation status and long-term goals
    • Note that, upon acceptance, the research description will be published in the conference’s Extended Abstracts in the ACM Digital Library.

2. Benefits and Contribution statement (two paragraphs)

    • Describe what you hope to gain by participating in the Doctoral Colloquium, and how your participation will benefit other students and faculty.

3. Letter of Support (from primary thesis advisor)

    • Describe the advisor’s interaction with the student and assessment of the quality of their work. Explain how the IH 2026 doctoral colloquium would benefit this student at this point in their doctoral program, as well as the contributions the student could make to the cohort of students.
    • The doctoral colloquium is targeted towards students who have a clear idea of their research plans and started their research, but have not yet executed most of their research plan. Please explain the structure of your student’s program and their expected level of progress by April 2026.
    • As stated above, if a student is unable to obtain a letter of support from their thesis advisor (or the equivalent), the student should instead include a short explanation and a description of where they are in their doctoral progress and anticipated timeline.

4. Curriculum Vitae: (maximum two pages)

    • Provide a concise summary of your current curriculum vitae, including research publications. Please separate published papers from those under review or in press.

Please ensure that your submission is complete and conforms to the format and content guidelines above. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will be desk rejected.

Metadata Integrity

All submission metadata, including required fields in PCS like author names, affiliations, and order, must be complete and correct by the submission deadline. This information is crucial to the integrity of the review process and author representation. No changes to metadata after this deadline will be allowed.

Accessibility

Authors are strongly encouraged to work on improving the accessibility of their submissions before peer review begins, using recommendations found in the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for their paper. For any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at accessibility2026@ih.acm.org.

Selection Process

Overview: Submission will be Reviewed by the co-chairs. As soon as the submission deadline passes, the Doctoral Colloquium committee will review and select candidates via a reviewed process that considers both research quality and the goal of identifying a set of students who will benefit significantly from the event and support each other. We will seek diversity in backgrounds, identities, abilities, intellectual viewpoints, topics, and geographic areas.

Supporting a wide group of institutions/advisors: Besides the selection criteria above, kindly note that even if your submission is excellent, we might not be able to accept you because of our goals of having attendees across many institutions. For example, we probably cannot accept more than two students from the same institution, and definitely cannot accept more than one student with the same advisor.

Confidentiality of your submission: Submissions should not contain sensitive, private, or proprietary information that cannot be disclosed at publication time. Before publication time, we will keep your submission confidential in these ways:

  • During the review process: Confidentiality of submissions will be maintained throughout the review process.
  • If your submission is accepted: Your accepted submission will be kept confidential until the start of the doctoral colloquium activities, except for title and author information, which will be published on the website before the conference. The research description will be published as part of the conference’s Extended Abstracts. All other materials (Benefits and Contribution Statement, Letter of Recommendation, and Curriculum Vitae) will be kept confidential in perpetuity.
  • If your submission is not accepted: Your submission will be kept confidential in perpetuity.

Upon Acceptance of your Doctoral Colloquium Proposal

Note that submissions will not be published without a signed ACM copyright form. Obtaining permissions to use video, audio, or pictures of identifiable people or proprietary content rests with the author, not the ACM or the IH Conference.

Authors of accepted submissions will receive instructions on how to submit the publication-ready version of their submission, as well as how to prepare the presentation and the poster. If the author cannot meet these requirements by the Publication-Ready deadline, the venue chairs will be notified and may be required to remove the proposal from the program. The publication-ready version has to follow the LaTeX and Word templates from ACM. For specific template instructions for the publication ready version of your submissions, see the Publication Formats page. Should you need technical assistance, please direct your technical query to: proceedings2026@ih.acm.org

Authors will also receive information about doctoral colloquium registration and attending the conference.

At the Conference

Each accepted submission will be presented at the in-person DC event in Porto. The DC will take place Sunday in Porto on July 5th, 2026.

All DC participants will receive specific instructions about the presentation format; this format will vary depending on the event to foster discussion and maximize participant attention. Accepted submissions will also be provided an opportunity to be presented as a poster at the on-site conference.

Attendance at In-person Event at IH 2026

Individuals accepted to the DC are expected to attend the colloquium in full. Students should also bring a small version of their poster, on A4 or letter-size paper, to hand out during the Doctoral Colloquium and poster sessions.

Each student will present their work to the group, with substantial time allowed for discussion and questions by the faculty and other students. Being accepted into the IH Doctoral Colloquium is a prestigious honor and involves a commitment to giving and receiving thoughtful commentary with an eye towards shaping the field and upcoming participants in the field.

Poster Session

DC participants will present a poster of their work at the main IH conference.

After the Conference

Doctoral Colloquium description papers will be published as part of the IH Extended Abstracts in the ACM Digital Library.

ACMs New Open Access Publishing Model

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%).

All submissions for the IH ’26 conference are not APC-eligible (i.e., they will not incur article processing charges).

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doctoral colloquium

Last update: Jan 26, 2026

Overview

The IH’26 Doctoral Colloquium provides an opportunity for mentoring and sharing research among a small group of Ph.D. students. It will consist of an in-person event taking place in Porto on July 5th before the on-site conference. The primary goal of the DC is to provide a forum for in-depth research discussions (based on student’s dissertation projects) and for community building by creating a peer network for participants to engage with each other, and a panel of experienced HCI researchers (mentors).

Important Dates

All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Check your local time in AoE.

  • Thursday, February 5th 2026: Submission deadline
  • Thursday, March 5th 2026: Notification to authors
  • Thursday, March 19th 2026: e-rights completion deadline
  • Tuesday, March 31st 2026: Publication-ready deadline (Authors upload FINAL TAPS-approved version to PCS)
  • Tuesday, April 7th 2026: TAPS Closes

Submission Details

Submission Format

  • Submission: including a 6-page (excluding references) research description, a benefits statement, a letter of support from your advisor, and CV (see detailed instructions below).
  • Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information.
  • We recommend that authors read the following two policies before submitting:
    1. The April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and use of large language models (LLMs)
    2. The 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving humans.
Decorative graphic tile

Message from the Doctoral Colloquium Chairs

The Doctoral Colloquium is an event for Ph.D. students to share their Ph.D. research. A small group of Ph.D. students who are about midway (see further guidance below under Preparing and Submitting your Doctoral Colloquium Proposal) through their Ph.D. programs with a clear research direction who will benefit from guidance provided by a small panel of established HCI researchers. The aim is for students to discuss, receive feedback, and learn from one another and from experienced HCI researchers from other institutions.

The goals are that the selected Ph.D. students will:

  • Gain new ideas and perspectives on their research directions;
  • Support each other by constructively offering their feedback to the other attending Ph.D. students;
  • Build a peer network with new friendships with the other participants, together becoming a supportive cohort of emerging scholars with a spirit of collaborative research; and
  • Support the engagement with the full IH conference by participating in many of the events and opportunities that IH offers, and by enjoying interactions with other IH attendees.

Preparing and Submitting your Doctoral Colloquium Proposal

Tip: You’re at the right stage for this event if you have a plan for the things you’ll do to finish your dissertation, have made some progress in carrying out that plan, and can still change the plan based on feedback. Please ensure that your proposal helps us see that you are indeed at this stage.

Each proposal should be a single PDF with four required components/documents: (1) a six-page description of your Ph.D., (2) an expected benefits statement, (3) a recommendation letter, and (4) a two-page curriculum vitae. If you are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation from your thesis advisor, please include a short explanation.

To be considered, you must submit your Doctoral Colloquium proposal by the submission deadline.

1. Six-page research description (excluding references): Use the ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column) template and include the following:

    • Your name, Advisor(s) name(s), and the university where you are conducting your doctoral work.  Submissions should NOT be anonymous.
    • Current year of study and projected completion date (plus information about the regulations of your PhD program regarding length, any part-time study, etc.)
    • Have you ever attended another doctoral colloquium? If so, please name it, link to the conference homepage, and give the size of the conference (number of participants overall and the number of participants in the DC). Then we will assess whether attending another DC makes sense.  
    • The background and motivation for your research, including the key related work that frames your research
    • Specific research objectives, goals, or questions; try to explain how your work differs from previous work
    • Research approach, methods, and rationale
    • Results and contributions to date
    • Expected next steps, as well as open questions and challenges that you face in your research
    • Dissertation status and long-term goals
    • Note that, upon acceptance, the research description will be published in the conference’s Extended Abstracts in the ACM Digital Library.

2. Benefits and Contribution statement (two paragraphs)

    • Describe what you hope to gain by participating in the Doctoral Colloquium, and how your participation will benefit other students and faculty.

3. Letter of Support (from primary thesis advisor)

    • Describe the advisor’s interaction with the student and assessment of the quality of their work. Explain how the IH 2026 doctoral colloquium would benefit this student at this point in their doctoral program, as well as the contributions the student could make to the cohort of students.
    • The doctoral colloquium is targeted towards students who have a clear idea of their research plans and started their research, but have not yet executed most of their research plan. Please explain the structure of your student’s program and their expected level of progress by April 2026.
    • As stated above, if a student is unable to obtain a letter of support from their thesis advisor (or the equivalent), the student should instead include a short explanation and a description of where they are in their doctoral progress and anticipated timeline.

4. Curriculum Vitae: (maximum two pages)

    • Provide a concise summary of your current curriculum vitae, including research publications. Please separate published papers from those under review or in press.

Please ensure that your submission is complete and conforms to the format and content guidelines above. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will be desk rejected.

Metadata Integrity

All submission metadata, including required fields in PCS like author names, affiliations, and order, must be complete and correct by the submission deadline. This information is crucial to the integrity of the review process and author representation. No changes to metadata after this deadline will be allowed.

Accessibility

Authors are strongly encouraged to work on improving the accessibility of their submissions before peer review begins, using recommendations found in the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for their paper. For any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at accessibility2026@ih.acm.org.

Selection Process

Overview: Submission will be Reviewed by the co-chairs. As soon as the submission deadline passes, the Doctoral Colloquium committee will review and select candidates via a reviewed process that considers both research quality and the goal of identifying a set of students who will benefit significantly from the event and support each other. We will seek diversity in backgrounds, identities, abilities, intellectual viewpoints, topics, and geographic areas.

Supporting a wide group of institutions/advisors: Besides the selection criteria above, kindly note that even if your submission is excellent, we might not be able to accept you because of our goals of having attendees across many institutions. For example, we probably cannot accept more than two students from the same institution, and definitely cannot accept more than one student with the same advisor.

Confidentiality of your submission: Submissions should not contain sensitive, private, or proprietary information that cannot be disclosed at publication time. Before publication time, we will keep your submission confidential in these ways:

  • During the review process: Confidentiality of submissions will be maintained throughout the review process.
  • If your submission is accepted: Your accepted submission will be kept confidential until the start of the doctoral colloquium activities, except for title and author information, which will be published on the website before the conference. The research description will be published as part of the conference’s Extended Abstracts. All other materials (Benefits and Contribution Statement, Letter of Recommendation, and Curriculum Vitae) will be kept confidential in perpetuity.
  • If your submission is not accepted: Your submission will be kept confidential in perpetuity.

Upon Acceptance of your Doctoral Colloquium Proposal

Note that submissions will not be published without a signed ACM copyright form. Obtaining permissions to use video, audio, or pictures of identifiable people or proprietary content rests with the author, not the ACM or the IH Conference.

Authors of accepted submissions will receive instructions on how to submit the publication-ready version of their submission, as well as how to prepare the presentation and the poster. If the author cannot meet these requirements by the Publication-Ready deadline, the venue chairs will be notified and may be required to remove the proposal from the program. The publication-ready version has to follow the LaTeX and Word templates from ACM. For specific template instructions for the publication ready version of your submissions, see the Publication Formats page. Should you need technical assistance, please direct your technical query to: proceedings2026@ih.acm.org

Authors will also receive information about doctoral colloquium registration and attending the conference.

At the Conference

Each accepted submission will be presented at the in-person DC event in Porto. The DC will take place Sunday in Porto on July 5th, 2026.

All DC participants will receive specific instructions about the presentation format; this format will vary depending on the event to foster discussion and maximize participant attention. Accepted submissions will also be provided an opportunity to be presented as a poster at the on-site conference.

Attendance at In-person Event at IH 2026

Individuals accepted to the DC are expected to attend the colloquium in full. Students should also bring a small version of their poster, on A4 or letter-size paper, to hand out during the Doctoral Colloquium and poster sessions.

Each student will present their work to the group, with substantial time allowed for discussion and questions by the faculty and other students. Being accepted into the IH Doctoral Colloquium is a prestigious honor and involves a commitment to giving and receiving thoughtful commentary with an eye towards shaping the field and upcoming participants in the field.

Poster Session

DC participants will present a poster of their work at the main IH conference.

After the Conference

Doctoral Colloquium description papers will be published as part of the IH Extended Abstracts in the ACM Digital Library.

ACMs New Open Access Publishing Model

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%).

All submissions for the IH ’26 conference are not APC-eligible (i.e., they will not incur article processing charges).

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doctoral colloquium

Last update: Jan 26, 2026

Overview

The IH’26 Doctoral Colloquium provides an opportunity for mentoring and sharing research among a small group of Ph.D. students. It will consist of an in-person event taking place in Porto on July 5th before the on-site conference. The primary goal of the DC is to provide a forum for in-depth research discussions (based on student’s dissertation projects) and for community building by creating a peer network for participants to engage with each other, and a panel of experienced HCI researchers (mentors).

Important Dates

All times are in Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone. When the deadline is day D, the last time to submit is when D ends AoE. Check your local time in AoE.

  • Thursday, February 5th 2026: Submission deadline
  • Thursday, March 5th 2026: Notification to authors
  • Thursday, March 19th 2026: e-rights completion deadline
  • Tuesday, March 31st 2026: Publication-ready deadline (Authors upload FINAL TAPS-approved version to PCS)
  • Tuesday, April 7th 2026: TAPS Closes

Submission Details

Submission Format

  • Submission: including a 6-page (excluding references) research description, a benefits statement, a letter of support from your advisor, and CV (see detailed instructions below).
  • Submissions are not anonymous and should include all author names, affiliations, and contact information.
  • We recommend that authors read the following two policies before submitting:
    1. The April 2023 ACM Policy on Authorship and use of large language models (LLMs)
    2. The 2021 ACM Publications policy on research involving humans.
Decorative graphic tile

Message from the Doctoral Colloquium Chairs

The Doctoral Colloquium is an event for Ph.D. students to share their Ph.D. research. A small group of Ph.D. students who are about midway (see further guidance below under Preparing and Submitting your Doctoral Colloquium Proposal) through their Ph.D. programs with a clear research direction who will benefit from guidance provided by a small panel of established HCI researchers. The aim is for students to discuss, receive feedback, and learn from one another and from experienced HCI researchers from other institutions.

The goals are that the selected Ph.D. students will:

  • Gain new ideas and perspectives on their research directions;
  • Support each other by constructively offering their feedback to the other attending Ph.D. students;
  • Build a peer network with new friendships with the other participants, together becoming a supportive cohort of emerging scholars with a spirit of collaborative research; and
  • Support the engagement with the full IH conference by participating in many of the events and opportunities that IH offers, and by enjoying interactions with other IH attendees.

Preparing and Submitting your Doctoral Colloquium Proposal

Tip: You’re at the right stage for this event if you have a plan for the things you’ll do to finish your dissertation, have made some progress in carrying out that plan, and can still change the plan based on feedback. Please ensure that your proposal helps us see that you are indeed at this stage.

Each proposal should be a single PDF with four required components/documents: (1) a six-page description of your Ph.D., (2) an expected benefits statement, (3) a recommendation letter, and (4) a two-page curriculum vitae. If you are unable to obtain a letter of recommendation from your thesis advisor, please include a short explanation.

To be considered, you must submit your Doctoral Colloquium proposal by the submission deadline.

1. Six-page research description (excluding references): Use the ACM Master Article Submission Templates (single column) template and include the following:

    • Your name, Advisor(s) name(s), and the university where you are conducting your doctoral work.  Submissions should NOT be anonymous.
    • Current year of study and projected completion date (plus information about the regulations of your PhD program regarding length, any part-time study, etc.)
    • Have you ever attended another doctoral colloquium? If so, please name it, link to the conference homepage, and give the size of the conference (number of participants overall and the number of participants in the DC). Then we will assess whether attending another DC makes sense.  
    • The background and motivation for your research, including the key related work that frames your research
    • Specific research objectives, goals, or questions; try to explain how your work differs from previous work
    • Research approach, methods, and rationale
    • Results and contributions to date
    • Expected next steps, as well as open questions and challenges that you face in your research
    • Dissertation status and long-term goals
    • Note that, upon acceptance, the research description will be published in the conference’s Extended Abstracts in the ACM Digital Library.

2. Benefits and Contribution statement (two paragraphs)

    • Describe what you hope to gain by participating in the Doctoral Colloquium, and how your participation will benefit other students and faculty.

3. Letter of Support (from primary thesis advisor)

    • Describe the advisor’s interaction with the student and assessment of the quality of their work. Explain how the IH 2026 doctoral colloquium would benefit this student at this point in their doctoral program, as well as the contributions the student could make to the cohort of students.
    • The doctoral colloquium is targeted towards students who have a clear idea of their research plans and started their research, but have not yet executed most of their research plan. Please explain the structure of your student’s program and their expected level of progress by April 2026.
    • As stated above, if a student is unable to obtain a letter of support from their thesis advisor (or the equivalent), the student should instead include a short explanation and a description of where they are in their doctoral progress and anticipated timeline.

4. Curriculum Vitae: (maximum two pages)

    • Provide a concise summary of your current curriculum vitae, including research publications. Please separate published papers from those under review or in press.

Please ensure that your submission is complete and conforms to the format and content guidelines above. Submissions that do not meet these requirements will be desk rejected.

Metadata Integrity

All submission metadata, including required fields in PCS like author names, affiliations, and order, must be complete and correct by the submission deadline. This information is crucial to the integrity of the review process and author representation. No changes to metadata after this deadline will be allowed.

Accessibility

Authors are strongly encouraged to work on improving the accessibility of their submissions before peer review begins, using recommendations found in the SIGCHI Guide to an Accessible Submission for their paper. For any questions or concerns about creating accessible submissions, please contact the Accessibility Chairs at accessibility2026@ih.acm.org.

Selection Process

Overview: Submission will be Reviewed by the co-chairs. As soon as the submission deadline passes, the Doctoral Colloquium committee will review and select candidates via a reviewed process that considers both research quality and the goal of identifying a set of students who will benefit significantly from the event and support each other. We will seek diversity in backgrounds, identities, abilities, intellectual viewpoints, topics, and geographic areas.

Supporting a wide group of institutions/advisors: Besides the selection criteria above, kindly note that even if your submission is excellent, we might not be able to accept you because of our goals of having attendees across many institutions. For example, we probably cannot accept more than two students from the same institution, and definitely cannot accept more than one student with the same advisor.

Confidentiality of your submission: Submissions should not contain sensitive, private, or proprietary information that cannot be disclosed at publication time. Before publication time, we will keep your submission confidential in these ways:

  • During the review process: Confidentiality of submissions will be maintained throughout the review process.
  • If your submission is accepted: Your accepted submission will be kept confidential until the start of the doctoral colloquium activities, except for title and author information, which will be published on the website before the conference. The research description will be published as part of the conference’s Extended Abstracts. All other materials (Benefits and Contribution Statement, Letter of Recommendation, and Curriculum Vitae) will be kept confidential in perpetuity.
  • If your submission is not accepted: Your submission will be kept confidential in perpetuity.

Upon Acceptance of your Doctoral Colloquium Proposal

Note that submissions will not be published without a signed ACM copyright form. Obtaining permissions to use video, audio, or pictures of identifiable people or proprietary content rests with the author, not the ACM or the IH Conference.

Authors of accepted submissions will receive instructions on how to submit the publication-ready version of their submission, as well as how to prepare the presentation and the poster. If the author cannot meet these requirements by the Publication-Ready deadline, the venue chairs will be notified and may be required to remove the proposal from the program. The publication-ready version has to follow the LaTeX and Word templates from ACM. For specific template instructions for the publication ready version of your submissions, see the Publication Formats page. Should you need technical assistance, please direct your technical query to: proceedings2026@ih.acm.org

Authors will also receive information about doctoral colloquium registration and attending the conference.

At the Conference

Each accepted submission will be presented at the in-person DC event in Porto. The DC will take place Sunday in Porto on July 5th, 2026.

All DC participants will receive specific instructions about the presentation format; this format will vary depending on the event to foster discussion and maximize participant attention. Accepted submissions will also be provided an opportunity to be presented as a poster at the on-site conference.

Attendance at In-person Event at IH 2026

Individuals accepted to the DC are expected to attend the colloquium in full. Students should also bring a small version of their poster, on A4 or letter-size paper, to hand out during the Doctoral Colloquium and poster sessions.

Each student will present their work to the group, with substantial time allowed for discussion and questions by the faculty and other students. Being accepted into the IH Doctoral Colloquium is a prestigious honor and involves a commitment to giving and receiving thoughtful commentary with an eye towards shaping the field and upcoming participants in the field.

Poster Session

DC participants will present a poster of their work at the main IH conference.

After the Conference

Doctoral Colloquium description papers will be published as part of the IH Extended Abstracts in the ACM Digital Library.

ACMs New Open Access Publishing Model

Starting January 1, 2026, ACM will fully transition to Open Access. All ACM publications, including those from ACM-sponsored conferences, will be 100% Open Access. Authors will have two primary options for publishing Open Access articles with ACM: the ACM Open institutional model or by paying Article Processing Charges (APCs). With over 1,800 institutions already part of ACM Open, the majority of ACM-sponsored conference papers will not require APCs from authors or conferences (currently, around 70-75%).

All submissions for the IH ’26 conference are not APC-eligible (i.e., they will not incur article processing charges).